Use Google Alerts to Track Affiliate Thiefs!
Jan 16th, 2008 by admin
Well the rain has hit Gloucestershire again … I’ve spent the last few days filling sand bags rather than writing blog posts! So far the house is dry, but heavy rain is forecast for the next four days … deep joy!
One thing I did sign up for online the other week is Google Alerts … a great tool that is FREE … I signed up so that I could keep track of where my articles are being posted and where comments are being made about them or my sites … the main reason I want to know that information is so that I can promote those sites as well as my own …
Basically you type the keywords you want to be tracked, and Google then alerts you by email every time it indexes a page that includes one of those keywords on it … for my purposes my keywords are my name and web site name …
Now here is an added benefit of getting this information … I can now see when someone uses one of my articles but changes the link to their own affiliate link instead of displaying my link as they’re supposed to do … I’ve found this a couple of times in just a few days … so the owners of those sites are getting some non-friendly emails off me …!
I suggest you sign up for Google Alerts if you haven’t already, it’s a great way to track your presence over the web … and its free to use …
Anyway, that’s it for today … it’s back to the sand bags now and flood patrol!
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