WordPress & Social Media Tools – 2

In Part One of this article, we looked at some of the reasons why WordPress makes an ideal platform for marketing your business on social media.

In this section, we examine a number of tracking tools that let you:

• Search, find, segment, organize and target users according to specific demographics, their interests, etc.
• Listen to social conversations online
• Identify consumer buying signals.

With this information, you can engage in meaningful conversations with your audience and pitch them your message.

Let’s move on now to some of the actual technologies you can use to monitor social media activity. If you are searching for better ways to increase sales using social media, then here are the top social management tools & resources.

Social Media Tools For WordPress Users

(Discover what consumers are saying about you, your business, and your competitors on social media)

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a simple and easy way to access information about what is going on in your industry or niche so that you are not wasting a huge amount of 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 one of the easiest and most useful tools available online for keeping up with the latest news and information about all kinds of topics, staying informed about people and companies, and tracking what is being published online about you and your business. It’s also free.

Google Alerts is not only only a great tool for helping you manage your reputation online, but also for automatically gathering news about people, companies, and any topic you want to know about.

With Google Alerts, you just subscribe to a keyword or topic and you’re done. Whenever Google’s indexing robots crawl a new web page, press release, news update, blog post, a video, tweet, or any other indexable content related to the topic you’ve subscribed to, you will automatically receive an email or RSS update.

To learn how to set up alerts with Google, see this simple tutorial: Google Alerts – A Tutorial

Hootsuite

(Hootsuite.com)

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

Hootsuite provides social media management, social selling, social marketing, and social customer service solutions. You can schedule Tweets and Facebook posts, track conversations, quickly create and customize analytics reports, streamline workflows amongst teams, departments, or regions, assign tasks, receive real-time notifications, have internal conversations from the dashboard, and collaborate with teams.

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

To learn more, go here: Hootsuite

Buffer

(Buffer.com)

Buffer lets you schedule your social content. You add updates to your Buffer account and it will be posted for you at spaced out intervals over the day.

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

Go here for more info: Buffer

SocialMetricsPro

(SocialMetricsPro WordPress Social Plugin)

SocialMetrics is a plugin that monitors Tweets, Likes, Pins, +1s and other social signals from your 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 autoupdate functionality, and a simple social SEO improvement system.

We have written a detailed article about SocialMetricsPro. Go here to learn more: Social Metrics

Sociocaster

(Sociocaster)

Posting to your Twitter, WordPress, Linkedin, and Facebook accounts can be very time-consuming. To get all of these tasks done usually requires using different applications, plugins, or tools. Sociocaster lets you do it all from one location with just a few clicks.

Sociocaster is ideal for entrepreneurs and internet marketers. It includes lots of powerful marketing and social features: professional image-sharing templates, royalty-free image finder, advanced link share customization for Facebook, unlimited social account management (agency license), and more.

More information: Sociocaster

SproutSocial

(SproutSocial)

SproutSocial is a robust social media management tool aimed at small to large businesses as well as the enterprise sector.

SproutSocial has a built-in Customer Relationship Management system, advanced scheduling tools, social monitoring, support for teams and multiple profiles, helpdesk for customer support, team collaboration tools, permission levels and roles, custom reports and analytics, mobile apps, RSS feed integration, etc.

For more information, go here: SproutSocial

SocialReport

(SocialReport.com)

SocialReport is a social intelligence platform that allows you to track and manage all of your social network accounts from one place.

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

Go here for more information: SocialReport

Followerwonk

(Followerwonk)

Followerwonk is a Twitter analytics tools that provides insights into your Twitter followers and lets you search Twitter bios, compare users, analyze their tweeting habits, track, sort and compare followers, match your activities to gains and losses in followers to give your followers what they like best, discover who your most important, influential followers are, where they are located, when do they tweet, hone your social graph by following and unfollowing users, etc.

More information: 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 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, manage multiple Twitter accounts, and more.

