AlertRank is designed to help you quickly identify the Google Alerts that will have the greatest impact on the online reputation of your company and brands. We evaluate the source of every alert you receive on a wide range of factors. Then we make it easy for you to recognize which sources deserve the most attention by combining all these numbers into a single value from 0 to 10, with 10 being the most influential and 0 the least. We call this value the AlertRank Quality Score, or simply AlertRank.
Here is an example for Mashable, a widely-read tech blog:
This blog has high scores in many of our ranking metrics, so we have assigned it an AlertRank of 8. If you get an alert about a post on Mashable, you should pay attention. If it is about your company or product, you need to react quickly.
You will find AlertRank showing up in many places. In the emails we send you we sort the alerts with the highest ranked at the top.
The daily Excel summary you receive by email includes the AlertRank, so it is easy to sort the alerts by this value.
You can adjust your account's filter settings to limit the alerts you receive in emails to just those that have a minimum AlertRank. This can dramatically reduce the amount of clutter in your mailbox. All of your alerts will still be available on the AlertRank site.
When you decide to review all of your past alerts on our site, you can set a minimum AlertRank to display, and also sort the table in AlertRank order by clicking the top of the AlertRank column.
Each alert has its own display page on our site where everything we know about it is gathered, and the AlertRank is displayed prominently there as well.
The source listing page lets you see the sources of all your alerts, and once again you can set a minimum value of AlertRank and sort all the sources by clinking the top of the AlertRank column.
