Link development and google alerts

For all of you creating links for your sites, this technique will help you track your advances in google.

Go to www.google.com/alerts
create an alert with your domain name as the search term
Select type as News & Web
Select How often as you prefer

Google will send you an email each time your link is picked!

 

I use this technique but I put alerts an all my sites for:

"site:domain.com"
"link:domain.com"

This way I get updates when google finds new links to my site and when google indexes new pages.

 

Very interesting. I will try this.

 

Thanks for this tip! I just added those to my domains.

You gotta love these forums!

 

Interesting, I will use this.

 

Thanks! It will come handy.

 

Thanks man, this is very useful!!!

 

Great tip ! Thanks for sharing.

Should point out that "link:domain.com" doesn't really work in Google (they only show you a small fraction of the links they know about), so it's best to do a search on domain name.

The nearest you can get to an external backlink count on Google is to do a search for :

yourdomain.com -site:yourdomain.com

 

Its really GR8 . Thanks - thanks a million

 

Remember to add your competition too, so you can check what they are doing and how.
Great way to learn what they are doing right

 

how about ...
@www.yourdomain.com

 

uh? what results do you get with that?