Wouldn’t it be nice to be automatically notified when your website has a new page indexed in Google, or when someone links to your site? Well this is very easy to do using the Google Alerts Beta! Here are the instructions for setting up a site wide Google index update Alert and a site wide link alert.
Create an alert for when a page on your site gets indexed:
- Go to www.google.com/alerts.
- For search terms enter (without quotes) “site:yourdomain.com”.
- Make sure you do not use a www or other subdomain.
- Select Web as the type.
- For “How often” we will select “as-it-happens”. I like this because this tells you exactly when Google is crawling your site!
- Enter the email you want the alert sent to.
- Click “Create Alert”.
- Confirm the alert from the email Google send you and you are set!
Create an alert that notifies you when another website links to your website:
- Go to www.google.com/alerts.
- For search terms enter (without quotes) “link:yourdomain.com”.
- Make sure you do not use a www or other subdomain.
- Select Comprehensive as the type. This will allow you to be notified with links in Blogs and groups as well as other websites in general.
- For “How often” we will select “once a week”. If you start noticing a lot of entries you can go to the once a day and then as-it-happens settings.
- Enter the email you want the alert sent to.
- Click “Create Alert”.
- Confirm the alert from the email Google send you and you are set!
Now you will know WHO is linking to you and WHEN!
Chuck
March 17th, 2008
There are many ways to advertise a website. The traditional ways are to buy Google Adwords, participate in a link exchange, submit your site to all the search engines, etc. These are all good ways to advertise; however, why not think outside the box?
We sell swimsuits. We have been brainstorming ways to get the product to the people. Here are some things we have done recently: We had some bling, bling shirts made advertising the site which we give to our favorite people. We bought some tank tops and had this fantastic gal decorate them with rhinestones. We wear them to events where there are sure to be people who will ask about the site.
We have our model wear selected suits when she goes to the beach. When she is complimented on the suit she hands out our business card. Every time she does this, we get a surge of traffic to our site! We have noticed our in-state sales have increased dramatically. She loves to show off her body (she’s gorgeous), she gets a free suit and we get free traffic! We are also having some inexpensive temporary tattoos made to add to our packages as a free gift with purchase. Everyone loves a free gift and it goes a long with branding. We conduct swim events which we advertise on our website. We conduct these at a hostess’ home. The hostess invites her friends to try on swim suits in the privacy of her home, with a personal shopper on hand to help the guests select attractive swimsuits. We do drawings for free cover ups and basically have a great time! The guests are given discount coupons for future website orders.
There are many ways to advertise a website, outside of the traditional methods! Try some – you may be surprised at the results!
Anne
August 1st, 2007