In Part One 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 examine a number of tracking tools that let you:
- Search, find, sort, organize and target users according to demographics, their interests, etc.
- Listen in on social conversations online
- Identify buying signals.
This information will allow you to start a meaningful conversation with prospects and pitch them your message.
Let’s move on now to some of the actual tools and applications you can use for monitoring social media content. If you are looking for cost-effective ways to improve your business results using social media, then check out our list of more than 25 social analytics tools and resources to help you monitor, analyze and improve social ROI.
WordPress Social Media Monitoring Resources
(Discover what people are saying about you, your brand, 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 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 one of the easiest and most useful tools available online for keeping up with the latest news about all kinds of topics, staying informed about people, brands and companies, and monitoring what is being written online about you and your business. It’s also free.
Google Alerts is not only great for managing your reputation online, but also for automatically receiving the latest news about people, brands, companies, or any other topic you need to know about.
With Google Alerts, you just subscribe to a keyword or topic and you’re done. Whenever Google’s bots (Googlebot) crawl a new web site, blog post, news update, press release, a tweet, video, or any other indexable content related to that topic, it will automatically send you an email or RSS update.
We’ve created a simple tutorial on how to create a Google alert here: A Quick And Easy Step-By-Step Guide On Setting Up A Google Alert
Hootsuite
(Hootsuite.com)
Hootsuite is a social management application that lets you manage all of your social media profiles from an intuitive dashboard.
Hootsuite provides solutions for social media management, social marketing, social selling, and social customer service. You can schedule Tweets and Facebook posts, track conversations, 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 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 (including their app directory), and offers integration with Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Foursquare, WordPress and more.
For more details, go here: Hootsuite
Buffer
(Buffer)
Buffer lets you schedule your social content. You add updates to your Buffer queue and Buffer will then automatically post it 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 the web interface, Buffer also provides mobile apps and a browser extension.
Visit this site to learn more: Buffer
Social Metrics
(SocialMetricsPro)
Social Metrics is a WordPress plugin that tracks social activity from many leading social networks like Twitter, GooglePlus, Facebook, Pinterest, Digg, StumbleUpon, and LinkedIn.
Some of the powerful features included in SocialMetricsPro 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 comprehensive article on Social Metrics Pro. To learn more, go here: SocialMetricsPro WordPress Social Media Analytics Plugin
Sociocaster
(Sociocaster – Social media management for internet marketers)
Posting to your Linkedin, Facebook, WordPress, and Twitter accounts can be time-consuming and to get all of these tasks done you usually need to use different plugins, software, or web apps. With Sociocaster, you can do this all from one dashboard with just a few clicks.
Sociocaster is a powerful tool for entrepreneurs and internet marketers. It includes powerful marketing and social features: a powerful visual designer, social stream, bulk content importing & scheduling, agency license to manage unlimited social accounts, and much more.
Visit this website to learn more: Sociocaster
SproutSocial
(SproutSocial.com)
SproutSocial is a robust social media management tool built for 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, team collaboration tools, permission levels and roles, custom reports and analytics, mobile apps, RSS feed integration, etc.
To learn more, visit this website: SproutSocial
SocialReport
(SocialReport.com)
SocialReport is an all-in-one social media management and reporting solution that lets you track and manage all of your social media accounts from one place.
It tracks the performance of your Facebook pages and Twitter profiles, business reviews, website performance and blogs, and displays data from your social channels using a simple and intuitive dashboard. You can quickly and easily organize your data by business or customers, and track your own social profiles as well as profiles of others.
More info: SocialReport
Followerwonk
(Followerwonk Twitter Analytics)
Followerwonk is a Twitter analytics tools that 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, find and connect with new influencers in your niche, where they are located, when do they tweet, hone your social graph by following and unfollowing users, etc.
To learn more, go here: Followerwonk
ManageFlitter
(ManageFlitter)
ManageFlitter provides a set of easy to use tools to empower you to 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, manage multiple Twitter accounts, and more.
