How to track mentions of your personal name online
Updated October 2026 · every tool checked on its own site, October 27, 2026
The alerts catch new web pages, news, forums and Reddit threads without you looking. They miss most social posts, so those you check by hand, in about five minutes.
| Where your name shows up | Free tool | What it catches |
|---|---|---|
| Web pages, news, blogs | Google Alerts | New pages Google finds with your name. No social media. |
| Forums, news, X | Talkwalker Alerts | Like Google Alerts, plus forums and some X posts. Email, RSS or Slack. |
| Reddit, Hacker News | F5Bot | New posts and comments, emailed within minutes. |
| X and Bluesky posts | Search by hand | Everything public, if you search the right way (below). |
| Your phone or address on Google | Results about you | Emails you when it appears in results, and asks Google to remove it. |
Green = the three free alerts. Set them up once and they run on their own.
You only do this once, and after that new mentions come to your inbox.
"Jane Doe". Without quotes you get every Jane and every Doe."Jane Doe" photographer.google.com/alerts, type "Jane Doe", open Show options.talkwalker.com/alerts. It also covers forums and X, which Google Alerts doesn't.f5bot.com. It watches Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters.goo.gle/resultsaboutyou. You confirm your phone number, home address and email once.Google Alerts' source list is news, blogs, web, video, books, discussions and finance. Posts on X, Bluesky, Instagram or TikTok don't reach you through it.
Type these into the search box and pick Latest, because that's where the posts alerts miss show up.
On X
"Jane Doe" finds posts that use your name without tagging you.@janedoe finds posts that tag you. to:janedoe finds replies to you."Jane Doe" since:2026-10-01 until:2026-10-08 narrows it to one week.url:janedoe.com finds posts that link to your website.On Bluesky
mentions:janedoe.bsky.social finds posts that tag you."Jane Doe" since:2026-10-01 finds posts that use your name.domain:janedoe.com finds posts that link to your site.A weekly search catches what alerts drop, and it takes two minutes with these searches.
"Jane Doe" -site:janedoe.com shows what other people wrote, not your own pages."Jane Doe" site:reddit.com checks Reddit threads Google has found."Jane Doe" after:2026-10-01, or Tools then a time filter, for only new pages.Pay for a tool only if your name comes up every week, or if something is happening right now.
Awario is $29 a month billed yearly and covers Reddit, X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and news. The cheaper options, compared.
Alerts tell you people are talking. They don't tell you who started it or who's carrying it. Pressfront makes Trace, which shows who is talking about you online and where it started, and Get Found, which helps online businesses show up on Google and in AI answers. A free trace looks back 7 days; $49 traces one story all the way back.
Every tool on this page, paid or free, sees only public posts.
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Yes. Google Alerts, Talkwalker Alerts and F5Bot are free and together cover web pages, news, blogs, forums, some X posts, Reddit and Hacker News. Social posts on X and Bluesky are best checked by searching them directly.
No. Its sources are news, blogs, web, video, books, discussions and finance. It lists no social network, so posts on X, Bluesky, Instagram or TikTok won't reach you through it.
Let the alerts run in the background and do a 5-minute search of X, Bluesky and Google once a week. Check daily only while something is actively happening.
No. Since June 2024 X shows a post's likes only to the person who liked it, so no person or tool can list the likers. Replies, quotes and reposts are still public. Bluesky likes are public.
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