Web monitoring software tools like TalkWalker Alerts & Google Alerts are extremely powerful and have a number of practical applications, but they are often overlooked.
If you aren’t using one right now you are missing out big time – oh they are free to use as well!
Basically they monitor the web for certain key phrases and send you an email or update an RSS feed when it finds a new result.
It might sound pretty basic but there are endless ways you can use free web monitoring software across all of your online marketing campaigns.
In fact last year I won The Best Of SearchEngineJournal.com 2012 Award that you see in the header on the blog with a post about how to set up Google Alerts.
You can use web monitoring tools for a bunch of things such as-
Learn how to do all of that & more without spending a penny with this more detailed tutorial.
Talk Walker Alerts vs Google Alerts
For a long time Google Alerts was the king of web monitoring software. As Google indexed new URL’s you would get alerted if they matched your alerts settings.
However over the past 6 months or so people started to notice that things weren’t quite as good as they used to be and were getting less and less alerts.
Towards the end of March we saw the launch of a rival service called TalkWalker Alerts which has a near identical look and feel to Google Alerts.
Which Is The Best Web Monitoring Software?
To decide which one is best I decided to setup identical alerts across both services for the following keywords–
I set these to email all results, once a day and collected the data from May 20th-June 10th.
Google Alerts Setup
TalkWalker Alerts Setup
I then went through every email and extracted every link segmenting them by keyword and service.
The full data set is available to download at the end of this post.
The Results
I decided to analyse the data in a number of ways to see which service performed best.
Number Of Emails Sent
The experiment ran for a total of 22 days and across that period the services sent this many emails-
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Google Alerts takes the victory on this sending 17 more alerts than TalkWalker Alerts.
Number Of Links Found
Where things change though is the number of links found overall. I extracted every single link from each email which shows-
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As you can see TalkWalker Alerts delivered significantly more results than Google Alerts.
But that is not necessarily a good thing – a lot of them might be irrelevant or junk.
Duplicate Results
Out of the 2,131 links found – Google Alerts found 331, whereas TalkWalker Alerts found 1,800.
What is interesting out of all of those results, only 40 of them were found by both services.
This means there was only a 1.87% overlap between the two services.
Keyword Mentioned On Page?
To test how relevant the results are I decided to see what % of pages actually included the exact target keyword on page.
This was either in the title, meta description or within the page content itself.
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In total TalkWalker Alerts delivered 1,465/1,800 URLS (81%) with no mention of the exact key phrase.
Whereas Google Alerts delivered 157/331 URLS (47%) with no mention of the exact key phrase.
Indexed URL’s
I also wanted to see just how many URL’s were actually indexed by Google.
If a URL is indexed by Google this is a good quality metric to look at – because well, if its good enough to be in Googles index, it must be high quality right… ^^
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Google takes a clear lead here with a total of 80.36% of the URL’s reported in it’s index compared to just 53.89% of TalkWalker Alerts.
In Summary
So let’s wrap it up with a quick summary of the statistics-
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It is clear that both services perform pretty well and do exactly what they say on the tin.
However from the data above while TalkWalker Alerts found significantly more links – only 18% of those mentioned the exact key phrase.
Further to that 46% of the links found by TalkWalker Alerts were not present in Googles index.
Choosing A Winner
Picking a winner depends on the goals you want to achieve.
If you are looking to monitor for mentions of your brand, business, site, competitors and so forth I would suggest using Google Alerts & TalkWalker Alerts.
This is because out of the 2,131 URL’s returned by both services, only 1.87% of them were duplicates. Using both services allows you to cast a much wider net.
If you are looking to just setup alerts to build links, engage your audience & drive targeted traffic as described in this tutorial – then you probably want to stick with Google Alerts.
Hey Matthew! Thanks so much for comparing Talkwalker Alerts with Google Alerts – I always refer anyone who asks me about how we measure up to Google Alerts to this neutral post. But we recently updated Talkwalker Alerts and it now includes mentions from Twitter so you receive those in your inbox for free as well! Would love your feedback on the new feature as well if you have time!
Have used Google Alerts before but not Talkwalker… glanced at their site and was immediately shocked at their costs but assume that was for corp. clients and had just skimmed.
Assume again that the comparable service to Google is free?
thanks and appreciate the work.
Web monitoring software is a very valuable tool because it allows you to keep up with the current trend. The last thing you want to happen is to be left behind by your competition. I have been looking for a web monitoring software. Now, the search is over. Thanks Matthew
You’ve done it again, another excellent breakdown on the tools end. I don’t remember if you looked into it in your MOZ, Majestic, AHREFs smackdown, but theres probably some missing overlap there as well?
At the moment I’m using Google Alerts and Content Gems, which is performing pretty well for me – but I’ve been looking to try something else to add into the mix.
It’s good news that GA comes out of this well (cos it’s free!), but I’d not heard of TalkWalker Alerts before so I’m definitely going to give them a go.
So I’m curious…
You use alert-sites like these as well as BuzzBundle. How do you avoid overlap?
Or do you set alerts for other things while using BB as an engagement tool primarily?
