WordPress & Social Media Tools – 2

In Part One 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 examine a number of tracking tools, services and applications that allow you to:

• Search, find, sort, organize and target users according to demographics, their interests and behavior, etc.
• Listen to online social conversations
• Identify 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 tools and applications you can use for monitoring social media activity. If you’ve been looking for ways to increase sales with social media, then check out this list of 29 social media analytics tools for engaging with your target audience.

Social Media Monitoring Resources For WordPress Users

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

Is there a simple and easy way to know what is happening 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-to-date with the latest news and information about all kinds of topics, staying informed about people, brands and companies, and tracking what is being said online about you and your business.

Google Alerts is not only great for helping you manage your reputation online, but also for receiving the latest news about people, brands, companies, or any other topic you are interested in.

With Google Alerts, you just subscribe to a keyword or topic and you’re done. Whenever Google’s robots crawl a new web page, news update, blog post, press release, a tweet, video, or any other indexable content related to that topic, you will automatically receive an email or RSS update.

If you want to learn how to set up alerts with Google, see this step-by-step tutorial: How To Set Up A Google Alert

Hootsuite

(Hootsuite.com)

Hootsuite is a social media management platform that lets you manage all of your social media profiles from a single 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 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 many social networks (including their app directory), and offers integration with Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Foursquare, WordPress and more.

Go here to learn more: Hootsuite

Buffer

(Buffer.com)

Buffer lets you schedule social content. You add updates to your Buffer queue and Buffer will then automatically post it for you at spaced intervals.

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 using a web interface, Buffer also provides mobile apps and a web browser extension.

For more details, go here: Buffer

Social Metrics Pro

(Social Metrics)

SocialMetricsPro is a plugin for WordPress that tracks social activity across many leading social media networks like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, StumbleUpon, Digg, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.

Some of the powerful features included in Social Metrics Pro 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.

If you want to learn more about SocialMetrics, refer to this article: SocialMetricsPro

Sociocaster

(Sociocaster)

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

Sociocaster is ideal for entrepreneurs and internet marketers. It includes powerful marketing and social features: a powerful visual designer, Facebook fanpage search tool, built-in bookmarklet, unlimited social account management (agency license), and much more.

Go here for more information: Sociocaster

SproutSocial

(SproutSocial)

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

SproutSocial has a built-in Customer Relationship Management system, advanced scheduling tools, 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.

Go here for more information: SproutSocial

SocialReport

(SocialReport.com)

SocialReport is a social intelligence platform that allows you to track and manage all of your social network accounts from one place.

Social Report 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 competitor profiles in addition to your own.

More info: SocialReport

Followerwonk

(Followerwonk Twitter Analytics)

Followerwonk is a Twitter analytics tools that 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..

Go here for more information: Followerwonk

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 using 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 influencers for your business, use tweet analytics to track keywords and beat your competitors, understand who you follow, and more.

More info: ManageFlitter

Beevolve

(Beevolve)

Beevolve is a social media monitoring tool designed for small and medium sized businesses, community managers, content marketers, online marketers, and analysts. Beevolve allows you to track your brand mentions, schedule and launch social media posts, and measure conversion, engagement, and sales ROI, sentiment, social buzz, etc. of all posts.

For more details, go here: Beevolve

HowSociable

(HowSociable)

HowSociable is a simple tool that lets you see how brands or businesses are mentioned across different social platforms.

How Sociable displays brand viability metrics. It delivers you a “social magnitude” score that lets you know how well you are doing on those social media sites.

More information: HowSociable.com

Mention

(Mention.com)

Mention allows anyone to know what’s being said about them online and on social media.

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

For more information, go here: Mention

Google Analytics

(Google Analytics)

Google Analytics is not only a web analytics software application, it can also help you track social campaigns.

Hootsuite has published a simple tutorial on how to track social media links with Google Analytics on this blog post.

Facebook Insights

(Facebook Insights)

Facebook not only lets you integrate follow, share, and like social plugins and commenting features with your website, it also provides a comprehensive analytics tool called Facebook Insights. This tool lets you understand how your campaigns are performing on the Facebook social networking platform.

(Facebook.com – Insights)

Facebook Insights helps you better understand metrics about how users are engaging with your Page to help improve your marketing efforts.

You can use Facebook’s Page Insights to see which of your posts are attracting the most shares, likes, and comments and to learn about the demographics of your audience. You can then use this information to publish relevant posts to Facebook users.

