Online Brand Website and Blog Monitoring Resources, Tools & Services. This is Our guide to the Resources we Use or have tested to help with your Brand Reputation!
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Whats up mate, thanks for stopping by we really do appreciate you and to show you how much, we are going to share with you our tried ad tested online real estate aka brand and blog monitoring resources and tools.
So now you got your Page rank ticking along and in order to stay on top of things you want to make sure your website or blog is up 24/7 and not worry about it right! If you have no clue what we are on about Go check out our last post here.
You do know that for some unforeseen reasons your website does go down in certain locations and you don’t even know when!
As a home business pro and online marketer building your brand, you also provide services and paid offers, so your website is a major contributor to your business and brand success. You thus must know that you want it functioning in tip top condition for your users experience.
This my friend can make or break your brand website and/or blog. And one of the criteria that can affect your blog, page rank and customer experience of course is your website up time.
Imagine if every time you went to your local grocery store it had a “be back soon sign,” in online parlance that could be a 404 error sign! Your website/blog must be available when your customers or audience need it period. 404 errors usually result in loss of readers, business, and reputation as unreliable. You absolutely mustn’t take that chance!
So today we would like to share with you some blog monitoring resources that will help you keep abreast for unexpected website down times.
We will also share the benefits of 24/7 website monitoring. This will help you to fix whatever is causing that downtime immediately. Failing to do so will cost you traffic, customers, money, and brand trust. That is priceless or money down a plughole!
Website Monitoring Resources: Your Blog Setup and Design:
Your website or blog is the heart of and virtual representation of your online and offline brand, right? Your audience will judge you whether they know you physically or not by how your website or blog look, design, layout colours, text etc. This is where attention to your blog design is super important!
Lets give you a practical example: You manage or run a restaurant offline. Would you allow your chefs and front line staff like waiters to serve your clients dressed in a shabby way, no attention to smartness, maybe no uniform either, unshaven etc? By having a specific colour, smart, clean, uniform policy, you are letting your customers know that you care about brand and service quality.
Well guess what, this applies to your website/blog. If your website is not done by a pro even if its a DIY job, it must present a professional aura. Let your web visitors know that you care about their experience. First impressions do matter whether off or online.
So make sure your website is well laid out. We did talk about colours in the diy branding mistakes article which you can read here! Make sure to give your visitors the impression that you have given meticulous attention to every detail and you care about your online brand and their experience. Seek webdesign help if you need it, nothing worse than pride and “I can do it all attitude” to take you round in circles. Have anything branded to you and your blog well designed e.g. brochures, business cards, letterheads as Tesco keep telling us, every little helps. Always think about that smart dressed Customer Services Officer or Waiter. You are your biggest online brand, website and blog monitoring Resource!
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But you want some automated geekery right? 🙂 So…
Why 24/7 Website or Blog Monitoring Resources?
- You receive immediate alerts as soon as your site goes down. You choose what form those alerts will be in our case text message and email. That way you get to fix it fast…any “downtime = lost income.”
- The alerts also usually contain multiple reports and data on your blog/website performance which are time specific, i.e. daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual operations of your site. These in turn give you an overview of when is your website most susceptible lock down.
- You receive real time website monitoring as frequently as possible. Could be every minute, 5, 15, 30, and 60 minutes etc. You also will know when its running slow, and when its ticking along smoothly. This helps keep your online real estate up and running. So without further ado let’s share with you the resources we have tried and which are proven to help you in monitoring your online brand and blog below. Note that some do have both Free and paid packages:
Website And Blog Monitoring Resources that Work!
The simplest site to check your site that is on the fun side too is:
Down for Everyone or Just me
One of the most fun blog monitoring resources, this one quite simply tells you if yours or any URL you check is up or not. That’s it. No extras no complicated statistics! Simply enter the domain you are looking to check without the www, and click “Or just me?” You will receive a response like below if the site is up.
But we all want statistics right? So let’s dive into the blog or website monitoring tools that give you mob stats!
This tool returns exact location reports i.e. web speed, response time, size of your site in your time zone or whichever you choose. We were totally blown away. This site or blog monitoring service comes with an instant free check and also has paid options. You can see form the image below that our website seems to have 10 locations where its experiencing down time and we gotta learn what’s causing that & fix is fast!

You can check your Site server vulnerability or Health and make a decision to improve security depending on your results.
