If I were to write a display ad for AlertRank, this tweet would be right at the top. It states the problem with Google Alerts perfectly. You get a lot of results, some good and some bad. Then you have to sort through all of it to decide which to act on. If you are doing this for a client, they’ll want you to deliver a report on what you found.
Here’s how this problem can be solved with AlertRank in about 2 minutes. This is my current listing of alerts for today in the AlertRank control panel. There are already almost 500 to wade through.
To get them into order, all I have to do is:
- Set the minimum AlertRank quality score to 8, so only the most influential alerts show up.
- Filter the alerts to just see those from blogs, since I want to comment on the best ones
- Display the Comments and NoFollow values for these alerts, so I can pick out the ones that will give me the most Google juice from comments and backlinks.
- Sort the results on NoFollow, so those who pass their ranking along to Google are at the top.
After 5 clicks, here is what I see. You can click this image for a larger view.
Now I am ready to create a PDf report I can share with others. Two more clicks and I have my report.
Total time: 2 minutes. Total effort: 7 clicks.
Even better, since AlertRank auto-refreshes the list of alerts as they arrive, I can just leave this page open in a browser tab and the best alerts will keep showing up at the top of the list. AlertRank retains my settings between sessions, so now that I have this focused view of my alerts, they will be presented this way every time I log in.
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