WordPress & Social Media Tools – 2

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

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

• Search, find, sort, filter and organize users according to specific demographic criteria, their interests and behavior, etc.
• Listen to social conversations online
• Identify consumer buying signals.

With this information, you can start a meaningful conversation with a targeted audience and pitch them information about your products or services.

Let’s move on now to some of the actual technologies you can use to monitor social media content. If you are searching for better ways to improve your business results using social media, then check out our list of 25+ social media management tools and resources for businesses and WordPress users.

WordPress And Social Media – Useful Social Monitoring Resources

(Discover what people are saying about you, your brand, or your competitors on social media)

Is there a free, easy and simple way to know what is happening in your industry or niche that can save you time doing research? Yes, there is. It’s called …

Google Alerts

(Google Alerts – free web monitoring service)

Google Alerts is a free, simple and useful tool for keeping up-to-date with news about all kinds of topics, staying informed about people and companies, and monitoring what other people are publishing online about you and your business.

Google Alerts is not only only a useful social media monitoring tool for managing your reputation online, but also for automatically sourcing news about people, companies, or any topic you want to know about.

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, blog post, press release, news update, a video, tweet, or any other content related to that topic, it will automatically send you an email or RSS update.

We’ve created a simple tutorial on how to set up alerts with Google here: Google Alerts – A Tutorial

Hootsuite

(Hootsuite)

Hootsuite is a social management platform 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. You can schedule Tweets and Facebook posts, monitor conversations, create and customize analytics reports, share the workload 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 many social networks (including their app directory), and provides integration with Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Foursquare, WordPress and more.

Visit this site to learn more: Hootsuite

Buffer

(Buffer)

Buffer lets you schedule social content. Add updates to your Buffer account and Buffer will post the content for you.

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.

More info: Buffer

Social Metrics

(Social Metrics Pro)

SocialMetricsPro is a plugin that monitors Tweets, Likes, Pins, +1s and other social signals from your WP Admin 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 auto-update functionality, and a simple social SEO improvement system.

We have written a comprehensive article about SocialMetrics. To learn more, go here: SocialMetricsPro

Sociocaster

(Sociocaster)

Posting to Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, and Linkedin can be time-consuming. To get all of these tasks done usually requires different plugins, tools, and applications. With Sociocaster, you can do this all from one single location.

Sociocaster is a powerful tool for entrepreneurs and internet marketers. It includes lots of powerful marketing and social features: a powerful visual designer, social stream, smart inbox tool, unlimited social account management (agency license), and more.

Go here for more info: Sociocaster

SproutSocial

(SproutSocial.com)

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

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

More info: SproutSocial

SocialReport

(SocialReport)

SocialReport is an all-in-one social media management and reporting solution 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 your data by business or customers, and track competitor profiles in addition to your own.

Go here for more info: SocialReport

Followerwonk

(Followerwonk)

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

More information: Followerwonk

ManageFlitter

(ManageFlitter)

ManageFlitter provides you with a set of easy to use tools to empower you to 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, understand who you are following, and more.

Visit this site to learn more: ManageFlitter

Beevolve

(Beevolve)

Beevolve is a social media monitoring platform for small and medium sized businesses, online marketers, analysts, community managers, and content marketers. Beevolve lets you track your brand mentions, schedule and launch social media posts, and measure conversion, sales, and engagement metrics, buzz, social sentiment, and more of all posts from one easy-to-use platform.

Go here to learn more: Beevolve

HowSociable

(HowSociable.com)

HowSociable is a simple tool that lets you monitor brand mentions on the social web.

HowSociable displays brand viability metrics across more than 30 social media sites and delivers you a “social magnitude” score that lets you know how well you are doing on those social media sites, and what areas can be improved.

Go here to learn more: HowSociable

Mention

(Mention)

Mention is a social monitoring tool for every kind of business, agencies, CEOs, marketers, etc..

Mention uses algorithms that monitor billions of data points, 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 collaborative monitoring (assigning mentions to different team members and sharing alerts), and is cross-device compatible.

Go here for more info: Mention

Google Analytics

(Google Analytics)

Google Analytics is not only an analytics application, it can also monitor social media campaign links.

Hootsuite has published a six-step guide that shows you how to track social media links with Google Analytics here.

Facebook Insights

(Facebook.com)

Facebook not only lets you integrate follow, share, and like social media plugins and commenting features with your website, it also provides a comprehensive analytics tool called Facebook Insights that lets you analyze how your content is performing on Facebook’s platform.

(Facebook – Insight Types)

Facebook Page Insights can be viewed by all the page administrators and can help you improve your marketing efforts by allowing you to track when users are on Facebook.

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

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 break down of your top tweets, profile visits, tweet impressions, followers, 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 strategy.

(Twitter – Tweet activity)

To learn more, go here: Twitter Analytics

YouTube Analytics

(YouTube.com)

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 overview, real time, earnings, watch-time, and engagement reports.

