Marketing Pilgrim's Reputation Channel is sponsored by Trackur's social media monitoring tools. Easy, affordable reputation monitoring with a moneyback guarantee!
There are a lot of companies that will happily relieve you of your dollars, in exchange for buzz monitoring services. While many large companies will enjoy the peace of mind that comes from having a company track their reputation for them, the rest of us need something a little less expensive–or better yet, free!
We’ve compiled a list of twenty six buzz monitoring tools that are free of charge. Use these tools to keep track of your company reputation or even spy on your competition! Take a look at Trackur.com if you need all-in-one social media monitoring tools.
1. Your Industry
If you simply don’t have time to track everything that specifically relates to your company–or your competition–you can still track news that relates to your industry. Moreover and Yahoo are just a couple of resources that offer RSS feeds for aggregated industry news.
2. Mainstream Media News
One of the best ways to track mainstream media mentions of your company is to use Google News. Enter your company name, sort the results by date published and then subscribe to the RSS feed. You’ll get instant RSS updates of any news items that mention your business. Example for “apple“.
3. News Buzz
It’s one thing to track any news that relates to your business, but what if you just want to know about the news that becomes popular? Sites such as Digg and Reddit will let you search for submitted stories that match your company name. Subscribe to the resulting RSS feed and you’ll know about any story on Digg that mentions your company–or your biggest rival.
4. Social Media News
By the time a hot news story gets picked-up by the mainstream media, it could have made the rounds for days in the blogosphere. You can capitalize on positive buzz and put out any reputation fires by tracking social media. Technorati is one of the best options for tracking social media sites. Custom RSS feeds let you get quick updates on any blog that utters your company name.
5. Blog Posts
If a blog happens to “ping” the blogosphere, the chances are that it will get on Google Blog Search. Even if the blog isn’t in Google news, or doesn’t make the main Google index, Google Blog Search might still find that story that mentions your CEO or your recent product launch. Get alerts to matching stories via email or RSS.
6. Blog Comments
Sometimes tracking a blog post doesn’t reveal the full conversation about your business. The blog post might be positive, but those leaving comments could attack your reputation. Services such as co.mments.com track the comments left on blogs. You can search for your brand and subscribe to the RSS feed for instant updates.
7. Blog Conversations
A negative blog post appears on a low-trafficked blog and there are no comments to track. End of story? Not quite, what if a very popular blogger picks up on the story? It could spread very quickly and catch you by surprise. Blogpulse’s conversation tracker will help you track who’s linking to that blog post about your company.
8. Blog Trends
How well is your competitor’s new product launch going? Blogpulse trends lets you track whether a keyword is getting growing blog mentions or not. Apple’s iPhone saw a 1000% jump in blog mentions leading up to its launch.
9. Bookmarks
Remember the days when your customers would bookmark your site in IE and you never knew about it? Thanks to online bookmarking services such as del.icio.us more people are sharing their bookmarks online. RSS feeds make it easy to track whenever someone bookmarks a web page that includes mention of your company.
10. Photos
Did an employee release a top-secret photo of your new products? Did someone snap a photo of your CEO leaving a strip-club? The chances are high that they might upload it to image hosting sites such as Flickr. Luckily, you can subscribe to an RSS feed that will update you on any new image that matches your company name?or the name of your slimy CEO.
11. Videos
So what if your CEO was caught on video having a lap-dance? Ouch! Ok, less damaging, someone releases a video showing a negative product review. Google Video recently switched focus to index videos from many online hosting sites (such as YouTube and MetaCafe). Now you can keep track of videos that include your company.
12. Tags
Wouldn’t it be great if you could enter a keyword and see who used that word as a “tag” How much better would it be if you could see matching tags across more than a dozen sites? Keotag.com does just that, making it easy for you to track if someone tags a page using your company or product name.
