EmbeddedAnalytics "Inbound LinkAlerts" Service

EmbeddedAnalytics "Inbound LinkAlerts" is a service which queries your Google Analytics for new inbound links to your site. When new links are found you receive a notification email.

This service is ideal for members of your organization responsible for maintaining/building your online presence. With Inbound LinkAlerts you get notified within hours (based on our own benchmarking) of new sites/pages linking to your site.

It's no secret you can already use Google to find your inbound links (type links:embeddedanalytics.com in a Google search). And you can also create a Google Alert to notify you. But these technologies rely on crawling and indexing, which can sometimes be days before links are detected. Because Inbound LinkAlerts is based directly on your Google Analytics data, the time for detection/notification is much lower. ¹

1. create an account on EmbeddedAnalytics if don't already have one. During the signup process you will be redirected to Google to grant EmbeddedAnalytics a token which provides read-only access to your GA data.
2. Specify the profiles on which to create Inbound LinkAlerts. A query will be done against Google Analytics to build a database of external sites and pages linking to the site associated with the profile.
3. We will then continue to query your profile each hour for new links to your site. If a new one is found we send you and email!

• Notification Emails When new inbound links are detected to your site EmbeddedAnalytics sends you an email containing the link.
• Link Verification All newly discovered links are verified. You have the option to be notified of all link or only verified links. Examples of links which can't be verified might be a link from a protected area of a website. We also filter links generated by web searches such as google and yahoo.

The alerts are not immediate. Based on our experience, there is about a 1-2 hour latency with the Google Analytics API.

It depends on many source links already exist to your site. Use the grid below. You can get a realtime quote for any profile once you have created an account. And the first 30 days of the service are free and don't require a credit card.

¹ - Link detection is not immediate. There is latency/delay before data is available through the Google Analytics API. Through our own benchmarking we estimate this is typically between 1 and 4 hours.