WordPress & Social Media Tools – 2

In Part 1 of this article, we looked at some of the reasons why WordPress makes 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, filter and organize users according to specific demographic criteria, psychographics, etc.
• Monitor and listen to social conversations online
• Identify key consumer buying signals.

With this information, you can 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 tools and applications you can use to monitor social media content. If you are searching for cost-effective ways to increase sales using social media, then here are dozens of social media monitoring tools & resources for WordPress users.

WordPress And Social Media – Useful Social Measurement Tools

(Discover what consumers are saying about you, your brand, or your competition on social media)

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a free, easy and simple way to find out what is happening in your niche or industry so that you are not wasting a huge amount of time doing research? Well, there is, and it’s called …

Google Alerts

(Google Alerts lets you monitor the web for new content)

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

Google Alerts is not only only a useful social media monitoring tool for managing your reputation online, but also for gathering the latest news about people, companies, or any topic you are following.

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

To learn how to set up alerts with Google, see this simple step-by-step tutorial: Google Alerts – A Step-By-Step Tutorial

Hootsuite

(Hootsuite.com)

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

Hootsuite provides solutions for social media management, social marketing, social selling, and social customer service. Users 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, 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 provides integration with Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Foursquare, WordPress and more.

More info: Hootsuite

Buffer

(Buffer)

Buffer lets you schedule your social content. You add updates to your Buffer queue 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 a web interface, Buffer is also available as a web browser extension and as a mobile app for Android and iOS devices.

More information: Buffer

Social Metrics Pro

(Social Metrics Pro)

Social Metrics is a WordPress plugin that tracks Tweets, Likes, Pins, +1s and other social signals from your WordPress Dashboard.

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

We have written a detailed article on SocialMetrics. To learn more about this useful plugin go here: SocialMetrics WordPress Social Media Analytics Plugin

Sociocaster

(Sociocaster – Social media management for entrepreneurial marketers)

Sociocaster is easy to use and works in any business marketing campaign. You can easily engage your audiences, schedule post messages, manage your social media networks, and measure ROI from one easy-to-use dashboard.

Sociocaster includes powerful marketing and social features: a powerful visual designer, top viral video search tool, bulk content import and schedule feature, unlimited social media account management (agency license), and much more.

More information: Sociocaster

SproutSocial

(SproutSocial.com)

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

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

Go here for more info: SproutSocial

SocialReport

(SocialReport)

SocialReport is a social intelligence platform that allows you to track and manage all of your social media 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 using 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 competitor profiles.

For more details, go here: SocialReport

Followerwonk

(Followerwonk)

Followerwonk is a Twitter analytics tools that lets you sort your followers by any criteria to find your most important and influential followers, compare Twitter accounts to find overlaps and target new influencers, view interactive charts of new followers and unfollows, contrast your relationships with your competitors and friends, and explore and grow your social graph..

Go here for more information: Followerwonk Twitter Analytics

ManageFlitter

(ManageFlitter)

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

ManageFlitter lets you sort your followers and following lists by a range of criteria, post tweets at the best time to reach your followers, easily search inside your Twitter stream to find and follow the right accounts for your business, use tweet analytics to track keywords and beat your competitors, manage follows and unfollows, and more.

More info: ManageFlitter

Beevolve

(Beevolve.com)

Beevolve.com is a social monitoring platform designed for SMBs, content marketers, analysts, online marketers, and community managers. It lets you track your social media mentions, schedule and launch social media posts, and measure resulting sales and engagement, social sentiment, buzz, and more of all your posts.

To learn more, go here: Beevolve

HowSociable

(HowSociable.com)

HowSociable is a simple tool that allows you to monitor how business or brands are mentioned across different social platforms.

HowSociable.com displays brand viability metrics. It delivers you a “social magnitude” score. This social numerical view lets you know how well you are doing on those social media sites.

More info: HowSociable

Mention

(Mention)

Mention can help any type of business monitor the web.

Mention’s algorithms take billions of data points into account, so when someone mentions your business online, you have access to real time, intelligent and actionable data that can help you with your business goals. Mention also allows you to collaborate with other team members.

For more information, go here: Mention

Google Analytics

(Google Analytics)

Google Analytics is not just a web analytics application, it can also help you monitor posts made from your WordPress site to your social accounts.

Hootsuite has published a great 6-step tutorial on tracking social media links with Google Analytics here.

Facebook Insights

(Facebook.com)

Facebook not only lets you integrate like, follow, and share social buttons and commenting features with your WordPress site, it also provides a comprehensive analytics tool called Facebook Insights that lets you analyze how your campaigns are performing on Facebook.

(Facebook Insights)

Facebook Insights provides multiple metrics and analytics that can help track the number of active users. You can then use this data to improve your marketing efforts.

You can use Page Insights to learn about your posts — which have the most likes, comments, and shares and to learn about about your audience. You can then use this data to publish more of the types of posts that your audience is interested in.

More info: Facebook Insights

Twitter Analytics

(Twitter.com)

Twitter Analytics let you see how your content is performing and provides a break down of your followers, tweet impressions, profile views, top tweets, and top 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 plan your Twitter marketing strategy.

(Twitter Analytics – Tweet activity)

For more details, go here: Twitter Analytics

YouTube Analytics

(YouTube)

YouTube Analytics provides analytic reports to video publishers.

