Get notified of technical issues as they happen with Alerts

SEO issues can have a major impact on your rankings, traffic, and ultimately revenue. So how do you keep track of significant changes and make absolutely sure everything's running smoothly? That's where alerts come in. Conductor website monitoring, crawls your website 24/7 and alerts you immediately when anything important on your website changes or breaks.

When you add a website to your account, it already comes with a default set of essential alerts, but you can also customize these alerts to make sure you have the best possible setup for your team's needs. Theo, who manages his website's technical, SEO wants to stay on top of key issues and ensure other team members get notified about the changes and issues relevant to their workflows as well.

Within the alerts report, you can review any active and past incidents, which are specific events that occur on your website and trigger an alert based on your alert definitions. The best practice for alerts is to ensure they're set up precisely to fit your and your team's needs as not all changes require immediate attention.

There are six types of alerts we can create alerts related to changes in on-page properties and issues, which can be triggered by changes to a page's status relations between pages, a page's content or analytics tracking alerts related to changes and issues of the technical platform of the website alerts triggered by pages entering or leaving a segment. For example, if you've integrated your analytics and defined a segment for pages with high page views, you can be alerted to a traffic drop by creating an alert for when a page leaves that segment.

Alerts for changes to elements you define with custom element extraction or highly versatile and can notify you about changes to any page element or property important to you, whether it's a drop in your products review scores, an empty category page, or an article that was last updated too far in the past. Alerts for enrichment field changes allow you to be notified about changes of any custom metric you send to conductor website monitoring through the data enrichment, API, for example, data about a page's owner or revenue per page. And if you've enabled lighthouse monitoring alerts for web vital changes lets you know when page level performance and speed might be slipping.

Theo wants to create some alerts for his team managing their briefing room content, so he chooses page properties and issues, selects all the triggers relevant to the team, adjust the scope to his briefing room. Segment sets the sensitivity to determine how soon the alert triggers and assigns a delivery method by choosing the relevant team members to receive email notifications and or by adding the relevant Slack or Teams channel  to ensure his content team isn't alerted about areas of the website they don't manage. He can bulk edit alerts for other segments to remove them as recipients.

Theo also wants to be alerted to an important change not currently triggered by standard alerts. When Paige in the site map become non-indexable, he's created a segment already to identify these pages, which he's working on resolving and configures an alert to let him know when any new page enters the segment so we can address the issue right away.

Customizing, alerting unlocks your team's ability to stay on top of the important changes they care about and swiftly address issues as they arise. Configure your alerts today in alert settings.