Stay connected with Yahoo Alerts & Technorati Watchlists

I’ve been spending a fair amount of time lately in places without internet access, but I want to be informed if anyone blogs anything about Lopico. Granted, I am the person that blogs the most about Lopico, I see other posts from time to time and with all of the recent changes I’d just like to stay on top of things. Combining Yahoo Alerts and a Technorati Watchlist, I can do just that. This is great for me and even better for someone with more press - but probably not great for an extremely large amount.

First set up your technorati watchlist for the topic you’d like to have monitored. This will track all blogs that are included in the technorati index for your topic. You can get an RSS feed for the watchlist, which you’ll need for Yahoo Alerts. The link for the feed is at the bottom of the page. Alternatively you could use Google Blog search, but I’m more of a technorati fan.

Next set up a yahoo alert to go to your mobile phone. The instructions are very easy, you just need the RSS address from the first step. That’s it. Now anytime someone mentions your business in a blog, or other RSS feed, you will be notified instantly. Very easy and very useful.