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Announcements

Promote your brand on Twitter with AlertRank Autotweets

March 31, 2009

AlertRank just added the ability to automatically send selected Google Alerts to a Twitter account. There are other tools that will take a Google Alerts RSS feed and turn it into Twitter messages, but AlertRank has the advantage of letting you add a filter so that just the alerts from the most influential sites appear. [...]

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Have it your way in the Alerts and Sources listings

March 29, 2009

We’ve gotten a lot of feedback from AlertRank users about which ranking values should be displayed in the Alerts and Sources listing. Rather than lock anyone into a specific set of columns, we’ve added a customize feature that lets you show or hide any of the data we have available to either table. Of course, [...]

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AlertRank adds read/unread status to Google Alerts

March 17, 2009

AlertRank just got even better at managing Google Alerts. We added read/unread status to all the alerts in your account, so just like an email program or feed reader, you can see which alerts you’ve already read.

Clicking an alert to view it’s details will automatically flag it as having been read. You can also mark [...]

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AlertRank adds new Google Alerts add-on features

March 16, 2009

Google Alerts just got easier with our latest rewrite for AlertRank. Our goal is to create a real-time Google Alerts monitoring system, and that just came closer to reality with auto-refresh on the Alerts listing page. Now the page automatically reloads every 5 minutes. You can just leave the page open in a browser window [...]

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AlertRank vs. Google Alerts RSS feed

March 12, 2009

AlertRank is a Google Alerts add-on, so it isn’t meant to replace Google Alerts completely, but it does perform some of Google’s functions a lot better. One clear case in the RSS feed. Google Alerts delivers a separate feed for each alert, which can be a real pain to follow in a reader, if you [...]

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