To learn more, go here: ManageFlitter
Beevolve
(Beevolve.com)
Beevolve is a social monitoring tool designed for SMBs, online marketers, community managers, analysts, and content marketers. Beevolve lets you track your brand mentions, schedule and launch social media posts, and measure resulting engagement and sales, social sentiment, buzz, etc. of all your posts from a single platform.
For more details, go here: Beevolve
HowSociable
(HowSociable)
HowSociable is a simple tool that allows you to monitor how business and brands are mentioned across various social properties.
HowSociable displays brand viability metrics. It gives you a “social magnitude” score that lets you know how well you are doing on those social media sites, and what aspects of your marketing campaigns can be improved.
To learn more, go here: HowSociable.com
Mention
(Mention.com)
Mention helps businesses monitor the web.
Mention’s algorithms take billions of data points into account, so when someone mentions your keyword 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.
More information: Mention
Google Analytics
(Google Analytics)
Google Analytics is not only a free and powerful web analytics tool used to measure unique page views, visitor behavior, web traffic, identify your website’s best and worst performing links, etc., it can also help you track posts made to your social media campaigns.
Visit the Hootsuite blog for a great step-by-step guide on tracking social media links with Google Analytics.
Facebook Insights
(Facebook.com)
Facebook not only lets you add social media plugins to your WordPress site, it also provides a comprehensive analytics tool called Facebook Insights. This application lets you understand how your campaigns are performing on Facebook’s social networking platform.
(Facebook.com – Insights)
Facebook Insights can track the number of active users on your page. This can help you improve your business marketing efforts.
You can use Facebook’s Page Insights to learn about your posts — which have attracted the most likes, comments, and shares and to learn about your about your audience. You can then use this data to create more of the type of content that your audience is interested in reading.
More information: Facebook Insights
Twitter Analytics
(Twitter)
Twitter Analytics let you see how your content is performing and gives you a break down of your tweets, followers, 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 plan your Twitter strategy.
(Twitter – Tweet activity)
More info: Twitter Analytics
YouTube Analytics
(YouTube.com)
YouTube Analytics lets you see how your channel is performing on YouTube.
You can monitor views, demographics, sources of traffic, revenue from playbacks, how long users watched a video, and more.
Go here for more info: YouTube Analytics
Pinterest Analytics
(Pinterest Analytics)
Pinterest Analytics lets you explore metrics about the people who engage with your business, what Pins and boards people like most, and what they save from your website. You can use the information to improve the way you pin.
For more information, go here: Pinterest Analytics
Other Social Media-Related Tools
Many new tools and technologies are being launched each year to help businesses make sense of social media.
Here are some other social media-related services. Keep in mind that web technologies change. If any of the tools below change, please let us know in the comment section.
Wunderlist
A task management tool with a social twist. Create professional and personal 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
Answerbase lets you create social Q&A communities. 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 for planning, creating and distributing content. You can optimize campaigns by quickly finding, tracking and connecting with opinion leaders who are most likely to influence a trend, idea, product or brand. Appinions enables brands to view the web through the lens of people’s opinions. The software provides answers to content marketers’ questions like ”who should we listen to or partner with?”, ”what keywords do we use to make our content discoverable?”, etc.
ViralHeat
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 combining monitoring, publishing, analytics and reporting for all major social networks in an intuitive interface. Users can monitor conversations, access metrics and KPI, publish and schedule updates, and deliver presentation-ready reports.
Bambuser
Broadcast live using your mobile device or webcam, share to your blog or favorite social network and interact with viewers. Share via your smartphone and stream content to your blog.
BlogDash
BlogDash brings brands and bloggers together. Bloggers can choose the types of opportunities they would like to be contacted about.
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 featuring daily headlines whose goal is to inspire direct social action and participation.
