Creating a Google Alert
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This document provides step-by-step instructions for creating a Google Alert to track your digital footprint. It explains how to sign into Google, navigate to the Alerts page, set up an alert by entering search terms and selecting an email or RSS delivery method, and manage existing alerts. It recommends setting up alerts for your full name, nicknames, usernames, and websites or blogs.
Creating a Google Alert
- 1. Creating a Google Alert Purpose: So that you can keep track of your digital footprint. Here are step by step instructions on how to set up a Google alert: 1. go to http://www.google.com 2. On the top right of the page you will see a ‘Sign in’ link, click on that 3. You will now be able to either sign in (if you have a Google account) or create an account if you don’t have one. 4. After you have gone through creating your account you will be back on the Google homepage. To get to ‘alerts’ click on the ‘more’ link 1. djainslie 1/10 1
- 2. 5. Then click on the ‘even more’ button and you will see all the products that Google offers. From here click on ‘Alerts’. 6. Here is where you will set up your alerts. You can have your alerts be emailed to you directly, or go directly to an RSS reader like Google Reader (see below). To set up the alert to be sent to your email, fill in the form and click ‘create alert’. You will need to set up separate alerts for each name you want to be alerted about. What should you set up an alert for? • Full name, nicknames, usernames, your website/wiki/blog address (if you have one) 7. Once you have created an alert you will be sent to a ‘manage your alerts’ page where you can check your alerts and change them as needed. From here you can also add more alerts for more names, or other search terms. That does it! You will have your alerts sent to your email. If you want to change, or add more alerts, simply go back to your Google homepage and click on ‘alerts’, then ‘manage alerts’. Setting up alerts that go to your Google Reader Account: Setting up a Google Reader account makes keeping track of your alerts, and other subscriptions to various websites and blogs, much easier. If djainslie 1/10 2
- 3. you don’t have a Google reader account simply select ‘Reader’ from the ‘Google products’ list and follow the instructions to set one up. Back at Google Alerts fill in the alert request so that it gets delivered to your feed. Then when you want to check your alerts you open up your Google Reader account and scan through them. djainslie 1/10 3