{"id":41,"date":"2016-01-20T11:17:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T11:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/?p=41"},"modified":"2016-01-20T11:17:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T11:17:12","slug":"what-is-a-google-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/2016\/01\/20\/what-is-a-google-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Google Alert?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For years now I&#8217;ve used a tool from \u00a0Google that isn&#8217;t all that widely advertised&#8211; the Google alert. You can set alerts in Google and get emailed links to news stories and other search results every day (or even as-it-happens) when Google finds new results relevant to search keywords that you are interested in. It is an easy way to keep up with news stories related to a topic you are interested in (though if you choose a relatively common or generic term you may want to be sure to choose the once per day setting or you&#8217;ll get a lot of email from Google). If I see anything interesting come up in any of my Google Alerts I will share it with you here on this blog or on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DrFinnerty\">my twitter feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It may not be practical for you to monitor lots of different search topics via\u00a0Google Alerts. However, one thing you might want to consider is setting up a Google Alert for your name as well as any of your business names. That way you can keep track of anything that is being written about you and\/or your business(es) online.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can set up your Google Alerts at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/alerts\">\u00a0https:\/\/www.google.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>For years now I&#8217;ve used a tool from \u00a0Google that isn&#8217;t all that widely advertised&#8211; the Google alert. You can set alerts in Google and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/2016\/01\/20\/what-is-a-google-alert\/\" title=\"What is a Google Alert?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[14],"tags":[19],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}