If you’re into social media, the amount of information about you available online is likely to be growing. Keeping an eye over what web content is associated with your name is often difficult. Even harder is filtering out the new items from the old.
While this tip probably won’t help you if you have a generic name or share a name with a celebrity, it should work pretty well for most names.
Google Alerts is a nifty service from the big G that allows you to receive emails whenever a new item that matches certain keywords in Web, News, Blogs, Video, Groups, or ‘Comprehensive’ which looks for keywords in all of the above. Better yet, you can generate an RSS feed that will keep you up to date on new entries with your name ‘as-it-happens’.
Once you create a feed, you can easily add it to Google Reader or your favorite RSS aggregator and keep track of new information as it enters the Google search index.
Have a better way of keeping track of your online identity? Post them in the comments.
Monitor your online identity with Google Alerts and Google Reader
While this tip probably won’t help you if you have a generic name or share a name with a celebrity, it should work pretty well for most names.
Google Alerts is a nifty service from the big G that allows you to receive emails whenever a new item that matches certain keywords in Web, News, Blogs, Video, Groups, or ‘Comprehensive’ which looks for keywords in all of the above. Better yet, you can generate an RSS feed that will keep you up to date on new entries with your name ‘as-it-happens’.
Once you create a feed, you can easily add it to Google Reader or your favorite RSS aggregator and keep track of new information as it enters the Google search index.
Have a better way of keeping track of your online identity? Post them in the comments.