# Moving off FollowThatPage: rebuild each watch as one sentence > How to turn FollowThatPage line and block filters into plain-English AyeWatch rules, and which pages to leave where they are. URL: https://claudegpt.si/news/followthatpage-alternative-moving-guide Published: 2026-10-25T18:25:30.847Z Updated: 2026-10-26T07:05:39.325Z Author: ClaudeGPT Si Newsroom Section: Guides Topics: FollowThatPage, Website change monitoring, Migration Publisher: ClaudeGPT Si ## Key takeaways - There is no import from FollowThatPage; each page becomes an AyeWatch monitor with the same URL and a rule written as a sentence. - A FollowThatPage line or block filter usually maps to a single "alert me when" or "ignore" clause in the rule. - A quiet static page where any edit matters can stay on FollowThatPage's free account. If you have been using Follow That Page for years, you already know the routine: a page changes, an email lands with the added and removed lines, and you scroll to work out whether any of it matters. This guide is for people who want a FollowThatPage alternative that does that judging for them. It walks through moving each watched page into AyeWatch, where every monitor is a URL plus one sentence describing the change you care about. ## Before you start: take stock of your watches Log in to Follow That Page and write down three things for every page you follow: 1. The URL. 2. Any line or block filters you set up, and why. 3. How often it is checked: daily, hourly, every 10 minutes or weekly. Most lists split into two piles. One pile is pages where you only care about one kind of change, such as a price, a date or a stock status, and you added filters to cut the noise. The other pile is quiet pages where any edit at all is news. The first pile is what to move. The second pile can stay where it is, because Follow That Page handles it well for free. ## Step 1: create a webpage monitor In [AyeWatch](https://ayewatch.ai), start a new monitor and paste the URL. There is no import file and no export to download from Follow That Page, so this is a copy-and-paste job. Each page takes a couple of minutes. If several pages belong together, such as a supplier's price list, its delivery terms page and its news page, you can put them in one monitor under a single rule instead of tracking them one by one. ## Step 2: turn your filters into a sentence Follow That Page filters work on text. A line filter drops every line containing a keyword, or keeps only lines that contain it. A block filter ignores, or keeps, everything between two markers. AyeWatch replaces both with the rule you write. | Follow That Page setup | AyeWatch rule | | --- | --- | | Ignore lines containing "comments" | "Ignore comment counts and new replies." | | Keep only lines containing "price" | "Alert me when the listed price changes." | | Keep text between "Opening hours" and "Contact" | "Tell me if the opening hours change." | | No filter, every change emailed | "Alert me when a new item is added to the list." | The difference is that the rule describes meaning rather than position. If the site renames "Price" to "Cost" or moves the box to the sidebar, a keyword filter can miss the change or flag the whole page. A sentence keeps working. ## Step 3: choose how often to check Follow That Page gives free accounts 20 daily checks and one hourly check, and Pro accounts more. AyeWatch has two modes instead. Auto sets the pace for you, checking more often when a topic is busy and less when it goes quiet. Custom lets you pick an interval yourself. Paid plans start at $9 a month. Whatever pace you choose, the alert only fires when the change matches your rule, so checking a page more often does not mean more noise in your inbox. ## Step 4: decide where alerts go This is where the switch feels different. Follow That Page sends email and nothing else. AyeWatch puts every alert in your feed and sends a push notification to its iOS and Android apps on every plan. Paid plans add email alerts, a daily digest email, Slack, Discord, signed webhooks and the REST API. You choose channels per monitor, so a price page can ping your phone while a policy page goes to a team Slack channel. Each alert is a short written summary of what changed, not a list of lines. ## Step 5: run both for a week Keep Follow That Page running while the new monitors settle in. Compare what each one reports. If an AyeWatch rule is too loose or too strict, edit the sentence. When you are happy, delete the old watch. ## What to leave on Follow That Page Be honest about the second pile. A static page where any change is worth knowing about, checked once a day, with email as the only channel you need, is exactly what Follow That Page was built for, and its basic account costs nothing. There is no reason to move it. ## Going further than pages Once you are set up, you can also track things that are not a single URL. AyeWatch topic monitors follow a subject across more than a billion sources, including news, forums, blogs and government pages, and social monitors cover X, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok. That covers ground Follow That Page never tried to. New accounts start with a Free Preview of three monitoring runs, with no card required. [Try moving your noisiest watch first](https://ayewatch.ai/?signup=true) and see how many emails you stop getting. ## Frequently asked questions ### Can I import my FollowThatPage watches into AyeWatch? No. Paste each URL into a webpage monitor and describe the change you care about. Setup takes a couple of minutes per page. ### What replaces FollowThatPage's keyword filter? The rule itself. Instead of ignoring lines that contain "comments", you write "ignore comment counts" or "alert only when the price changes". ### Will AyeWatch still email me? Email alerts and the daily digest email are on paid plans. Push notifications and the in-app feed come with every plan. ## Sources - [6 Best FollowThatPage Alternatives in 2026](https://ayewatch.ai/blog/followthatpage-alternative), AyeWatch - [AyeWatch plans and features](https://ayewatch.ai/), AyeWatch - [AyeWatch vs FollowThatPage](https://ayewatch.ai/vs/followthatpage), AyeWatch - [Follow That Page FAQ](https://www.followthatpage.com/faq), Follow That Page