asked to walk someone through setting up Google Alerts for their business. So I thought I would post to here for everyone to refer back to. If you need help anywhere along the way, let me know by commenting below or by asking me on one of my Social sites.

In your web browsers address bar type in this address: http://www.google.com/alerts
You will get a page that looks like the following:

In the “Search terms” box type in the keywords you want to get alerts on (keywords that you have used in your business, keywords you are using in a marketing campaign, any words you want to get alerts on when they are indexed through Google).

In the drop down box for “Type” select the type of information you want (Blogs, videos, etc). You can do alerts for each one if you want or if you want all of them, select “Everything”.

Decide how many you want per email and select the email address you want them to go to. You can use any email address you have. I use one of my gmail accounts. If you want to use a gmail account and don’t have one, you can get one here.
Click “Create Alert” and you are done.
If you look on the right side where it says “You can also click here to manage your alerts” and click on it, you will go to a page that looks like the following:

Here you can manage all your alerts and you can even add alerts from here. If you notice one of mine says “Feed View in Google Reader” if you want this done and can’t figure it out, I can show you later. You can delete alerts, change your email address and anything else about the alert from here.

Now go set up LOTS of alerts for either your business, your clients OR your competitors.  Google Alerts in ONE way to manage your Online Reputation or someone else’s.