13. Forum Posts
Sometimes the most important conversations don’t happen on blogs. Forums and message boards can host conversations about your company and you’d never know about it. Don’t panic! Sites such as Boardtracker.com will keep an eye on popular forums for you and alert you by RSS if your company is mentioned in a thread.
14. Changing Information
Wikipedia is one of the most trusted resources for information on the web. You might be interested in any updates to your company profile or maybe you want to know if your competitor is trying to remove links to your web site. Fortunately you can track change history for any Wikipedia page and have the changes sent to your RSS reader of choice.
15. Job Listings
If your competitor wants to start a new service or launch a new product, the chances are they’ll need to hire new staff to achieve this. Classifieds search engine Oodle scours many online job listings and aggregates the information in a central location. Set up RSS feeds for searches on your biggest competitors and you’ll know whenever they list a vacant position.
16. Financial Filings
You can get a good feel for the financial health of your publicly-traded competitors by keeping a close eye on their SEC filings. Use Edgar Online and you’ll know if they’re subject to an SEC investigation or if their CEO is dumping stock faster than Martha Stewart.
17. Conference Calls
Sticking with public companies, sometimes you can learn some competitive information by listening to the company’s conference calls. But who has time for that? SeekingAlpha lets you subscribe to the RSS feed of conference call transcripts. Open up the transcript and you can quickly get a snapshot of their financial health. You might even learn about a new product launch–one which you might want to think about for your business.
18. Patents
Keeping track of patent filings was notoriously difficult before Google Patent Search came along. Now you can keep any eye on patents filed that relate to your industry. Better yet, keep track of patents that might violate your company held patents.
19. Events
Yahoo’s Upcoming lets you get RSS alerts on any new event that matches your selected keyword. You can keep track of conferences that you might want to attend, or sponsor. In addition, you could keep track of seminars or meeting being held by your competitors.
20. New Products
Let’s say you want to get some ideas of products that might be hot right now. Amazon.com lets you view product “tags” and then review similar tags. You can use this to get an idea of companion products that you might want to launch.
21. Search Query Trends
What search queries are popular at Google right now? Thanks to Google Trends you can get an idea of which keywords are most searched for. You can narrow your research to specific countries or cities–letting you know if a product has global or local appeal.
22. Keyword Referrals
Sure you could probably take an educated guess as to which sites might get the most traffic for a particular keyword, but it’s more fun to actually spy on your competitors. Compete’s Search Analytics allows you to enter a keyword and see which web sites are getting traffic for that keyword.
23. Site Referrals
Ok, so maybe you’re not sure which keywords you should target for your next SEM campaign. Compete’s Search Analytics will also let you enter any domain name and see which keywords are driving traffic to that site. Now you know which keywords your competitors are targeting.
24. Email Updates
If you’re not quite ready for all of that RSS reader nonsense, you can still keep track of the latest buzz via email. Google Alerts let you track web, blogs, news and groups for any phrase you want. Select daily, weekly or “as it happens” updates and you’ll get an email whenever your company name is mentioned.
25. The Untrackable
Some stuff just can’t be tracked that easily. If you want to track changes at a site–even if they don’t offer RSS or email updates–there are many tools that will do it for you. Our favorite is Copernic’s Tracker which, for $50, will let you keep an eye on any web site. Use it to monitor RipOffReport.com, forum threads, or even your competitor’s web site.
26. Anything You Want
You don’t have to be a developer in order to create your own custom buzz monitoring tool. Thanks to Yahoo Pipes, you can quickly set up your own RSS tracking, complete with filters. Want to track Twitter for mentions of your company? Not a problem with Yahoo Pipes.
Over to You
So, that should be enough buzz monitoring tools to get you going. Some are more useful than others, but all are FREE! What are your favorite buzz monitoring tools? Leave a comment or post to your own blog and ping us.
We’ve published 8 more free social media monitoring tools.
Similar Stories in: Reputation | Forward: Email This Post
Similar posts you may like...
