A blogger experiment using Google Alerts

November 24, 2007 by
Filed under: General 

This is just an experiment that I wanted to do. I wanted to know how many other bloggers use Google Alerts to get updated emails when other sites mention their name or their blog.

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9 Comments on A blogger experiment using Google Alerts

  1. David Cooley on Sat, 24th Nov 2007 5:58 pm

    2. Interesting test, caused several Alerts to be sent to me. I monitor other bloggers that I read on a regular basis. Reading what others have to say about those who I read is a great way to understand the impact they have on the blogosphere.

  2. Sudarshan on Sat, 24th Nov 2007 6:37 pm

    3. How does Google alers work? how should i activate it?? Any ideas!!

  3. Steve Rubel on Sun, 25th Nov 2007 4:18 am

    4. Present.

  4. Binh dot Name on Sun, 25th Nov 2007 10:02 am

    5. Hehe, that’s some fun. I didn’t actually get alerted for this but since I got listed here http://www.rsshugger.com/binh.name and got position 9 on top 100 blogs. I saw yours on 2nd rank so I check it out.

    But yes, I do use Google Alerts to check my “Binh dot Name” appear anywhere as it happen. And from that I got very interesting stats, I may end up writing a full post about proper usage of this feature soon.

    And yes, I am expecting to see an alert sent to me with the URL of this page by tomorrow because I just left a comment on it.

  5. Tyler on Sun, 25th Nov 2007 10:11 am

    6. I use Google Alerts to track mentions of my blog Startup Hustle.

  6. Tony Howell on Sun, 25th Nov 2007 3:45 pm

    7. I use it.

  7. bmunch on Mon, 26th Nov 2007 12:39 am

    8. I am vain too. I use google alert to moniter BlogMunch regularly.

  8. Sueblimely on Thu, 29th Nov 2007 10:55 am

    9. I set up an alert for Sueblimely which is part of my blog name as well as my nickname. I know my site has been mentioned and that Sueblimely shows up on many sites/blogs. No alerts have resulted in the year or so I have had the alert running? Any ideas where I may be going wrong?

  9. Collin LaHay on Thu, 29th Nov 2007 12:08 pm

    10. @Sueblimely: No idea… call up google. =)

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