{"id":43546,"date":"2020-05-13T07:25:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T07:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glassmountains.co.uk\/?p=43546"},"modified":"2021-01-30T11:42:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T11:42:12","slug":"using-uptime-robot-to-monitor-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glassmountains.co.uk\/campfire\/using-uptime-robot-to-monitor-your-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Uptime Robot to monitor your website"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today’s article, I want to show you how to put a free alert in place so that you know if your website goes down.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The service we are using here is Uptime Robot<\/a>, there are others (of course), this is just the one we use and I’m most familiar with.<\/p>\n

They offer free as well as paid services. Today I’ll be showing you how to use their free<\/em> plan.<\/p>\n

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1) Sign up<\/h2>\n

Firstly, go to UptimeRobot<\/a> and sign up for an account.<\/p>\n

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2) Add New Monitor<\/h2>\n

Click the big old ‘Add New Monitor<\/em>‘ button\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

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Fig 1 – click the ‘add new monitor’ button<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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3) “New Monitor<\/em>” panel opens..\u2026select “Keyword<\/em>“<\/h2>\n
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Fig 2 – select ‘keyword’<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Note: there are various ways Uptime Robot can monitor your site and I’ll spare you the differences and nuances in this post, let’s just concentrate on getting a standard website uptime monitor in place for you.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4) Find in the blanks<\/h2>\n

\u2026.you’ll now see this screen:<\/p>\n

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Fig 3 – Uptime Robot keyword monitor fields<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

On this screen enter:<\/p>\n