10 reasons for Google Alert installing

Google Alerts is an old Google tool. A Google Alert is an email(s) that is sent to you regarding your search. Let’s say that you are using one of Google’s search tools and you cannot find the page or blog or press release that you desire. You can set up a Google Alert to tell you when another page is published that may fit your desires.

Google will run your search routinely, and whenever it finds a new page/post/press release that you may be interested in, it will email you a link to that page(s). In one sense it is a long term research tool, and in another sense it is web monitoring tool. As you would expect with Google, this alert system may be used free of charge.

A bit of background on Google Alerts

It has a long standing reputation for being one of the more user-friendly and simple email alert systems on the net. It is an old tool, but it has not needed much updating over the years as it works on a very simple premise. It is very reliable, in that if a new page of interest is indexed then the tool will tell you about it. But, it is not exactly accurate, but this is sometimes more a search query problem than a tool problem.

This occurs for the same reason that you do not get a page full of perfect results when you run a Google search query. You can get some usable results and some useless results. The Google Alerts system works in the same way, in that you may get a few good results and a few bad results emailed to you. Sometimes, it is a case of setting up a few Google Alerts in order to find the pages that you really require.

People think that the Google Alerts system is going to be decommissioned by Google because it gives such unreliable results. But, the truth is that all of its competitors do too. So, the threat of Google Alerts being decommissioned is pretty much impossible.

1 – Discover what is being posted about your company

Set up the keywords to revolve around your company name in specific and see where people have mentioned your company by name.

2 – Stay up to date about recent celebrity mishaps

Find out what the celebrities are doing by setting up alerts for their names, or you could just set up alerts for words such as “affair” or “scandal.”

3 – Be kept up to date and informed about the newest news

There are alerts that you can set up so that your Google alerts become more like a newsreel. You can add alerts for words such as “breaking news” and has all of the newest news delivered to your email address.

4 – Keep informed about your business industry or academic discipline

There are going to be changes to your academic discipline and your industry, so why not keep up to date with them via Google Alerts?

5 – Check out your personal popularity online

You can set up an Alert for your own name, and see how often you are mentioned online.

6 – Stay up to date on your competitors

You can set up alerts for your competitors by name so that you can see what other people are saying about your competitor, or you can see what they are up to.

7 – Monitor news stories as they develop

You can add alerts that focus on the newest news, so that you can be informed and kept up to date on the most recent developments.

8 – Discover what is being posted about your products

Enter your product names as your keywords and Google Alerts will tell you where posts and pages have mentioned them by name.

9 – Find out the newest sports information

You can get anything from the latest results to the newest sports star to cheat on his wife.

10 – See what people are saying about you personally

You do not have to look for your popularity; you can look into the negative things about you. You may be a minor celebrity for something negative. You can use Google Alerts to keep up to date with the negative things people are saying about you.

Author Bio: Kate Funk is a passionate blogger and online tutor at www.tutorsville.net.  She coaches individuals in SEO and business networking skills.