Google Alerts: Know Who is Talking About You or Your Blog

by The Happy Housewife on February 20, 2010

If you don’t have a google alert set up to monitor your name, blog name, or personal brand set one up today. By setting up a google alert you are notified, either as it happens or in a digest, when your search term is mentioned on the web.

Sign in to your google account and go to www.google.com/alerts.

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Type in your search terms in the first box. Below the first box is a drop down menu that allows you to select type of search: blogs, web, news, etc, the frequency of search, the amount of results, and email address for delivery.

You will notified via email when your search terms are found on the web. Google alerts is a great way to find out who is talking about you or your blog. It is also a great way to monitor your influence on the internet.

Toni is a Christ follower, homeschooling mother of seven children, and military spouse. Her blog, The Happy Housewife inspires and educates on frugality, budgeting and how to thrive on one income in a two-income world.

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Kristi at Spend Less and Save More February 20, 2010 at 9:04 am
Thanks for the tip! I just set it up!

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Melissa February 20, 2010 at 9:13 am
Do you have to put the ” ” around the search item?

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Shash February 20, 2010 at 9:22 am
Thanks for that, I never thought of using Google Alert before.

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Bucksome Boomer February 20, 2010 at 10:07 am
Thanks for the tip. I didn’t know about this feature and it’s so easy and best of all, free!

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Crystal & Co February 20, 2010 at 10:48 am
Awesome! Thanks so much!

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Dian @ Grocery Shop For FREE February 20, 2010 at 11:14 am
Thanks! I LOVE it!
Dian

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Autumn Beck | Cloth Diapers February 20, 2010 at 11:20 am
With everything else I have set up I can’t believe I didn’t have alerts set up!! So glad I saw this tweet. Now I’ll be better informed…I always wondered how people knew I had linked to them lol

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Carrie Isaac February 20, 2010 at 11:24 am
I use Google Alerts and love it – though, for monitoring your “reputation”, I recommend using multiple sites. I use Step Rep – I get completely different results and information. I think the difference is that Google Alerts only alerts you when they index a page with your search terms? Not sure how Step Rep works but I find a lot of mentions via Step Rep that never show up on Google Alerts.

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Kathy@Simple Savings Mom February 20, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Thanks for the tip! Just to make sure I am doing this correctly, do I put my blog name in the search query? That is what I did but I just wanted to make sure.

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Stacy February 20, 2010 at 1:45 pm
Hi,
I have been trying to use the “contact us” form here to send in a question and I can’t get it to go through. It keeps saying the contact form has invalid input. I’m no sure if it’s something I am doing wrong or if there is a problem with the form. Just thought I’d let you know.

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Amy February 20, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Great post! I had never heard of this before (and I’m an avid Google product user). I can’t wait to see what types of things I can learn with these alerts!

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clueless mama February 20, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Thanks so much. I just went and did this. I found you on twitter by the way:) Great tip!!

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denise@coupons for your family February 21, 2010 at 10:05 am
Thank you for the tip!! I use google alerts for certin topics but never thought of using it or my own blog!!!! Thanks again!! Have a great day!!

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Rana February 21, 2010 at 10:59 am
This is great. Thanks for sharing, I didn’t know you could do that.

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Apryl @ Christian Clippers February 21, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Thanks for the great info. Its so nice to have experienced bloggers helping out other bloggers

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The Frazzled Mama February 21, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Great tip!

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Lora @ Motherhood Moments February 22, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Thanks! I didn’t even know about this before!

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Denise @ Creative Kitchen February 23, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Amazing!! Another new tip! I love it…didn’t even know this one existed. Thx!

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Heather @ (The Single Dish) February 24, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Great tip, thank you so much! Just set it up!

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Catherine @ Frugal Homemaker Plus March 16, 2010 at 9:59 am
Awesome tip! I just set it up.

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