Google Alerts

Pros and Cons -   Google Alerts is a free service provided by Google.com. Visit: http://www.google.com/alerts. Google Alerts delivers the news every day to your email box. Here is a great way to get information delivered directly to you. Just key in the keyword of your choice and viola, you will begin receiving the news in your email box. This is one of the greatest services Google ever instituted. All you have to do is sign up to read and make use of much needed and targeted information. We use Google Alerts to do research, to spy on our competition, or find information we can review that is in the news. We place this information review on our blog. Writers block is one of the biggest problems facing entrepreneur bloggers and if you have a problem with writers block this can solve it permanently. If you don't know what to blog about, you can blog about the news.

Recommended?   Yes and NO. Google alerts seem to have a mind of their own, and you don�t always get the information you are looking for. However, on occasion you might receive something better then you had hoped for. One good piece of news critiqued on your blog could cause an onslaught of traffic and visitors.

Author Info: Review by MMP