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Rankify > Settings > Notifications Rankify can tell you when something needs attention, without you having to remember to look. Everything here is off until you turn it on, and each alert has a threshold or an interval behind it. Nothing mails on a single event, and nothing repeats while the situation is unchanged.
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Leave blank to use the site administrator address.Mail goes out through this site, not through DaftPlug. Everything Rankify sends is built from data the site already holds, and no request leaves your server to produce it.
Send a test before relying on any of this. Mail is configured outside Rankify and fails silently more often than anything else on a WordPress site, so it is worth proving once.

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The alerts

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Coverage, broken URLs, and which AI crawlers read your site, in one email.
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Weekly is often enough to catch a problem in the week it appears. Monthly suits a site that changes slowly, where a weekly email would repeat itself.
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Two conditions that cancel out everything else the plugin does: the site has started blocking search engines, or the sitemap has stopped being served.Each mails at most once a week while it lasts, and goes quiet the moment it is fixed.
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Somewhere is still linking to an address that no longer exists. A redirect turns that traffic back into visits.
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Counted per address. Once one is reported it stays quiet until the count doubles, so a URL that is broken for a month is not a daily email.
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Pro. Compares the last seven days against the seven before them, and only speaks up when requests fall by 70% or more from a meaningful number. Crawlers that can cite you are listed first.Assistants cite what they have recently read. If ChatGPT or Perplexity stop fetching your pages, you stop being quotable long before search traffic shows it.

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Which to turn on

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Email when something is badly wrong

Enable this on every site. Both conditions it watches are silent catastrophes: a site set to noindex looks completely normal to everyone except search engines, and can run that way for months.
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Email when a URL keeps returning 404

Enable on any site that has existed long enough to have moved pages. Raise the threshold if your site is heavily scanned.
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General email digest

Monthly for most sites. Weekly if you are actively working on SEO and want the feedback loop.
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AI crawler drop

Enable if being cited by assistants matters to you. It is the earliest warning you get, well ahead of anything visible in search traffic.
Send these somewhere a person actually reads. A shared inbox nobody opens is the usual reason an alert about a real problem goes unnoticed for a month.

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Routing alerts elsewhere

Rankify does not expose its own filters for the message contents, so the recipient field is the supported way to change where mail goes. To get alerts into Slack or a ticketing system, point the recipient at an address that forwards there. Most of those tools provide an inbound email address for exactly this. Alternatively, WordPress’s own wp_mail filter sees these messages like any other, so a site-level mail integration picks them up without Rankify needing to know about it.