Monday, October 29, 2007

Google Alerts - Keep track of new Google results for your search terms.

Google AlertsGoogle Alerts is a useful tool to help you keep track of what visitors searching for. If you created and published a new smashing blog post, Google Alerts sends email automatically to you when there are new Google results for your search terms. Google offer alerts with results from News, Web, Blogs, Video and Groups.

Google Alerts currently offers 6 variations of alerts - 'News', 'Web', 'Blogs', 'Comprehensive', 'Video' and 'Groups'.

  • News Alert - is an email aggregate of the latest news articles that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top ten results of your Google News search.
  • Web Alert - is an email aggregate of the latest web pages that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top twenty results of your Google Web search.
  • Blogs Alert - is an email aggregate of the latest blog posts that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top ten results of your Google Blog search.
  • Comprehensive Alert - alert is an aggregate of the latest results from multiple sources (News, Web and Blogs) into a single email to provide maximum coverage on the topic of your choice.
  • Video Alerts - is an email aggregate of the latest videos that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top ten results of your Google Video search.
  • Groups Alert - is an email aggregate of new posts that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top fifty results of your Google Groups search.

Just go to Google Alert and sign in with your Google Account. If you don´t have an Google Account you create one easily here.

Once registered you can select when you set up your alert determines how often we check for new results, not necessarily how often you'll receive alerts. The Alerts are very easy to manage and it´s a great way to get to know when visitors of Internet searched on your search term. Then you will get an email letting you know that someone just found your search term – word.

Good Luck

- John Kerbiac -

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