google alerts

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Thursday, January 24, 2008, 6:19pm

Using Google Alerts with Gmail and WordPress

I make fairly extensive use of all the Google services. One of my favorite “workflows” requires a combination of Google Alerts, Gmail, and WordPress.

Google Alerts
In a nutshell, Google Alerts lets you monitor specific phrases and keywords and sends you an email alert whenever a blog, video, or website in Google’s database mentions it. So, for example, here are a few active alerts.

Google Alerts

As you can see, I’ve set up alerts for many of the things that interest me. You can be notified whenever someone mentions your name, your blog, your local town, etc.. Then you choose the frequency that Google will alert you, either all at once at the end of the day or as often as new content arrives. So what do I do with these alerts? (more…)

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