WordPress & Social Media Tools – 2

In Part 1 of this article, we looked at some of the reasons why WordPress provides an ideal platform to market your business on social media.

In this section, we look at a number of monitoring tools that let you:

• Search, find, segment, organize and target users according to demographics, psychographics, etc.
• Monitor social conversations online
• Identify consumer buying signals.

This information will allow you to start meaningful conversations with a targeted audience and pitch them information about your products or services.

Let’s move on now to some of the actual technologies you can use to monitor social media activity. If you are searching for smarter ways to increase sales with social media, then here are 29 free or cost-effective social monitoring tools and resources.

WordPress Social Media Tracking Resources

(Discover what people are saying about you, your business, or your competition on social media)

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a simple and easy (and free) way to know what is new in your niche or industry that would save you time doing research? Well, there is, and it’s called …

Google Alerts

(You can monitor the web for new content with Google Alerts)

Google Alerts is simple, useful and free tool from Google that lets you keep up with news about all kinds of topics, stay informed about people, brands and companies, and track what other people write about you and your business online.

Google Alerts is not only great for helping you manage your reputation online, but also for gathering the latest news about people, brands, companies, and any other subject you are following.

With Google Alerts, you just subscribe to a keyword or topic and you’re done. Whenever Google’s robots (Googlebot) crawl a new web site, press release, blog post, news update, a video, tweet, or any other indexable content related to that topic, it will automatically send you an email or RSS update.

We’ve created a simple step-by-step tutorial on how to create a Google alert here: How To Set Up Google Alerts - Three Quick & Easy Steps

Hootsuite

(Hootsuite.com)

Hootsuite is a social management application that lets you manage all of your social media profiles from one dashboard.

Hootsuite provides social media management, social selling, social marketing, and social customer service solutions. You can schedule Tweets and Facebook posts, monitor conversations, create and customize analytics reports, share the workload amongst teams, departments, or regions, assign tasks, receive real-time notifications, have internal conversations from the dashboard, and add employees and clients to teams without sharing passwords.

Hootsuite is one of the leading social media management tools (SMMT). It allows you to post to a large number of social networks, and offers integration with Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Foursquare, WordPress and more.

Go here for more details: Hootsuite

Buffer

(Buffer)

Buffer lets you schedule social content. You add updates to your Buffer account and Buffer will post it for you at spaced intervals.

You can schedule updates for a day, week, or month. Scheduling times are preset, but you can change these in your settings. In addition to using a web interface, Buffer is also available as a web browser extension and as a mobile app.

More information: Buffer

SocialMetricsPro

(Social Metrics)

SocialMetricsPro is a WordPress plugin that lets you track Tweets, Likes, Pins, +1s and other social signals from your WordPress Admin Dashboard.

Some of the powerful features included in Social Metrics include Excel-like conditional formatting, built-in and external widgets, sort, search and filter data, export data capabilities, 1-click auto-update functionality, and a simple social SEO improvement system.

If you want to learn more about SocialMetricsPro, see this article: Social Metrics Pro

Sociocaster

(Sociocaster)

Sociocaster is easy to use and works for any marketer or business. You can easily schedule messages, engage your audiences, manage your social networks, and measure ROI from one easy-to-use dashboard.

Sociocaster includes lots of powerful social and marketing features: professional image-sharing templates, the ability to spy on your competitors, opt-in marketing tool, unlimited social account management (agency license), and more.

More information: Sociocaster

SproutSocial

(SproutSocial.com)

SproutSocial is a premium tool aimed at small to large businesses as well as the enterprise sector.

SproutSocial has a built-in Customer Relationship Management system (CRM), advanced scheduling tools, social monitoring, support for teams and multiple profiles, helpdesk, team collaboration tools, security features, reports and analytics, mobile apps, RSS feed integration, etc.

More information: SproutSocial

SocialReport

(SocialReport)

SocialReport is an all-in-one social media management solution that lets you track and manage all of your social network accounts from one place.

Social Report tracks the performance of your Facebook pages and Twitter profiles, business reviews, website performance and blogs, and displays your social channel data on a simple and intuitive dashboard. You can quickly and easily organize data by customers or business, and track your own social profiles as well as profiles of others.

Go here for more information: SocialReport

Followerwonk

(Followerwonk Twitter Analytics)

Followerwonk is a Twitter analytics tools that provides insights into your Twitter followers and lets you search Twitter on any profile data: bio, location, name, who they follow, etc., breakdown your followers by social authority, tweet count, follower count, view interactive charts of new followers and unfollows, contrast your relationships with your competitors and friends, and explore and grow your social graph..