CircleCount
CircleCount is a Google Plus education tool. CircleCount lets you discover all of the GooglePlus circles in which you are included. If your profile isn’t already being monitored on CircleCount.com, you can easily add your GooglePlus 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
Contax.io 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 customer experience and operational efficiency by managing the flow of customer service enquiries and social media discussions on channels such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
SocialStudio
Social Studio lets you build more meaningful relationships with customers by tapping into the power of social media across your customer service, sales organizations, and marketing..
Disqus
Disqus is a social tool that aims to help improve conversations online. Disqus is used by millions of websites covering just about every topic imaginable.
Echofon
Echofon provides users with social apps for Twitter and Facebook. 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 videos and photos.
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 are then easy to share, publicly or privately, easy to discuss about and easy to find.
Meltwater Icerocket
Meltwater IceRocket is a social media search engine which lets you search the blogosphere, Twitter, Facebook, or all at once for any keywords you like.
GroupHigh
With GroupHigh you can promote your company, clients, or products using a blogger outreach tool that lets you sort, search, and filter to find and prioritize your blogger outreach based on which bloggers are active and building communities on popular social networks. GroupHigh’s blog search makes it easy to build a list of bloggers based on location, content, topics, 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 is a simple service that monitors popular news sources for stories that are generating a lot of conversation. The stories are gathered from the KnowAboutIt system from the past 24 hours, and are ranked by the number of comments that the stories attract.
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 Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook content from fans into an interactive display.
TailWind
Tailwind is a Pinterest marketing 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 free 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, track your Pinterest performance, connect with influencers, and more.
TweetReach
TweetReach allows you to measure the reach of your tweets for chosen keywords, search queries, and hashtags. 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 presented using easy to understand visual reports.
Riffle
Riffle by CrowdRiff 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 lets you link online merchants, bloggers, 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 is a complete social data platform for conducting social business One web-based solution provides you with all the tools you need to display data on collaborative screens, detect moments or trends in the 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 lets you discover, measure, manage and maximize your social media presence.
RetweetRank
Get insights into your tweets, track engagement and monitor your brand with Retweet Rank.
Searchmetrics
Searchmetrics delivers enterprise SEO and content marketing analysis, recommendations, forecasting and reporting for companies that want potential customers to find them faster.
SimplyMeasured
SimplyMeasured lets you analyze and understand competitors, conversations, and the audiences that matter to you across all social channels.
SocialBakers
SocialBakers delivers powerful social media stats that let you see 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 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 leading brands and agencies around the globe. Users can cut through the social noise, find conversations that matter, measure digital reputation, manage their consumer relationships and boost their social activities’ ROI.
Sysomos
Sysomos provides powerful social media analytics that lets you monitor, analyze, gather insights and make decisions aimed at creating better products and services 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. Find new and related topics, discover influencers, and get insights into the audiences 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 various channels across the Enterprise.
Trackur
Trackur provides affordable, simple, and fast social media monitoring.
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
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 users with automated social networking management software. It lets you get real Instagram followers, real photo likes and comments, schedule posts, follow/unfollow Instagram users, like back photos, automate photo likes and direct messaging, 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 relevant business categories or search your geographical area.
TwentyFeet
TwentyFeet provides users with a powerful social reporting tool that lets you visualize your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube accounts and any other service you use. You can quickly learn which of your tweets, posts, photos, or videos get the most engagement.
TwitterFall
Twitterfall allows Twitter users to view upcoming trends and patterns posted by users.
Wajam
Wajam displays search results based on what your friends share above your normal search results.
Addictomatic
Instantly create a page with the latest buzz on any topic.
Bitly
Bitly can help you analyze social media engagement, optimize content, and measure exactly how you’re spending your budget.
MyTopTweet
My Top Tweet is a simple social monitoring tool that displays your best performing tweets.
SocialMention
SocialMention is a real-time social search and analysis platform.
Twazzup
Twazzup provides real-time Twitter analytics and monitoring.
TweetDeck
TweetDeck is a tool for real-time tracking, organizing, and social engagement on Twitter.
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