Comments on: The myth of the “Google Alert” http://mediastyle.ca/2009/12/the-myth-of-the-%e2%80%9cgoogle-alert%e2%80%9d/ A Progressive Communications Company. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kelly Rusk http://mediastyle.ca/2009/12/the-myth-of-the-%e2%80%9cgoogle-alert%e2%80%9d/#comment-4740 Kelly Rusk Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:13:38 +0000 http://www.mediastyle.ca/?p=2334#comment-4740 Hey Nick, Not sure if it's better/how it compares, but SocialMention.com just releases an alert system like Google Alerts. For any social media content I prefer socialmention.com because it seems to capture EVERYTHING, but as I said, haven't tried the alerts yet (just signed up!) Also added bonus is it's an Ottawa-based company! Hey Nick,

Not sure if it’s better/how it compares, but SocialMention.com just releases an alert system like Google Alerts.

For any social media content I prefer socialmention.com because it seems to capture EVERYTHING, but as I said, haven’t tried the alerts yet (just signed up!)

Also added bonus is it’s an Ottawa-based company!

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]]> By: Nick Charney http://mediastyle.ca/2009/12/the-myth-of-the-%e2%80%9cgoogle-alert%e2%80%9d/#comment-4605 Nick Charney Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:07:57 +0000 http://www.mediastyle.ca/?p=2334#comment-4605 Ian / Kelly I use Google Alerts as well and agree with the points Ian raises. My main issue with alerts is what Kelly is touching on. I often get an alert for a page that pulls info from my site but only for a brief period of time. By the time I get to the page I have been alerted of, the content is no longer there. For example, because my blog includes my twitter feed, if I retweet a link Ian posts to the MediaStyle blog and Google catches it on my page, it would alert Ian and then he would come to my blog and not be able to actually find the link because its existence was fleeting. I find I waste a lot of time looking at pages and never finding where the link came from. Given that I don't have the resources for a paid solution (just a lowly blogger over here) is there anything else out there that I should be looking at? Ian / Kelly

I use Google Alerts as well and agree with the points Ian raises. My main issue with alerts is what Kelly is touching on. I often get an alert for a page that pulls info from my site but only for a brief period of time. By the time I get to the page I have been alerted of, the content is no longer there.

For example, because my blog includes my twitter feed, if I retweet a link Ian posts to the MediaStyle blog and Google catches it on my page, it would alert Ian and then he would come to my blog and not be able to actually find the link because its existence was fleeting. I find I waste a lot of time looking at pages and never finding where the link came from.

Given that I don’t have the resources for a paid solution (just a lowly blogger over here) is there anything else out there that I should be looking at?

]]> By: Kelly Rusk http://mediastyle.ca/2009/12/the-myth-of-the-%e2%80%9cgoogle-alert%e2%80%9d/#comment-4598 Kelly Rusk Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:18:03 +0000 http://www.mediastyle.ca/?p=2334#comment-4598 Hi Ian, Thanks for mentioning MediaMiser, and I agree completely-Google Alerts is a helpful tool, but doesn't tell you everything. I use it to monitor our company name, but also use our own software and various other tools (if only just to compare effectiveness). The irony is that while I did in fact find this post via a Google Alert, it didn't actually bring me to your site, but the New Democrat Online site, which seems to just pull your feed in. So the question is why wasn't MediaStyle.ca included in the Google Alert? More food for thought! Cheers! Hi Ian, Thanks for mentioning MediaMiser, and I agree completely-Google Alerts is a helpful tool, but doesn’t tell you everything. I use it to monitor our company name, but also use our own software and various other tools (if only just to compare effectiveness).

The irony is that while I did in fact find this post via a Google Alert, it didn’t actually bring me to your site, but the New Democrat Online site, which seems to just pull your feed in. So the question is why wasn’t MediaStyle.ca included in the Google Alert?

More food for thought!

Cheers!

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