4 Google Alerts Usages for Bloggers

What is Google Alerts?

Google Alerts is one of great website tools from Google. Google Alerts offers the best way to monitor how the situation in certain topic. Google Alerts will send the monitoring result in to our Email base on the time that we set at our Google Alerts account. This monitoring function is surely a big help for bloggers like us. We can use Google Alerts to monitor our niche condition. We can track what others said about our blog, track the niche current trend, find the similar niche blog, or find how hard the competition is. Of course there are many other usages of Goggle Alerts beside the four that I mentioned.

Four Usages of Google Alerts For Bloggers

However, I do not try the other usages yet so leaved them for another time. For now, let’s focus to these four usages of Google Alerts that I already tried by my self:

Usage #1. Track What Other Said about Our Blog

We can easily track what other bloggers is said about our blog. We just need to insert our blog URL and name at the Google Alerts track setting and then Google Alerts will info us each time there is a blog that mention our blog name or URL in their blog post. For this need, we should set the alerts type settings as Blog. If needed, we also can set the alerts type settings become News, Video, Discussion, or Everything. This usage also can info us how popular exactly our blog around the blogosphere.

Usage #2. Track The Niche Current Trend

Sometimes, follow the trend is important to increase our traffic. As example, it always bring the good amount of traffic when we write the latest versions of WordPress. Therefore, we should always track what current trend in our niche. We can easily track the current trend in our niche. We just need to insert our niche keyword at the Google Alerts track setting. As example, I insert “Blogging” and “Blogging Tips” keyword at the alerts settings so Google Alerts will info me each time there is a blog post which including these keywords. This make sure that I am always well-inform of “Blogging” and “Blogging Tips” niche condition.

Usage #3. Find the similar niche blog

This usage is for link building need. It is already well-known that the best back link is always from high reputation blog which at same niche with our blog. We can use Google Alerts to easily find that kind of blogs – the blogs that has same niche with our blog. We just need to insert our niche keyword (indeed it is the same of the usage #2) and choose the alerts type setting as blog. Google will info us each time there is new blog post in our niche – in our niche keyword exactly. By this way, we can find many new blogs in our niche and then try to get back link from it. This way is great since the information is provided directly in our Email also cover the non so exposure yet blog.

Usage #4. Find how hard the competition is

As bloggers, Search Engine Optimizing (SEO) is really important as one of blog traffic sources. One of the aspect in SEO is the keyword choosing. We should choose some of the targeted keyword s and put all SEO effort to that chosen keywords. For this, we should know how hard the keywords competition is so we can know how hard we should work to overcome the competitors. We can easily find about the competition state through Google Alerts. We just need to insert the chosen keywords at tracking settings and Google Alerts will info how many post about it each duration time. The more of post number always mean the hard competition.

Final Words

Google Alerts is surely can become a great help for us as bloggers if we know how to utilize it. Google Alerts can feed us with many useful information that surely needed to improve our blogging. In this blog post, I shared four usages of Google Alerts so can bring up some Google Alerts usage ideas for this blogging tips blog readers. These four usages is already tested and proven by my self.
 
 
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