What does it mean when something comes up on Google Alerts?
I have a Google Alert set for my company name and it came up today in my google alerts for one of the pages on my website. I know that I've gotten other alerts for my company name (like when I post on here ) or when I've created a new profile on a networking sight, so that makes sense to me when it comes up then. But I don't know that it means when a specific page to my website comes up on the alert.
Maybe I just don't fully understand what happens for something to get picked up for the alerts. I have also have it set for Virtual Assistance and Virtual Assistance and it seems like sometimes the same sights come up multiple times- does it have to do with how much traffic those sites are getting?
Good question
I can't pretend to know or understand Google's calculation for how or why things pop up, by maybe this bit of info from their Google Alerts FAQ will help answer your question, at least to a degree:
Google Alerts currently offers 6 variations of alerts - 'News', 'Web', 'Blogs', 'Comprehensive', 'Video' and 'Groups'.
A 'News' alert is an email aggregate of the latest news articles that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top ten results of your Google News search.
A 'Web' alert is an email aggregate of the latest web pages that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top twenty results of your Google Web search.
A 'Blogs' alert is an email aggregate of the latest blog posts that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top ten results of your Google Blog search.
A 'Comprehensive' alert is an aggregate of the latest results from multiple sources (News, Web and Blogs) into a single email to provide maximum coverage on the topic of your choice.
A 'Video' alert is an email aggregate of the latest videos that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top ten results of your Google Video search.
A 'Groups' alert is an email aggregate of new posts that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top fifty results of your Google Groups search.
I went back and looked at it and it was a 'Web' Alert for my Services page, so I guess this means that for my search term (my company name), my services page appeared in the top twenty results of the Google Web Search.
It's probably just from my own clicking on the page when I was looking at it to reference something! Ha, ha. In any case, I'm glad to have a better understanding of what it means when it comes up in my alerts.
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) or when I've created a new profile on a networking sight, so that makes sense to me when it comes up then. But I don't know that it means when a specific page to my website comes up on the alert. 
Stuck in startup? Stop dreaming. Start DOING! 
In any case, I'm glad to have a better understanding of what it means when it comes up in my alerts.
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