Get the rss feed of a Google search.
Ever wondered how you might get an RSS feed of a Google search? Well, its pretty simple to be honest – and enables a whole plethora of options for reputation management – especially when combined with a Google search. So how do you get the data? Well it is a relatively underused feature of Google alerts. Instead of sending the alert to an email address, you can now send it to a feed.
1) Login to Google alerts
Select delivery to a feed for your terms:
2). Select the feed icon to send to your feed reader.
You can see from this alert that I’m setting up a feed for the people who favourite my Tweets. See Justin Park’s post on what terms you need to punch into Google to do that, although this may take a bit of time to come through, it adds another string in the bow to my DIY reputation monitor – as i’ll be able to see which tweets people favourite around my brand / name. If you want to do the same – simply change the name of Twitter account to your own rather than @webireland.
linky
posted:May 17, 2009 11:47 pm
These are all useful searches, but when using the link: operator to track inbound links, it is better to add -site:yoururl.com. This will exclude links from your own site. This means that the two searches above should be rewritten as:
link:blog.webdistortion.com -site:blog.webdistortion.com
link:webdistortion.com -site:webdistortion.com
Another alert search term I’d recommend is:
related:webdistortion.com
This will notify of any site that Google thinks is similar to yours based on links and keywords. When you do get a match, you can use link:url.com -site:url.com for those related sites to see who links to them. Anyone linking to a similar site to yours is a good candidate to try and create a link to your site.
This Google Alerts tutorial will fill you on on a lot more tricks on this type:
http://www.alertrank.com/google-alerts-tutorial.html
Enjoy!
Adam Green
linky
posted:May 18, 2009 7:18 am
Adam, thats really useful. I was wondering how to get rid of my own site alerts. Thanks for the tip.
Paul Anthony