URL Monitor

A URL monitor is a watch on a single page: pricing, jobs, TOS, listings, whatever you refuse to miss. You do not need a crawler. You need that one address checked on a schedule, with a sentence when the substance moves.

Keyword email is the wrong tool for this. Google Alerts watches the index, not your URL. If the page never ranks a new phrase, you never hear. Pointing a monitor at the URL skips that hop.

What to point it at

Pricing tables. Careers indexes. Terms of service. Product SKUs. Agency guidance. Changelog docs. Public listings. The pattern is the same: an HTTPS page you already open by hand.

Write the rule in plain English. "Tell me when a new role matching staff engineer appears." "Tell me when the monthly price or the included seats change." AyeWatch summarizes. You can set this up without code.

Limits worth saying out loud

AyeWatch does not log into accounts. It does not click through a checkout bot. It does not replace Distill if you already live in CSS selectors. It does not replace Pingdom for uptime. Free Preview is six lifetime runs, three topics, Daily or slower, push and in-app. Pro is $9 a month.

Paid plans add Slack, Discord, email, and webhooks. Six-hour checks on Pro. Faster on Max and Ultra.

One URL is a product

Teams overbuy here. They shop for a platform when they needed a URL monitor. Start with the page that already costs you attention. If the first ping is a real change, add the next address. If you also need news about the same company, add a topic later.

The page change alerts guide is the method dump. This page is the object: one URL, watched. If you already run twenty Google Alerts, none of them are this. Keyword mail watches the index. A URL monitor watches the address you named. Use both only if you have both jobs. Do not pay for a CI suite to watch one pricing path. Recreate the five URLs you still open by hand. Leave the rest. A URL monitor is a short list, not a crawl.