Mar 8, 2010

Top Free Tools to Track Social Media

Social media growth signifies that it is important for all the businesses to be able to monitor their services, brands and industry as well through the countless users generated from various content sources.


Social media tracking is not easy at all. If you try to consider the amount of content that is created hourly, the effort done to track the different sources will really consume your time. To be able to assist you in streamlining the process, here are the top FREE tools to be able to track social media.


Google Alerts. These Google Alerts are updates that will arrive in your email about the latest Google results that are relevant like news, web, among others. These are based on your query or topic selection. http://www.google.com/alerts


Social Mention. Daily alerts of your brand, CEO, company, marketing campaign or even a competitor or developing news story or the latest news about a celebrity will be received on your email. Even the analysis and search on real-time social media are tackled. http://www.socialmention.com


Omgili. Omgili is your method in searching for subjective information and also searches for debates, opinions of consumers, discussions, answers, personal experiences, and even solutions. This method is contrary to other common search engines that look for web pages and sites. http://omgili.com


Yacktrack. This tracks conversation and monitors social media as well. As you produce content, you may be able to look for the comments on your content from different blog sources with the same topic about your content. This will eventually be targeted to the producer of the content and may also assist the people on commenting on the written content. http://yacktrack.com/search


Samepoint. This is a conversation search engine that permits you to see what other people are talking about. http://www.samepoint.com


Boardreader. This is search engine that is not complicated as expected that checks through different message boards, forums, and other social media forms. http://boardreader.com


BlogPulse. This is a trend discovery system that is automated for blogs. BlogPulse has a machine-learning application with different processing techniques with such natural language to be able to look for trends in ever dynamic blog world. http://www.blogpulse.com


Addict-o-matic. This looks for sites among the best live ones for the latest blog posts, news, images and videos. It is the perfect instrument to be updated with the hottest topics, perform searches and fulfill your addiction to check on what is the latest at present. http://addictomatic.com


There are other tools still to be discovered to be able to keep you updated of the content of social media. It was found out that these are the ones that work tremendously well as the aggregators. These will really update the social media campaign tracking.


If you have other tools in mind that you think is vital and significant to share, you may feel free to comments here below.

1 comments:

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