Guides
News monitoring, done properly
How to set up news alerts, tune them so they fire on what matters, fix them when they go quiet — and what to reach for when keyword matching runs out. We teach the free tools fully, including where ours is not the answer.
How to set up Google News alerts
A complete walkthrough of creating, tuning and managing Google Alerts — the exact search operators that make them usable, and the limits you will hit once they are running.
Google Alerts not working
Alerts that stopped arriving, return nothing, or bury you in noise — the seven causes that account for nearly all of it, each with the specific fix.
Google Alerts alternatives
What each Google Alerts alternative actually does differently — RSS readers, media monitoring platforms, and AI news agents — and when the free tool is still the right answer.
How to track a competitor in the news
Set up competitor news monitoring that catches funding, launches, hires and departures — the query patterns that work, and the events keyword alerts reliably miss.
How to set up news alerts for a topic
Four ways to get news alerts on a topic — Google Alerts, publisher newsletters, RSS, and news agents — with the trade each one makes and how to combine them.
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