Social Media Monitoring Tools: 26 Free Online Reputation Tools

Great post Andy. Thanks for sharing!

this is really a good entry. thanks…

Thanks Andy for posting this. I missed a few when I was blogging.

(and of course I dugg it!)

You bet! It was a good one!

Really great bunch of services. Thanks.

Try http://www.buzzoo.net, it’s a buzz agregator from many sites already mentioned here. You get all off in one place.

I’ve been using TalkDigger for sometime — http://www.talkdigger.com .

Bloody brilliant – wish I would have known about Yahoo pipes a lot earlier, this thing is addictive!

How could you leave out http://buzzfeed.com ?

The entire editorial process is driven by one of the best buzz-detection algorithms around.

My site is used by many for what might be considered “Buzz Monitoring”.

http://ectio.us/

Try it out if you like.

@Eric, feel free to contact me through my comment link if your looking for an alternative.

@Andy, its been awhile since we last spoke.

Although I’m not a proponent of free tools because the aren’t as good at depth of social media sourcing, I will suggest one helpful addition to your list of free buzz monitoring tools.

It’s actually a bit of a goldmine.

Topix.net has a substantial forum component that isn’t searchable through their own site. And although Topix forum posts are searchable through our RepuTrace(TM) product, there is a decent and working “free” alternative (not real-time, and the results can prove to be outdate – TIP: sort by date for best results).

Set-up a custom search using Google-Co-op. Its pretty straightforward – just point Google to the search area. Here is a working example on a search for one of my favourite home improvement centers.

- Joseph

Resourceful post Andy.

There were a few here that I was unaware of.

quoting Andy:
@Seocracy – did you even read the list? It’s not a top 10 BS list and it takes more than 30 seconds to read.

If you came here from Digg, didn’t you read the title and the description first? It explained what you were getting. Then you wasted another 30 precious seconds adding a comment that basically said the article wasted your time – oh the irony.
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Dearest Andy,
Despite what you might expect, my comment here today is not in an effort to further undermine your blog. Rather, I am writing you as a concerned SEO-Citizen who is worried about how your blog is affecting the public reputation of other SEO specialists.

What am I talking about? Well Andy, for starters: one must always use caution when employing terms like ‘ironic’, or ‘irony’. In short, I believe your above use/abuse of the term is somewhat incongruous with usages laid out by most major dictionaries and style guides.

Now, while I’m not typically the kind of person who goes out of his way to lampoon others for misuse of the English language, I am willing to make an exception in the case of your blog.

Why?

Well Andy, it’s because I’m still feeling like you and your blog owe me compensation for that 30 seconds — wait, no; make that 47 seconds — I wasted reading the above post way back on August 27th. In short, I’ve come back looking for a post that will redeem your blog and make it worthy of my praise, and dare I say, a place somewhere near the bottom of my Google feed reader list.

However, after thoroughly reading your posts (and having experienced disturbingly low conversion rates on Splogs of content scraped from your RSS feeds), I am forced to conclude that you will be never be able to atone for your reckless, irresponsible & mind-numbing posts by providing either A) truly relevant & unique content or, at the very least B) content worthy of monetization.

In fact, I have come to the conclusion that, like a bad SAT question, your Blog is to Knowledge what Chinese is to Food: I just feel hungry again shortly after reading it.

So, fellow blogger, in closing let me recommend that you give up this silly little website all together and instead focus entirely on writing lyrics for Alanis Morissette, who I believe shares your liberal opinion concerning the use of rhetorical/literary devices like ‘irony’.
Oh, and since I expect you’ll be shutting this blog down after reading this sound advice, would you mind 301 redirecting all your PR 4> pages to http://www.seocracy.com? Thanks.

All the best, and in good humor,
Seocracy

touché

Great resource! Another tool I use frequently is Attensa’s rss reader — in particular, the “persistent search” feature, which keeps a constant eye on anything new coming from Google, Yahoo, Digg, flickr, del.icio.us, Wikipedia, etc (tracking both client and competitor keywords). It converts it all to RSS, and you can set different keywords to notify you via desktop alerts if they are very important to you. It’s an enterprise-strength version of Google Alerts, and keeps it out of my email inbox where I don’t want these types of things piling up (100+ alerts a day in Outlook is not fun).

Wow, this is the best post I have read on MarketingPilgrim. Thanks!

Great post. Very useful stuff.

As very useful tools I would adwise these
http://www.monitis.com
mon.itor.us

For some of them I knew but some of them I did not, I love stumbleupon the best! That thing gave me over 200K visitors in just 3 months.

That has to be one of the most useful blog entries I have seen in a very long time.

Perfect for me, as I already use some of them, but some of the others had slipped by me. But no longer!

Thanks, I will be adding them to my stable of tools for everyday use.

