Marketing Tip - Monitor Your Brand Online Part 2

In my last marketing tip I wrote about how you can use Google Alerts for managing your brand and a few other marketing related ideas. For this tip I need to give credit to Bill Gassett who I met on Active Rain (if you are in real estate you should really join the community- just another free tip...). 

While reading his blog I learned about a new use for Google Alerts. 

How would you like to know whenever someone links to your blog or site?

All you need to do is set up a link alert.  Just go to Google Alerts and put this in the search term box -

link:http://www.yourblogurl.com (yourblogurl (or site) is of course the address of your blog).

Note: You won’t get an alert for sub pages of your blog unless you set them up individually (by post url).

In addition to brand monitoring this is an opportunity to network. If someone links to your blog, you might want to comment back on their blog, drop them a note of thanks or reach out and build a relationship with them.

Anyone want to test out my alert? My alert for this marketing blog is set for the following url:

http://www.trumpuniversity.com/blogs/marketingmaestro

Thanks again Bill for the info and I hope your alerts are going crazy with this post...