Google Alerts and Submission

[beginner]

Hi All,

I am not able to find my blog posts in Google Alerts. Can anyone please guide me?

Thanks in advance!

[admonharr]

Choose your alert types from the dropdown menu: web, news, blog etc

[beginner]

Originally Posted by admonharr

Choose your alert types from the dropdown menu: web, news, blog etc

Thanks for the reply. However, I want to add my website's (www.abc.com) posts in the Google Alerts. How can I do this?

[amar]

Originally Posted by beginner

Thanks for the reply. However, I want to add my website's (www.abc.com) posts in the Google Alerts. How can I do this?

Do you want to know whether the particular post in your website is indexed in Google? If so, you can add your website URL / Post URL in Google alerts.

[LeilerDee]

As far as I know you can't add your site to Google alerts as part of the service they offer, but you can add your blog as a keyword you want to be alerted to, I don't think you can add it so that it will always be mentioned. If you want your site/blog to be included, focus on specific keywords in your posts...then subscribe to Google alerts using that keyword to test it out and see if you receive any alerts with your blog included.

If you are looking to see if your blog/name is being mentioned elsewhere on the web, then use your blog or name as a keyword and create an alert and you will see where/if it is being mentioned anywhere besides your site.

[ctabuk]

You can add any site to Google Alerts - However, it is no longer run by Google!!!

Google have outsourced it (It's on my credit card bill somewhere as I use the pay for version) and to be honest - the results I am getting can be up to 2 or even 3 years old.

Found the confirmation on this

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[OpticBurst.com]

I blog a lot using Google Trends and this is how I add myself to Google Alerts. However, what ever Alert you want to be added to must be a keyword or keyphrase you are targeting along with the Google Search Trends...

I setup multiple blogs. Then I trend accordingly to what content should be on what blog. Make sure you link back to some relevant sites that you also control and you PR will shoot through the roof.

When I first was experimenting with Google Trends and the strategies list above, I used an outside blog at wordpress.com and trended daily. Heck I actually trended hourly for 3 weeks. I linked to a relevant site of mine and it's PR shot from 2 out of 10 to (5 out of 10) within those 3 weeks.

Perhaps in order for this to work like I said you must get updated by Google Toolbar within the same 3 weeks?? I wasn't sure so did it again. This time I took a site that was 0 out of 10 and trended for 1 month. Yes, 4 weeks.. After those 4 weeks the PR changed on that site as well. Now the site is (3 out of 10) when just 4 weeks ago it was simply 0 out of 10.

Hrrrmmm!! Then that scenario drove me nuts since I always thought Google updates their toolbar 4 times per year. This theory blew me away. Perhaps, Google can see the keywords in my blogs content to be in the top 100-1000 of all searched for keywords online and favors these domains I speak of..??

Anyone who Blogs Trends see the same?

[OpticBurst.com]

Also, every external website I link to seem to go up in pagerank. Usually the same page rank as the blog I am trending on. So if the blog is 5 out of 10, then every site I link to seems to become 5 out of 10.

I am coming to think Google can update more than 4 times per year.. hrrrmm!

What have been your experiences?