The biggest complaint I hear from Google Alerts users is that their mailbox becomes flooded with alerts. Here is a method of creating a storage system for Google Alerts using Gmail:
1. Google used to be stingy with email accounts, but now you can create as many as you want. Don’t fill up your everyday mailbox. Create a new mailbox in Gmail, and send alerts there.
2. Gmail will let you create a filter for any message with “Google Alerts” in the subject, and automatically send it to the archive. This will let you find it later with the All Mail link, and it won’t clog up your inbox.
3. You can add labels using Gmail filters that will separate different types of alerts. For example, you can create a label for News, and another for Blog posts.
4. Another way to divide up alerts is to create Gmail filters that apply labels based on the subjects of the alerts.
5. If you have an extremely high level of results, you can create multiple Gmail accounts, and use filters to forward alerts to different mailboxes. Some you can check regularly, and others you can check occasionally, and then delete everything you don’t have time to read.
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