Track Your Brand with Free EMail Alerts
Keeping tabs on the blogosphere isn’t always an easy task. But when you’re interested in your own brand which includes your blog name, your blog’s URL, and your personal name, it’s quite an important thing to do. Luckily for us, there are several sites out there who monitor the blogosphere for us to ensure that we’re on top of our own brand.
Today, let’s dive into these sites.
Tweet Beep
I previously talked about Tweet Beep in my post How to Market a News Breaking Post but we’ll go into it further today.
Tweet Beep monitors Twitter for specific keywords that you setup alerts for. When they find that your keywords have been talked about on Twitter, you’ll get an email from Tweet Beep telling you what they found and where they found it. You’ll be able to head directly to the source of the tweet.
There’s no limit to what you can setup alerts for so make sure you include your URL, blog name, and personal name. Anything you’d like to keep tabs on with Twitter, make sure to create an alert for that.
Here’s a snapshot of my alerts:
The system is incredibly simple to use and setting up alerts takes no time at all.
Social Alerter
I’m not sure that Social Alerter will server a purpose for everyone. However, should you have a blog post that is about to go popular on digg, del.icio.us, Propeller, or Mixx you can setup alerts with Social Alerter to send you an email about it for your selected domains.
Recently they’ve added Reddit to the alerts as well but alert emails are not yet being sent for Reddit.
Your need to use Social Alerter will simply depend on the social networking sites you choose to use and that may mean for now this site won’t be useful to you. However, if you don’t target one the sites they send alerts for keep an eye on this site. I think they have the potential to really grow and could include more sites soon.
With Social Alerter, it’s again incredibly easy to setup alerts with. And here instead of choosing keywords, you’ll simply select domains that you want alerts emailed for. Here’s my alert:
Google Alerts
I think that Google Alerts is probably one of the most talked about of the alert systems. But just like the other two alert systems, you can setup Google Alerts to track your brand. Just a bit of information and you’re off and running with Google alerts and setup to receive an email when your keywords are discovered.
More than Your Brand
So all of these alert systems are great for tracking your own brand. But you don’t have to limit what you use these alert systems for. Here’s some ideas of more uses to setup alerts:
- Track your target keywords.
- Monitor news stories.
- Research a niche by watching what people are saying.
- Stay on top of the latest trends.
Alerts, by all of these systems, allow you to stay on top of the latest and greatest within your niche.
Your Alerts
Have you setup alerts for your brand or keywords? How do you use alerts systems? And if you haven’t setup alerts yet, do you think it might be worth your while to do so?
July 7th, 2008 at 1:06 am
I don’t know where you get the time for all this - I feel overwhelmed by my once daily Google alert!
July 7th, 2008 at 1:44 am
I love the Google Alerts system. It is hard to imagine life without that service now. At a bare minimum everyone should have a Google alert set up for their name.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:53 am
hi there!.. nice blog.. I really enjoyed reading it. thanks! cheers..
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July 7th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Really helpful list - I saw something on Tweet Beep earlier today (on Twitter!) but failed to follow it up, so this is great, thanks
July 7th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Nice post i like google alerts its really handy for reading new stories andi am going to checkout tweet beep.
July 7th, 2008 at 9:54 am
I’ve used GA from the beginning, but I hadn’t heard about TweetBeep. I’m going to give it a try. Thanks!
July 7th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
@Nicola: I micro-manage my time very well to ensure that I complete everything I’ve got to do and stay ahead. See my post Are You Wasting Precious Time to check out how I create schedules for myself.
@Affordable SEO: I love Google alerts as well. While all these systems are nice, Google is by far the most effective.
@boxfixes: Thank you for your comment and for stoping by. Much appreciated.
@Lucy: Glad I could help! Be sure to take a minute to check out Tweet Beep, it really is awesome.
@David: Indeed Google is great for finding awesome new stories without doing the searching yourself.
@Jules: I have too and absolutely love it. Have fun with Tweet Beep!
July 7th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I have been using Google Alerts to keep track of who is saying anything about my blog. Its email alert is not too intimidating you would think of it as a spam.
But I haven’t heard of the other 2 tracking tools so thanks for sharing, Katy.
Yan
July 8th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Hi Katy!
I LOVE Tweet Beep. It is an awesome way to stay on top of your own personal Twittersphere. I have already found some prospective clients using Tweet Beep.
I also use Google Alerts for the same, as well as keeping tabs on new Wordpress themes, plugins, and Mac OS X software.
Using the two in tandem is a great way to stay current on things if you are so busy fora day or two that you miss checking yourself by searching Google, Summize, etc…
July 9th, 2008 at 6:40 am
@Yan: I agree, Google alerts aren’t too intimidating and certainly easy to browse through and delete. :D
@Taryn: Congrats on finding perspective clients with Tweet Beep, that’s a big deal.
July 10th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
love reading all your blogs, so informative. Thanks for dropping by my site. Please feel free to give any suggestions you may relevant to my blogs. Thanks in advance!
July 11th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I haven’t try try those alert, but maybe I’m getting on Google Alert because I just using my gmail account to sign in.