More info: ManageFlitter

Beevolve

(Beevolve)

Beevolve.com is a social media monitoring tool for SMBs, analysts, content marketers, online marketers, and community managers. It allows you to track your brand mentions, schedule and launch social media posts, and measure resulting conversion, engagement, and sales ROI, social sentiment, buzz, and more of all posts.

To learn more, visit this site: Beevolve

HowSociable

(HowSociable)

HowSociable is a simple tool that allows you to monitor brand mentions across various social properties.

HowSociable.com displays brand viability metrics and gives you a “social magnitude” score that lets you know how well you are doing on social media.

To learn more, visit this site: HowSociable

Mention

(Mention)

Mention is built on a simple idea of allowing anyone to know what’s being said about them online and on social media.

Mention uses algorithms that take billions of data points into account, so when someone mentions your keyword online, you have access to real time actionable data that can help you with your business goals. Mention offers apps for both desktop and mobile devices.

More information: Mention

Google Analytics

(Google Analytics)

Google Analytics is not just a powerful and free analytics application used for tracking and reporting website traffic, visitor behavior, page views, where your web visitors are located, etc., it can also help you monitor posts made from your website to your social media campaigns.

Hootsuite has published a great tutorial on tracking your social media links with Google Analytics here.

Facebook Insights

(Facebook.com)

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

(Facebook – Insight Types)

The Facebook Insights dashboard lets you see displays data about your target audience on Facebook to help improve your business marketing efforts.

You can use Facebook’s Page Insights to learn about your posts — which have the most shares, likes, and comments and to learn about your user demographics. You can then use this information to publish relevant posts when your audience is on Facebook.

Go here for more details: Facebook Insights

Twitter Analytics

(Twitter Analytics)

Twitter Analytics let you see how your tweets are performing and gives you a monthly breakdown of your followers, tweets, tweet impressions, profile views, and tweets linking to you.

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

(Twitter.com – Tweet activity)

More information: Twitter Analytics

YouTube Analytics

(YouTube)

YouTube Analytics lets video publishers see how their channel is performing on the YouTube platform.

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

More info: YouTube Analytics

Pinterest Analytics

(Pinterest.com)

Pinterest Analytics helps you see what Pins and boards people like most, what they save from your website, what devices people are using, and how much traffic your site gets when you pin content to your boards. You can get data about your audiences and learn what your customers want.

For more details, go here: Pinterest Analytics

Additional Social Media-Related Applications

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

The list below contains a number of other social media-related tools. Keep in mind that web technologies are continually evolving. If anything changes in the list below, please let us know.

Wunderlist

A task management tool with a social twist. Create personal and professional task lists and share these lists with friends, colleagues and family.

SDL/Alterian

SDL Web (formerly Alterian) is an all-in-one global web experience management solution that lets you create engaging digital experiences with online consumers.

Answerbase

Create your own social Q&A community. The Answerbase Q&A Platform allows users to ask questions, browse Q&A content, and get their questions answered.

Appinions

Appinions is a content marketing and live publishing SaaS platform that lets you plan, create and distribute 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. This tool provides answers to questions like ”who should we listen to or partner with?”, “where should we publish?”, etc.

ViralHeat

Viralheat runs a powerful data analytics tool 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 combining monitoring, publishing, analytics and reporting for all major social networks in an intuitive interface. Customers can track conversations, publish and schedule updates, access metrics and KPI, and deliver presentation-ready reports.

Bambuser

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

BlogDash

BlogDash links brands searching for ways to promote their products and services with bloggers who are willing to write content designed to bring brands the positive attention they are looking 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 part of the Truthout community – 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 GooglePlus. CircleCount lets you discover all of the Google+ circles following your profile. If your profile isn’t already being monitored on CircleCount.com, you can easily add your Google Plus profile and it will start tracking your circles.

Commun.it

Commun.it is a community management tool for building relationships and discovering leads on Twitter.

Contax.io

Contaxio is a contact management tool for your social networks that tracks your friends and followers on Twitter and provides detail to help you decide when to follow back.

