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How many of you use Google Alerts? How many of you have heard of Google Alerts?

Ok, for those that haven’t heard of it, this is Google’s definition:

“Google Alerts are email updates of the lat­est rel­e­vant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.

Some handy uses of Google Alerts include:

- mon­i­tor­ing a devel­op­ing news story
- keep­ing cur­rent on a com­peti­tor or indus­try
- get­ting the lat­est on a celebrity or event
- keep­ing tabs on your favorite sports teams”

I signed up for Google Alerts a num­ber of months ago to keep informed on new issues and sto­ries in par­tic­u­lar areas of inter­est for my busi­ness. I also signed up for a par­tic­u­lar cat­e­gory to see if my site would show in the alert if I worked the site enough. A test to some degree, but very impor­tant when it comes to get­ting the word out about your business.

The par­tic­u­lar cat­e­gory is Sec­ond Life and I started this site Sec­ond Life Snip­pets on May 18, 2007 in Word­Press. Sec­ond Life is cer­tainly news­wor­thy. When you type in Sec­ond Life in Google you get 599,000,000 results. So you can see com­pe­ti­tion is stiff.

Today I received my nor­mal daily Google Alert sum­mary for Sec­ond Life and there was a post and link to my site under “Google Blogs Alert for: Sec­ond Life. I am very happy with this achieve­ment. It shows you can get noticed and get out there if you work at it.

Read more here: www.jbcr-virtualsolutions.com/tips-and-articles.html#Alerts

Jan