Visit this website for more details: YouTube Analytics

Pinterest Analytics

(Pinterest)

Pinterest Analytics lets you explore what people like from your profile, and what they save from your website. You can get information that helps you learn what your audiences want.

To learn more, visit this site: Pinterest Analytics

Other Social Media Web Applications

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

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

Wunderlist

A task management tool with a social twist. Create personal and professional 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 your customers.

Answerbase

Answerbase lets you 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, makers of an influence analytics marketing platform built on patented natural language processing and social network analysis technology is now part of ScribbleLive, a content marketing and live publishing SaaS platform that lets you plan, create and distribute content. Appinions’ technology allows customers to optimize every stage of the content marketing lifecycle. Appinions enables brands to view the web through the lens of people’s opinions. This tool provides answers to content marketers’ questions like “what should we write about?”, “where should we publish?”, 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 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 publish and schedule updates, access metrics and KPI, track 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 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 lets you collect, analyze and report on your social media data.

Buzzflash

Buzzflash is an independent platform for transformative ideas that features daily headlines aimed at inspiring direct action.

CircleCount

CircleCount helps users better understand how to use Google Plus. CircleCount lets you discover all of the GooglePlus circles that include your profile. If your profile isn’t already being tracked on CircleCount.com, you can easily add your Google Plus 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

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

Conversocial

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

SocialStudio

Social Studio lets 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 integrates with WordPress and can be used instead of the built-in WordPress commenting system to expand the power of social discussions online. 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 mentions and messages. Echofon for Twitter means you’ll never read a tweet twice by avoiding duplicate alerts on different devices, makes viewing and sharing photos, videos, locations, and links simple, and Echofon for Facebook provides real-time chat that lets you quickly send and receive messages to any of your online friends, browse your newsfeed and timelines, comment and like with ease and post videos and photos.

Everytime

Everytime is a creative social media tool. If you work with images, audio, or videos, you can save moments from Youtube, Vimeo, Soundcloud and any media to your computer. Those moments are then easy to share, publicly or privately, easy to discuss about and easy to find.

Meltwater Icerocket

Icerocket is a social media search engine which lets you search Facebook, Twitter, the blogosphere, 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 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 content, topics, location, and more.

Klout

Klout is a website and mobile app that uses social media analytics to rank its users according to online social 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 is a simple service that monitors popular news sources for stories that are generating a lot of conversation. The stories are collected from the Know About It system from the past 24 hours, and are ranked by the number of comments that the stories attract.

LiveFyre

LiveFyre lets you access user-generated content (UGC) from the social web.

TailWind

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

ViralWoot

ViralWoot helps you grow Pinterest followers, add pins for promotion, manage and grow multiple accounts, schedule pins with a free bookmarklet, create pin alerts, track your Pinterest performance, connect with influencers, and more.

TweetReach

TweetReach lets you measure the reach of your tweets for hashtags, your chosen keywords, and search queries. TweetReach shows you the estimated potential of the tweets for your given query.

Keyhole

Keyhole is a real-time social media search tracking tool that allows you to track #hashtags, URLs, and keywords on Twitter and Instagram. Analytics are displayed using easy to understand visual reports.

Riffle

Riffle integrates with every Twitter platform (SocialEngage, Attensity, Lithium, etc) and provides you with insight into the current and potential value of Twitter users, engagement, 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 links bloggers, consumers, and online merchants by tagging images on the web. 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 trends or moments in social 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 being acquired, Pagelever’s comprehensive, real-time reporting has been integrated in the Unified Social 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 provides powerful tools designed to grow and manage your social media presence.

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 competitors, conversations, and audiences that matter to you across every social channel.

SocialBakers

SocialBakers delivers powerful social media analytics that tell you 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 powerful insights about your audience, and track long-term brand performance.

Synthesio

Synthesio is a social media intelligence and social listening tool. Synthesio provides scalable monitoring and analytics solutions to hundreds of global agencies and brands. Users can cut through social noise, find the conversations that matter, measure their digital 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 that allow you to create better products and services for your customers. Type in your keyword and instantly see what people are saying on any topic both historically and in real-time 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 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, fast, 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, your teams can share content with their customers, social networks, and prospects.

Tweepi

Tweepi provides multiple ways to search for users that could 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 notifications and email, and if they are interested, they can check your profile and follow back.

Followadder

Followadder provides you with automated social networking management tools. 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, search by hashtag, create lists, and more.

Twellow

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

TwentyFeet

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

TwitterFall

Twitterfall is a UK-based website that lets users on Twitter view upcoming trends and patterns posted by other Twitter users.

Wajam

Wajam displays search results based on what your friends share on top of your normal search results.

Addict-o-matic

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

Bitly

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

MyTopTweet

MyTopTweet shows your top 10 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 Twitter tool for real-time tracking, organizing, and social engagement.

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