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I suspect that when Google came up with Google Alerts they knew they had a cool tool that people could use to keep track of subjects they were following and wanted the latest news on those subjects coming to them in their email inbox.
People have used Google Alerts for following things like Nascar, the musician Pink, Soccer, their favorite WWE wrestler, you name it.
But, many people have found other clever uses for it as well, as it is a very powerful tool whe it comes to staying on top of who is saying what about whom and where it was said.
Recently, one of my members shared they way they use Google Alerts with me for this very purpose, and I found it worked so well that I would now like to pass it on to you.
Google Alerts searches the Google archives for any given search term, and if it finds it, sends an email to you with the link to where it found the search term, and a summary of the text where it was found. This is very handy for someone that is either particularly vain, or someone that has a vested interest in what is said about them, or even about their product.
Doing this kind of search manually would be agonizing, as you would always get the same results, and they would not be based on the most current occurences of your keywords.
type your name or your product name or even your twitter username (which looks like @rondavies);
for “Type” select “Comprehensive”;
for “How Often” select “once a day”; and
enter your email address where asked.
You will receive any new occurences of that search term (your full name or product name) as they come into the Google archive system.
This means that if someone says something nice about you on blog XYZ.com, (or heaven forbid, not so nice), and Google spiders thier normal update for that blog and finds your name, you will be notified by email within the day.
Then you can either thank them, or spank them I suppose, depending on the nature of the comment or post where your name or product name were found #;>)
Another very cool, very easy to use tool from my little toolbox.
iPhone continues to dazzle as Blackberry’s “abacus” leaves much to be desired for the habitual or professional Wordpress blogger.
Do you have a Wordpress blog that you would like to keep updated while on the train, riding as a passenger in a car, or just sitting on Starbucks warming up with a cafe latte?
If you use iPhone, you are indeed in luck. iPhone continues to reward those that avoided or left the “crackberry” for the real McCoy, at least as far as power, flexibility, ease of use and breadth of applications and speed are concerned
Just click the iTunes icon on your iPhone, hit “search” and type “Wordpress” and you will immediately be rewarded by a whole selection of instantly installable iPhone Apps made just for managing your Wordpress blogs.
The onebi am authoring this post on is free, and I look after 6 blogs with it, all without cracking my notebook open.
If you love to “work it” as far as your Wordpress blog is concerned, this is the way to go!
You need only go install the (probably free) iPhone App, and log in to your blog ad an Admin, and under “Settings” go to “Writing” and enable the check box for “xmlrpc”.
That’s all there is to it! You are blogging anywhere, any time.
To do this on Blackberry, simply return it to your local cell phone shop, and get an iPhone.
It will be the best thing you do for youself this year!
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