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In this video you're going to learn how to set up a custom alert so that you can get an email when you

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have a spike in traffic or you have a drop in your traffic.

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Then the reason I'm not you might want to do this is so you can really fix a problem if you notice that

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there's a big drop in traffic maybe your side is down.

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So you want to be e-mailed about that rather than finding out about it.

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Two days later from somebody on your social media.

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So a drop in traffic could really signify that there might be a problem there.

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A big spike in traffic equally You might want to be notified about that straightaways you can capitalize

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on that opportunity.

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Maybe you've been mentioned by somebody online and they've sent you a huge amount of referral traffic.

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Well you really want to make sure that everything is working ok not people are going through your site

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ok and maybe completing the goals that you want them to.

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And maybe there's an opportunity as well to capitalize on that mention to make it a bigger thing and

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really ultimately take advantage of an opportunity like that.

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So those are the couple of the reasons that you might want to set this up and to set it up.

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You want to come into your admin section and you can scroll down to customer alerts and really you can

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create a new alert.

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I'll show you how to set it up for traffic spike.

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We want to apply to this view.

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We're going to look at a day we can select that we want to be notified when the similar triggers and

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we can out of the people there as well.

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We're going to apply this to all our traffic and the number one on the conditions for getting this alert

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is when the number of sessions as a percentage increase more than let's say 30 percent.

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And compared to the same day of the previous week.

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So those are the conditions for us getting this alert.

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You can set that up as you once were probably 30 percent change is going to be significant something

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like a 5 percent change.

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That's not really a spike in traffic.

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That's just the normal up and down.

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But somebody might hurt 30 percent could be quite significant.

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So can depend if your site is brand new and you might have to upgrade to something higher.

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But if your site is set up and running for a while then usually a 30 percent increase will be pretty

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significant and something that you want to know about.

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And once you set it up you can click Save alert.

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Now Equally if you want to set up a traffic drop Ahlers it's the same thing except that you want to

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do a percentage increase of more than 30 percent compared to the previous week.

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And you can save both of those.

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And then once that's done you're going to have these custom alerts set up and you can be getting those

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emails any time.

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That is a big spike or a drop in your traffic.

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So you can really act on it straight away.