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Overview

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Page change monitoring is performed by the ChangeDetection.com service. When requested, this service checks a page once a day to see if it has changed and, if so, sends an email to the person monitoring the page to let them know.

To let your visitors easily monitor your pages for changes you can enable this feature, placing a small "monitor page" link at the end of each search result item which connects to ChangeDetection.com.

To see what this looks like click here to search this site for "monitor page" with this feature enabled. (The search results will be displayed in a new window.)

Enabling and Disabling

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To enable or disable the "monitor page" link in the search result items it is necessary to add an additional HTML tag to your search panel. This html tag specifies whether you want to use this feature. To enable the page change monitoring link add the tag:
   <input type="hidden" name="mon" value="1">
and to disable the page change monitoring link add the tag:
   <input type="hidden" name="mon" value="0">
to your search panel. This tag must be placed after the search panel's initial
   <form ...
tag and before it's ending
   </form>
tag, otherwise it will not work.