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

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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)

    creating_google_alert 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?

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    { 19 comments… read them below or add one }

    Rahul Hanchinamane

    Pretty neat. Will be definitely using this in the future :)

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    NpXp

    Why future use it now since you own a blog. I have set it up for mine already :)

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    Mad Geek @beingPC

    Thats really an wonderful idea to track yourself. This is the best tip I have ever read on SML.

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    Sriraj

    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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    Anish K.S

    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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    Chethan

    Liked this Idea Very Much!

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    Gurpreet Singh

    Its great and I have Also created lost of Google Alert to stay updated with Blogging world

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    FAQPAL

    Good idea, I just added this alert.

    Thanks for the tip.

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    Nandan

    another useful tool from blogger

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    himanshu

    hey great idea. neva thought such thing would exist

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    sudharsan

    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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    Sagar Gholap @ The Weblog Press

    I knew this.. I am using this since 4-5 months and it is pretty interesting.

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    Ramkumar @ ByteChip.com

    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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    Aastha

    Wow.. Thanx for d tip!

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    Pavan Somu

    Nice tip. Thanks for sharing Harsh.

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    Basant Singh

    I am using it to know updates in my field of interest. It’s an excellent free service from Google.

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    The Aah! TECH Guy

    I already used Google Alerts for content ideas but hadn’t thought about tracking mentions of my site. Thanks for the idea! I’ll be subscribing to shoutmeloud to keep up with your tips!

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    Iseng Negblog

    Hehe very good idea, some people told me that google alert can be used to check backlink or monitored new link to our blog, can you tell me how ?

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    vrunda

    Hummm Great idea… Thanx for sharing…

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