Comments on: Generating quality marketing leads with Google Alerts and Twitter

By: Adam Green

Adam Green — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:40:46 +0000

Stephen:

You can combine job and location in a single search query. Here is a post I have written about that:

http://www.alertrank.com/mrgooglealerts/2009/04/09/google-alerts-for-local-sales-leads-on-twitter/

By: Stephen Davies

Stephen Davies — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:16:06 +0000

Hi,

This is great! Thanks for sharing.

Is there any way it could be filtered so you can look for both job title and location? E.g. If I wanted to find lawyers specifically from New York I could run a query to do so.

Thanks,

By: Twitter the lead generation tool « Sales Enablement in a Sales 2.o world

Twitter the lead generation tool « Sales Enablement in a Sales 2.o world — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:59:33 +0000

[...] I’ve written up this complete procedure for creating Google Alerts based on these searches on my blog: http://www.alertrank.com/mrgooglealerts/2009/04/06/generating-marketing-leads-google-alerts-twitter/ [...]

By: Coree Silvera

Coree Silvera — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:59:49 +0000

What a great tip! I have a lot to learn about Google searching and you’ve got me thinking now. We can come up with all sorts of goodies using this technique. Thanks!!

By: Garrett Winder

Garrett Winder — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:09:48 +0000

Adam

I completely agree with you on that one. 200 targeted followers are better than 1000 randoms in my book. Just like a website. Who cares about a million visitors if they aren’t converting. Where I was going with that is: bio + location = better targeted market.

Thanks for the great post
@garrettwinder

By: Adam Green

Adam Green — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:04:47 +0000

Garrett:

Yep. Here are some examples:
http://www.alertrank.com/mrgooglealerts/2009/04/09/google-alerts-for-local-sales-leads-on-twitter/

The best part about this approach is that if you have a Twitter account that shows you are truly part of a specific industry or pay attention to a location, you will get a very high rate of follow-back. It isn’t how many people that follow you that matters, it’s which people. Getting a dozen lawyers or real estate agents in Texas to follow you can be more useful than thousands of random Twits around the world.

By: Garrett Winder

Garrett Winder — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:57:15 +0000

This is really cool. You can also breakdown by location with something like (intext:”location * abilene”) site:twitter.com

By: Adam Green

Adam Green — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:34:48 +0000

Ching Ya:

I haven’t seen any personalized differences in receipt of Google Alerts.

Google definitely limits the total number of alerts sent each day, there are no hard numbers, but some terms I watch that are popular seem to be limited to 30-40 a day. If you set up an alert that finds thousands of users a day, you won’t get alerts on all of them, which is a good thing. If it is targeted, like lawyers, doctors, etc., the volume isn’t too high to get them all.

I haven’t tried Twilert, since I like using TweetDeck for my Twitter searching. I do know that all the Twitter search tools I’ve tried watch the tweet stream, not the profile pages. I guess this is a result of the Twitter API. I hope Twitter does reveal the profiles through the API. It will allow some amazing apps, and some annoying bots, unfortunately.

By: Ching Ya

Ching Ya — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:50:35 +0000

I’m impressed with your findings. I think this could be useful in terms of expanding our network; while reaching out to some people within our niche. I’m going to try this out, so far it works well with Google search. However, I can’t help but wondering, how does Google Alert determine among thousands of new users each day, which info to be sent to our mailbox, based on our keywords? Will the results be different from one person to another although with the same intext used above?
Also, how will the results be different from Twitlert?

Please excuse me for asking alot, but this seems like an interesting topic for me, love to know your opinion/feedback on this.

Greatly appreciated.

@wchingya
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