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Signals & Inbox

What gets detected

Ranking movement, competitors entering or leaving, badges, promotions, listing changes, rating and stock shifts — anything a competitor could do that changes your position.

Signals cover the things that happen in a market without anyone telling you. They fall into a few families.

Your own standing

  • Score and visibility movement — your JustRanks Score or visibility shifted meaningfully.
  • Coverage movement — you are ranking on noticeably more or fewer of your keywords. The severe case is a listing disappearing from the results entirely, which is flagged as urgent.
  • Position jumps — a sharp move up or down in the field.

The competitive field

  • New or returning competitors — a product that was not in your market before, or one that had disappeared and came back.
  • Market trend — the field as a whole moving, which is context for your own movement. A drop while everyone drops is a different story from a drop while everyone else holds.

What competitors are doing

  • Badges — Bestseller or Amazon's Choice gained or lost.
  • Promotions — coupons, deals and other promotional activity starting or ending.
  • Sponsored activity — a change in how hard someone is advertising on your keywords.
  • Buy Box seller changes — who is actually selling a listing.

Listing and product changes

  • Listing content — title, images, bullets or A+ content rewritten.
  • Variant structure — variants added to or removed from a family.
  • Ratings — a meaningful move in a product's rating.
  • Best Sellers Rank — sharp rank movement or a category change.
  • Category shifts and delivery time changes.
  • Persistent out-of-stock — a competitor unavailable long enough to matter.

What is not a signal

Anything that needs your judgement rather than a threshold. Signals report what changed; they do not recommend what to do about it, and they do not predict.

They also do not cover anything outside the search results and product pages — no sales data, no ad spend, no inventory. JustRanks sees what a shopper sees.

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