Blog Results in Google News Email Alerts
Google has recently added blog results in their email-based Google Alerts; which means you can now subscribe to blog search results via email (or Google News, the web, etc). In my case, I’ve been a Google Alerts user since they original launched it and now I’m getting slammed with Blog results in my emails, but I can’t complain because it’s had a wonderful additional effect on traffic to EzineArticles.com.
I must not be the only one that has happened to because I never requested blog search results in my daily Google Alerts; yet they are flowing and if you know anything about the syndication nature of our system, you know that many high profile blogs feed from us to enhance the depth of their respective niches… which means, literally, thousands of EzineArticles instances are showing up in daily email alerts that Google is sending and this benefits every EzineArticles expert author in a very positive way.
Unfortunately, it’s made my Google Alerts about 99% irrelevant to my needs for why I originally created the email alerts and this concerns me because I know Google is usually very attuned to their userbase. If too many folks complain or can’t figure out how to exclude the Blog Search results in their daily Google Alerts, they’ll be forced to remove them from the daily alerts unless requested.
In the meantime, it’s added a nice lift in traffic for everyone. :-)
I noticed it too, and was a bit upset by it, because most of what I’m getting under an alert for my name is XXX stuff, and some of it is pretty – well, out there, yanno?
I don’t mind getting the blog results, but I figured maybe they should separate them up and show it different, because I’m having to wade through them to find what really pertains to me.
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