Hi Mary,

You are doing such a great job.  Now, would mind sharing with us how you went about signing up for the google blog notification.  I have never heard of the notifications before.

What fun, and  you should be so very pleased.  You have come a long way in such a short time!!

Bravo!

Blessings too!

Judy

http://www.google.com/alerts

Hi Judy:

I hope that Mary will not mind me stepping in?

Google Alerts is just one of the many tools a person can use to find all kinds of information on trends for example in any given industry.

"Google alerts are automated email messages sent from Google to anyone who has registered for it, for a particular term or subject, informing them of a new google result on that term or subject."

For example – If you register at Google alerts requesting them to send you email messages about “bird houses”, every time Google finds a page on the internet about “bird houses”, Google sends you an email with the website address and the information. Now, these are likely to be new web pages appearing on the web, like a news alert or a new story, whatever it is, whenever there is a mention of the keyword you suggested, you get an email.

How can this help you?  Well it gives you an idea about what your competitors are doing and how...it will give you ideas for articles and you can also find other like minded people to link to.

I hope this helps you just a little?

Best Regards

Diane

P.S. Sorry Judy for not responding to your PM...got a little busy with the nominations at BlogNet Awards, if you are around this evening..we can talk then?

Thanks for stepping in Diane.  For me I would have answered with one or two sentences but that is ok.  More for the spiders to digest.

Now anyone reading all this can hop on over to Diane's forum about building your own train.

As you will see the coach is still trying to get through to thick heads like mine but this googling is all about.

http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/1154104/3/ShowThread.aspx

Guess you will know the answer if you have been reading here.