Margaret Duarte

Visionary Fiction

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How to Set Up Google Alerts – Simple and Free

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Would you like to get regular updates, via email, about something that interests you whenever it appears in the top 20 web or top 10 news results? Would you like to get news about you and your blog? If so, Google Alerts is for you.

It’s simple and it’s free.

It only takes about six seconds to set up an alert, and you can create up to 1000–one for your name, one for your blog’s name, or to track links to your site (using blog’s URL).

How to set up Google Alerts

First you must get a Google login.

Next, specify the terms you’re interested in at Google Alerts, and it will do the rest.

To learn more about how to set up Google Alerts and how it works go to Goggle Alerts Getting Started Guide–Alert Help.

To set up your Google Alert go to, Google Alerts–Monitor the Web for interesting new content.

Enjoy!

About Margaret Duarte

Former middle school teacher, Margaret Duarte, lives on a California dairy farm with a herd of “happy cows,” a constant reminder that the greenest pastures lie closest to home. Margaret earned her creative writing certificate through UC Davis Extension and has since published four novels in her “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series: Between Will and Surrender, Between Darkness and Dawn, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, and Between Now and Forever. Her poem and story credits include SPC Tule Review; The California Writers Club Literary Review; finalist in the 2017 SLO Nightwriters Golden Quill Writing Contest; First Place winner for fiction in 2016, Second Place winner for fiction in 2018, Honorable Mention for fiction in 2019, and Gold winner for fiction in 2020 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS Book Awards Competition; 2019 California Author Project winner for adult fiction.