How to set up google alerts
How to Set up Google Alerts Bottom of Form Do you want to monitor the web for mentions of your name? Or perhaps your business? Or maybe even your competitor? Google Alerts can do this. It’s simple to use. You enter a word or phrase, and you’ll be alerted by email whenever Google finds new mentions on the web. Here’s what that email may look like: a Google Alerts email for my name But Google Alerts is useful for more than just boosting your ego. Tracking mentions related to your business or brand can unveil opportunities for link building , brand building, collaborations, and more. It’s a free tool that’s well-suited to beginners. But, despite being owned by Google, it doesn’t catch all web mentions. How do we know? Because we have a web monitoring tool called Ahrefs Alerts . When we ran a small experiment to compare the number of results found by each tool, we found that, on average, Ahrefs Alerts returned 2,376% more results. You can read more about thi