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Written by Mike Druttman
Fact checked by Nick Zelver
Updated Mar, 2024

To receive alerts from mspy when your child visits certain bookmarks, you can use the ‘keyword tracking’ feature. You’ll need to login into your mSpy account and then find the feature in the dashboard. Once there you will be able to set some rules for specific words or phrases related to bookmarks. There are also configurations that you can change so that you receive notifications via email.

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Inception

I had a question about my child’s online activity and how I could keep an eye on it without invading their privacy too much so I decided to check out mSpy’s features. Unfortunately they don’t directly have one for bookmarked sites but through keyword tracking users were given a workaround method that might help me out.

Check out this detailed guide on how I set it up, along with some personal insights.

 

Setting Up mSpy Alerts for Your Child's Bookmarked Sites

  1. Logging in: Used my credentials to access my mSpy dashboard
  2. Navigation: In the dashboard, located the ‘Keyword Tracking’ feature under General Features
  3. Setting Up Keyword Alerts: Added keywords related to the bookmarks that I wanted to monitor using the 'Add rule' option, and selected 'Browser Bookmarks' under 'Choose features'
  4. Configuring Alert Settings: The default notification setting was by email which worked great with prompt alertness to stay updated
  5. Saving and Finishing: Clicked ‘Add’ after entering all of my preferences and the alert was ready! From now on every time my kid goes onto any website matching this keyword it’ll notify me.

 

So, what was the outcome of my experience?

When creating keyword alerts for this service make sure they’re as precise as possible because general terms didn’t seem work effectively. For example if i wanted an alert everytime they went onto Amazon.com  instead of using more general keywords like “shopping” or “purchase”, I would need to create an exact match for amazon just put “amazon”. The matching part needs to be a part of the website’s address to trigger an alert and emphasizes the importance of precision in keyword selection.

 

Personal Takeaways and Concluding Thoughts

Alternative monitoring option, the bookmarks direct alert feature was not available. Although lacking this option, I realized how versatile this mSpy Bookmarks is when it comes to adapting and fitting your specific monitoring needs. This experience showed me that these keyword alerts are super valuable for parents who want to keep an eye out on their kids online activities! With these set up they will have peace of mind knowing what their child is doing but still respecting privacy boundaries.

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