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 look at a number of tracking tools, services and applications that allow you to:
- Search, find, sort, filter and organize users according to demographics, their interests and behavior, etc.
- Monitor and listen to social conversations online
- Identify buying signals.
With this information, you can start meaningful conversations with your 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 for monitoring social media content. If you are searching for better ways to increase sales using social media, then here are more than 27 social media analytics tools and resources for engaging with your ideal audience.
WordPress Resources For Media Monitoring
(Discover what consumers are saying about you, your business, and your competition on social media)
Is there a simple and easy way to know what is going on in your niche or industry so that you are not wasting a huge amount of time doing research? Yes, 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-to-date with the latest news about all kinds of topics, staying informed about people, brands and companies, and tracking what other people are posting online about you and your business. Google Alerts is also free.
Google Alerts is not only useful for managing your reputation online, but also for automatically sourcing news about people, brands, companies, or any subject you need to know about.
With Google Alerts, you just subscribe to a keyword or topic and you’re done. Whenever Google’s bots index a new web site, blog post, press release, news update, a tweet, video, or any other content related to the topic you’ve subscribed to, you will automatically receive an email or RSS update.
We’ve created a simple step-by-step tutorial on setting up alerts with Google here: How To Set Up Google Alerts - Three Simple Steps
Hootsuite
(Hootsuite.com)
Hootsuite is a social management application that lets you manage all of your social activities from an easy to use dashboard.
Hootsuite provides solutions for social media management, social selling, social marketing, and social customer service. You can schedule Tweets and Facebook posts, track conversations, create and customize analytics reports, share the workload amongst teams, departments, or regions, assign tasks, receive real-time notifications, have internal conversations, 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 provides integration with Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Foursquare, WordPress and more.
To learn more, visit this site: Hootsuite
Buffer
(Buffer.com)
Buffer lets you schedule your social content. Add updates to your Buffer account and it will be posted 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 for Android and iOS devices.
More info: Buffer
SocialMetricsPro
(Social Metrics Pro)
Social Metrics is a plugin for WordPress that monitors social activity from leading social networks like Facebook, GooglePlus, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Digg, and Pinterest.
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 auto-update functionality, and a simple social SEO improvement system.
To learn more about Social Metrics Pro, refer to this article: Social Metrics WordPress Social Plugin
Sociocaster
(Sociocaster)
Sociocaster is easy to use and works for any marketing campaign. You can easily engage with audiences, manage your social networks, schedule post messages, and measure ROI from one easy-to-use dashboard.
Sociocaster is ideal for entrepreneurs and internet marketers. It includes lots of powerful marketing and social features: image-sharing designs, viral video finder and posting tool, responsive mobile user interface, agency license to manage unlimited social accounts, and much more.
Visit this website to learn more: Sociocaster
SproutSocial
(SproutSocial)
SproutSocial is a premium 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 (CRM), advanced scheduling tools, monitoring, support for teams and multiple profiles, helpdesk, team collaboration tools, security features, analytics and custom reports, mobile apps, RSS feed integration, etc.
Go here for more info: SproutSocial
SocialReport
(SocialReport.com)
SocialReport is a social intelligence platform 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, website performance and blogs, and returns data from your social channels on a simple and intuitive dashboard. You can organize data by customers or business, and track competitor profiles in addition to your own.
Go here to learn more: 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, 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.
Go here for more info: Followerwonk Twitter Analytics
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 by a range of criteria, find out when most of your followers are online and schedule tweets appropriately, search twitter bios to easily find and follow the right accounts for your business, use tweet analytics to track keywords and beat your competitors, find out who isn’t following you back, and more.
To learn more, go here: ManageFlitter
Beevolve
(Beevolve.com)
Beevolve.com is a social media monitoring tool designed for SMBs, online marketers, community managers, analysts, and content marketers. Beevolve lets you track your social media mentions, schedule and launch social media posts, and measure conversion, sales, and engagement ROI, buzz, sentiment, etc. of all your posts.
For more information, go here: Beevolve
HowSociable
(HowSociable.com)
HowSociable is a simple tool that allows you to see how brands and businesses are mentioned across various social properties.
HowSociable.com displays brand viability metrics. It gives you a “social magnitude” score that lets you know how well you are doing across those social sites.
More information: HowSociable
Mention
(Mention)
Mention can help businesses monitor the web.
Mention’s algorithms take billions of data points into account, so when someone mentions your keyword 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.
Visit this site to learn more: Mention
Google Analytics
(Google Analytics)
Google Analytics is not only a web analytics tool used for measuring visitor behaviour, web traffic, web page views, your website’s best and worst performing content, etc., it can also help you track posts made to your social sites.
Hootsuite has published a tutorial that shows you how to track social media links with Google Analytics on their blog.
Facebook Insights
(Facebook Insights)
Facebook not only lets you add share, like, and follow social buttons and commenting features to your site, it also provides a comprehensive analytics tool called Facebook Insights that lets you see how your content is performing on Facebook.
(Facebook – Insight Types)
The Facebook Insights dashboard can help you better understand how people are engaging with your Page. This helps you with your 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 the demographics of your audience. You can then use this data to publish content when your content is most likely to reach your target audience.
Visit this website to learn more: Facebook Insights
Twitter Analytics
(Twitter.com)
Twitter Analytics let you see how your tweets are performing and provides a break down of your top tweets, profile visits, followers, tweet impressions, and tweets linking back to you.
The Twitter 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)
To learn more, visit this site: Twitter Analytics
YouTube Analytics
(YouTube)
YouTube Analytics provides analytic reports 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.
