Finding Blogs and Adding Links

This is a second shot at the tutorial.

Using Google News to find blog material

Google News allows you to search for news stories that match particular keywords and specify how recently they were published.  You can even use your search results to determine a trend in how popular a subject or keyword is over time.

 Steps:

1. Go to news.google.com 

2. In the search bar at the top type in your keywords and click “search news”

3. Start looking at what you get!

This method will expose you to information from newspapers all over the world and some magazines as well.

Advanced Option: Adding news alerts

You can even set up Google News to email you every time that an article with a certain key word is indexed.

1. On your search results page, look near the bottom of the left sidebar.

2. Find the letter icon that says “News Alerts” and click on it.

3. In the form that appears, your search term should already be there, but you can change it at this time if you want to.

4. Under “Type”  you can specify which kinds of information you want.  Pick “News” if you just want newspaper articles or “Comprehensive” if you want to get blog posts, videos, and web pages on this topic delivered to you as well.

5. Under “How Often” select the frequency you want the alerts to come at.  I suggest “once a day” unless you want many separate emails from Google everytime an article with your keyword shows up.

6. Finally, specify the email address you want the alerts to go to and click “Create Alert”

7. After this alert is created you will be sent to the alerts page where you can delete or edit this alert or create a new one with different keywords.

8. Create several alerts and sit back and wait for the information to be delivered to you.

Happy blogging!