I recently wrote about how it is possible to know when someone searches for you on Google by writing your real name and surname. In that article I also tried to suggest a trick to know who is looking for you and I listed some important methodologies on how to check and protect your reputation on the internet .
Those who want to deepen the topic can now find out when they are mentioned on the internet and when new web pages or site updates for a specific topic come out and check what is said about a person or product, on the internet, on blogs, on social networks network, on sites of discounts and offers and so on.
Clearly, those who do not attend the internet too much in a participatory way should not have anyone talking if, but if you use your name or nickname, on a forum, on blogs, on Twitter and Facebook or on any other site, you can probably find out any answers or other written interventions on the internet where this name or nickname appears. This methodology to see what others say about a person can also be applied to know what is said about a commercial product or public figure.
Rather than doing a regular Google search and scrolling through the results to find out if there is something new about something specific, you can automate the process of monitoring the person's or product's online reputation, and be notified and warned every once there is a new web page containing the name or other words.
To monitor your online reputation and set alerts for specific topics, the best tool that Google provides is Google Alerts .
Google Alerts warns if a name is written on the internet and provides updates of the latest Google results relevant to the search query chosen on the global or within different categories, such as news, blogs, coupon sites and promotions. You can choose to receive updates once a day or once a week. They are then sent to your email account or you can create your own feed.
When writing the word or words to be monitored, it is also possible to use the search operators and, therefore, to write: AND to check the two words together, the "" to monitor specific words, OR (one or the other), - to exclude a term (e.g. pomhey -claudio), * as a wildcard word, ~ for synonyms.
Google Alerts therefore becomes a useful way to know when Google finds new sites that speak of a person or thing, to manage their reputation or to immediately know if a new update has been released on a topic or to know new coupons of the sites of offers.
Google Alerts can also be configured on the Google Dashboard which since June 2011 to know when your name appears on the internet in the Io service on the web .
Since Google Alerts may soon be closed and no longer works as it used to, it is better to rely on alternative services today:
1) Similar to Google Alerts but closer to the social web and in English is Talkwalker Alerts .
This site allows you to receive an email alert when a new search result appears on Google about a word.
TalkWalker also creates an RSS feed of the search results found.It is another very interesting way to see a quick overview of your popularity and how many times you talk about a person or thing and are named or mentioned on the internet.
You can search for blogs, bookmarks, comments, videos, images and much more. The results page provides a detailed analysis of the search keys and, if the coverage is too wide, you can narrow the search by specifying the details in the advanced search.
2) A more reliable, new and alternative service to Google Alerts is Mention which allows you to follow the search results and the new quotations made on the internet for a term or any name (maybe your name).
Mention is free if you want to receive up to 3 different notices.
3) Bing does not have a notification service when a new result appears on the first search page for a word but it is possible to follow the evolution and changes of the results, in real time, using the feeds .
You can then subscribe to the Bing feed by looking for a term and then adding the parameter: & format = rss at the end of the URL
For example: //www.bing.com/search?q=navigaweb&format=rss
