calumniate
msg:3306845 | 9:11 pm on Apr 9, 2007 (gmt 0) |
mv, google alerts are mostly for news articles / press releases. Thus, write a news article and/or press release with the keywords you're going after and submit them to newswires (free or paid). Make sure the keyword is there, but don't spam it.. just try to make it interesting and you're sure to get an alert. I get them all the time. Articles get spidered and linked but they shouldn't get google alerts really. oh yeah make sure your email is set up to receive the alert you are looking for :) -cal
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trinorthlighting
msg:3306858 | 9:25 pm on Apr 9, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Set up an alert for your site's address -- http://www.example.com We do that and you will see where links come from daily. [edited by: tedster at 5:33 pm (utc) on April 11, 2007]
[edit reason] switch to example.com - it can never be owned [/edit]
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calumniate
msg:3307452 | 2:03 pm on Apr 10, 2007 (gmt 0) |
ahh thanks trinor - i had mine set up to only see news.. i went back and changed our domain alert to comprehensive. I feel kinda stupid!
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trinorthlighting
msg:3307598 | 3:53 pm on Apr 10, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Its also a great tool to find proxy sites and scraper sites. Let google inform you when your site has been scraped or copied.
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blaketar
msg:3308046 | 1:14 am on Apr 11, 2007 (gmt 0) |
trinorthlighting, any suggestions for how to setup such alerts (specific keywords, sections, etc)?
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trinorthlighting
msg:3308061 | 2:19 am on Apr 11, 2007 (gmt 0) |
You can take a sentance from your home page that is unique. That will help you find scrapers.
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mv_1
msg:3309490 | 3:42 pm on Apr 12, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for the replies... I do understand that Google alert is for News PR and Blogs. But how do you get a news site(our site, provides specific indusrty news) to show whenever new content is added to the site. I see other sites that are not PR releases and blogs being found in the alerts when they have new content pertaining to the alert keyword. We just want to be one of those sites as well. Thanks!
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