Within your Mention Alerts, you have the option of applying a country filter that will allow you to monitor or block specific countries from your keyword search. Mention utilizes data from the web and social media to identify the location of each publication we fetch to your account.

In this article, we teach you how to apply a language filter to each type of alert in your account.

📖 There are some mentions that do not provide location information or have hidden information. Due to this, Mention has a filter titled mentions without country information. You can activate this filter in your alerts and we will go over that in the next sections.

For more information on this filter and country monitoring, check out this article: Mentions without Country Information.

Apply Country Filters to Alerts

Mention offers over 240+ countries that you can monitor. Each Alert offers a unique method of configuring these country filters. Let's go over the process for each type of alert:

Basic Alerts

You can configure country filters at any time in the alert configuration page. When you create an alert or edit the alert, the configuration page ill display a tab titled Countries and Languages:

By default, your alert will be set to monitor All Countries and will monitor any publication that mentions your keywords even if the mention does not provide country data.

To monitor specific countries, please click on the slider titled 'I want to select specific countries' and you will see the country menu appear:

📖 If you decide to monitor specific countries, we recommend clicking on the Unknown Country filter to ensure that you do not miss relevant data from websites that do not display their country data.

To learn more, check out this article: Mentions without Country Information

⚙️ If you modify your alert with country filters after alert creation, Mention will begin to monitor new mentions with the country preferences in mind.

💡 Mention Tip - Alert Assistant

The Alert Creation Assistant will provide you with recommendations for country or language filters in your alert. After you create a keyword search, the assistant will let you know which countries and languages mention your keywords the most.

To learn more, check out this article: Optimize your Search with the Alert Assistant

Standard Alerts

Yo can modify your country filters at any time using the alert configuration page. When you create or edit an alert, the Alert Creation page will display a tab titled Countries and Languages.

By default, your Alert will be monitoring all countries. If you would like to choose specific countries to monitor, please click on the slider titled 'I want to monitor specific countries' and you will gain access to the country menu:

To learn more, check out this article: Mentions without Country Information

Advanced Alerts

Within the Advanced Alert, you will have access to boolean operators dedicated to monitoring or blocking countries from your alerts.

The Advanced Alert offers these operators for monitoring:

source_country: operator which will allow you to monitor or block countries using their dedicated ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.
-has:source_country operator which will monitor mentions that do not have a country code.

Here is an example of the Advanced Alert with a country monitoring filter:

This query will fetch mentions when the text Nike Air Max appears in publications from France or Spain.

⚙️ The country operators will only fetch mentions from Web, News, Blogs, Forums, and Twitter/X. If you need to create a query to monitor other sources and specific countries, please contact your dedicated account manager.

📖 For a full tutorial on the country monitoring operators in advanced alerts and the list of country codes available, please check out this article: Country Codes in Advanced Alerts

If you have any questions regarding country filters, please contact [email protected].