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Google Alerts Test: Linking back to my website, www.EricMichaelOnline.com

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Real Estate Agent with Remerica Integrity, Realtors®, Northville, MI

Google Alerts Test: Linking back to my website, www.EricMichaelOnline.com

I set up my name, Eric Michael and "Eric Michael" on Google Alerts about, oh, 3 weeks-ish ago. Most of what they "Alert" me to is stuff that has nothing to do with me.

Except twice.

Once, I was "Alerted" that I posted a blog on ActiveRain. Cool, but I've written a bunch of blogs since that one and the one they let me know about wasn't very popular. Not at all.

The other "Alert" was to inform me that I posted a comment on J. Philip's blog. Here's the email...

Police arrest 5 on drug charges
WANE
Undercover officers arrested Christopher J. Creekmore, 39, of Pierceton, and Eric Michael Cartwright, 23, of Osceola, for felony dealing cocaine. ...
Three different drug incidents, five different arrests made in ...
WSBT-TV
Eric Michael Cartwright, 23, of Osceola, was also arrested. Both men's bonds are set at $20000. Later Monday morning a North Webster man was arrested in ...

WSBT-TV

 

Blogs 1 new result for "eric michael"
 
J. Philip's Westchester Real Estate Blog: Speechless Sundays ...
By J. Philip Faranda (J. Philip R.E. LLC)...
Posted by Eric Michael, CDPE -Real Estate & Short Sale Professional 734.564.1519 (Remerica Integrity, Realtors®, Northville, MI) about 3 hours ago. OK - I guess I will stop bitching about some of the gray days we have here (although ...
J. Philip's Westchester Real Estate Blog - http://westchesterrealestateblog.net/post/1088872/sheer-stupidity

 

Web 1 new result for "eric michael"
 
Twitter / Eric Michael Johnson: Bushmeat trade pushing spe ...
Bushmeat trade pushing species to the edge in Tanzania: http://bit.ly/hMX9vV # primate.
twitter.com/ericmjohnson/status/35424448907583488

So, I wanted to write this for two reasons.

  1. To put a few links back to my website, www.EricMichaelOnline.com , and see if it shows up in Google Alerts.
  2. To see if any of you have some advice on this subject. Am I using Google Alerts right or wrong, or what?

As always, any advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Eric...

Google Alerts Test: Linking back to my website, www.EricMichaelOnline.com

 

Comments (8)

George Fanucci
CoreFact.com - Los Altos, CA
Internet - Technology - Business - Solutions

Do you have Google Analytics installed on your website?  If so, you can easily add Google Webmaster Tools.  It will show you how often Google crawls your website, and what keywords Google considers significant for your website.

The linkage from Google Analytics to Google Webmaster Tools is new.  It was much harder to access the webmaster tools data before that was enabled.

Your name, "Eric Michael" is probably not a very uncommon name, so, you need to use Google Webmaster Tools for an even better source of information than Google Alerts.  (They complement each other.)

Feb 14, 2011 11:08 AM
Eric Michael
Remerica Integrity, Realtors®, Northville, MI - Livonia, MI
Metro Detroit Real Estate Professional 734.564.1519

George, no, I don't. I'm guessing that this is something that I should have done long ago, right?

Feb 14, 2011 11:12 AM
George Fanucci
CoreFact.com - Los Altos, CA
Internet - Technology - Business - Solutions

Google Alerts can help you monitor your reptation and your neighborhoods, too... but you need unique key phrases.  Does putting quotes on a phrase seem to work in Google Alerts?  It didn't seem to work for me when I tried it, the quotes seemed to be ignored.

No time like the present to use Google's Microscopes to inspect your websites, more here:

http://activerain.com/blogsview/2137202/google-webmaster-tools-now-available-to-google-analytics-users

Feb 14, 2011 12:38 PM
Eric Michael
Remerica Integrity, Realtors®, Northville, MI - Livonia, MI
Metro Detroit Real Estate Professional 734.564.1519

George, thanks for the info. I'm gonna dig into it.

Feb 15, 2011 10:59 AM
Eric Michael
Remerica Integrity, Realtors®, Northville, MI - Livonia, MI
Metro Detroit Real Estate Professional 734.564.1519

George, I tried and it said it couldn't verify my website. Maybe I have more problems that I thought? Any other advice?

Feb 15, 2011 12:23 PM
Todd Clark - Retired
eXp Realty LLC - Tigard, OR
Principle Broker Oregon

So it just like the news, if you get arrested for drugs, you go to the front of the news headlines rather than if you "The real you" had saved 10 kittens from traffic.

Feb 27, 2011 03:07 AM
George Fanucci
CoreFact.com - Los Altos, CA
Internet - Technology - Business - Solutions

Eric,

Please see details on Google verification here, note the comments, also:

http://activerain.com/blogsview/2137202/google-webmaster-tools-now-available-to-google-analytics-users

Mar 01, 2011 04:52 AM
Eric Michael
Remerica Integrity, Realtors®, Northville, MI - Livonia, MI
Metro Detroit Real Estate Professional 734.564.1519

Todd, I'll stick to Not getting arrested and take my chances with the indexing.

George, I finally got it to work. Not really sure how, but it does. Thanks!

Mar 01, 2011 12:23 PM