firstly type in Google alerts into your google search bar and select google alerts.

You do not require a Google account for this.

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• now your on Google Alerts and their home page. At the top of the page you will see a purple box with a search bar in it. This is where you type in your interest.
  

• say our interest we wanted to select was "Home Business" and we have typed that into our search box.
• A drop down box will load all the news for our topic and at the top you will see a tab called options which you will want to select.
• you will be presented with options to tailor your requirements, these options are:

For the frequency of your alerts you have a choice of:

• as-it-happens – Receive your alert as soon as Google finds an instance of your alert.
• once a day – As it says, you receive a Google alert email once a day. (selected by default)
• once a week – Again, as it says, you receive your Google alert email once a week.

• Sources:
  

Here is where you choose what you want to receive:

News

Blogs

Videos

web articles

by selecting Automatic you will be sent all topics.

• Language is always set to English if that is what your Google is set to.
  
• Region; here is where you select your country you want your alerts from.
• Email length lets you choose how many results you will receive in one email alert, there are two choices here:
  
  • Only the best results
  • All results