Google Alerts

[anytimeflowers]

After watching the whole webisode that Ryan did on site reviews, there was much to think about. There is MUCH to do, even though I have a Strider site that shows up pretty great.

THANK YOU!

As I was watching it, I noticed that Ryan referred back often to a listing generated by google and copied the address he was using to pull this info.

I typed in site:any-timeflowers.com and it showed 403 different blurbs. I'm sure this is probably nothing new to many of you, but it was very new to me.

My question is this. On the side panel to the left it has a way to track things called google alerts, and I notice that it is Beta.

Would it be to my advantage to have this for my own site? If so, in what way would it benefit me?

It is my understanding that normally people would subscribe to getting e-mails, or google alerts, when I post something that is of interest to them. Is there any way to back-track and find what people are interested in so that I would post more of the content they are looking for?

Just wondering.
Thanks,
Linda

 

[theRKF]

Google Alerts will let you know when Google discovers something new that matches your search term.

I use Google Alerts for tracking mentions of FlowerChat, my name, clients, etc. If someone is talking about you somewhere this is a pretty good free way to find it.

I believe CHR has some alerts set up about industry terms & news.

 

[anytimeflowers]

That's EXACTLY what I was wondering! I know CHR does that for news she's interested in keeping on top of, to the benefit of all of us. :nod:

But I wondered if it would help me, too.

So it won't help me to track analytics, but it will help me if somebody ELSE mentions me.

Got it, thanks!