Google alerts

Google has a great little tool, which can be found at

Google.com/alerts, alerting you anytime a particular

Phrase that you.ve chosen to monitor appears on a

Web page or blog that’s indexed by Google.

You can use this tool to see who is making comments

About you, good or bad, on their blogs, to find out

What types of reviews people may be writing about

Your products and the list go on.

You’ll want to surround your phrase in quotes so that

The exact phrase is monitored, or else you’ll get all

Kinds of unrelated results.

You can choose to be notified by email on a daily

Basis, or even as the particular page appears within

Google’s index.

I actually have alerts created for my name and all of

My products so that I can see what people are saying

About me and my products on their blogs.

It’s actually a powerful way for you, as a matter of

Fact, to gain links back to your site by visiting these

Blogs and posting comments to these blog posts,

While making sure to create a link back to your site

Within the post

Not only can you spy on what others are saying about

You or your products, but you can also enter your

Competitors Details into Google Alerts to keep up to

Speed with what they are doing.

Unless you read every email or blog post created by

Your competitors, there’s no way for you to

Completely stay informed as to what they are doing in

Their business

But by creating an alert for your competitors name

Or product name with Google Alerts, you can follow

What’s being said in the marketplace about them?

And if you see that someone has posted a blog entry

Promoting your competitors product, you may wish

To do some research on that affiliate to see if they

Would make a great affiliate for your products

If you only use Google Alerts in your business, and

Ignore all of the other recommendations I’m about

To make, you will still make considerably more

Money than you’re making right now.