You can check if your IP or Domain/site is DNS blacklisted anywhere! Try it out Its Free to try.
This website or blog monitoring service checks your site from worldwide locations and alerts you instantly via email OR text message aka SMS when it becomes unavailable. You will also receive detailed statistics and reports on uptime and performance.
This gives you 50 website/blog monitors 100% FREE. You will receive stats or logs through notifications via e-mail, twitter, text message, or push notifications for iOS. After the 50 you decide whether to upgrade or drop the service, your choice.
Site uptime is slightly similar to Service Up Time above. If they do your website monitoring services; you will receive instant email AND SMS alerts if/when your website becomes unavailable. View detailed uptime statistics and performance reports for your website monitors.
Well while this is a Paid service, it allows you 30 days Free Trial…So we thought why the heck not, lets test it for comparison purposes. Pingdom website or blog monitoring is pretty similar to the services above in that it checks on your site, server and network performance, up-time or downtime. They do send you notifications of any errors that may be caused by down times.
Saved what we consider the best for last as we like to ensure that our audience is reading the full post. One of the most highly recommended website and blog monitoring resources online. It comes with Free and Paid options and it absolutely is a must have tool in your Web speed and caching resources too.
If your hosting service provides such services, you are blessed, If it doesn’t I suggest you literally pause this post, and go register with Cloudflare its free to register anyway and it will take you less that 5 mins to get your site running faster. It Will ALWAYS be online even when for some reason its down somewhere.
How?
CloudFlare saves your site settings when it was last cached so your audience will not know any different. Also it ensures that your images are not taking up so much of your server space. If you use WordPress and you didn’t activate Cloudflare via W3 Total Cache, you can actually use the Cloudflare Plugin!
Lets just say without the technical mumbo jumbo, YOU NEED CloudFlare or a similar CDN resource!
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Now we don’t believe in giving you web and blog monitoring resources and not talk about testing and comparison; so let’s talk about tracking and testing shall we!
Split Testing of Website Monitoring Resources:
Split Testing is how you learn which of the resources you leverage works best for your brand or offers. This is now so much easier online because of the abundance of website and blog checking resources available. You can compare 2+ resources, messages, adverts, sites, marketing strategy or tool etc. and choose which work best for you.
It’s absolutely essential as it will save you cash spent on what doesn’t work in the long run. Split testing gives you instant results on your marketing resources and efforts strengths or weaknesses.
Usually split testing is tried out using 2+ web pages or advert messages targeted at a specific audience. You can also split test via email. We do this via Aweber (try it for $1)
You can test different web traffic sources as well. We have done this before using a resource called 7Search. We can see who visits our website, location, gender, time of visit etc. For an Online marketer this info is gold dust! We are able to plan aour campaigns thus more efficient and cost effective marketing, resulting in better profitability.
But the best resource we have tested for testing purposes is one absolutely amazing Tool.
We use it for Keyword research for our blog posts too, for Pinterest campaigns etc. It’s a treasure trove of tools and resources to help you keep your website ticking along sweetly too. What is this split testing tool then?
SEO Books used to be completely free to access. Then sometime in 2014 they decided to limit it to only Signed up users. STILL FREE but with paid options. If you wish to hire an SEO other than ourselves of course, we can’t recommend SEO Books enough!
In addition to the above uses, you can leverage this tool get a very good idea between two A/B Ad campaigns or any other test you may be making in your marketing. You can test effectiveness of two or more CTAs (Calls to Action) to find which one is getting more clicks etc.
And to wrap this all up, we all know who the king in Testing and Analytics is…None other than Google! You need a google account to use this resource and No you don’t have to pay. Not unless you actually use the google paid packages! TWEET BELOW you rock. 🙂
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Now we are sure you know some blog monitoring tools that we haven’t mentioned and we absolutely would like to ask you a favour! Would you head over to the podcast and share in a comment what they are. And we’d love it if you left a comment below!
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You’ve dropped a huge resource on us again here Julie & Pauli…..
Love all of this article – thanks for providing so much value to the marketplace.
Wow what a surprise Alex,
thanks for dropping in dude and glad you got value!
What a great list of resources. You are so right, it is important to monitor these things… quick way to lose rankings when not kept in check!
Thanks for this valuable resource!
Robert Frank
Hi Robert,
So Glad to hear from you Bro. And glad you got value too!
