Use Google Alert to Monitor What People are talking about you Online

by Harsh Agrawal on January 21, 2010

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Few Months back I have written two useful post on usage of Google reader for any blogger. In case if you have missed it, you can see it here

There is one more topic which is very important for bloggers and I forget to add it into the earlier series of Google alert posts.

Google alert is an online free service which will let you know when and what’s happening around the web for keyword which you have selected. One important thing is, every blogger should know what people are talking about them online or about their brand.

You can set keyword like “Yourname” or “Your Blog name” and set it to receive email updates when any one talking about this. For example, in my case I will use “Harsh Agrawal” or “Shoutmeloud” to monitor what people are talking about me around the web.

To trigger this updates go to Google alert website and enter your keyword (watch screenshot)

Now when ever any one on web will talk about shoutmeloud.com I will be notified via email. If you prefer feed subscription method, you can also subscribe to feeds for such alert. In the type section you can select between different options like web, blogs, comprehensive.

Do let me know if you find this tip useful and what else practical implementation of Google alert you can think of?

Tagged as: Blogging Tips, Branding, Google, Google Alert

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{ 15 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Rahul Hanchinamane January 21, 2010 at 10:12: Pretty neat. Will be definitely using this in the future

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2 Mad Geek @beingPC January 21, 2010 at 12:34: Thats really an wonderful idea to track yourself. This is the best tip I have ever read on SML.

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3 Sriraj January 21, 2010 at 13:01: That Quotation marks are so important, else Google throws all alerts that contain words like shout, me and loud in a same page.

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4 Anish K.S January 21, 2010 at 15:26: i have created lots alerts, its working fine, but now unsubscribed from all. its a nice trick to find popular keywords.

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5 Chethan January 21, 2010 at 19:49: Liked this Idea Very Much!

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6 Gurpreet Singh January 21, 2010 at 20:15: Its great and I have Also created lost of Google Alert to stay updated with Blogging world

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7 FAQPAL January 21, 2010 at 21:35: Good idea, I just added this alert.

Thanks for the tip.

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8 Nandan January 21, 2010 at 22:47: another useful tool from blogger

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9 himanshu January 21, 2010 at 23:30: hey great idea. neva thought such thing would exist

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10 sudharsan January 22, 2010 at 04:44: Good idea :-
If we subscribe for SMS alerts via Way2sms.com for our incoming mails we can monitor using Mobile phones in our home..

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11 Sagar Gholap @ The Weblog Press January 22, 2010 at 09:21: I knew this.. I am using this since 4-5 months and it is pretty interesting.

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12 Ramkumar @ ByteChip.com January 22, 2010 at 13:35: I use Google alerts to find out if my Posts have been listed in Google properly or not, Works really great,

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13 Aastha January 22, 2010 at 15:32: Wow.. Thanx for d tip!

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14 Pavan Somu January 22, 2010 at 15:45: Nice tip. Thanks for sharing Harsh.

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15 Basant Singh January 23, 2010 at 11:27: I am using it to know updates in my field of interest. It’s an excellent free service from Google.

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