246 comments on “Social Media Monitoring Tools: 26 Free Online Reputation Tools”
- 5 Marketing Tips from the Social Commerce Summit
- Redbox Hits Netflix with a Strong Right Hook
- Google Claims Greater Security for Android Market
- Will Broader Corporate Adoption of Apple’s iOS Invite Trouble?
- LiveJournal’s GM Talks About the Future of Blogging
- Mobile Marketing is Hot, But for Facebook it’s Not
- Win Copies of Brian Carter's "The Like Economy: How Businesses Make Money With Facebook" - 32 comments
- Papa John's Gets Backlash from Idiot Employee but Is It REALLY Their Fault? - 20 comments
- Google's Not Focusing On the User! Waah Waah Waah, Cry Me a River! - 17 comments
- Reputation Watch: Zappos Security Breach Tests Internet Giant - 16 comments
- Facebook's Real Problem in Just 44 Words - 14 comments
- Marketers To Invest in Blogs in 2012 - 10 comments
- Is Google a Public Company or Part of the Public Domain? - 8 comments
- Blogging Declines in Inc. 500 Survey - 8 comments
- Getting More Clicks On Twitter (Infographic) - 8 comments
- Will 2012 Become the Year of Mobile SEO? - 8 comments
Brian Chappell Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Great post Andy. Thanks for sharing!
Parks Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 11:31 am
You can never have enough monitoring in today’s day and age, thanks!
petnos Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
this is really a good entry. thanks…
Mukund Mohan Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Andy
Great list thanks. Following your blog for a while – the frequency and contextual nature of your posts are great. Good work.
Tamar Weinberg Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Thanks Andy for posting this. I missed a few when I was blogging.
(and of course I dugg it!)
Andy Beal Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Thanks all!
@Tamar – thanks for sticking around for the last session, and thanks for the digg.
Tamar Weinberg Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
You bet! It was a good one!
Marshall Kirkpatrick Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
As someone who also offers to relieve people of their money to set them up with these kinds of services
I recommend checking out Ask.com blogsearch, which only indexes feeds with a minimum number of Bloglines subscribers for spam control, FeedYes.com for easy but powerful RSS feed creation, FeedDigest for splicing multiple feeds together into one (and filtering for duplicates, like in Yahoo, Google and Topix news search feeds)and GMail for turning email lists into RSS feeds (dedicated account – filter to tags, tags have feeds, add additional filtering as desired).
Definitely some stuff in this post though that I haven’t looked at before, will be bookmarking and sharing for sure. Keep up the great work, Andy!
Andy Beal Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
@Marshall – thanks for the additions!
Steven Bradley Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Thanks Andy. A few new ideas here for me. Much appreciated.
How to: use even more free tools to track coverage on the internet | Simon Wakeman - Marketing, public relations and digital communications Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
[...] MarketingPilgrim website has a great list of twenty six free tools that can be used to just the same thing – well worth checking out. The list includes some [...]
William Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Really great bunch of services. Thanks.
Kristina Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Great post! coComment (www.cocomment.com) is another tool for for managing and sharing comments and just launched a new version, V2 Beta. In this version, we provide people with new tools to easily discover great conversations and share them with friends and the community. We welcome any feedback and comments from users, so feel free to e-mail me at kristina@cocomment.com anytime. Thanks! Kristina
buzzoo Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Try http://www.buzzoo.net, it’s a buzz agregator from many sites already mentioned here. You get all off in one place.
links for 2007-08-28 « Flying Cloud Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
[...] 26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring (tags: marketing pr) [...]
Switched on Media Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Andy,
You continue to provide great value to the community who read and digest your content. Thanks for a good summary, especially for those down under.
IshMEL Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
I’ve been using TalkDigger for sometime — http://www.talkdigger.com .
26 herramientas gratis para controlarlo “todo” « Data Shared Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
[...] Más. [...]
Seocracy Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
This is bullshit. Sorry. Another top 10 list?!?!? And a poorly considered one at that?