~Julie Syl
Great idea and list. definitely will be getting one of these tools to keep an eye on my blog. Value post. Thanks!
Hi Rich,
Glad you got value and absolutely apply 🙂
J&PK~
Wow another totally jam packed full of info blog, you certainly do do a lot of research Julie which is why I love visiting your site.
Hi Diane,
What an absolute pleasure to hear from you, hope you have been keeping well. Glad we serve you and that you get value.
Julie Syl~
Great article! Yes, sometimes you have to leave your pride behind and ask for help 🙂
Thanks for sharing these amazing resources!
Hello Robert,
You are most welcome. Pride is the other of all drops…unless ts for someone else’s achievement. So we gotta ask for help.
We find Online marketers do really need a bit of encouragement to ask for help.
Julie syl~
What a great list! Thank you for all the tips!
You are most welcome Jenn 🙂
J&PK~
amazing info Julie and Paul… lots to “digest” here… thanks for posting it for us…
Our utmost Pleasure Jerry, thanks for your time! 🙂
J&PK~
Awesome post Julie. You always bring amazing value. Luv it! these are great tools to be used by every blogger. pro or novice. awesome
Hi Andy,
We are so glad you got value and thank you for your kind words, much appreciated as always! 🙂
Julie Syl~
Hi Julie and Paul,
The Pit Stop Crew have chosen this post to feature on Friday.
Congratulations.
The Blogger’s Pit Stop
I’ve never heard of any of these tools. Thanks for telling us about them at Pit Stop.
Janice, Pit Stop Crew
Hi Janice,
Glad to hear from you and to be of value 🙂
Julie Syl~
wow Julie awesome post as usual from you packed with so much value and great tips, do not use all of these so I book marked your site to come back and implement them thanks so much for sharing this value
Hi LuAnn,
We sure hope you will at least use one 🙂 Its essential for your Site Security and Performance!
J&PK~
I have been blogging for just over two years now and there is still so much I need to learn. Thank you so much for sharing these valuable resources.
You are most welcome Bismah and congrats on blogging for 2+ years keep rocking! 🙂
J&PK~
Thanks for this great list of resources!
You are most welcome Victoria, thanks for your time! 🙂
J&PK~
woow !!~ super blog post soo much value >> I learn so much from your blogs and thank you !!~ all theses great tools bookmarked for future reference !!~ ♥♥☺☺
Hi Sandra,
We are sure glad you found value 🙂
J&PK~
WOAH! So Another great post Julie! Many great resources – didn’t know about most of them! I love tracking all the traffic that’s coming to my blog!!
And your blog is doing wonders Jelena so We hope these will help even more. Thanks for stopping by 🙂
Julie Syl~
This is Fantastic Julie! You are spot on, our site needs to Be Clean and Neat as it goes out into the World Wide Web to work. i Love The Restaurant analogy 🙂
Hey Tara,
Super glad you agree and found value. Thanks for stopping by! 🙂
Julie Syl~
Hey Julie your post is packed with valuable tips and resources. I use many of these monitoring tools as they are very useful to keeping our blog sites and business running. Tracking is key to scaling up and building successful business. Thanks for sharing so much value!
Hey Lynn,
Glad you are keeping watch 🙂 and Thanks for your time!
Julie Syl~
What a great post Julie! It’s so important to monitor your website and you have shared some great resources to do so. Some I wasn’t familiar with so will dig deeper into this.
Hey Jon,
Glad you got some value and thanks for stopping by!
Julie Syl~
Great information here Julie but I will have to come back a couple times to soak it all in. 🙂
Feel free Claudette my dear 🙂 glad you stopped by!
Julie Syl~
Great post Julie. Jammed packed with heaps of resources. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Hey Stephanie,
Glad you got value hun, you are most welcome!
Julie Syl~
Wow Julie, this is such an in depth breakdown of all the tool to monitor your blog. I am definitely saving this page for later!! Thanks!
Hey Areefa,
Glad you stopped by and gt value 🙂
Julie Syl~
Though I may still be slightly confused I am learning a lot form you. Thank you so much.
Hey Rebecca,
We are glad you are learning lots and hope you are implementing, thats the sauce 🙂
Julie Syl~
Wow! These are some useful tips to run a website. Thanks for the resource
Glad you like 🙂 thanks for stopping by!
J&PK~
Lots of useful information here! I have never thought about these things before, Thanks!
