Google alerts help, suggested search terms, omitting similar named people (6 posts)

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    Robin Carlisle said
    1 year, 5 months ago:

    Google alerts help, suggested search terms, omitting similar named people.

    Please add your search term suggestions, especially how to omit results of people with similar names.

    Please don’t use someone else’s name, just a generic “Your Name” in order to not be too confusing.

    Thanks.

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    Jules Webb said
    1 year, 5 months ago:

    HI @atlantarobin

    Great idea!

    Google Alerts reference link:
    http://support.google.com/alerts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=175927

    You can try out alerts in Google search until you’re seeing the results you want. 

    Some Examples:

    “My Name” -site:somesite.com

    “My Name” -location -key term +blogger

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    Robin Carlisle said
    1 year, 5 months ago:

    @juleswebb

    Thanks, Jules. Those are great examples. Thanks for your help.

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    Glen Gorham said
    1 year, 5 months ago:

    I also use http://ifttt.com for simple alerts on specific networks. anytime someone mentions me on FB or Twitter wordpress (and more). its free, it hasn’t been around a long time, cannot hurt to check it out. I mainly use the FB and Twitter ones.

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    Jules Webb said
    1 year, 5 months ago:

    Thanks @glengorhamThat looks like a great suggestion, I just signed up.

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    Kristi Hines said
    1 year, 5 months ago:

    @juleswebb Great reference link – thanks Jules!

    @glengorham Nice resource – will have to check it out!

    @atlantarobin I don’t know if you use a RSS reader like Google Reader, but I use the option to keep the alerts as RSS.  That way you can look at them all at once vs. having to flip through emails.  This is what mine looks like for the last few days…

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