Brian Chappell

Google has just dropped a bomb shell here in my opinion and is giving users the ability to monitor any page on the web, with RSS like updates on page changes. There are 23,423 different ways this can be used, such as Andys idea to use this for unblockable scraping. However, one simple method is to monitor your competitions backlinks.

• Pick the backlink page from yahoo site explorer for the page you want to track
• Create a link to the URL you just copied by clicking “add feed” in google reader
• Save the link.

Bingo.

Now, potentially, (I haven’t tested this since it just came out) any time new links are acquired and pop into the 1^st page of the top 10 results, you will get a notice of the link as if someone posted a new post on a blog.

What are some other ways you can think of using this outside of the obvious reputation management side of things?