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With the latest technological advances inweb page monitoring, the opportunity for successfully tracking Internet-accessible content for changes has never been better.All that is needed to start is an e-mail account and an interest in becoming the very first toknow about the latest updates to the most interesting content.Web page monitoring services are designed with the user in mind with servicescustomized to subscriber preferences and user behavior.
Backgrounder
Large swaths of valuable content have been published to the Internet.When leveraging dominant search engines like Yahoo or Google, most Internet usershave mastered new content detection. Not surprisingly however, keeping current with constantly updating content is a bigchallenge for most Internet users.Some users have turned to "RSS feeds" which are slowly increasing in popularity. Inaddition, some websites have deployed proprietary content update alert technology, butnot all users are interested in managing the complexity of new technology like RSS feeds.Others do not want to invest precious resources learning yet another update notificationservice that only applies to a particular website.These days, everyone can name their favorite website and most people are comfortablewith using e-mail services. RSS technology, however, is still not widely understoodand/or adopted. In addition, most on-site update notification implementations are firmlyunder the control of the website owner's webmaster.Power in the hands of only the webmaster often translates into fewer options for thecasual Internet user. As such, most Internet surfers would like to have a simple means of tracking the "hidden" web, which is valuable content accessible only after entering a password.Similarly, most corporate Internet users have business needs for change monitoringsensitive content for any web-enabled content such as (1) a new product announcementfrom a competitor, (2) competitive price changes or (3) public disclosures such asexecutive compensation.Timely business information about an organization comes easily to insiders but those onthe outside want and need much of the same information as insiders. In both cases, theinformation delivery must also be in as timely a manner as possible.
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However the typical goals and directives given to a webmaster are not likely to beharmonious with the business needs of organizational "outsiders" who demand an easysolution to monitor changes specific to certain areas of the webmaster's public website.Internet users value centralizing web page monitoring and update change notificationwith one, simple hosted solution.
Web Page Monitoring
There are two approaches taken by
web page monitoring
providers.
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Installable content monitoring software
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Online content monitoring portalOf the two, web page monitoring delivery options, online web page monitoring servicesare more flexible and easier to use. This is because, with an online solution, new featurescan easily be added to the system in real time thereby avoiding user inconveniencesaround downloading frequent software updates and/or software "patches" to fix securityholes.Also, downloading and installing software onto a laptop or workstation can also be avirus risk. Most large corporations have stringent policies against downloading/installingunknown and/or unproven software onto their personal computers and corporatenetworks.With an online web page monitoring service, the solution runs safely on the Web as asecure service.
Monitor Web Pages for Changes
Top 10 reasons why savvy Internet users use
web page monitoring 
1.Be the first to know about relevant content changes to the web content thatinterests you the most2.Automatically, track any web-enabled content for updates3.Monitor high value content hidden behind password protected web pages4.Track changes to dynamic web searches and HTML forms5.Use custom cookies to further unlock the hidden web to content monitoring6.Avoid computer viruses because there is nothing to download when you use aweb service7.Monitor sensitive content such as a competitor's website, press releases or online price changes -- all done confidentially and privately from the web pagemonitoring service's (anonymous third-party) proxy servers
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