Alpert got a good bounce when he announced, but his rate of mentions have declined since, and the last week has been pretty much flatlined. I plan on exploring Alpert’s current online visibility, and putting together a plan for generating a little more buzz. This will take more work than I can cover in one blog post, so I’m going to make this my focus for the rest of this week.

Let’s start by taking a closer look at the overall picture. The analytics page displays a summary of the total and daily average rate of mentions for all the current Google Alerts in this account. By clicking the total mention column, we can order them from highest to lowest to see how Dodd mentions compare to those for Alpert.

It looks like Dodd is getting about 5 times more mentions each than Alpert, So there is a lot of work to be done. In the next post we’ll analyze the sources of these alerts and see if there are some good sites for the Alpert people to run a commenting campaign.

ricksanchezcnn: michelle malkin just called me an idiot because she didn’t like a tweet scrolling under me. isn’t that like a badge of honor for us?

michellemalkin: @ricksanchezcnn Well, you must be an idiot, because I didn’t say anything about you & I don’t watch your show.

michellemalkin: WTH is @ricksanchezcnn talking about: http://bit.ly/PKxGS CNN: Just making things up. #tcot

michellemalkin: Paging @ricksanchezcnn. Correct your error/fabrication/delusion: http://bit.ly/PKxGS #tcot

michellemalkin: RT @ucfgeek: What do you mean “badge of honor *for us*” @ricksanchezcnn? Aren’t u an objective member of centrist, mainstream media?

michellemalkin: RT @darkknight3565: Doesn’t Rick Sanchez have more twitter followers than viewers now?

ricksanchezcnn: ok, just checked. malkin was right. she did not say i was an idiot. somebody writing on her blog did. i was wrong. and i apologize.

michellemalkin: @ricksanchezcnn Apology accepted (next time, tho, pls address me directly @michellemalkin). No Badge of Honor for you.

ricksanchezcnn: c i keep keep getting nasty google alerts w her name on them.shows up as her writing.turns out it was captured from follower reax. that’s y!

ricksanchezcnn: @michellemalkin is that really you?

michellemalkin: @ricksanchezcnn yes it is.

HI4me: @ricksanchezcnn i wonder if the roles were reversed if you would have gotten an apology.

michellemalkin: @HI4me @ricksanchezcnn the roles wouldn’t have been reversed because i don’t depend on google alerts 4 fact-gathering.

ricksanchezcnn: @HI4me i would hope so. all you can do in life is do the right thing. you can’t hate hate. when you do, they own u.

michellemalkin: @ricksanchezcnn what do you mean “you can’t hate hate?” you’re the one who falsely accused me & blamed it on google alerts!

ricksanchezcnn: just checked malkin’s past blogs. wow! not exactly nice to me. she personally insults me. now it get where her followers got it.incredible.

ricksanchezcnn: just checked malkin’s past blogs. for the record, she does personally insult me. whatever it’s worth.

michellemalkin: @ricksanchezcnn Yep, I called you a moron 4 spreading lie about Bush Snub That Wasn’t. Jeanne Moos set u straight. http://bit.ly/pRMqZ