Open Question: Joomla and Google Alerts

Written by Steve Burge

Joomla and Google Alerts Over the next few weeks I thought it would be fun to throw out a few open question. We'd love to here your answers to the first questions:

What kind of success do your Joomla sites have with Google Alerts?

Are your blog posts always picked up for the keywords you're targeting?
Do you end up in the blog or news category?
Do you have any particular tricks to make sure your posts are emailed to as many people as possible?

My personal experience is that I can set up a Wordpress site tomorrow and have 100% of the posts picked up. However Joomla sites have been much more hit-and-miss.

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Your Comments (8)

Brian Teeman

January 18, 2008

still getting the hang of it. google itself is happily indexing all new content within an hour of it being added to the site but getting notified of the content in an alert.... as you say its hit and miss.

I'm doing some tests to see if i can work out why but with no luck yet so Im very interested to hear any tips

Ulas ALKAN

January 20, 2008

i personally did not get any success with google alert. i have created alerts like

site:www.mysite.com
link:www.mysite.com

the index of that site is changing everyday but i did not any alert from google and the backlinks of that site is also increase but no response from google.

shortly, i have only created google alerts smilies/tongue.gif

Angel Kocovski

June 24, 2008

I was informed that interesting news about Joomla! 1.5 are available if one is asigned to Google alert Joomla!.

Franky

November 15, 2008

Google Alerts is a nice a usefull tool and service to get informed about interesting issues. Easy to handle, too.

PRC - China

Mr Mulberry

March 05, 2009

I have a Joomla site that's been running for a few months but Google Alerts never work for the site. I have to type in a really specific alert [?yourname? site:www.yoursite.com] to get any success. "Yourname" should be enough. I'm not using sh404SEF because it didn't work with my site. Any ideas?

Germain

March 05, 2009

Is there a component to include googles alerts on a web page?

Ben B.

June 26, 2009

Germain - did you find something that does it?

Adam Green

July 05, 2009

The best advice I can give you to get your blog onto Google Alerts is to find sites that do get mentioned on Google Alerts for your keywords, and comment on them. Be sure to include a link back to your site with your comment. In time Google will associate your site with these keywords and include you in alerts as well. I have a blog post on this issue:

http://www.alertrank.com/mrgooglealerts/2009/06/11/the-secret-to-getting-listed-in-google-alerts/