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Smart Alerts keep you informed the moment something meaningful changes in your AI visibility or search rankings — without requiring you to log in and check manually. Configure alerts for the signals that matter to your brand, choose how you want to be notified, and let Linkstonic do the monitoring.

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What Smart Alerts track

Smart Alerts cover both AI visibility signals and traditional ranking changes:
Triggers when your brand’s appearance rate in AI-generated answers increases or decreases by a threshold you set. Use this to catch both sudden drops in visibility and meaningful gains worth celebrating or investigating.
Triggers when your brand moves to a higher position band in AI answers — for example, moving from being mentioned third to being mentioned first in responses to a tracked query.
Triggers the first time your brand is detected on an AI platform Linkstonic hasn’t previously seen you mentioned on. Useful for tracking when your brand breaks through to a new AI answer engine.
Triggers when your brand’s raw mention count across AI platforms crosses a number you define. Set both upper and lower thresholds to catch surges and drops.
Triggers when a tracked Google keyword falls below a rank threshold you set. Combine with AI visibility alerts to separate traditional SEO volatility from AI answer changes.
Triggers when a new competitor brand is detected in AI-generated answers alongside yours for a tracked keyword. Use this to stay ahead of competitive encroachment in AI results.

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Alert delivery channels

Available on all plans. Alerts are delivered as individual emails immediately when a trigger fires, or consolidated into a weekly digest if you prefer a summary format over per-event emails. Configure your preference per alert.
Available on Pro and Agency plans. Configure a Discord webhook URL per alert so notifications route to the specific channel most relevant to that keyword or brand. See Discord Webhook Setup for configuration steps.
Available on Agency plan only. Merge alerts across multiple brands into a single notification to reduce noise when you’re monitoring several clients simultaneously. Configure batching intervals from the Alerts dashboard.
If you manage multiple brands, enable combined batched alerts on the Agency plan. Instead of receiving a separate notification for every brand the moment a threshold fires, you get a single consolidated message on your chosen schedule — dramatically reducing inbox and Discord channel noise without losing visibility.

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Set up an alert

1

Open Alerts

Click Alerts in the left sidebar to open the Alerts dashboard.
2

Create a new alert

Click New Alert in the top-right corner.
3

Choose the trigger type

Select what should fire the alert: AI mention change, position improvement, new platform mention, mention count threshold, keyword position drop, or competitor activity.
4

Select keywords and brands

Choose the keyword(s) and brand(s) this alert should monitor. You can scope an alert to a single keyword or apply it across all tracked keywords for a brand.
5

Choose delivery channels

Select Email, Discord, or both. For Discord, paste your webhook URL into the field that appears. If you need to create a webhook first, see Discord Webhook Setup.
6

Set the threshold

Define the sensitivity of the trigger. For example: mention rate drops by more than 10%, keyword ranking falls below position 20, or mention count exceeds 500 per week. Thresholds vary by alert type.
7

Save and confirm

Click Save. Linkstonic immediately sends a confirmation test notification to your chosen delivery channel so you can verify the connection is working.

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Manage your alerts

From the Alerts dashboard you can:
  • Edit any alert to adjust thresholds, delivery channels, or keyword scope.
  • Pause an alert temporarily without deleting it — useful during site migrations or campaigns when elevated volatility is expected.
  • View alert history to see every trigger event over the past 7, 90, or 365 days (depending on your plan). The history log shows the trigger type, the value that crossed the threshold, and the timestamp.
Alert history retention matches your plan’s data history limit: 7 days on Starter, 90 days on Pro, and 1 year on Agency. Alerts older than your plan’s retention window are permanently removed and cannot be recovered.
Discord webhook setup requires a Discord server where you have permission to create webhooks. If you’re posting to a server you don’t manage, ask a server admin to create the webhook and share the URL with you.

Discord webhook setup

Step-by-step instructions for creating a Discord webhook and connecting it to Linkstonic alerts.

n8n webhook integration

Route Linkstonic alert events into n8n workflows to trigger automations across your tool stack.