Three Cool Reasons To Use Google Alerts
Alison Rothwell
Google Alerts should be a key part of monitoring the success of your
search engine optimization. It's very simple to set up and gives you
important real time information about your website.
Cool Reason # 1
Tracking Backlinks
Google Alerts enables you to track whenever a backlink is connected to
your website. By using this method as soon as your site gets a new
backlink you'll be informed.
The solution is at http://www.google.com/alerts
Go to that URL and enter this
Search Term: link:www.yourdomain.com
Type: Web
How often: as it happens
Deliver to: <your email>
Now as soon as your site gets a new backlink Google will send you email
to let you know.
Cool Reason # 2
Finding Out When Your Web pages Are Indexed
You can use Google Alerts to discover when new pages from your website
are indexed.
This time you use the search term site:www.yourdomain.com .
Cool Reason # 3
Discovering Where Your Competitors Get Their Backlinks From
A smidge sneaky but you can use Cool Reason # 1 to track your
competitor's backlinks. Everytime their site gets a new backlink you'll
receive a notification from Google. This means that you can monitor
their linkbuilding campaigns. You can then also get your backlinks from
the same sites.
Customer Comments
Most Helpful Customer Comments
The three reasons are really amazing! Tracking, finding, and discovering are the main keys of using Google Alerts. I find it very functional.
Thanks,
DawnRod
I use Google alerts, but never knew about those types of alert - have just set them up.
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