Why pay
money for what you can get free? I know you have good reasons why you
subscribed to those SMS alerts that send you instant news of your favorite
football teams or leagues. And you just pay a token, N100 per week or N75/ 5
days – that’s OK. It isn’t much of a price, eh!
What about a
scout, who monitors players or opponent teams to get latest updates of what
is happening in their camp. You may have to spend substantial sum of money to
swoop information direct from such opponent’s camp or what do you think?
Perhaps, you
may be a Sports Professor or journalist on a research project to study about a team or
league or country’s football culture. You may need to travel down to the place
to gather data. That can be another money spending spree for you.
But you know
what? You may just be paying for your ignorance! If you have an Internet
enabled Smartphone or laptop that can download emails, you can get more
breaking news, scores and other info about your favorite teams or leagues. All
for FREE! Without Price!
I’m not
revealing something new to you. Google Alerts have been around for a while and lots of
people already knew how to use it in such advance ways to suite their personal
purposes. You too can use it to keep taps on your favorite football teams or
leagues.
Google
Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant news, audio and video weblinks
sent to your email box based on your queries.
You can
enter a query you wish to monitor for instance, “Nigeria Professional Football
League News and Scores.” You may even narrow it down to say “Kano Pillars FC
News.” I know Nigerian fans are more passionate about EPL. You may prefer to
query “English Premier League News and Scores” or say, “Chelsea FC News.” Then
you will see a preview of the type of email you’ll be receiving
You can keep
adjusting the query ‘keywords’ until you get a preview of email that suite your
desire. You may not want to receive all the news Google search can download
from the web. Therefore, you can request for only the best results and a
customized email formats be sent to you.
Second, you
can determine how often you wish to receive such emails. You can be the first
to know if you set an instant download as the news break out on the web or you
may prefer to get it once a day or once a week – as you desire.
Third, you
can diversify your queries if you have more than one favorite team or league,
You can create up to 1000 alerts, but you can only have up to 10 unverified
alerts sent to your mail box at any given time.
Click here to
create your first Google Alerts and see how it works.
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