Quickly monitor buzz with Google and Twitter

Not sure who is talking about your music, feel like your not abreast of the blog buzz or the latest reviews?

Here are a couple of quick tips for using google to help you monitor what’s being written about your band:

Google Alerts – This emails you as-it-happens, daily or weekly with all the new articles that have appeared on the internet with your specified words in.

Head here: http://www.google.com/alerts

Put your band/track/album name in the ‘search terms’ field, keep the ‘type’ as comprehensive to start with, choose how often you’d like to be updated and fill in your email address.

You will then start receiving emails to your chosen account updating you with all that’s happening online…

Twitter Search – Twitters search function allows you to see all the tweets which contain your chosen search terms. So you could search your own band name, or the name of a festival you are playing etc. Usefully twitter enables you to take an rss feed of that search. Go to www.search.twitter.com, make whatever search you wish and then click on the “Feed for This Query” button and add it to the feed reader of choice (I use Google Reader reader.google.com)