Be sure to use “keyword keyword” in quotes to force the two words to be together in the news alert. You can select only news or news and blogs.

I get dozens of them a day for non-domain related keywords so I get news stories for my Caribbean island related web site.

I always quote the source, dig for more information then I post my comments and sometimes ask a question to entice visitors to leave a reply.

I would recommend getting Yahoo news alerts too. Google and Yahoo seem to have different news feeds.

I’ve just started using Google alerts to let me know when a new story comes up, and its helped me out alot!