To learn more, visit this website: Followerwonk

ManageFlitter

(ManageFlitter)

ManageFlitter provides you with a set of powerful tools that help you work smarter and faster with Twitter.

ManageFlitter lets you sort your followers and following lists using a range of criteria, find out when most of your followers are online and schedule tweets appropriately, easily search inside your Twitter stream to find and follow influencers for your business, use tweet analytics to track keywords and beat your competitors, find out who isn’t following you back, and more.

For more details, go here: ManageFlitter

Beevolve

(Beevolve.com)

Beevolve is a social media monitoring platform designed for small and medium sized businesses, content marketers, community managers, analysts, and online marketers. It allows you to monitor your social media mentions, schedule and launch social media posts, and measure resulting conversion, sales, and engagement ROI, social buzz, sentiment, and more of all posts from one platform.

For more details, go here: Beevolve

HowSociable

(HowSociable)

HowSociable is a simple tool that lets you see how brands are mentioned across different social media platforms.

HowSociable.com displays brand viability metrics on 30+ social sites and delivers you a “social magnitude” score that lets you know how well you are doing on social media, and which areas you can improve your marketing on.

More information: HowSociable.com

Mention

(Mention.com)

Mention is a social monitoring tool for every kind of business, agencies, CEOs, marketers, etc..

Mention’s algorithms monitor billions of data points, so when someone mentions your brand online, you have the ability to detect this, and access to intelligent, actionable data that can help you with your business goals. Mention offers apps for both desktop and mobile users.

To learn more, go here: Mention

Google Analytics

(Google Analytics)

Google Analytics is not just a great analytics tool, it can also help you track posts made to your social media campaigns.

Hootsuite has published a simple 6-step tutorial that shows you how to track your social media links with Google Analytics on their blog.

Facebook Insights

(Facebook.com)

Facebook not only lets you add share, follow, and like social media buttons and commenting features to your site, it also provides a comprehensive analytics tool called Facebook Insights. Facebook Insights lets you analyze how your site is performing on Facebook.

(Facebook Insights)

Facebook Page Insights provides multiple metrics and analytics that can help analyze metrics like page likes, post reach, engagement, etc.. You can then use this information to improve your business marketing efforts.

You can use Facebook’s Page Insights to see which of your posts are attracting the most likes, comments, and shares and to learn about your the demographics of your audience. You can then use this information to publish more of the type of content that your audience finds relevant.

More information: Facebook Insights

Twitter Analytics

(Twitter)

Twitter Analytics let you see how your content is performing and provides a monthly breakdown of your profile visits, followers, tweets, tweet impressions, and top tweets linking back to you.

Twitter’s Analytics dashboard also provides you with useful information about your tweets in the form of Tweet highlights, allowing you to plan your strategy for marketing Twitter.

(Twitter.com – Tweet activity)

More info: Twitter Analytics

YouTube Analytics

(YouTube.com)

YouTube Analytics provides analytics to publishers.

You can monitor the performance of your channel and videos with up-to-date metrics and reports like the overview, real time, watch-time, revenue, and engagement reports.

Go here to learn more: YouTube Analytics

Pinterest Analytics

(Pinterest.com)

Pinterest Analytics lets you explore metrics about the people who engage with your business, what people like from your profile, and what they save from your website. You can get information that helps you learn what your customers want.

To learn more, visit this site: Pinterest Analytics

Additional Social Media Tools

Many new tools and technologies are being developed each year to help businesses make sense of social media.

Here are some other social media services. Keep in mind that new web technologies change. If anything changes in the list below, please let us know in the comment section.

Wunderlist

A task management tool with a social twist. It lets you create professional and personal to-do lists and share these lists with family, colleagues and friends.

SDL/Alterian

SDL acquired Alterian and transformed it into an all-in-one global web experience management solution that allows you to create engaging digital experiences with your customers.

Answerbase

Create social Q&A communities. The Answerbase Q&A Platform facilitates users being able to ask questions, view Q&A content, and get their questions answered.

Appinions

Appinions is a content marketing and live publishing SaaS platform for planning, creating and distributing content online. Marketers can optimize their campaigns by quickly finding, tracking and connecting with opinion leaders who are most likely to influence a trend, idea, product or brand. The ScribbleLive acquisition enables brands to view the web through the lens of people’s opinions. The software provides answers to questions like “what should we write about?”, “where should we publish?”, etc.

