Are your Google Alerts out of date?

by Adam Green on June 3, 2009

in Google Alerts

It’s easy to get so involved with responding to your Google Alerts that you forget to review your search terms. I found myself in this situation the other day. I had a lot of search terms that I was just ignoring, because they weren’t targeted enough. Over time I was getting fewer and fewer actionable alerts. So I went back to the Google Alerts management page, and revised many of them, and deleted the ones that just weren’t useful. Today I found myself with a much higher number of alerts that I could comment on or use as sales leads than I’ve had for a while. I guess even Mr. Google Alerts can get into a rut. When did you last took a hard look at your alert search terms?

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