Jul 07
Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
Other than news or updates, you can also use Google Alerts to monitor your websites’ or other people websites’ statistic.
You can know:
- When and which are your website pages being included in Google search results.
- Which website has create a link that point to a page in your website.
- Which website has mentioned about your site.
- What new websites are related to yours.
You can perform those type of updates at above by creating an alerts in Google Alerts with the following query:
- site: www.sitestimator.com
- link:www.sitestimator.com
- www.sitestimator.com
- related:www.sitestimator.com
Keep an eyes on your websites or other people websites always help webmaster know about their websites’ statistic and their competitor, so that webmaster can take neccesary action as soon as possible.
[via Google Alert]
July 7th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Your examples are all useful for monitoring your own relationship with Google, but if you want to improve your SEO position relative to your competitors, you need to watch them as well. I’ve written up a detailed procedure for monitoring competitors with Google Alerts on my blog:
http://www.alertrank.com/mrgooglealerts/2009/04/06/why-do-your-competitors-have-better-position-in-google-search-results/
I think your readers will find this useful. Thanks.
July 10th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Hi Adam Green, Thanks for the great tips!