I am so bloody tired of seeing weak excuses for ‘news’ frontpaging digg…..that was 30 seconds of my life Ill never get back
Jeremy Pavleck Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Bloody brilliant – wish I would have known about Yahoo pipes a lot earlier, this thing is addictive!
Jim Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 1:41 am
One important resource you forgot – Omgili
http://buzz.omgili.com/
http://buzz.omgili.com/graphs.html
It tracks buzz on forums, newsgroups, mailing lists, QnA sites and more discussion based site.
26 бесплатных инструментов для мониторинга слухов « BuzzMania Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 5:05 am
[...] August 28th, 2007 Buzz-практика , Buzz в сети Отличная статья 26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring. В ней авторы рассмотрели 26 бесплатных инструментов [...]
26 kostenlose Tools für Buzz Monitoring | Seven.lu Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 6:18 am
[...] Pilgrim stellt nun 26 kostenlose Tools für Buzz Monitoring auf seinem Blog vor, und erklärt wie man sie einsetzen kann. Einige der Tools sind wohl eher für [...]
Universe_JDJ’s Blog » 26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 7:18 am
[...] read more | digg story [...]
Chase Saunders Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 8:24 am
How could you leave out http://buzzfeed.com ?
The entire editorial process is driven by one of the best buzz-detection algorithms around.
Andy Beal Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 9:03 am
@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.
inf Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
My site is used by many for what might be considered “Buzz Monitoring”.
http://ectio.us/
Try it out if you like.
Lo que la red dice de ti, de tu empresa, de tus amigos « Mirindas Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
[...] y competitivos dónde los haya, ahora a través de Marketing Pilgrim y su recopilación de “26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring“ he encontrado casi todo lo que necesito para monitorizar el éxito relativo ciertas acciones de [...]
links for 2007-08-28 « General Musings Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
[...] 26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring (tags: marketing buzz tools monitoring intelligence research) Posted by bartcaylor Filed in Uncategorized [...]
Andy Beard Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Have you found Serph useful? I have found it misses out some results, but does offer a combination of sources.
Andy Beal Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
@Andy both Serph and Distilled offer a good solution if you want to put your monitoring on autopilot, but both services will capture only about 90% of the conversation.
links for 2007-08-28 | O(b Log N) Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
[...] 26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring (tags: marketing media news blogs) [...]
oriolrius lifestream » Saber lo que dicen de ti… Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
[...] Marketing Pilgrim, “26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring“, una interesante recopilación de herramientas de monitorización de buzz en la red. Desde las [...]
links for 2007-08-28 « toonz Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
[...] 26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring (tags: Marketing Buzz monitoring tools) [...]
links for 2007-08-29 « Simply… A User Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
[...] 26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring (tags: marketing buzz monitoring tools reputation research intelligence reference ** tracking) [...]
links for 2007-08-29 » eWhisper.net Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
[...] 26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring (tags: buzz+marketing reputation+management) Powered by Gregarious (42) Share This Possibly Related Posts: links for 2007-06-25Some good links to see inside beta AdWords programsExcel 2007 Supports Over 1 Million Rowslinks for 2007-05-16links for 2007-05-06 [...]
¿Qué dicen de ti? « Cosas sencillas Says:
August 29th, 2007 at 3:59 am
[...] dicen de ti? En el blog de ENRIQUE DANS, comenta que en Marketing Pilgrim, tenemos “26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring“, una interesante recopilación de herramientas de monitorización de buzz en la red. Desde las [...]
Business Hacks » Free Tools for Tracking Your “Buzz” on BNET Says:
August 29th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
[...] that will track it for you, but why spend money when you can do the job yourself, free of charge? Marketing Pilgrim lists 26 tools that’ll let you monitor Internet buzz about your company (or any other). The author divides them into categories, like Your Industry, [...]
