WordPress & Social Media Tools – 2

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

In this section, we look at a number of tracking tools that allow you to:

• Search, find, segment, filter and organize users according to demographics, their interests, etc.
• Listen to social conversations online
• Identify key 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 activity. If you’ve been searching for smarter ways to improve your business results with social media, then here are the best social analytics tools for getting better results with social media marketing ROI.

Top Media Tracking Resources That Can Help Grow Your Business Online

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

Is there a simple and easy (and free) way to find out what is new 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 a free, simple and useful tool for keeping up with news about all kinds of topics, staying informed about people and companies, and tracking what is being said online about you and your business.

Google Alerts is not only great for managing your reputation online, but also for automatically sourcing 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 indexing bots crawl a new web page, blog post, news update, press release, a video, tweet, or any other content related to the topic you’ve subscribed to, it will automatically send you an email or RSS update.

To learn how to set up alerts with Google, see this step-by-step tutorial: A Quick & Easy Guide On Setting Up A Google Alert

Hootsuite

(Hootsuite)

Hootsuite is a social media management platform that lets you manage all of your social media activities from an easy to use 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, streamline workflows amongst teams, departments, or regions, assign tasks, receive real-time notifications, have internal conversations from the dashboard, and collaborate with team members.

Hootsuite is one of the most used 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.

Visit this site to learn more: Hootsuite

Buffer

(Buffer)

Buffer lets you schedule your social content. 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 the 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 plugin for WordPress that tracks social signals across many leading social networks like Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, Digg, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, and Pinterest.

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, 1-click autoupdate functionality, and a simple social SEO improvement system.

We have written a comprehensive article on Social Metrics Pro. Go here to learn more: Social Metrics Pro 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 includes powerful marketing and social features: image-sharing designs, viral video finder and posting tool, built-in favorites, retweets, comments, and likes checking tool, agency license to manage unlimited social media accounts, and much more.

Go here for more info: Sociocaster

SproutSocial

(SproutSocial)

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 CRM, 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.

More info: SproutSocial

SocialReport

(SocialReport)

SocialReport is a social intelligence platform 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, website performance and blogs, and returns your social channel data using a simple and intuitive dashboard. You can quickly and easily organize your data by customers or business, and track competitor profiles in addition to your own.

For more details, go here: 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.

For more details, go here: Followerwonk

ManageFlitter

(ManageFlitter)

ManageFlitter provides you with a set of easy to use tools that empowers work smarter and faster with Twitter.

ManageFlitter lets you sort your followers and following lists using a range of criteria, post tweets at the best time to reach your followers, search twitter bios to easily 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.

For more details, go here: ManageFlitter

Beevolve

(Beevolve.com)

Beevolve is a social monitoring tool for SMBs, community managers, analysts, content marketers, and online marketers. Beevolve allows you to monitor your social media mentions, schedule and launch social media posts, and measure conversion, sales, and engagement ROI, buzz, social sentiment, etc. for your posts from a single platform.

More info: Beevolve

HowSociable

(HowSociable.com)

HowSociable is a simple tool that allows you to see how brands are mentioned across various social platforms.

HowSociable displays brand viability metrics across dozens of social media sites and gives you a “social magnitude” score that lets you know how well you are doing across social media sites.

More info: HowSociable

Mention

(Mention)

Mention provides social media monitoring for every kind of business, agencies, CEOs, marketers, etc., and allows anyone to know what’s being said about them on news sites, blogs, websites, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter in real time.

Mention uses algorithms that take billions of data points into account, so when someone mentions your keyword online, you have real time actionable data that can help you with your business goals. Mention is cross-device compatible.

To learn more, visit this site: Mention

Google Analytics

(Google Analytics)

Google Analytics is not just a free and powerful web analytics application, it can also help you track posts made from your website to your social media sites.

Visit the Hootsuite blog to view a great step-by-step tutorial on tracking your social media links with Google Analytics.

Facebook Insights

(Facebook)

Facebook not only lets you add social buttons to your site, it also provides a comprehensive analytics tool called Facebook Insights. Facebook Insights lets you analyze how your site is performing on the Facebook platform.

(Facebook.com – Insights)

Facebook Insights can help you see track data about your audience on Facebook. This helps you improve your business marketing efforts.

You can use Page Insights to see which of your posts have the most likes, shares, and comments and to learn about audience demographics. You can then use this information to publish more of the type of content that your audience is interested in reading.

For more information, go here: Facebook Insights

Twitter Analytics

(Twitter.com)

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

The Twitter 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.com – Tweet activity)

Go here for more info: Twitter Analytics

YouTube Analytics

(YouTube Analytics)

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

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

Go here for more information: 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 data about your audiences so you can learn what they want more of.