I’m a relative noob, and I’m super lucky I found your site before running off on a crazy link-building binge. Your Top 100 experiment has inspired me.
I want to begin using free web monitors to find and engage my target audience, much as you describe in another post. My challenge is to not spend money until I’ve made money through my efforts.
With that said, how would you handle transitioning from only GAlerts, TalkWalker, Mentionn, etc into BuzzBundle? Would you change the alerts you get to monitor for future content ideas while focusing on BB for driving traffic to current posts?
There’s soooooo much information. Argh!!!
Dangit Matt you’re some kind of wizard…I installed talkwalker yesterday – you must have some kind of telepathic power O.o Anyway, great write-up, I’m using both and have found specific query results (i.e.; “brand mention” +[niche]) to turn up a lot of duplicate in TW but like you hit on, there’s more variety than Alerts so combined we get a larger scoop of results.
For the “keyword mentioned on page” metric, if you include the keywords in quotation marks, it will only send you results that have those exact keywords in them (at least with Google Alerts, I’ve never tried TalkWalker).
Killer post here. You took all the work out of choosing the right tool depending on what areas are most important for your online business. Thanks Matt.
One thing you have not mentioned, and it might just be the particular alert phrases that I’ve been using, is that TalkWalker produces results from websites in other languages where as Google Alerts doesn’t. I find that around 40% – 50% of the websites that are sent through from TalkWalker are in a different language.
Matt,
Have you heard anything about Google closing Google Alerts?
In March 2013 there was a good piece on Mashable “Is Google Alerts Dying.” Seems to be some concern about Alerts going down the same path as Google Reader (and various other Google services over time)?
Would be a bummer if they did. I’d miss Alerts much more than Reader.
I haven’t heard they are closing but there have been a few articles like Mashables concerning the declining results – its those posts that inspired this test :)
TalkWaker Alerts is new to me so I have not used it and I don’t have experience with it. I write a regional political blog and used Google Alerts and Yahoo Alerts to get the latest on the subject on my interests.
Here is my experience with these both services.
Google Alerts
Gives quite good information but does not crawl major news papers and high end news websites. However, it does crawl blogs.
Yahoo Alerts
Crawls very limited number of sites and blogs. It also does not crawl high end news papers. Also, not very much blogs. So I stop using Yahoo Alerts.
If anybody is aware of any other service I would appreciate sharing here with the community.
Another awesome post, Matt! I haven’t noticed that you can see that much of stuff from only a alert service (maybe since I haven’t known how to use alert properly). Thanks a lot for mindful tweaks..
Thanks Matthew, Another awesome post. I personally love google alerts and praying that they don’t close it like they did for google reader and other prior services. I am heading over to the advanced tips section!!
Great update! I love the breakdown that you show between the two services. I just wish GoogleAlerts had not done so well. LOL I would love for an underdog to completely push them out of the way.
Web monitoring software tools like TalkWalker Alerts & Google Alerts are extremely powerful and have a number of practical applications, but they are often overlooked.
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Hey, nice post
I use Google alters then I tried “mention”. I really loved it. Now I would also love to use TalkWalker. I think this would help me out
Thanks for your information
Thanks for reading the post Shailesh
Hey Matthew! Thanks so much for comparing Talkwalker Alerts with Google Alerts – I always refer anyone who asks me about how we measure up to Google Alerts to this neutral post. But we recently updated Talkwalker Alerts and it now includes mentions from Twitter so you receive those in your inbox for free as well! Would love your feedback on the new feature as well if you have time!
No problem glad to be of service, I will takea look at the update
Have used Google Alerts before but not Talkwalker… glanced at their site and was immediately shocked at their costs but assume that was for corp. clients and had just skimmed.
Assume again that the comparable service to Google is free?
thanks and appreciate the work.
Yes TalkWalker Alerts is free
i am using google alerts as this is free and easy, i will give it a shot to others too.
That is my favourite!
Web monitoring software is a very valuable tool because it allows you to keep up with the current trend. The last thing you want to happen is to be left behind by your competition. I have been looking for a web monitoring software. Now, the search is over. Thanks Matthew
You can also checkout mention.net!
Your post is really helpful for bloggers like us who want to earn money online. Thank you so much
I hope that knowledge translates into profits for you
I like your posts.
Thanks Detik!
Your post is very helpful for bloggers to earn money from the site have personal.
You’ve done it again, another excellent breakdown on the tools end. I don’t remember if you looked into it in your MOZ, Majestic, AHREFs smackdown, but theres probably some missing overlap there as well?
I never looked at the overlap in that same detail as I did here
Awesome post Matthew. Google alerts is still the go. :)
It is indeed :)
Nice tutorial , Helps me lot to increase my blog taffic
Thanks :)
Thanks for this Matthew
At the moment I’m using Google Alerts and Content Gems, which is performing pretty well for me – but I’ve been looking to try something else to add into the mix.
It’s good news that GA comes out of this well (cos it’s free!), but I’d not heard of TalkWalker Alerts before so I’m definitely going to give them a go.
Thanks again!
Loz
Let us know how you get on – I haven’t used content gems before
So I’m curious…
You use alert-sites like these as well as BuzzBundle. How do you avoid overlap?
