Google Alerts Becoming Garbage Alerts?

One of the most powerful ways in which bloggers find out (or at least, try to find out) about the latest news on the blogosphere and on the web is through the very popular Google Alerts.

Using the alert tool, you can specify keywords or key phrases, so when the big G finds new content in their database that matches your key phrases, they will drop you an email linking you up with the new content.

It has been a great way to find great content to expand on, give thoughts to, and even find like minded bloggers or people.

But there is one thing I noted recently is the increase in the number of alerts which are linked to sploggy and spammy sites that totally add no value to the the web. The screenshot below shows just one of the sites I was alerted for the phrase “make money blogging”.

Make Money Blogging

What a waste of time and bandwidth.

I think I should spend less time going through the alert news and reading more legitimate blog feeds from the people I know give me good content.

Comments

  1. You got it right man… The standards of the Google alerts are becoming nonsense. Spammers are creeping everywhere and giving e-marketing a bad name!

  2. Its a sad but true thing, and really – as what is so much said in the long tail – the Internet needs better content filters!