Conversocial

Conversocial provides cloud-based social customer service solutions that help global brands improve their customer experience and operational efficiency by managing customer service flow and social media discussions on channels like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

SocialStudio

Social Studio helps 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 is a free service that facilitates the growth and spread of online communities through blog discussions. Disqus is used by millions of websites covering just about every topic imaginable.

Echofon

Echofon provides users with full featured, clean social apps for Facebook and Twitter. Echofon apps notify you of messages and mentions. Echofon for Twitter automatically keeps unread tweets in sync between apps on different devices, makes sharing media 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 and videos.

Everytime

Everytime is a collaboration app for creatives. If you work with videos, sounds, or images, you can save any moment from Youtube, Vimeo, Soundcloud and any media to your computer. Those moments are then easy to share, privately or publicly, easy to discuss about and easy to find.

Icerocket

Meltwater 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 software that lets you search, sort, and filter 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 topics, location, content, and more.

Klout

Klout is a website, mobile app, and social media monitoring and performance analysis 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 affect your Klout Score.

KnowAboutIt

Know About It is a simple service that monitors popular news sources for stories that are generating a lot of conversation. The stories are collected from the KnowAboutIt system from the past 24 hours, and are ranked by the number of comments that the Know About It system is aware of in relation to that story.

LiveFyre

LiveFyre provides users with a real-time content marketing platform that lets you engage your audience, leverage native and social user-generated content surrounding your brand, and curate Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram content from fans into an interactive display.

TailWind

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

Viralwoot

Viralwoot helps you gain Pinterest followers, add pins for promotion, manage and grow multiple accounts, schedule pins with a bookmarklet, track what people are pinning from your website, who is pinning the most and what images from your website are trending on Pinterest with 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, search queries, keywords, and hashtags are performing on Twitter. TweetReach gives you the estimated potential of the tweets for any given query.

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 presented in an easy to understand visual reports.

Riffle

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

Merchii

Merchii lets you link consumers, bloggers, and online merchants by tagging images on the web. 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 provides users with all the tools they need to display data on collaborative screens, detect moments or trends in social data and instantly route insights back to the enterprise.

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 form a complete marketing suite for top global brands and agencies to aggregate, warehouse and activate their social data.

Refollow

Refollow lets you discover, measure, manage and maximize your social media presence.

RetweetRank

Find out how influential are you on Twitter.

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 the competition and wider industry benchmarks. 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 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 their 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 services and products for your customers. Simply type in your keyword and instantly see what people are saying on any topic both in real-time and historically across all social networks. Discover influencers, find new and related topics, and get insights into communities that matter to you.

ThisMoment

ThisMoment helps businesses engaging with everyone everywhere. Depending on your business, ThisMoment’s Content Cloud helps you find, mix and share a variety of content through many channels across the Enterprise.

Trackur

Trackur provides simple, affordable, and fast social media monitoring and social analytics insights including trends, keyword discovery, automated sentiment analysis & influence scoring.

TrapIt

Trapit is a social selling, employee advocacy and content marketing tool. With one click of a button, teams can share content with their prospects, social networks, and customers.

Tweepi

With Tweepi, you can follow a @user’s followers, follow a @user’s friends, follow using a Twitter list, and follow by copy/pasting lists.

Followadder

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

Twellow

Twellow is like the Yellow Pages for Twitter. You can search for followers on Twitter in many relevant business categories or search your geographical area.

TwentyFeet

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

TwitterFall

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

Wajam

Wajam displays search results of what your friends are sharing on top of your normal search results.

Addictomatic

Addict-o-matic lets you instantly create a page with the latest buzz on any chosen topic.

Bitly

Bitly can help you analyze social media engagement, optimize content, and measure how you’re spending your budget.

MyTopTweet

MyTopTweet is a simple social monitoring tool that displays your best performing tweets.

SocialMention

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

Twazzup

Twazzup provides real-time Twitter analytics and monitoring.

TweetDeck

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

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