Monitor terms with Google Alerts
Posted in Google, How To | By AhTim @ January 22nd, 2008
How do you know that other bloggers are talking about us on their blog? Normally we will monitor it through incoming links by using wordpress dashboard. But how about if other bloggers never link to our blog? This is quite important for us to trace who is talking about us, and what are they talking about. From there we know our impression in the eyes of others. Also help us to improve our social networking.
How to monitor terms or stories?
Now you can monitor terms or stories that you interested via Google Alerts. Once login to Google Alerts link, create new alert by put in your search terms, monitoring type, how often and your email address. With this alert, you will receive notification when others talk about you, even they never link back to you. It’s a powerful tool, isn’t it?
You may not only want to know who are talking about you, but also want to know about latest news about some events, or latest news about your keyword competitors. With these useful information, you can analyze what strategy that you need to use to overcome. 
My two cents
As for myself, I have created a new alert to monitor the term “AhTim”. I want to know who are talking about me on their blogs and google will alert me once a week. I am quite comfortable with this setting, I can read these stories when I am free.
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