Building Links and Traffic with Google Alerts
March 28, 2008 – 3:51 pmThis method that I’m about to disclosure is one facet of my marketing plan and it should be used in conjunction with link building, trackbacks and other SEO tools that we will learn in the future.
The goal of using Google Alerts to build links and increase traffic is to know where the Google bot has been, and follow behind it tracking your keywords.
I assume you have a Google account. If you use Adsense, AdWords, Gmail or any other Google service, you have a Google account. So head to the Google Alerts page.Google Alerts
Set up an alert for each of your keywords, but set the “type” to blogs. Once a day is plenty. Now, set up keyword alerts for other keywords you use. If you’re selling widgets, you could use “buy widgets”, “widgets for sale”, etc.
You can use parenthesis for keywords like you do with Google search.
Every day you will get an email from every site that Google has spidered that has your keywords. Click the links, post a comment and move on. You should have, every morning a bunch of new posts in your niche on blogs that you’ve never seen before. So, you can read them and comment and get some links.
While it may not revolutionize the way you build links, it certainly helps to know where the blog action is!
