Setting up Google Alerts

As for the aspects of the alert that you can configure, they can be the following:

FREQUENCY OF WARNINGS:

How often do you want to be notified. It can be when it indexes the content, once a day or once a week, so as not to saturate you with messages it is better to set it to send you the newsletter only once a week!!!!

• SOURCES:

Where you want Google to search for the parameter entered in the alert. It can be automatic, in blogs, in news, in websites, in videos, in books, in forums or in finance.

• LANGUAGE:

The language in which the article, news item or message in which the parameter is mentioned appears. By default it will be your language, but you can change it to any other language in the world.

• REGION:

The country in which something related to the word you have entered must be published in order for you to be alerted. By default it will be set for all regions, but you can also set specific countries.

• QUANTITY:

In case there are many pages indexed with that keyword, you can choose whether you want to show all of them or just a selection of the ones that Google considers the most important.

SEND TO:

You can choose to have it sent to you by email or to generate an RSS Feed.

Another thing you need to know is that the The alert configuration search box accepts generic Google search engine commands. This means that you can add commands such as OR, location, inverted commas, asterisks and all the other commands you can use to configure your Google searches. 

In addition, keywords can be one word, several words, internet addresses or any method you can also use in Google.

TIPS FOR ALERTS YOU SHOULD CREATE AS AN ENTREPRENEUR:

Monitor your brand or website: You can do this by adding in the search box several terms related to your brand or website joined by OR, such as:

XATAKA OR XATAKA BASICS

• MONITOR YOUR ONLINE IDENTITIES:

By default, Google Alerts allows you to set up alerts on your name or email, but you can also set them up for other identities you use by adding the names in alerts, and even several of them linked with OR so that they are in the same alert.

• MONITORS THE COMPETITION:

If you have a business, a service or a website, you can monitor everything that is said about your competitors so that you don't lose sight of what they are doing. For example with commands such as the following, configuring the search if you want to only show news:

GENBETA.COM OR XATAKANDROID.COM OR XAKATAMOVIL.COM

• LOOK FOR POSSIBLE PLAGIARISTIC COPIES MADE BY YOUR COMPETITORS:

If you want to know if someone has copied and pasted one of your reference articles in any media, web or blog, you can try to find out by creating alerts with some of the complete sentences or paragraphs you have included in it.

• CREATE A FEED WITH YOUR TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Another interesting alert you can create is a feed where you can search for the latest articles on a certain topic on specific pages. For example, if you want to stay up to date on Instagram you could add something like this:

INSTAGRAM SITE: XATAKA.COM OR SITE: GENBETA.COM OR SITE: XATAKANDROID.COM OR SITE: XATAKAMOVIL.COM

Also to keep an eye on the latest news. The same search command above can be set up so that Google will send you alerts as soon as it indexes the result. This way, if you are waiting for an important news item on a topic you will receive it as soon as it is published.

Review the content published by a certain person, a competitor, a potential customer... If you know the name of the author of articles on a certain website, you can also set up alerts to notify you each time he or she writes:

YUBAL FM SITE: XATAKA.COM

• FILTER NEWS FROM YOUR FAVOURITE WEBSITES:

Another utility for which you can set up Alerts is to alert you when a certain website, your competitor, launches an article about a specific product or brand. In fact, you can add the "intitle" command so that it only alerts you when the keyword is mentioned in the title.

SITE: XATAKA.COM INTITLE: "ANDROID"

• IS LOOKING FOR OFFERS ON CERTAIN PRODUCTS OR SERVICES:

Alerts also serves as an offer alerter. You only have to configure alerts with the name of the product or service you want to find, and add words such as offer, discount, etcetera.

• NETFLIX "DISCOUNT" OR "SPECIAL OFFER" OR "DISCOUNT" OR "SALE".

Grants, scholarships and subsidies from official bodies: By adding the location where you want to receive grants, or pages where you want to find information about them, you can always be aware of these grants.

location: Madrid grant for entrepreneurs

SITE:EMPRENDEDORES.GVA.ES SUBVENCIÓN PARA EMPRENDEDORES OR BECA PARA EMPRENDEDORES OR AYUDA PARA EMPRENDEDORES:

Keep an eye out for product-specific FAQs. If you love guides and tutorials, you can be alerted whenever an article is written about how to troubleshoot or do things with certain products. For example: Like *Instagram

TRICK *INSTAGRAM

• LOCALISE YOUR BEST CONTENT IN THE EYES OF GOOGLE:

This trick is simple, and you only have to configure two alerts with site:tupaginaweb.com. In one you configure to receive all related alerts, and in the other only the most important ones. This way, you will be able to know which articles Google considers to be the best on your website.