GOOGLE Alerts: Best Tips & Practices

Google services have a great impact in online world around the globe. Many users are getting remunerations from all the services provided by Google. Each service which is running by Google have its own great influence which helps the users in the way they want to. That’s why Google is considered as the No.1 online company in the world. In our previous tutorials we have discussed about several services of Google and today here we are going to talk over about the features, tips & practices of another useful service of Google i.e. GOOGLE ALERTS.

What Are GOOGLE ALERTS?

Google Alerts are the emails sent to you, whenever Google finds new content related to your queries such as BLOGS, WEB PAGES, and ARTICLES are published on the web. Google Alerts can be used to monitor anything online and is one of the best tool used to perform this act. You can use Google Alerts to:

• Check out what are the reviews about your company or product.
• Monitor an emerging news.
• Keep yourself updated about an opponent or industry.
• Get the latest news about your favorite area of interest.
• Find out what are the reviews of other people about you.

How It Works?

In Google Alerts, you enter a query or topics according to your area of interest. Google Alerts check consistently for the updates matching your query and if any updates available Google will sent it to your email. For general queries and topics like “CRICKET” you will receive an email updates every day but for the specific topics like “iPhone”,you may not receive updates every day, however if anything new and related to “iPhone” is available you can check out accordingly.

• Check out here, more examples on How GOOGLE ALERTS works?

Best Tips & Practices on Get Yourself Updated With GOOGLE Alerts:

Try to precise and accurate in your search. Google Alerts depend upon the more precise search terms you used. To get yourself best updated with Google Alerts, you must apply the following tips and practices. 

No.	Tips	Examples
1.	Use quotes around a group of words if you are looking for them together.	"white house" "Mike Smith"
2.	Put quotes around a single word to match that word precisely as you typed it, excluding synonyms and spelling variations.	"foard" (to stop Google including results for Ford) Michael "Jacson" (to stop Google including results for Michael Jackson)
3.	Use a minus sign (-) in front of words that you want to exclude.	paris -texas apple -fruit
4.	Use the site: operator to limit your search to specific sites.	physics site:.edu congress site:nytimes.com
5.	Use the site: operator with a dash to exclude specific sites.	"joe bloggs" -site:twitter.com

Note:- The above mentioned tips are the basic search techniques, if you want to learn about ADVANCED SEARCHING TECHNIQUES, click here.

How To Create Google Alerts?

After the introduction of Google Alerts, how it works and learning some basic techniques, now it time to create your Alerts. Let’s see how you can create your Google Alerts:

1. Go to Google Alerts homepage.

2. Here you will see 5 different options:

• Search Query: Here you have to enter your query and topics of interest.
• Result Type: In result type you can select that what kind of updates should be send related to the specific query, i.e. news, discussions etc. or everything.
• How Often: In this section you have to select that when the alerts will be send to you, you can select one of the 3 options here such as: As it happens, once a day or once a week.
• How Many: Select that how many alerts will be send to you, either only the best results or all results.
• Delivered To: Specify your email here, that where the alerts will be delivered to.

3. Set all the above options according to your own requirements and click “CREATE ALERT” button.

That’s all set, your alert is now active and you will start getting updates directly into your email.

Note:-

1. When you enter the keywords, queries or topics of your interest in SEARCH QUERY as we have entered the query “Blogging, SEO”, you can see the “GOOGLE ALERT FOR TODAY” window appearing at the right side that how Google Alerts will shown, check the screenshot below:

2. If you aren’t signed in Google Account, you will receive an email from Google to confirm your alert, however if you are signed into your Google Account, then you will not receive a confirmation email about the alert.

How To Manage Your Google Alerts?

Users with Google Accounts can easily manage their alerts by editing, viewing or delete them in “Manage Your Alerts” page. You can only avail this manage option after you have created the alerts. After you have created the ALERTS, follow the steps below:

1. Go to Google Alerts homepage.

2. Click “Manage Your Alerts”option.

3. A new “ALERTS” window will open containing different options like Edit, Delete, Export etc.

Note:-

You can export the list of your alerts in CSV format, by visiting EXPORT Google Alerts.

That’s All.

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