Everyone knows Google Alerts, in which you can receive email and / or RSS feed notifications if a specific search term finds something new. It is used by a huge number of people and is one of the most commonly used Google tools.
But did you know that someone has launched a similar service for Reddit?
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To be clear, “Notifier for Reddit” is not officially endorsed by Reddit as far as we can see. It is also not part of the company’s product offering. Instead, it is a tool built by an individual that uses the Reddit API to monitor a site and provide custom Reddit email alerts for people following a specific word or phrase.
But if the service becomes popular, we will seriously see Reddit buy it. This is really good.
Why should you create custom alerts on Reddit?
Reddit positions itself as the “first page of the Internet” and this is by no means an exaggeration. Reddit is huge, which is probably the understatement of the century. Comprised of thousands of “subreddits” for every topic imaginable, you can find almost any topic you are looking for there.
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While consumers praise companies and their products, it is quite easy for consumers to reach out to and complain about those companies and products. It’s the same with such sites. What is being said about us on Reddit? Do they like our work? Or did we annoy someone by saying that Windows is better than Mac?
While we can obviously manually search Reddit at any time, the process can be time consuming and time consuming. On the other hand, the Reddit Notifier is your constant guardian, ready to alert you when your keywords are spoken on Reddit
Pricing plans
Before we get into the inner workings of Notifier for Reddit, it’s worth comparing the pricing plans as there are clearly differences between the two.
There is a free tier and two paid tiers. As you can see, the free tier is severely limited to one search query (the so-called “search engine”). Your results are also delivered to you with a “low priority” meaning you will not be able to get results in real time. The free tier is more or less a try and see what you think about the service.
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Paid plans remove all of these restrictions, and the only difference between the two plans is the number of “searchers” you can use at the same time. For a $ 2.99 plan, you might have 3, and for a $ 10 plan, you might have 25.
$ 10 might seem like a lot of money for such a service, but if you’re a high-yield company that relies heavily on your reputation, $ 10 is nothing. However, such a company may want to use more than 25 search queries.
We were given access to the $ 10 tier to try out the service, and here’s what we found.
How it works
Once you’ve created an account, signed in, and selected a plan, it’s time to set up your first search engine – essentially a custom Reddit alert.
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“Search Engines” give you a list of all current search queries and their status. “Add search engine” – here you can add a new one. So click on this now.
These are the options that are offered to you.
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“Search bar” is your keyword or key phrase. This is pretty much the same as doing a Google search, as shown below on NFR:
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However, keep in mind that the more frequently this phrase occurs, the more notifications you will receive. To verify this, I entered the word “dogs” into the search bar, and suddenly my Gmail inbox was full of emails.
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So, the lesson is to make your search term as specific as possible to avoid too many false positives and / or so many things that you literally drown.
Anyway, let’s get back to setting up the search query. You can choose one of the following:
- Posts, comments, or both.
- Whether the search term is case sensitive or not. In other words, if you enter a search term with the first uppercase letter, it will only search results with the first uppercase letter.
- Duration of the notification interval. Should you be notified instantly or daily via email. If you are using the free plan, this will not be “instant” as you will end up in a low priority queue.
- Include / exclude subreddits. Here you can tell if you want to focus on certain subreddits or exclude certain subreddits. This helps to make the results more targeted and get the results you want.
Then hit “add” and the NTR bot will go away and do its job.
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As soon as it finds results that match your search queries, you will receive an email notification.
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Such customizable Reddit alert services are a huge time saver for those who use and rely on social media. Keeping track of updates in real time on these platforms is simply impossible given the amount of new information passing through them on a daily and hourly basis.
Notifier for Reddit helps people stay on top of what’s being said about them and their interests on the front page of the internet.
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