I signed up for the google alerts and then I read about some tricks you can use to narrow down the results.
Put your name in between quotation " " marks with words like sweeps, sweepstakes, win, winner or your state and city outside the quotations.
I signed up for several notifications and use my first name then the last letter of my name, my full name, and a user name that I commonly use in sweeps.
I also read that if you have a shared name with someone (like someone wrote above with a porn star) you can do the alerts and at the end of them you could use the -sign to eliminate a certain subject -porn.
Good luck everyone! Jeff
