I've mentioned this a time or two around other boards, and I'm surprised at how many people don't know about this. You can be updated via email anytime google adds a page on your site to their index. This is all you have to do. As many people know, if you type in: site:http://www.jeremymorgan.com into the google search bar you can see every page google has spidered for your site. So simply go to the Google Web Alerts page, and add an alert for this search, select comprehensive, and "as it happens". This way every time google adds a page, you are notified instantly! This also works for links as well, using link:jeremymorgan.com (replace with your site of course). I hope this helps, it can be annoying sometimes, but it's a nice way to monitor your progress!!
Oh its good idea for monitoring and its new idea to me thanks for sharing. Since long months m suffering to check my index status bcz google blocking it
I find it to be pretty helfpul. A lot of the times I just ignore them, but its nice to see when I get stuff spidered.
Nice one, I've watched a video of Matt Cutts yesterday on Blight and he said something similar to see whether your website has been hacked. site:www.mysite.com viagra If your site is not associated with viagra and you get a Google Alerts for it, then your site has been hacked
Excellent find! I never thought about doing that, but if you have a blog or forum that is definitely a good way to find out if something like this has happened.