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

More information: YouTube Analytics

Pinterest Analytics

(Pinterest)

Pinterest Analytics lets you explore metrics about the people who engage with your business, what people like from your profile, what they save from your website, and how much traffic your site gets when you pin new content. You can use the data to improve the way you pin.

For more details, go here: Pinterest Analytics

Additional Social Media-Related Services & Web Applications

With the explosive growth of social media predicted to continue rising, many new tools and technologies are being developed to help business engage and make sense of social data.

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

Wunderlist

Wunderlist is a task management tool with a social twist. Create professional and personal 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 lets you create engaging digital experiences with your customers.

Answerbase

Create your own social Q&A community. The Answerbase Q&A Platform allows users to ask questions, view 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. Appinions’ technology enables customers to optimize all stages of the content marketing lifecycle. Appinions enables brands to view the web through the lens of people’s opinions. The software provides answers to questions like ”who should we listen to or partner with?”, ”what keywords do we use to make our content more easily discoverable?”, 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 application 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 publish and schedule updates, access metrics and KPI, monitor conversations, and deliver presentation-ready reports.

Bambuser

Bambuser lets you broadcast live using your mobile device or webcam, share to your favorite social network or blog and engage with your viewers. Share via your smartphone and stream content to your blog.

BlogDash

BlogDash connects brands searching for ways to promote their products and services with bloggers willing to write content designed to bring brands positive media attention.

BrandWatch

accurately listen to conversations about your brand, your products or your market.

Buzzflash

Buzzflash is part of the Truthout community – an independent platform for transformative ideas that features daily headlines aimed at inspiring direct social action.

CircleCount

CircleCount is a Google+ education resource. CircleCount lets you discover all of the Google Plus circles in which you are included. If your profile isn’t already being tracked on CircleCount.com, you can easily add your Google+ profile and it will start tracking your circles.

Commun.it

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

Contax.io

Contax.io lets you track your followers and friends on Twitter and other social networks and manage relevant, real-time relationship data.

Conversocial

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

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 connects people online through blog discussions. Millions of websites covering just about every topic imaginable use Disqus.

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 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 videos and photos.

Everytime

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

Meltwater Icerocket

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

GroupHigh

GroupHigh is a blogger outreach software that lets you filter, search, and sort 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, topics, content, and more.

Klout

Klout is a website and mobile app that helps you analyze user’s social media influence via the “Klout Score”, which is a numerical value between 1 and 100. 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 collected from the KnowAboutIt system from the previous 24 hours, and are ranked by the number of comments that the stories attract.

LiveFyre

LiveFyre lets you capture conversations from the social web.

TailWind

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

ViralWoot

Viralwoot helps you gain Pinterest followers, add pins for promotion, 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 the reach of your tweets for search queries, hashtags, and keywords. TweetReach gives you insights about Twitter and snapshot reports with the estimated reach of your tweets based on various methods of measuring performance.

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. Analytic results are displayed to users in an easy to understand visual reports.

Riffle

Riffle by CrowdRiff integrates with every Twitter platform (Mention, Shoutlet, Twilert, etc) and provides you with Twitter analytics, engagement, 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 lets you link online merchants, bloggers, and consumers by tagging images on the web. Merchii provides a financial incentive for creating social engagement. You can earn money from every purchase made.

MutualMind

MutualMind is 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 the 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 are part of a complete marketing suite allowing top global brands and agencies to aggregate, warehouse and activate their social data.

Refollow

Refollow lets you find a targeted audience, measure and manage your social media presence.

RetweetRank

Find out how influential are you on Twitter.

Searchmetrics

Searchmetrics lets you see important key performance indicators such as the visibility of a page in social media.

SimplyMeasured

SimplyMeasured lets you analyze and understand audiences, conversations, and competitors that matter to you across all social channels.

SocialBakers

SocialBakers delivers deep, competitive social media analytics that let you see how your social performance stacks against wider industry benchmarks and the competition. You can create, manage, and optimize all your Twitter and Facebook 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 tool. Synthesio provides scalable monitoring and analytics solutions to hundreds of agencies and leading brands around the world. Users can cut through social noise, find the conversations that matter, measure digital 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 services and products for your customers. Type in your keyword and instantly see what people are saying both in real-time and historically on any topic across all social channels. Find new and related topics, discover influencers, and gain valuable insights into the audiences and communities that matter most to you.

ThisMoment

ThisMoment provides brands with opportunities to engage their customers online. Depending on your business, 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, simple, and affordable 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, customers, and social networks.

Tweepi

Tweepi provides a number of different ways to search for users that might be interested in your brand. After finding your targeted group of users, you can easily interact with them by ‘following’, ‘adding to list’ or ‘@mentioning’ them. Twitter notifies those users via mobile and email notifications, and if they are interested, they can check your profile and follow back.

Followadder

Followadder provides users with automated social networking Instagram management software. 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

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

TwentyFeet

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

TwitterFall

Twitterfall allows Twitter users to 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

Instantly create a page that displays the latest buzz on any topic.

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 engine and analysis platform.

Twazzup

Twazzup provides real-time analytics and monitoring for Twitter.

TweetDeck

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

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