The Alerts tab in the Landscape Admin Settings allows landscape admins to control whether default alerts for their landscape are enabled or disabled. These alerts are designed to surface meaningful trends and performance changes for websites within the landscape.
Disabling an alert prevents it from being tracked and removes it from all locations within SiteCurve, ensuring admins have control over the signals their landscape members see.
What Are Default Alerts?
Default alerts are pre-set notifications designed to highlight notable website movements within the landscape. They are visible:
In the alerts box on the landscape's overview page.
In the Feed and Alerts tabs in user dashboards (for members of the landscape).
In the weekly summary emails sent to landscape members.
By default, these alerts monitor the following criteria:
Traffic Changes Over 3 Weeks:
Triggered when a website's traffic improves or declines by 30% over 3 weeks, with at least 100 keywords ranked.
Traffic Changes Over 7 Days:
Triggered when a website's traffic improves or declines by 50% over 7 days, with at least 100 keywords ranked.
New Entrants:
Triggered when a website achieves at least 0.02% share of voice for the first time in the landscape.
Leaderboard Movement:
Triggered when a website enters or leaves the top 10 leaderboards for traffic.
Winners & Losers:
Triggered when a website enters or leaves the top 10 winners and losers for traffic.
How It Works
Toggle Alerts On or Off:
Use the toggles to activate or deactivate individual default alerts.
If an alert is turned off:
SiteCurve stops monitoring the criteria for that alert.
No landscape members (including admins) will see this alert in their feeds or dashboards.
The alert will not appear in weekly summary emails.
Turn All Alerts Off:
Use the Turn All Off button to quickly disable all default alerts in the landscape.
Impact of Disabling Alerts
Visibility:
If alerts are turned off for the landscape they will no longer surface in any part of SiteCurve.
Data Monitoring:
SiteCurve stops monitoring websites for the corresponding criteria
Member Experience:
Members of the landscape will no longer see these alerts in their feeds, dashboards, or weekly emails.
Only Custom Alerts
The only way to get notified of movement within this landscape is for users to set their own custom alerts
Best Practices
Curate Alerts for Relevance:
Focus on alerts most relevant to your landscape's goals. For example, if leaderboard movements are less critical, you can disable that alert but keep the others.
Transparency for Members:
Communicate any changes to alert settings with your landscape members, particularly for private or paid landscapes as they may be relying on these alerts.