I have 20 Google alerts set up for different sites and Google should alert me when it finds a new link to one of those sites. Before April I was getting 3-5 alerts a day. Now I'm lucky to get 3 a week. I know there has to be new links out there and I'm not getting alerted. Anyone else having issues?
My google alerts had been problematic all last week. I would get 10-15 alerts a day..for the same item. I has been working fine for the past few days though.
Mine have never worked right. I think I have it set for once a day rather than immediate. I should try changing that because I get them once a month or so, instead of daily. Quite often, it is a few days before a BL update that I get them. It's like they were stuck somewhere and the pending update releases them. I'm sure that's not what really happens, but it seems like that anyway. I have them set on 2 sites only, and it's the same for both.
I had the same issue when google couldn't find any links for a site. It alerted me hourly to tell me it couldn't find any. As soon as that stopped, they all stopped. Hummmmmmm
I think I figured it out. I always sign into Gmail first then go in to alerts. Today I hit the settings link and noticed that alerts was not something i was signed up for even though I have 20 alerts set up. I then opened a new browser and went directly to Google alerts and signed in from there. Once logged it it asked me to agree to the TOS. Maybe now it's fixed.