10,000 Marshmallows Daily Links 2007-08-29 - 10,000 Marshmallows - Marketing Accountability: How to eat 10,000 Marshmallows Says:
August 29th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
[...] Marketing Pilgrim: 26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring “There are a lot of companies that will happily relieve you of your dollars, in exchange for buzz monitoring services. While many large companies will enjoy the peace of mind that comes from having a company track their reputation for them, the rest of us need something a little less expensive–or better yet, free!” [...]
Eric Says:
August 29th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Does anybody here use Buzzlogic? I am looking for an alternative…these guys are price prohibitive.
Joseph Fiore Says:
August 29th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
@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
Andy Beal Says:
August 29th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Thanks Joseph!
Beyond Reputation Management | FathomSEO Search Engine Marketing Blog Says:
August 29th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
[...] great round-up of these tools is available at Marketing Pilgrim. Marketing, SEM Industry, Social SearchPopularity: unranked [?] Want to know more about [...]
Rose Says:
August 30th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Resourceful post Andy.
There were a few here that I was unaware of.
Wero Notes » 2007 » August » 31 Says:
August 31st, 2007 at 4:27 pm
[...] of Stuff Aug. 31 The importance of storytelling in a videogame Social TV Networks 26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring WordPress designs design» links» social networking» wordpress» If you [...]
26 Kostenlose Monitoring Tools « c/o operative Says:
August 31st, 2007 at 4:59 pm
[...] keine professionelle Monitoring Services leisten können oder wollen, hat Marketing Pilgrim eine Liste mit 26 kostenlosen Tools zusammengestellt, mit denen sich nicht nur die eigene Reputation sondern auch die Konkurrenz [...]
26+2 Tools To Monitor Buzz » Make Meaning Says:
August 31st, 2007 at 10:13 pm
[...] the buzz about your company or products in the Internet. Today, I came across an aggregation of 26 tools from Marketing Pilgrim for buzz monitoring. Here is my top 5 [...]
August ‘07: Best Search/Marketing Posts » Small Business SEM Says:
September 2nd, 2007 at 12:27 am
[...] Andy/Marketing Pilgrim: 26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring [...]
Web Strategy Reading: Sept 3, 2007 Says:
September 3rd, 2007 at 8:53 am
[...] Must reads for the Web Strategist: Tools to monitor your buzz [...]
Blog-Monitoring: 20 Tools und ein paar Tipps « Das Textdepot Says:
September 3rd, 2007 at 9:28 am
[...] man stößt, einzuordnen. Eine Liste mit 26 Tools zum Online-Monitoring allgemein wurde soeben von Marketing Pilgrim vorgestellt (via co/operative). Und natürlich gibt es für Blog Monitoring auch [...]
Technorati Meat & Potatoes Every Blogger Should Know » aimClear Search Marketing Blog Says:
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:23 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have Marketing Pilgrim [...]
Ian Wilker Says:
September 3rd, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Andy — thanks for linking to this from Brogan’s blog; I’m right in the middle of setting up a “monitoring dashboard” on NetVibes for a team of bloggers; this will be a big help.
Prior blogando » Blog Archive » Links para 03/09/2007 Says:
September 3rd, 2007 at 6:18 pm
[...] 26 ferramentas gratuitas para monitorar Buzz Para aqueles que não resistem a um bom hype ou estão apenas em busca de fontes termais de informações. [...]
User First Web » links for 2007-09-04 Says:
September 4th, 2007 at 3:27 am
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have Public relations tracking (tags: pr publicrelations business) [...]
Listen to your Buzz at Kaizen Bits Says:
September 4th, 2007 at 5:32 am
[...] in “26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring“, you can listen to the buzz you are making. First the ruling champions such as Google Alerts (I [...]
Werbeblogger Schnellschuss - Unser täglich Link » Blog Archiv » Buzz Monitoring Tools Says:
September 4th, 2007 at 6:10 am
[...] tausende von Euro ausgeben, wenn man das Netz auch selbstständig nach Markenbuzz abklopfen kann. Achso, kein Techie, verstehe! Tags: blogmonitoring, buzz, marken, monitoring, news, PR, RSS [...]