More information: Pinterest Analytics

Additional Social Media Web Applications

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

Here are some other social media worth knowing about. Keep in mind that web technologies continually evolve. If anything changes in the list below, please let us know.

Wunderlist

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

SDL/Alterian

SDL Web (formerly Alterian) is an all-in-one global web experience management solution that allows you to 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, 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. 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 content more easily 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 that combines monitoring, publishing, analytics and reporting for all major social networks in an intuitive interface. Customers can schedule and publish updates, track conversations, 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 interact with your viewers. Share via your smart device and stream content to your blog.

BlogDash

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

BrandWatch

accurately tap into the power of social listening about your brand, your market, or your products.

Buzzflash

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

CircleCount

CircleCount is a Google+ education tool. CircleCount lets you discover all of the GooglePlus 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 influencers and customers, manage multiple profiles and schedule posts, and view Twitter analytics data.

Contax.io

Contaxio can be used to track your friends and followers on Twitter and other social networks and manage relevant, real-time relationship data.

Conversocial

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

SocialStudio

Social Studio lets you understand which topics are generating interest and where the most influential conversations are happening on social media, then use that information to make better business decisions.

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 just about every topic imaginable use Disqus.

Echofon

Echofon provides users with full featured, clean 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 sharing media simple, and Echofon for Facebook provides real-time chat to quickly send and receive messages to any of your friends online, 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 any moment from Youtube, Vimeo, Soundcloud and any media to your computer. Those moments can then be easily discussed, shared, and found online with social collaboration.

Meltwater Icerocket

Icerocket is a social media 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 tool that lets you filter, sort, and search 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 content, topics, location, and more.

Klout

Klout is a website and mobile app that helps you analyze user’s social media influence using the “Klout Score”, which is a numerical value between 1 and 100. You can use Klout to suggest shareable content that your audience hasn’t seen yet, and track how retweets, likes, and shares affect your Klout Score.

KnowAboutIt

Know About It lets you discover the most engaging and relevant content lost in your social stream. The stories are collected from the KnowAboutIt system from the past 24 hours, and are ranked by the number of comments that the stories attract.

LiveFyre

LiveFyre lets you collect and manage content from the social web.

TailWind

Tailwind is a social media monitoring tool designed specifically for Pinterest users. It lets you schedule pins, monitor analytics, analyze industry trends and measure performance and results.

Viralwoot

Viralwoot helps you gain more 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 how well your tweets, search queries, keywords, and hashtags are performing on Twitter. TweetReach estimates the potential reach of your tweets for your 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. Analytic metrics are displayed to users in an easy to understand visual reports.

Riffle

Riffle by CrowdRiff integrates with over a dozen Twitter platforms (Sparkcentral, Attensity, Zendesk, etc) and provides you with Twitter analytics, engagement, interest, 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 links bloggers, consumers, and online merchants 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 provides users with all the tools they need to display data on collaborative screens, detect trends or moments 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 being acquired, Pagelever’s comprehensive, real-time reporting has been integrated in the Unified Social operating platform. These tools form a complete marketing suite allowing 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 lets you see important key performance indicators such as the visibility of a page in social media.

SimplyMeasured

SimplyMeasured provides easy social media analytics for all of your data in a single place.

SocialBakers

SocialBakers delivers deep, competitive 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 of your Twitter and Facebook 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 agencies and leading brands around the world. Users can cut through social noise, listen into the conversations that matter, measure online reputation, manage consumer relationships and boost the ROI of their social activities.

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 on any topic both in real-time and historically across all social networks. Discover influencers, find new and related topics, and get insights into the audiences 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 find, mix and share a variety of content through different channels across the Enterprise.

Trackur

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

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, 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 users with automated social networking Instagram management software. 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 many relevant 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 Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube accounts along with any other service you use. Know which of your tweets, posts, videos or photos get the most engagement in seconds.

TwitterFall

Twitterfall allows users on Twitter to view upcoming trends and patterns posted by users in the form of tweets.

Wajam

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

Addictomatic

Addictomatic lets you instantly create a page with the latest buzz on any chosen topic.

Bitly

Bitly lets you share, track and analyze your links.

MyTopTweet

MyTopTweet shows your top performing tweets.

SocialMention

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

Twazzup

Twazzup provides real-time Twitter analytics and monitoring.

TweetDeck

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

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We hope that you have found this information useful. To learn more about using WordPress to grow your business online, please see other articles and tutorials we have published on this site.

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