Google alert is a wonderful tool that I have now been using for a while with succesful result.I have been doing web seo for over a decade now and usually rely on the simplest and free tools on the net for tremendous amount of search traffic.One of the most fascnating tool without which I cannot do is Google alerts.Not only it helps me optimise my site it also helps me rank better ! Want to know more read on !
Ever wondered why after a certain time interval you stop receiving traffic from search engines or your volume of traffic has dropped tremendously within a certain days ?
Every month thousands of websites are hacked and tremendous amount of back links are generated to spam sites by black hats seo.
It is indeed unfortunate and a bit irritating when I find that the reason of traffic on major sites is due to these backlinks.
Google doesn’t give you a warning when they see lots of links to black hat sites – they just stop sending traffic to the pages that contain them. If the spammer has only added the code to a few of your pages the traffic drop can be quite small and it becomes almost impossible to diagnose the problem.
So here is how google alerts can help.
Google Alerts can create advanced search queries in order to set up an alert to monitor our websites for any terms that might appear .We can’t monitor every term but it is indeed helpful with a lot of spam terms that are most likely.
To start with we need to think of a few likely spam terms that people might like to inject in our site and then use them to make up a search query:
viagra OR cialis OR levitra OR Phentermine OR Xanax site:law9.com
where your site goes in place of law9.com
Now simply go to Google Alerts and enter the query above into the “Create a Google Alert” box and you will get an email whenever Google spots one of your chosen spam words on your site.
In addition to this you can also keep a track of your most favourite topics on the interent with a range of frequecny.For example I like to know everything that is happening in the “Lego” world so I just sign up for the term lego with google alerts and generally get everything in my inbox about lego when updated.