More info: Facebook Insights

Twitter Analytics

(Twitter.com)

Twitter Analytics let you see how your content is performing and provides a breakdown of your top tweets, profile views, followers, tweet impressions, and tweets linking back 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.com – Tweet activity)

To learn more, visit this site: Twitter Analytics

YouTube Analytics

(YouTube)

YouTube Analytics lets you see how your channel is performing on YouTube.

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

Visit this site to learn more: 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, 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 information, go here: Pinterest Analytics

Additional Social Media Services And Web Applications

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

The list below contains a number of other social media worth knowing about. Keep in mind that web technologies change. If any of the tools below change, please let us know.

Wunderlist

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

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 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, makers of an influence analytics marketing platform built on patented natural language processing and social network analysis technology has been acquired by ScribbleLive, a content marketing and live publishing SaaS platform that lets you plan, create and distribute content online. Appinions’ deep data science patent protected 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. This tool provides answers to questions like ”who should we listen to or partner with?”, “where should we publish?”, etc.

ViralHeat

Viralheat is 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 monitor conversations, access metrics and KPI, schedule and publish updates, and deliver presentation-ready reports.

Bambuser

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

BlogDash

BlogDash connects and brings brands and bloggers together. Bloggers choose the types of opportunities they are open to being 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 whose goal is to inspire direct social action.

CircleCount

CircleCount helps users better understand how to use GooglePlus. 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 Google+ 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 analyze Twitter data.

Contax.io

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

Conversocial

Conversocial provides cloud-based social customer service solutions that help global brands improve customer experience and operational efficiency by managing customer service flow and discussions on social media 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 marketing, sales organizations, and customer service..

Disqus

Disqus is a social tool that aims to help improve conversations online. Disqus is used by millions of websites covering pretty much any topic imaginable.

Echofon

Echofon provides users with 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 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 any moment from Youtube, Vimeo, Soundcloud and any media to your computer. Those moments can then be easily discussed, shared, and found online via social collaboration.

Icerocket

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

GroupHigh

With GroupHigh you can promote your company, products, or clients using 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 makes it easy to build a list of bloggers based on topics, content, location, and more.

Klout

Klout is a social media monitoring and performance analyzing tool. Klout brings influencers and brands together, rewards experts in specific topics and areas of interests with Perks, and ranks your social influence using a “Klout Score”. You can use Klout to suggest shareable content that your users 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 Know About It 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, 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, find which are your top performing boards and pins, connect with influencers, and more.

TweetReach

TweetReach allows you to measure the reach of your tweets for search queries, your keywords, and hashtags. TweetReach estimates the potential reach of your tweets for any 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. Users can assess their analytics using easy to understand visual reports.

Riffle

Riffle 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 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 consumers, bloggers, and online merchants by tagging images on the web. Users can earn money from every purchase made.

MutualMind

MutualMind provides a complete social data platform for conducting social business 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 being acquired, Pagelever’s comprehensive, real-time reporting has been integrated in the Unified Social 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

Find out how influential are you on Twitter.

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, audiences, and conversations that matter to you across all social channels.

SocialBakers

SocialBakers delivers deep, competitive social media analytics that tell you how your social performance stacks against wider industry benchmarks and the competition. 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 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 online reputation, manage their 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 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 to you.

ThisMoment

ThisMoment allows businesses to engage with everyone, everywhere. 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 simple, affordable, 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 social networks, prospects, and customers.

Tweepi

Tweepi provides multiple ways to search for users that might be interested in your brand. After finding your targeted group of users, you can then easily interact with users 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 you 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, automate photo likes and direct messaging, 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 for followers on Twitter in hundreds of relevant business categories or search your geographical area.

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 along with any other service you use. You can quickly discover which of your posts, tweets, videos or photos get the most engagement.

TwitterFall

Twitterfall is based in the UK and lets users on Twitter view upcoming trends and patterns posted by users in the form of tweets.

Wajam

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

Addict-o-matic

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

Bitly

Bitly lets you share, track and analyze your links.

MyTopTweet

My Top Tweet displays your best performing tweets.

SocialMention

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

Twazzup

Twazzup provides real-time monitoring and analytics for Twitter.

TweetDeck

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

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We hope you have found this information useful. To learn more about using WordPress to grow your business online, please see other posts we have published here on WPCompendium.org.

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