ViralHeat

Viralheat (formerly ArgyleSocial – a social media marketing platform for marketers) is part of Cision, a global media intelligence software company. Viralheat is a powerful data analytics platform that delivers insights from social media analytics. It is a highly scalable social media analytics and management platform. Viralheat offers predictive social analytics and a comprehensive social media management stream that combines monitoring, publishing, analytics and reporting for all major social networks in an intuitive interface. Customers can access metrics and KPI, follow conversations, publish and schedule updates, and deliver presentation-ready reports.

Bambuser

Broadcast live using your webcam or mobile device, share to your blog or favorite social network and engage with your viewers. Share via your smartphone and stream to your blog.

BlogDash

BlogDash links brands looking for ways to promote their services and products with bloggers who are willing to write content designed to bring brands the positive media attention they are searching for.

BrandWatch

Brandwatch Analytics is a powerful social media monitoring and analytics platform that lets you collect, analyze and report on your social media data.

Buzzflash

Buzzflash is an independent platform for transformative ideas that features daily headlines whose goal is to inspire direct action.

CircleCount

CircleCount helps users better understand how to use Google Plus. CircleCount lets you discover all of the Google Plus circles following your profile. If your profile isn’t already being tracked on CircleCount.com, you can easily add the url of your Google Plus profile and it will start tracking your circles.

Commun.it

Commun.it lets you manage your Twitter relationships, focus on customers and influencers, schedule posts and manage multiple profiles, and view Twitter analytics data.

Contax.io

Contaxio lets you track your friends and followers on Twitter and other social networks.

Conversocial

With Conversocial you will never miss another comment about your brand. Conversocial lets you manage the flow of customer service enquiries and social media discussions on channels such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

SocialStudio

Social Studio lets you discover what consumers are saying about your brand, your products, and your competitors, and empower your team to plan, execute, and track compelling social media marketing..

Disqus

Disqus integrates with WordPress and can be used instead of the built-in WordPress commenting system to expand the power of social discussions online. Millions of websites covering pretty much any topic imaginable use Disqus.

Echofon

Echofon provides users with social apps for Twitter and Facebook. Echofon apps notify you of mentions and messages. Echofon for Twitter automatically keeps unread tweets in sync between apps on different devices, makes viewing and sharing photos, videos, locations, and links simple, and Echofon for Facebook provides simple, streamlined navigation and an uncluttered Facebook experience, browse your newsfeed and timelines, comment and like with ease and post photos or videos.

Everytime

Everytime is a collaboration app for creatives. With Everytime, you can save moments from Youtube, Vimeo, Soundcloud and any media on your computer. Those moments can then be easily shared, discussed, and found online using social collaboration.

Meltwater Icerocket

Icerocket is a social media search engine which lets you search Facebook, the blogosphere, Twitter, or all at once for any keywords you like.

GroupHigh

With GroupHigh you can promote your company, products, or clients using a blogger outreach tool that lets you sort, filter, and search to find and prioritize your blogger outreach based on which bloggers are active and building communities on popular social networks. GroupHigh makes it easy to build a list of bloggers based on location, content, topics, and more.

Klout

Klout is a social media monitoring and performance analyzing tool. Klout rewards experts in specific topics and areas of interests with Perks, brings influencers and brands together, and ranks your social influence using a “Klout Score”. You can use Klout to suggest shareable content that your friends, fans, and followers haven’t seen yet, and track how retweets, likes, and shares change your Klout Score.

KnowAboutIt

KnowAboutIt lets you discover the most engaging and relevant content lost in your social stream. The stories are gathered from the Know About It system from the previous 24 hours, and are ranked by the number of comments that the KnowAboutIt system is aware of in relation to that story.

LiveFyre

LiveFyre lets you capture conversations from the social web.

TailWind

Tailwind is a Pinterest marketing, management, and analytics tool. Tailwind lets you schedule pins, monitor Pinterest analytics, analyze industry trends and measure results and performance.

ViralWoot

ViralWoot helps you gain more Pinterest followers, promote Pinterest pins, manage and grow multiple accounts, schedule pins with a free bookmarklet, create pin alerts, find which are your top performing pins and boards, connect with influencers, and more.

TweetReach

TweetReach lets you measure how well your tweets, keywords, search queries, and hashtags are performing on Twitter. TweetReach gives you insights about Twitter and snapshot reports.

Keyhole

Keyhole’s real-time dashboard shows how many people posted with your hashtag, along with the number of Retweets, Likes and Impressions your campaign is generating on Twitter and Instagram. Analytics are displayed using easy to understand visual reports.

