Google Alert: Email notification when someone links to your site

[M1th]

The tool is next to useless. It only notifies you when a new link is added to the small sample of backlinks that Google chooses to show for a site. - it does NOT notify when a new site links to you.

Actually, it did for me in a couple of cases.

 

[cbp]

Actually, it did for me in a couple of cases.

Thats just not possible.

 

[PacMan]

Thats just not possible.

Its possible, I use link: http://www.domain.com

 

[Scribbller]

Sweet tool

 

[cbp]

Its possible, I use link: http://www.domain.com

That only shows you when a new site is added to the backlinks sample that Google show for a site, NOT when a new site links to you.
Please post the details if you belive otherwise.

 

[Clasione]

Yes - excellent tool....

It's also great for letting you know when Google changes the serps as some of your rankings move into the top ten...

I currently use it for

1 My Name
2 My Company Name
3 My Favorite Stock

 

[PacMan]

That only shows you when a new site is added to the backlinks sample that Google show for a site, NOT when a new site links to you.
Please post the details if you belive otherwise.

You are correct, I should have read the post thoroughly before replying.

 

[M1th]

You are correct, I should have read the post thoroughly before replying.

ditto PacMan

 

[Yogahoneybunny]

Also good for tracking the competition.

 

[cbp]

Also good for tracking the competition

How is it good for that? This thread is 3 years old. The tool is even more useless now than it was then, so have no idea how its any good for tracking the competition.

 

[jason2]

I agree, a very old thread indeed. I would say that this tool is not that good for tracking your own backlinks, but is only any good for competition and then it's not the best way to see your competition backlinks.

 

[djbaxter]

It may be an old thread but I still find the Alerts useful for telling me when Google recognizes a new link. Whether it gets them all isn't critical in my opinion. It still alerts me about some incoming links I didn't know existed.

I also use the query site:www.yourdomain.com with Google Alerts which notifies you when Google indexes new pages on your site.

 

[Yogahoneybunny]

Forget the link: site tool. Think about the more general use of alerts. It's great for tracking any news about your competition, not necessarily links. And don't forget your keywords ... nice to know what is being indexed. Both of these work great for me, once weekly.

 

[pscoln1]

will c how long it take to fill up the 1gb of storage

Ha thats funny

Thanks for the tip!

 

[Yogahoneybunny]

Thanks, Minstrel for the tip on the Advanced Search Operator (site: )...I include the links here for others interested in Google's search options. I hadn't studied them until recently!

http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/operators.html
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/refinesearch.html

 

[Tearabite]

I've been using Google Alerts for a long time.. I have alerts setup for my domain(s) URLS, my name, my website name(s), etc..
As a matter of fact, it was from a GoogleAlert that I got today that i learned about this forum when someone linked to my blog in a new thread..

 

[css59]

nice, thanks for sharing

 

[Borghunter]

Very awesome tool M1th!! Thanks!
I created a Gmail account especially for this