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Readability Alerts

A dream for marketers, Readability alerts allows you to easily monitor your, or your clients, individual URLs.

• Select 'readability tools' from the main menu, then ‘URL alerts’.
• In front of you is an alert table. In the first column, add the URL you would like to monitor
• Press ‘add new alert’ to begin
• Add the URL you want to cover
• Choose from one of the following alert types:
  • Readability - average grade level
  • Readability - Flesch-Kincaid grade level
  • Readability - Gunning-Fog score
  • Readability - Coleman-Liau index
  • Readability - SMOG Index
  • Readability - Automated Readability Index
  • Readability - Spache score
  • Readability - Dale-Chall score
  • Keyword density - recommended for marketing and SEO
  • Sentiment - set the alert to tell you if a URL is not positive, not neutral or not negative
  • Word count
• For each of the readability grades, set the lower and upper limit for the grade level you are monitoring. The grade level is based on the school education system. Grade 8 = 14 to 15 years old - this is the average age you should be aiming for with an online audience
• Keyword density - upper and lower limits will be in percent
• Click 'add alert' and you are all set