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Useful Google Tools - try them today!

Here’s a list of tools from Google, which you can use to gain insight into your digital activity:

  • How can I identify trends in my target market? Try this today: search ‘insights for search’ at www.google.co.uk
  • How can I quantify consumer interest in my product or brand? Try this today: search ‘keyword’ at www.google.co.uk
  • Where are the best places to reach my audience online? Try this today: search ‘ad planner’ at www.google.co.uk
  • Who are my audience and how are they discovering my content? Try this today: log on to YouTube and click on the ‘Insight’ button under Account > My Videos > Insight.
  • What keywords are associated with my brand? Try this today: after any search click ‘show options’ in the blue bar below the search box.
  • Where can I find out what consumers think of my brand? Try this today: search ‘blog search’ at www.google.co.uk
  • What are the latest news and views on my brand? Try this today: search ‘alerts’ at www.google.co.uk

My favourites are;

  1. Keywood generator tool - this can be used to help search engine optimisation (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) activities.
  2. Blog search - for tracking the latest news and blog buzz.
  3. Google Alerts - a tool that helps you setup automatic alerts for when content is upload/created on your chosen subject area. And good for keeping tabs on competitor activity.

Google Detox - Day 15

A day behind in my detox diary, I’m actually on day 16 (will update my diary later)!

Well, I’m now half way through my Google Detox, it has been more of a challenge rather than being difficult. I am now used to using Bing as my primary search engine and love the ever changing homepage image. However, I have yet to find an alternative my automated Google Alerts and Google Analytics.

Google Detox - Day 14

Still trying to ignore my automated Google Alerts and trying to find an alternative for this in Bing and Yahoo.

Google Detox - Day 13

It has been a good Google Detox day - online and offline, with no sight of “Big G”. Still trying to ignore my automated Google Alerts, I must find an alternative for this in Bing and Yahoo over the coming days.

Google Detox - Day 3

Trying to ignore all my Google Alerts, which is quite difficult as I’ve set them to email me every time a new piece of content is publish. Regarding my search queries, I’m now using a mixture of the following to find content rather than one engine:

Bing
Yahoo
Thomson Local

On the plus side, I do like Bing’s ever changing homepage image. It is a nice touch!