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I was quite impressed this weekend. After I had published my post about the new OIO Publisher Coupon, I received notice from Feed Demon to say that my Google Blog Search feed had been updated. This feed pretty much looks for my name cropping up in the blog search. It had not been long since I published the post, yet I had been alerted to the fact it had been indexed by Google already.
As you can see from the screenshot above, Google was displaying the fact that it had only been added to their listings 29 minutes earlier. There were two further posts being displayed above my own for the term “OIO Publisher Coupon” and looking at it now – there is just one.
I hadn’t seen results like these before from Google, but after a little research I found that it was quite common.
There are two main reasons for me making this post. The first is to draw your attention to the attentiveness Google show to pings they receive from blogs and secondly the importance of keeping track of your own name in the Blog Search results. If somebody is discussing you on their blog, you need to know about it. Nothing would please them more than you quickly finding out about their post and making a comment. Branding You!
Rather than go into further detail, I will pass the baton to Gary Vaynerchuk who made a great video regarding this exact practice.
January 28, 2009
Hello,
Google blog search has been more successful than any other competitor lately. This is also why Word Press has changed the incoming links section from Technorati to Google blog search. They are more through.
Google is very. very intelligent in business administration. Far more intelligent any other technology company. Maybe far more than any other company too. And here are it’s results.
January 30, 2009
I use Google alerts for my keywords so everytime my blog appears in the blog search I am emailed about it.
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February 3, 2009
i didn’t know you could ping google for your blog, i’ll add it to wordpress so when i do blog about something i might get a hit or 2 from google, thanks
February 5, 2009
Great points here. I actually have several alerts set up for google. It is a great way to not only track your name but to also track your competitors (and how active they are) as well as keywords.
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February 10, 2009
If you set up Google alerts to find out if anyone mentions the name of your site, do you set Google alerts to Blog or Comprehensive or do you need to setup an alert for both.
Darren Reply:
February 11th, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Thanks for the comment Suzanne. I didn’t sign up for the alerts myself, I just subscribed to the RSS feed (the link is below the alerts button on the blog search page). I suppose you could just sign up to the blog alerts – though by using comprehensive you will potentially find out more about what is being said on other websites or discussion forums.
February 11, 2009
Hmm, This is a good idea. I recently have started a blog and it should be receiving some hype. I ping every post even though i know wordpress pings it for me anyway. Thanks for the ideas. Keep up the good work.
March 23, 2009
Google’s Blog Search does, however, look cleaner and more easily accessible than BuzzTracker or Techmeme or any of the other versions of this that are out there.
