Using Google Alerts To Increase Website Traffic
Not too many people know the advantages of using Google alerts to increase website traffic. I have been using it for a few months now, and I totally love it. It helps me find relevant blogs, websites, or even Groups for keywords that I set up in my alerts, and Google sends me these results directly to my email every day.
For those who don’t know what Google Alerts is, and how you can use them to increase website traffic to your websites or blogs, let me explain to you quickly what it is, and what it can do for you and your SEO.
Google Alerts is a notification / Alert system that Google has set up so you can receive email alerts from Google when ever Google finds specific website pages that you define in your Alert. What these alerts contain are specific keyword terms that you want to keep up on events for.
For example, with the Winter Olympics taking place starting Feb. 11 2010, you can set up an Alert for the keyword term ”Winter Olympics” in Quotes, and whenever Google finds that exact keyword term on websites that it crawls, you will receive an email alert about it. Pretty easy to understand, and a very powerful SEO tool that you could use to increase your website traffic and search engine ranking by building super targeted back links.
There are 6 different types of alerts that you can set up:
- News
- Blogs
- Web
- Comprehensive
- Video
- Groups
Each type of Alert is pretty self explanatory but, you can read the Google Alerts Help page for more information about using the Google Alert system.
Now, to increase your website traffic and build targeted back links to help you rank better in the search engines, setup a Google Alert for your main keywords that you want to rank for, and use the types Blogs and Groups. When Google finds your keywords on these types of websites, you will receive an email with a link to the page your keyword was found on.
The reason you want these two is simple. You can post comments on Blog and Groups. See where I am going with this, and do you understand how to increase website traffic using this powerful Google Alerts Feature?
We all know that in order to rank better and to increase website traffic from the search engines, we need relevant back links, and this is the best way to find them with little to no work.
I think that the Google Alerts is one of the best ways to increase website traffic and build yourself some powerful back links pointing back to your website.
Go setup your Google alert, start building your back links and increase website traffic to your blogs or websites today.
I have started using Google alerts for the past on year now. It is a great tool to find authority websites as well as sites that are talking about keywords you are targetting. Based on the result you can find sites to participate it for topical relevance.
I have been using Google Alerts to search for material for my Blog and Squidoo Lenses. Thanks for the tip on how to find relevant blogs and groups for back-linking.
This is fascinating! I did not know that these Google Alert was so useful. So, I guess that I will be setting them up to see how it goes. Thanks for the great article!
Thanks for sharing! It is very good idea of increase backlinks and traffic. I never think of that. So far, one of my backlinks generation is submission of feed. It also increase the ranking, esp Alexa ranking very fast. Last but not least, thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for the tip on google alerts. I haven’t ever tried that but will be sure to soon. You can’t sell anything without traffic!
I have heard of Google Alerts but never thought it could benefit like this. I am going to start right now! Thanks Trevor.
“setup a Google Alert for your main keywords that you want to rank for” brilliant idea. unfortunately as with most forms of seo its a time consuming process!
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This is really interesting. I was looking for ways to find related blogs to try and get some more backlinks to my site. This should make things a little easier for me. Thank you so much for posting this.
Google almost always have the right tools for a blogger. There’s Google keywords Adword tool, google analytics and also this tool you’ve mentioned which I’m not really familiar about but it sounds like it’s another great tool to use. Thanks for sharing it. I am going to check it out.
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Great information! Will try this for sure.
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