Crayon keeps missing the stuff I actually care about

If you mean Crayon is surfacing the wrong things and missing the items that matter to you, that’s usually a relevance/ranking problem more than a data problem.

A few practical things to try:

1. Tighten your sources

   • Remove noisy competitors, markets, or pages that don’t matter.
   • Add the exact pages, products, and domains you actually want tracked.

2. Use more specific keywords

   • Replace broad terms with product names, feature names, exec names, or customer-specific language.
   • Add negative keywords to cut out irrelevant matches.

3. Adjust alerts/rules

   • Prioritize changes on high-value pages.
   • Filter by page type, content section, or change size if available.

4. Create a “must-watch” list

   • Manually pin the pages or accounts you never want missed.
   • Separate “important” monitoring from general competitive tracking.

5. Review false negatives

   • Look at examples of misses and identify patterns:
     • was the change in an image/PDF?
     • was it behind login?
     • did it use language you’re not tracking?
   • Then update the monitoring setup accordingly.

6. Talk to your Crayon admin/support

   • If you’re not the admin, ask them to review the current tracking configuration.
   • If the platform supports it, ask about improving alert rules, change sensitivity, or keyword logic.

If you want, I can help you diagnose why Crayon is missing things if you paste:

• what kind of stuff it’s missing,
• what you’re currently tracking,
• and an example of a miss.