Riffle

Riffle integrates with over a dozen Twitter platforms and provides you with insight into the current and potential value of Twitter users, engagement, interest, and real-time tracking tools. It integrates with most popular Twitter platforms allowing users to easily add it into their existing social media activities.

Merchii

Merchii links bloggers, online merchants, and consumers by tagging images on the web. Merchii provides a financial incentive for creating social engagement. Users can earn money from every purchase made.

MutualMind

MutualMind provides a complete social data platform that lets you monitor, analyze and engage with social media. One web-based solution gives you all the tools you need to display data on collaborative screens, detect moments or trends in social data and route the insights back to the enterprise instantly.

Unified Social / PageLevel

Unified Social acquired PageLever, a leading Facebook analytics company, in January 2013. Since then, Pagelever’s comprehensive, real-time reporting has been integrated with Unified Social’s operating platform. These tools are part of a complete marketing suite allowing top global brands and agencies to aggregate, warehouse and activate their social data.

Refollow

Refollow provides powerful tools designed to grow and manage your social media presence.

RetweetRank

Get insights into your tweets, track engagement and monitor your brand with Retweet Rank.

Searchmetrics

Searchmetrics provides enterprise-level social and content marketing solutions and SEO/social media analytics.

SimplyMeasured

SimplyMeasured provides a powerful social analytics solution for global brands.

SocialBakers

SocialBakers delivers powerful social media stats that tell you how your social performance stacks against wider industry benchmarks and the competition. You can create, manage, and optimize all your Facebook and Twitter ads in one place, quickly identify your best content and top posting times, gain powerful insights about your audience, and track your brand’s performance over the long term.

Synthesio

Synthesio is a social media intelligence and social listening tool. Synthesio provides scalable monitoring and analytics solutions to hundreds of global brands and agencies. Users can cut through the social noise, find the conversations that matter, measure online reputation, manage consumer relationships and boost their social activities’ ROI.

Sysomos

Sysomos monitors billions of conversations and helps you monitor, analyze, gather insights and make decisions aimed at creating better products and services for your customers. Type in your keyword and instantly see what people are saying both historically and in real-time on any topic across all social channels. Discover influencers, find new and related topics, and gain valuable insights into communities that matter most to you.

ThisMoment

ThisMoment provides brands with opportunities to engage their customers online. Depending on what business you run, ThisMoment’s Content Cloud helps you to find, mix and share a variety of content through many channels across the Enterprise.

Trackur

Trackur provides fast, affordable, and simple social media monitoring of all social media and mainstream news, including Google+, Twitter, Facebook and many more.

TrapIt

Trapit is lets you easily support your sales enablement, social selling, and employee advocacy efforts by providing relevant content to your employees. With one click of a button, your teams can share content with their customers, prospects, and social networks.

Tweepi

Tweepi provides different ways to search for users that might have an interest in your brand. Once you find your targeted group of users, you can easily interact with users by ‘following’, ‘adding to list’ or ‘@mentioning’ them. Twitter notifies those users via email and mobile notifications, and interested users can check your profile and follow you back.

Followadder

Followadder provides users with automated Instagram management tools. It lets you get real Instagram followers, real photo likes and comments, follow/unfollow Instagram users, schedule posts, like back photos, access automated photo liker and automated direct message, create lists, search by hashtag, and more.

Twellow

You can think of Twellow as being like the Yellow Pages for Twitter. You can search for followers on Twitter in dozens of business categories or search your geographical area.

TwentyFeet

TwentyFeet was acquired by SumAll, and provides users with a powerful social reporting tool that can visualize your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram accounts along with any other service you use. Find out which of your posts, tweets, videos or photos get the most engagement in seconds.

TwitterFall

Twitterfall lets Twitter users access upcoming trends and patterns posted by other Twitter users in the form of tweets.

Wajam

Wajam is a tool that displays search results based on what your friends share on top of your normal search results.

Addictomatic

Addictomatic lets you instantly create a page with the latest buzz on any topic of your choice.

Bitly

Bitly lets you share, track and analyze your links.

MyTopTweet

MyTopTweet is a simple social monitoring tool that shows your top performing tweets.

SocialMention

SocialMention is a real-time social media search and analysis platform.

Twazzup

Twazzup provides real-time monitoring and analytics for Twitter.

TweetDeck

TweetDeck is a powerful tool for real-time tracking, organizing, and social engagement on Twitter.

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