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Ranking Alerts
Ranking alerts make your team faster. Get notified when rankings change for your site or competitors. Track individual keywords or entire groups at a time.
A ranking alert can help website owners and SEOs stay on top of changes without having to look at a dashboard every day. This will display the rank changes of the keyword and domain combination on any tracked search engine and will notify users via email or other channels when changes occur.
For users managing a large number of keywords or groups of keywords, this is a great way to stay focused on what matters. Think of it as similar to Google Alerts but for your ranking updates instead of topics in Google’s search engine index.
Benefits of ranking alerts
Stay on Top of Rankings at Scale
For websites with dozens or hundreds of pages, ranking alerts simplify the challenge of tracking important keywords without manually combing through endless reports.
Go Beyond Dashboards
Dashboards and reports are useful, but alerts provide real-time notifications when rankings shift for your most important keywords.
Track Competitors Too
Custom alerts don’t just cover your site — you can also monitor competitor rankings to see when they gain or lose visibility.
Anticipate Algorithm Changes
Because Google tests its ranking systems daily, a wide variety of alerts helps you spot early signs of changes before they impact your performance.
React Quickly to Fluctuations
With recent algorithm updates like Google’s Helpful Content changes, rankings move more often. Alerts ensure you know the moment shifts happen, so you can respond right away.
Create a rank change alert
DemandSphere makes these easy to set up
Choose the site / domain (your site or a competitor)
Choose any or all search engines
Select the keywords to monitor
The keywords can be individual keyword(s)
You can also choose group(s) of keywords
You can also add custom searches to match a range of keywords
Type of alerts
We support positive alerts and negative alerts. A positive alert is designed to track increases in ranking position and a negative alert tracks declines. Additionally, the following settings are available:
Number of position changes
Percentage of position changes
All of these options help you get an update as soon as they occur, not days or even weeks later, when you happen to notice it in the dashboard.
Visualize forecast range
One of the nice features in our ranking alerts is a dynamic forecast range for the affected ranks as you change the conditions of your alerts. After you’ve chosen the type of alert you want to set, you can play with the conditions and the rank ranges will update in the chart to the right in real-time.
This will mirror the larger picture you see in our ranking distribution and other visualizations.
Rank change email alerts
You can set notifications to send updates to your own email address or any email address that you choose. Simply add the user’s email into our system and it will be available. Once you set this up, you’ll receive a real-time notification for any of your affected keywords. You’ll also have the option to receive a daily summary email when there are no changes to ranking positions.
Google Search Console integration advantages
One of the best things about our Google Search Console (GSC) integration is that we mine ALL of your keywords available and import them directly into our platform.
This aids in the keyword discovery and research process because, in our experience, most websites are missing out on huge, low-hanging fruit opportunities, simply as a result of not integrating all of the data.
Go directly from the GSC screen in our app to create new ranking updates and notifications on hundreds of keywords at once.
Keyword rank change alerts via Slack (and others)
If your team uses Slack or other messaging / workflow platforms, we can help you set up an integration (e.g., an app) to accept incoming notifications of alerts.