Great list! Forgive the flagrant self-promotion here but those of you who want to see what serious product mavens have to say about specific products should check out my site, ThisNext.com. ThisNext is a social shopping service that has millions of shoppers coming to read what our product recommenders have to say about particular items. We don’t do time series buzz tracking but can give you good snapshots of what mavens/shoppers like, why, and what other products they are into

There was a lot of work have been done.

Some more link building ideas:

http://www.jaankanellis.com/top-10-reputation-or-brand-management-tips  /

Here’s a new one to add to the list, they’re not free, but they’re pretty inexpensive: reputationhq.com

Kind of surprised that Google Alerts is 25 of 26 as a buzz tracking tool. It is one of the best to track anything related to your industry or your competitors on a daily basis.

I have several of these services in place to keep up on news, rep and other things.

so to say that this is just for linkbait is not accurate all.

I know several people and even companies who know nothing about any of these services, but they would benefit dramatically from them.

initially when u see google news, digg, and reditt at the top of the post you think, “who the hell does not know about this already?” but if you continue u might get an understanding that is way more than google news or digg

Mainly this post is just alerting you about these services. There is a massive case to be made about using a few select ones, which in itself can be a long post. So, he would have had to write a short book in order to tell everyone what specific profound reasons there are to use many of these services.

for anyone who does not know why to use several of these, then u r at a disadvantage, seriously…

i told my friends and colleagues the same exact thing about one of these services two weeks ago

It would be impossible to use all the tools mentioned here. Everyone should figure out their needs and define their purpose (Personal or Business)before trying it out.

Vanessa@ Future Trends in Wireless – Predictions, Applications, Challenges

http://www.Trendpedia.com is also free, it has European blog index and trend function…

Thanks for the list. Great that you took the time to add the logos and short descriptions, classy, impressive.

This list sums up the best buzz tracking tools.

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Thanks for the list, nice to have them in one place, bookmarked

Great selection. I love yahoo pipes. It’s like programming, but visual. You can literally do almost anything with a complex enough pipe, the only downside is the speed.

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how do I move photos around in my photostream on Flickr?

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Wow, what a comprehensive list, there is just not enough time in a day.

That is a great list of sites to use. I will put it to good use. Appreciate it.

Nice Article.
Good To read it
Thanks

You have provided very new information. Thank you.
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John
Social Media Marketing

Have you heard about Trendpedia? http://www.trendpedia.com

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what about some more Euro-centric tools? For example, http://www.trendpedia.com, which trawls blogs (including a huge number of European blogs) in all the major European languages?

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Thanks for the list. It is much appreciated and will come in very handy.

Thanks for the list.

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thats a great number of list. thanks.

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Hi Andy,
I just saw this post and I’m probably late to post my own compilation of what are essentially buzz monitoring through Enterprise RSS tools, but here’s where I’ve compiled what I’ve found so far (including your own trackur.com): http://enterpriserss.org

More recently, I’ve even located some more, such as Attensa — http://www.attensa.com and NewsGator — http://www.newsgator.com

Ok now this list is what I needed! I will make note of this….thanks!

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Wow, Andy, I thought I was pretty au fait with the buzz monitoring stuff, but you have a few here I hadn’t heard about. Thanks.

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Ok now this list is what I needed!

All great resources Andy.
Thanks,
JR

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This is going to help loads, just what i need to try and get my site out there.

Thanks for the list, working as a Digital PR, I use loads of the tools above. Great that you took the time to add the logos and short descriptions, classy, impressive. Keep it up.

This is really a great list of tools, especially for SEO purposes. As all we know that SEO is about tools, this list obviously help SEO optimizers to do their jobs easier.

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For in depth profiles of companies in this field and sound analysis of the factors to consider when contracting such a service I recommend E-Consultancy’s Online Reputation Buyer’s Guide and also Social Media Analysis Guide from Social Target. The Aberdeen Group also did a report on this area. You also need to think beyond “buzz” and “reputation” – this is also about bringing the voice of the consumer into brand/product/service development, customer service/relations, quality control…

This is an awesome post from you Andy. Keep it up.

for micro-blogging, and specially twitter, we should be able to looking at search.twitter.com and tweetbeeps (like Google Alerts) are quiet useful in tracking!!!

Great post,

Have been bogged down over the last week trying to find the right solutions for brand monitoring!

Rich

These look like some great tools for monitoring my productivity, thanks

I saw the use of serph.com in the comments while reading, it has really proved me handy.
Thankyou

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Quite a decent list there…
Compete.com is one thing I must comment on.. they’re a lot better than Alexa.. in that they actually ‘track’ the website’s visits.. and not against their ‘guesstimates’

Nevertheless, there’s another site similar to compete.com that I don’t see mentioned here (or I missed)
Quantcast. Their concept is similar to that of Compete, but they’re better

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great list thanks!

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Nice tips Thanks.

very cool

How do you think these compare to My Viral Web or Raven Tools?