Set up a Google Alerts monitor
Google Alerts are a great feature and enable you to have a wider scope of results if added to a Keyword and Brand Monitor. Essentially, a Google Alert will monitor web pages, newspaper articles, blogs, or scientific research that mention your search term then provide you with an alert for these. You can then use this information in an RSS format and integrate this into your Keyword and Brand Monitor within Sendible.
Note: To find out how to set up Keyword and Brand Monitors, please see the following article: How Do I Set Up A Keyword And Brand Monitor?
- To use a Google Alert, you first need to ensure you are logged into your Google account and then navigate https://www.google.com/alerts.
- You then need to add a term in the Create an alert about the field you would like Google to monitor. In this example, we are setting up a term for Social Media Marketing.
- Once you have added your Alert term, you can then click on the Show Options button to expand your available options.
- So that we can use this Alert within the Sendible Keyword and Brand Monitor, change the Deliver To setting to RSS Feed.
- Once you have set Deliver To option to RSS Feed, you can leave all other options as default and click on the option to Create Alert.
Note: For further reading on Google Alert settings, please see this article from Google: Create An Alert - Once you have confirmed the Alert, you will see this listed under the My Alerts tab.
- Clicking on the RSS Feed icon will open the RSS Feed in another tab of your browser. Please select this and copy it to be used in Sendible.
- In Sendible, select the Keyword and Brand Monitor you have previously created by going to Monitor > Keywords.
- On the left-hand side, you will see your Keyword and Brand Monitor; click on the edit icon to open the settings for this.
- In the Google Alerts Feed (optional) field paste in the RSS feed you copied previously.
- Remember to click the option to Save Changes by scrolling to the bottom of the settings window.
- Sendible will now read from Google Alerts and push any extra information that Google finds into the Keyword and Brand Monitor.