Track your site reputation with Google Alerts
When starting an online business, large or small, it’s important to know what the media, blogs, and other sites are saying about you. For first, this will help you understand and address user needs and concerns, and you can also take an extra step to try and reach out offering more support and thanks for the helpful review you get.
There are many online reputation tool to use and track anything about your business or brand. For a self entrepreneur however, savings in the starting phase is pretty important, or if you’re just starting a non or low profit blog but are interested naturally in anything said about your blog, and WordPress Incoming links doesn’t always work as you hope for. For that, Google Alerts may be the best and easiest thing to get started in minutes and for FREE.
Simply login to your Google account, go to the Google Alerts page, and fill up the fields as follow:
1- Search terms: Normally your brand name. For example “BlogAllAlong OR BlogAllAlong.com”. OR is a logical operator here.
2- Type: I would suggest you chose comprehensive to include News, Web, and Blog results.
3- How Often: I select once a day, but this is up to you and how serious your business is. Usually, once a day is good enough.
4- Deliver To: I chose email, you can select also Feed option.
There, now you have daily email alerts of articles about your site or blog. Ofcourse, you can always use it to track your own reputation (if you are such a celebrity ;).
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Bojacob: Yeah, but you’re not as hot as Techcrunch so dont expect miracles.
OK, here is what I’ll do. I’ll just write about you Bojacob.net to let you get a taste of it :>
Bojacob: hehehe :). Working already? Now its’ easier to trace you you know that?
MacaholiQ8: Anytime :)
maryam: Good. We will (for testing purpose) spread bad articles about you and see how you react :>
No charge for this test.
maryam: I will write then with secret ink. Do you know how to write with secret ink? There is a way for human, and a way for search engines. Or perhaps more than one.
Mahbob: This doesn’t need hacking. The information is available on the web publicly. It’s just a way to gather and not miss it.
You could call it stalking in a way also. If you’re too concerned about people finding about your blog, twitter status, or anything else, then you shouldn’t simply make it public.
you are right man but this is not public information what I type into the search box ? this is letting me know what people search I can put alot of words not just my blog name another keywords can be trace right ? or just the site name ?
I can put your name for example even if there is no site on your name.
is it legal to let somebody know what I type in the search box?
bashar: sorry I just got the idea because they just send the email I was confuse with another thing that I heard from one of my friends that you can be alert when somebody search about you then you will get alerted and that is something totally different . sorry again
Very interesting. I’ll give this a go and see what I get.