Wooo Agnes, Glad you are gonna start thinking about them things 🙂
Julie Syl~
So much of this stuff seems really complex to novice bloggers (i.e., me). Thanks for simplifying it making it easy to understand!
Hi Roxy,
The longer you say yo are a novice the longer you will be. You are way better than most and must acknowledge that in you hun 🙂 Then get these done and o them every time you post a blog, it becomes habit. Use this resource to Teach your team and you got it covered. And we are glad you find it easy to understand as we broke it down for you!
Julie Syl~
[ Smiles ] It is nice to know that bloggers have so many resource available to them.
And, thank you for bringing “UpTime ROBOT” to my attention!
Our absolute pleasure Renard 🙂 thanks for stopping
J&PK~
So many different tools and resources to monitor our blogs, you shared a lot of awesome info here, thanks I’ll be checking some of those tools!
Vitaliy
You sure should do that Vitaliy 🙂
Thanks for stopping by!
Julie Syl~
Sounds like a great resource! I will bookmark this! Thanks for sharing!
Glad you found value Heidi 🙂
J&PJ~
Oh my goodness this is a lot of information! I am not good with all this tech and have no idea what I am doing lol will have to read this a couple of times to take it all in before I can put it into use.
Hi Dainty,
DO feel free to book mark and take your time 🙂 It is here whenever you need it 🙂
Julie Syl~
These are great tips! Thanks for sharing! These will be a great help to bloggers, especially the new ones. 🙂
Glad they will Czjai 🙂 that was the idea. Thanx for stopping by!
J&PK~
Great information. I am new to the blogging world so this is interesting and helpful for me.
Glad you got value and in time Christia 🙂
J&PK~
So amazing and great resources! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Lexie, and you are welcome 🙂
Julie Syl~
Great resource 🙂 I’ll surely bookmark this. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you got value Carmela 🙂
Julie Syl~
great points, thanks for sharing!
Pleasure Shiv 🙂
J&PK~
Great post. Learn a lot of things about this post. It’s so important to have these resources.
Thank you for sharing informative post.
Hi Mansi,
Glad you learned some value and thanks for stopping.
J&PK~
This is great! Thanks for sharing
You are most welcome Agnes!
J&PK~
Learn a lot of things about this post. Will bookmark it for future reference. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Cai,
Glad you found the information useful!
J&PK~
Great post, I never look into any of these things and now I am saving this post so I can. Thanks for a great resource.
Glad you will find that time to do it Toni, Its essential & Thanx for ya time!
J&PK~
It’s so important to have these resources, especially when you’re monetizing your blog. I can’t imagine living without them! I wouldn’t know how to keep track of my stats.
Exactly Elizabeth, Neither would we to be honest. So much coding to learn, not enough time 🙂
Thanx for your time!
Julie Syl~
i agree completely that websites are an online representation of us 24/7. i can see why getting help to manage and monitor websites is important as you want to make the best impression as possible
Good to know you to value Michelle 🙂 Thanks for your time!
J&PK~
you are really up on all the techy stuff LOL
love it
I love technology Bro…I ma wee techie geek out n out 🙂 Paul knows lots more, he teaches me stuff, he is just so busy!
Julie Syl~
Great resource. Thank you for all of your hard work.
You are most welcome Lori 🙂 Thanx for stopping by!
J&PK~
Awesome resources Julie! Thanks for sharing 🙂 It is so important to monitor your blog or website.
That it is Joan Thanks for stopping by!
J&PK~
Awesome resource! Thanks for the share
Our pleasure Nestor 🙂
J&PK~
Thanks, Julie, for sharing these great website monitoring resources!
My pleasure Mike and double pleasure to see you here 🙂
Julie Syl~
Julie, I have to say–so much of this is just by me. But you make it understandable enough that I can study on it, and go from there. Thank You!
Hey Susane,
We hope you have someone who knows what they are about doing for your blog 🙂
Julie Syl~
I had not heard of most of these products and services before. I need to monitor my website more and figure out how to make the most of it.
Yes you do Heather and Hope you utilize any of these. None are affiliate links 🙂 Free Value info!
J&PK~
Stacks of tools and resources to use to monitor one of the most precious parts of your business, your website. If you are directing all the flow of traffic to end up there, and you should, then you need to have some of these great tools to stay in control of your business. Thanks for sharing Julie.
Glad you agree David, good to see you here 🙂
Julie Syl~