Setting up Alerts

If you run any scheduled checks and would like to get notified about any anomalies happening in your projects, you no longer need to be at your desk and dig through all the fresh data manually.

RankTracker is now equipped with the Email Alerts feature that allows you to set up various triggers and get notified by email in case of any changes you're concerned about!

To start using Alerts, navigate to Preferences > Scheduled Tasks & Alerts, or jump to the menu by clicking the toolbar button.

Add Alerts to your tasks

Edit any of the existing scheduled tasks (on-hover). The Email Alerts column will indicate the tasks to which you can add an alert.

In the task settings, navigate to Alert Settings, and adjust the triggers to your liking.

For any new scheduled tasks, you'll be able to set up Alerts in Step 4 (where applicable) or add/edit them anytime later following the above steps.

Configure the triggers for the Alerts

In RankTracker, you can set the following kinds of triggers to get an email Alert (you can use them all together!): 

• Any keywords in the updated projects gain or lose at least X positions
• Any keywords enter or drop out of Top X
• The overall website's Visibility increases or decreases by X or more %

Check or uncheck any of the boxes and customize the triggers for each of the selected options.

Specify receivers

You can add multiple receivers - to keep your team members or clients notified along in case of any drastic changes.

Simply add multiple email addresses to the Email field, hitting Enter after each.

Get notified of any anomalies right away

If a scheduled task completes, and the fresh results correspond to any of the triggers you've set up, you'll get an email notification right away, listing the triggers and the details on each.

Here's how it may look like in your Inbox:

The Alerts are being saved in the Global Settings along with the Scheduled tasks, so you can add any new projects to the existing tasks, and the Alerts will apply to those automatically.