Google Alerts almost never alerts me to my own pages being added.
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Hello All,
So i have a fairly decent blog http://www.symbolphoto.com/bl*g/ * replace with o.
However, i'm posting to it once/twice a week and i never ever see in my google alerts my pages being included. I do include my search terms in my pages "Bston Wedding Photgrapher" yet, my page is never included. What on earth am i doing wrong?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
-Brendan
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I have found Google Alerts to be really unpredictable. I have one set up for my url and for months I got no alerts. They recently started coming again, but if I add 20 pages in a week I may get 2 alerts. It's very sporadic!
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Are u 100% sure the alert is set right ? How long did you wait with the domain alert set ?
Set another one in the same exact format for a big popular blog and see if you will receive the alerts.
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Hmm that's strange, i have done that and i'm still not getting anything... i'm starting to think something may be wrong. Anyone have any ideas as to where to start investigating this?
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Hi, Set a new google alert using your domain name (www.symbolphoto.com) and you will receive the alerts for every new page that will get indexed. I am doing that with new domains , new blogs and it works like a charm. That should do it.
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Nice looking blog. I have found this as well in blogs I have produced. Google seems to only include a certain threshold of blogs. Yours is a PR3 so it may not be in their "watch list."
I also find that they don't always include every site every time, even if it is a higher pagerank site.
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