Or do you set alerts for other things while using BB as an engagement tool primarily?
I’m a relative noob, and I’m super lucky I found your site before running off on a crazy link-building binge. Your Top 100 experiment has inspired me.
I want to begin using free web monitors to find and engage my target audience, much as you describe in another post. My challenge is to not spend money until I’ve made money through my efforts.
With that said, how would you handle transitioning from only GAlerts, TalkWalker, Mentionn, etc into BuzzBundle? Would you change the alerts you get to monitor for future content ideas while focusing on BB for driving traffic to current posts?
There’s soooooo much information. Argh!!!
Why does it have to be one or the other? Why not all?
Thanks for a great post
No worrys :)
You again shared great post and you are really genius.
Thanks Deepak!
Great post will have to check out Google Alerts
Hope it helps!
Dangit Matt you’re some kind of wizard…I installed talkwalker yesterday – you must have some kind of telepathic power O.o Anyway, great write-up, I’m using both and have found specific query results (i.e.; “brand mention” +[niche]) to turn up a lot of duplicate in TW but like you hit on, there’s more variety than Alerts so combined we get a larger scoop of results.
It’s what I do ^^
Google alert is not that good in finding the url’s, will definitely try talkwalker.
Well they both seem to find different URLs
Digg Reader and Google Alert is still good one to feed the contents from others.
How do you mean?
As usual fantastic work Matt!
Thanks,
Umee
Thanks Umee!
For the “keyword mentioned on page” metric, if you include the keywords in quotation marks, it will only send you results that have those exact keywords in them (at least with Google Alerts, I’ve never tried TalkWalker).
BTW, how did you create those fancy charts?
Hi,
Thats a good point! The charts are created with Google Charts
Killer post here. You took all the work out of choosing the right tool depending on what areas are most important for your online business. Thanks Matt.
No worrys :)
Another great article.
One thing you have not mentioned, and it might just be the particular alert phrases that I’ve been using, is that TalkWalker produces results from websites in other languages where as Google Alerts doesn’t. I find that around 40% – 50% of the websites that are sent through from TalkWalker are in a different language.
I assume you set the language to english results?
Nope… I was a complete plonker!
Plonker days are the best days =D
Matt,
Have you heard anything about Google closing Google Alerts?
In March 2013 there was a good piece on Mashable “Is Google Alerts Dying.” Seems to be some concern about Alerts going down the same path as Google Reader (and various other Google services over time)?
Would be a bummer if they did. I’d miss Alerts much more than Reader.
Hi,
I haven’t heard they are closing but there have been a few articles like Mashables concerning the declining results – its those posts that inspired this test :)
Good stuff. I’ve been using Google Alerts for some time but was unfamiliar with Talk Walker. Great to have something to compare Google Alerts against.
Another excellent bit of research and presentation. Thanks.
Thanks Mike =D
TalkWaker Alerts is new to me so I have not used it and I don’t have experience with it. I write a regional political blog and used Google Alerts and Yahoo Alerts to get the latest on the subject on my interests.
Here is my experience with these both services.
Google Alerts
Gives quite good information but does not crawl major news papers and high end news websites. However, it does crawl blogs.
Yahoo Alerts
Crawls very limited number of sites and blogs. It also does not crawl high end news papers. Also, not very much blogs. So I stop using Yahoo Alerts.
If anybody is aware of any other service I would appreciate sharing here with the community.
Hi Akbar,
Wow I can imagine in your niche these kinds of services are a life saver!
I haven’t tried Yahoo Alerts but thanks for the heads up on your experience!
I love Google Alert but never heard of TalkTalker. Definitely worth to try. Great review and learned again today. Thanks.
Keep on learnin’ sir =D
Another awesome post, Matt! I haven’t noticed that you can see that much of stuff from only a alert service (maybe since I haven’t known how to use alert properly). Thanks a lot for mindful tweaks..
No worrys – put them to use, its free ^^
Thanks Matthew, Another awesome post. I personally love google alerts and praying that they don’t close it like they did for google reader and other prior services. I am heading over to the advanced tips section!!
Well if they do close it, we still have TalkWalker =D
Great information! I was wondering whether one service was better than the other.
BTW, what did you use to make these charts?
I used Google Charts
Nice this is a good way to track whats going on with the seo world and build your authority.
And a bunch of other things =D
Awesome article, I will surely try Google Alerts and see what happens. Thank you.
No worrys hope it helped you out!
Hi Matt, great post as usual but I think you’ve just lost the Bouzaglous’s for any future SEO for them!
Hahaha I could help them a whole lot online but they wouldn’t listen anyway ^^
Great update! I love the breakdown that you show between the two services. I just wish GoogleAlerts had not done so well. LOL I would love for an underdog to completely push them out of the way.
Well TalkWalker did perform very well – just depends what your goal is!
Hey Matthew — Have you looked at mentionn yet? Would love to see a comparison of above data to mentionnn. Thanks!
Nope – but I will =D
Nice! I’ve been using Google Alerts and a combination of RSS and IFTT to keep an eye out for mentions for my domains and name as well :)
As always, Matt; Nicely written :)
Cheers Serge!