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Google Alerts

Best practices for automatic posting of Google Alerts to Twitter

July 6, 2009

Auto-tweeting of Google Alerts has become one of the most popular features in AlertRank, and now that AlertRank accounts are free these auto-tweets are popping up everywhere. We’ve added lots of controls that let you fine tune your auto-tweeting, and I wanted to point these out.
Let’s take the public Google Alerts account I created [...]

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AlertRank is now a free site

June 29, 2009

I’ve been quiet on this blog for a while, because we’ve been making a lot of changes to the company and sites. The first big change is turning AlertRank into a free site. The site still supports up to 1,000 search terms per account, and you are free to create any number of accounts. Alerts [...]

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The secret to getting listed in Google Alerts

June 11, 2009

People are always asking how to get their site listed in Google Alerts. The answer is simple, just comment on those sites that you find with Google Alerts. Google doesn’t send alerts for every mention of a search term. It only delivers results from sources it considers authoritative for these words. It isn’t as simple [...]

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Tracking mentions of your name with Google Alerts is not enough

June 11, 2009

It is part of my job to read blog mentions of Google Alerts all day, and the same message keeps getting repeated: “Be sure to set up Google Alerts for your company and product names.” Sure that is important, but are you missing the most important part of the online conversation this way? When you [...]

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Reviving a political campaign with AlertRank

June 10, 2009

I started a public Google Alerts account for Merrick Alpert the day he announced that he was running against Connecticut’s Senator Chris Dodd in the Democratic primary. Since then it doesn’t look like he is generating a lot of attention. This is a comparison of overall mentions of Dodd vs. Alpert on the AlertRank analytics [...]

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