More information: YouTube Analytics
Pinterest Analytics
(Pinterest Analytics)
Pinterest Analytics helps you explore metrics about the people who engage with your business, what people like from your profile, what they save from your website, what referral traffic you are getting from Pinterest, and how much traffic your site gets when you pin content to your boards. You can get information that helps you learn what your audiences want.
For more details, go here: Pinterest Analytics
Additional Social Media-Related Tools
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.
Here are some other social media worth knowing about. Keep in mind that web technologies are continually evolving. 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. It lets you create personal and professional to-do lists and share your lists with friends, colleagues and family.
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 online consumers.
Answerbase
Create your own social Q&A community. The Answerbase Q&A Platform allows users to ask questions, view Q&A content, and receive quality answers.
Appinions
Appinions is a content marketing and live publishing SaaS platform that lets you plan, create and distribute content. Appinions’ deep data science patent protected technology enables customers to optimize every stage of the content marketing lifecycle. The ScribbleLive acquisition 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 content more easily discoverable?”, 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 that combines monitoring, publishing, analytics and reporting for all major social networks in an intuitive interface. Users can follow conversations, schedule and publish updates, access metrics and KPI, 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 interact with viewers. Share via your smart device and stream to your blog.
BlogDash
BlogDash connects and 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 allows you to 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 is a GooglePlus education tool. CircleCount lets you discover all of the Google Plus circles that include your profile. If your profile isn’t already being tracked 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 influencers and customers, manage multiple profiles and schedule posts, and analyze Twitter data.
Contax.io
Contax.io tracks your friends and followers on Twitter and provides detail that can help you decide when to follow back.
Conversocial
Never miss another comment about your brand. Conversocial lets you manage the flow of customer service enquiries and discussions on social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, 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, marketing, and sales organizations..
Disqus
Disqus is a free service that connects people online through blog discussions. Millions of websites covering pretty much any topic imaginable use Disqus.
Echofon
Echofon provides users with 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. If you work with sounds, images, or videos, 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 search engine which allows you to search the blogosphere, Twitter, Facebook, or all of these for any keywords you like.
GroupHigh
GroupHigh is 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 location, topics, content, and more.
Klout
Klout is a website, mobile app, and social media monitoring and performance analysis tool. Klout brings influencers and brands together, rewards experts in specific topics and areas of interests with Perks, and ranks users 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 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 collect and manage content from the social web.
TailWind
Tailwind is a social media monitoring tool for Pinterest. It lets you schedule pins, monitor Pinterest, analyze industry trends and measure results.
ViralWoot
ViralWoot is a social media marketing tool that lets small and medium-sized business schedule, promote, manage and grow their accounts on Pinterest. You can add multiple accounts and view the performance of your pins using built-in analytics reports.
TweetReach
TweetReach allows you to measure how well your tweets, hashtags, keywords, and search queries are doing on Twitter. TweetReach gives you the estimated potential of the tweets for your given query.
Keyhole
Keyhole is a real-time social media search monitoring application that lets users track keywords, URLs, and #hashtags on Twitter and Instagram. Users can monitor their performance metrics using easy to understand visual reports.
Riffle
Riffle integrates with 16 Twitter platforms (SocialEngage, Attensity, Twilert, etc) and provides you with insight into the current and potential value of Twitter users, engagement, and 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 online merchants, consumers, and bloggers by tagging images on the web. Merchii provides a financial incentive for creating social engagement. Approved users can earn money from every purchase made.
MutualMind
MutualMind provides a complete social data platform for conducting social business One web-based solution gives you 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
PageLever, a leading Facebook analytics company, was acquired by Unified Social in January 2013. Since being acquired, 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 makes it easy to discover, manage, and protect your Twitter social circle.
RetweetRank
RetweetRank lets you get insights into your tweets, track engagement and monitor your brand.
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 conversations, competitors, and the audiences that matter to you across every social channel.
SocialBakers
SocialBakers delivers powerful social media stats that let you see 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 insights about your audience, and track long-term brand performance.
Synthesio
Synthesio is a social intelligence tool. Synthesio provides scalable monitoring and analytics solutions to hundreds of global brands and agencies. Users can cut through social noise, find the conversations that matter, measure digital reputation, manage consumer relationships and boost the ROI of their social activities.
Sysomos
Sysomos provides powerful social media analytics that lets you monitor, analyze, gather insights and make decisions that allow you to create 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 communities that matter to you.
ThisMoment
ThisMoment helps businesses engaging with everyone everywhere. Depending on your business, ThisMoment’s Content Cloud helps you to find, mix and share a variety of content through different channels across the Enterprise.
Trackur
Trackur provides fast, affordable, and simple 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 the click of a button, your teams can share content with their social networks, prospects, and customers.
Tweepi
Tweepi provides multiple ways to search for users that could 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 may check your profile and follow back.
Followadder
Followadder provides users with automated 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, search by hashtag, create lists, and more.
Twellow
You can think of Twellow as being like the Yellow Pages for Twitter. Twellow lets you search dozens of business categories, or your geographical area for Twitter followers.
TwentyFeet
TwentyFeet was acquired by SumAll, and provides users with a powerful social reporting tool that can visualize your Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube accounts along with any other service you use. You can quickly know which of your posts, tweets, photos, or videos get the most engagement.
TwitterFall
Twitterfall is a UK-based service that allows users on Twitter to view upcoming trends and patterns posted by other Twitter users.
Wajam
Wajam gives you search results of what your friends are sharing online on top of your normal search results.
Addict-o-matic
Addict-o-matic 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 shows your best performing tweets.
SocialMention
SocialMention is a real-time social search engine and analysis platform.
Twazzup
Twazzup provides real-time Twitter monitoring and analytics.
TweetDeck
TweetDeck is a Twitter tool for real-time tracking, organizing, and social engagement.
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