Track Your Name/Terms in Comments using BackType Alerts
Worried if other people are talking about you on different comments? Its easy to track down all these people easily and report them. There are many people who talk about you or your business name in different blog’s comments and it would be hard for you to track them down. It can be competitors who are spreading a bad name on your behalf and you should take action instantly before it gets too later.
Check out BackType.com which is a comments tracking system which works only for comments and alerts you the same way like Google Alerts work and helps you out in staying updated whenever there are any mentions of your desired search term.
To get started you need to signup with a free backtype.com account and then confirm your registration. Once you verify your account you will be asked with the following options -
1. Claim Comments – help us find your comments
2. Edit Account – review your account details
3. Edit Profile – so people can find you
4. Search – for people to follow
5. Keep Commenting
Even if you are not a member of backtype, all the comments you add on different blogs are automatically tracked and you can find them by searching based on the comment URL you add. Example – http://www.backtype.com/url/www.amitbhawani.com
In short using this tool you can easily find, follow & share comments on the web!


Thanks for the post — glad you’re finding alerts useful.
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I guess its mainly useful for people who want to setup alerts for their personal/business names.
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