Recently Google added links to blog search in Google News and now Google Alerts has been updated to include blogs. The Google Alert options now include:  News, Web, Blogs, Groups or Comprehensive. Time intervals of notification are: as it happens, once a day or once a week.
Google Alerts are very useful to see who is writing about you or your cliens. It’s also use for identifying when optimized press releases or articles are getting indexed.
It’s good to see blogs getting more play in the mix of Google search functions. What’s next?
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Lee Odden is CEO of TopRank Marketing, a B2B marketing agency trusted by some of the top business brands in the world to deliver full funnel impact with the Best Answer Marketing system. Lee has presented at hundreds of marketing conferences globally while being recognized for his expertise in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist and Forbes. He is author of the book Optimize, has published over 1.5 million words on the B2B Marketing Blog and is host of the Beyond B2B marketing podcast. Lee is on a mission to help B2B companies elevate their marketing to become Best Answer Brands.
