Google Alerts: How to Use It to Monitor Link Building
Posted by reviews on Apr 4, 2008
Google Alerts: How to Use it to Track Backlinks
If you’re not using this, it’s worth giving it a try. The purpose for this is to have notification when new links to your site are found by Google. This can be very good for any linkbuilding campaign.
Click Here: Google Alerts
The search terms should be similar to any one or all of the following:
link: http://www.example.com <— notice the space between link: and http?
link:http://www.example.com
link:www.example.com
link:http://example.com
The question has been asked, “what does the space do?” It’s strange, but it does bring up different results of backlinks, so it’s worth using this modification. Why there is a difference, I have no idea.
It’s very handy for watching progress of Google picking up new links to your sites.
You can set the frequency to:
- as soon as it happens
- once per day
- once per week
Also, it can be set it for Blogs, news, web, etc.
What is the maximum number of alerts I can create?
You can create up to 1000 alerts. To create more alerts, you can either delete any existing alerts or request alerts to be sent to a different email address. Please remember that you can only have up to 10 unverified Alerts at any given time.
This is awesome. I’m going to set this up right now.
Man, that is freakin’ genius. I bet I spend at least 5-10 minutes a day trying to figure out my links. THanks for the tip!
This is really great
I will use this info on my blog too. Eith backlink for you 
Great tip! I have been using Google alerts, but I did not know that I could use the link: syntax.
What does the space between link: and http do?
Thanks for the pointer regarding the space in link: http://... - I couldn’t figure out why the link keyword wasn’t working for me!
But is it supposed to work without the space too? You include it without the space in your list. Are they different somehow?
Cheers
Wow, this information is great! Start using alerts after reading this article and it’s very helpfull. Thanks so much!
Thank you so much for the heads-up on Google Alerts— always wondered about that silly “space” thing when checking for links.