How to set up a Google Alert
Posted on 23. Sep, 2009 by Cat in How To
Google Alerts are a handy way of monitoring conversations. Whenever there are updates to Google’s index on a particular search term, you can arrange to be notified.
You can use this to keep up to date with your company’s name, your product/service brand name, your own name or your company’s key personnel. You can also use this to monitor keywords that are relevant to your product/service so as to keep up to date with news in that area.
Go to Google Alerts, and you’ll notice a small box.
Fill in the search term you want – just choose one keyword or keyword phrase (you can make 1000 Google Alerts per email address).
Enter the email you want it sent to.
The default option is “Comprehensive” which you’ll get anything that turns up in Google’s search index, but this may be too much or irrelevant so you can limit it to news reports, Blogs, websites, video or Google Groups results.
You can also choose the frequency that you’ll receive email updates – once a day or week or as Google gets updated itself.
When you’re happy with your settings, hit “Create Alert” and you’ll get any updates on your search term straight to your inbox!
If you want more than 10 Google Alerts (you can have up to 1000 per email address), you will be asked confirm/verify that you want to receive these alerts via your
At any time you can stop getting alerts by using the “delete alert” link at the bottom of your alert emails.
If you have a Google account linked to your email, you can manage your alerts by going to the Google Alert page and finding the “click here to manage your alerts” or by using the “Manage your alerts” link at the bottom of your alert emails.
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