Google alerts is one of the service that always needed a Gmail account to recieve it. But lets say your primary email id is not on Gmail but rather on yahoo or hotmail or aol.  How do you get those alerts to Non Gmail accounts ?

Google Alerts now

• Allow you to transfer or route selected or all of the alerts to Any of your secondary email accounts ( which should be non Gmail ) which you had added to your Google Accounts.
• Also you can create Google Alerts to directly for non Google / Gmail  account which is added as secondary email id.

Its simple and it seems one of the updates made by google recently and I noticed when I decided to unsubscribe for Some alerts.

Send alerts to non Gmail Accounts

All you need to do is :

• Add secondary email id ( Could be more than one ). Skip this if you have already added one.
• Now open Google Alerts.
• Add the end of list of alerts you have look for Delete Button ( No we are not going to use that !!)
• Right beside that You would see Send To Drop down box availble for you.
• Click on Send to and You will see your secondary email if which you had added in first step is availble there.
• Select any or all of the alerts and move it to any of the secondary account.
• You can also create alerts for secondary email accounts.

Create Alerts Directly for Non Gmail Accounts

Thats it. All the google alerts you decided to move will be redirected to your Secondry accounts instead of Gmail account.