10 Social Media Monitoring and Analysis tools

Apr 8, 2012 by Akash Bhadange    No Comments    Posted under: Tutorials, Uncategorized

In this nested world of web it becomes very important to know where we are, how we are performing, how our website/product/service is performing and how much appreciation (even criticism) we are getting from the netizens. There are so many tools, websites and services out there which actually (and practically) tracks and analyze your performance in this World Wide Web.

It is also very important to know what people are talking about you; it may be positive or negative (I know sometimes truth is bitter!), because it gives us scope to improve ourselves and compete in a better and professional way. So following are some really awesome (yeah, this is my favorite word) web services which will help you to do so…

Social Mention:

If you ever wonder about tracking what people are saying you all across web, then Social Mention is the answer. It’s a search and analysis platform that collects content from all across the globe into one stream of information. Thorough this you can easily track comments about your company/products/services. More than 100 Social Media properties, including Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, Digg, YouTube, are tracked through this tool. Opt for Social Mention for point-in-time search and analysis, alerts and API. Here is the link

Bit.ly:

this is a web tool that shrinks long URL’s, and has stasticals toosto track down the popularity of shorterned links. Sometimes serious work could be fun and Bit.ly is a perfect example. Simply shorten long URL’s and track the real time clicks easily. Here is the link

SocialToo :

SocialToo can help you to be a social networking power user. It lets you keep your follower lists in sync across networks and learn more about your relationships. Features include- creating surveys and sending them to multiple networks, tracking Social Media stats, auto follow, auto filtering and much more. You will also get daily e-mail on who is following you and unfollowing you on Twitter. Here is the link

Twitteranalyzer :

It is an intresting tool that helps you to get all kinds of statisticals charts about you and your friend’s behavior on Twitter. Some features of this tools are similar to Google Analytics. Some of its exciting features are – you can see how many followers are online presently who retweets your messages, what people are writing about you, Twitter following stats, your tweeting habits and many more. Here is the link

Xinureturns:

This is one of the best Social Media tracking tools to get a dashboard overview of your website on social networks and search engines. To get comprehensive on social Bookmarks, Technorati, Indexed Page, Google Pagerank, Ranking- all you have to do is run this report. Here is the link

Tweetstats:

Tweetstats helps you analyze your tweets in various ways in the form of graphs. You will receive a graphics representation of your tweets/hour, tweets/month, tweet timeline and reply statistics. Now if you wish to have a graph of “Today’s Top 10 twitter Apps” “Today Top @’ed Tweeps”, you can do so easily. To run a check on which are the words that you use the most in your tweets, go to TrendClouds. Here is the link

Twitalyzer:

Twitalyzer is a free tool to evaluate the activity of any Twitter user and report on dozens of useful measures of success in Social Media. This is a very effective tools that gives a straight report on the behavior of the user through his/her virtual influence and use of other tools. Links to other URLs, the Signal-to-Noise ratio, clout, generosity and the tendency to share good information can ne gauged easily. Here is the link

BlogPulse:

This is a very effective tool for “buzz tracking”. Blog Pulse Trend Search allows you to create graphs that visually track “Buzz” over time for certain keywords, phrases or links and compare search terms/links (issues, people, companies, brands, sports, etc) in the blogsphere. You can also choose from three different time parameters – one month, two months or six months. Here is the link

Postrank:

Originally known as AideRSS it monitors and collects social engagements events correlated with online content in real-time across the web. It collects story generated comments, bookmarksk tweets and various other forms of discussion from different Social Media platforms. Use PostRanks facility to collect information and collect information and use it for a more targeted communication. Here is the link

Boardtracker:

Forums are exhaustive and sometimes you lose complete track of the threads. BoardTracker.com is the exact solution to clear such confusions. It’s a forum search engine tool through which you can effectively track all the alerts, comments and other activities on the threads you are related to. You will never miss a point of discussion and you will be able to streamline information right infront of you. Here is the link

Conclusion:

Just try some of the above tools and see how much it helps you to improve your web service. If it brings some assertive effect then you can buy me a beer (just don’t tell anyone!)

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