Seocracy Says:
September 4th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
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.
————————————————
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 www.seocracy.com? Thanks.
All the best, and in good humor,
Seocracy
This is what happens when Im bored in the afternoon - WickedFire - Affiliate Marketing Forum - Internet Marketing Webmaster SEO Forum Says:
September 4th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
[...] is what happens when Im bored in the afternoon I really hope this guy has a a sense of humor Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have __________________ "..yeah…whatever….seONEROUS is more like it…." Independent [...]
Pierre Guillaume Wielezynski Says:
September 4th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Andy,
Good post, as usual. I want to flag one more tool that will help anyone interested in better monitoring. It’s called the Buzzmonitor and will parse any RSS feed to add, extract tags, measure authority and let user vote and tag content. I conceived it for the World Bank, it’s now available for all to use, in open source. More here: buzzm.worldbank.org
Cheers,
Pierre Guillaume Wielezynski
Buzzmonitor team.
Andy Beal Says:
September 4th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
@Seocracy – I saw your blog post about your comment bait. I must say, your comments here suggest a level of intelligence and wit that your actual blog doesn’t quite convey.
Ian Wilker Says:
September 4th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
ohh, SNAP!
Seocracy Says:
September 4th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
touché
roots.lab » Blog Archive » links for 2007-09-03 Says:
September 4th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
[...] Marketing Pilgrim – Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have I’m right in the middle of setting up a “monitoring dashboard” on NetVibes for a team of bloggers; this will be a big help. (tags: monitoring buzzmonitoring reputation RSS) [...]
· links for 2007-09-05 Says:
September 5th, 2007 at 3:02 am
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have (tags: trends tools) [...]
George Manlangit Says:
September 6th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
How about a list for a free must have SEO tools? I’m sure a lot of us can benefit on what you have. Otherwise, this monitoring list covers a lot. Thnx.
Paul Biggs Says:
September 7th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
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).
Мониторим слухи в рунете « BuzzMania Says:
September 9th, 2007 at 5:17 am
[...] для мониторинга слухов в рунете, на базе статьи Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have. Итак, [...]
Jeff Says:
September 12th, 2007 at 1:23 am
Seocracy is the man!!!!
Revue de Liens « Content Webmarketing et bien plus … Says:
September 14th, 2007 at 8:29 am
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have : Andy Beal nous présente différents outils de mesure d’impacts. Le buzz marketing ou marketing viral se répand mais comment pouvoir mesurer ‘impact d’une campagne. -> extrait : ” We’ve compiled a list of twenty six buzz monitoring tools that are free of charge. Use these tools to keep track of your company reputation or even spy on your competition! “ [...]
ThemePassion - Best stuff in the web about design! » 26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring Says:
September 19th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
[...] rafa wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt [...]
Word Hugger Says:
September 20th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Wow, this is the best post I have read on MarketingPilgrim. Thanks!
Road Trip 2.0 » Andy Beal Video Interview: Online Reputation Monitoring, His Upcoming Book, and Traveling with Geekery. Says:
September 25th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
[...] 26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring [...]
links for 2007-10-04 « Jay’s blog Says:
October 4th, 2007 at 1:19 am
[...] 26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring [...]
links for 2007-10-09 « Francis Anderson Says:
October 8th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have Mixed bag of social media tools (tags: socialmedia web2.0) Posted by francisanderson Filed in Uncategorized [...]
Hovhannes Avoyan Says:
October 10th, 2007 at 6:58 am
Take a look at www.mybuzzmonitor – a free buzz tracking widget you can put on your site or blog
Nomadishere : Seeker of Truth » Blog Archive » links for 2007-10-11 Says:
October 11th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have There are a lot of companies that will happily relieve you of your dollars, in exchange for buzz monitoring services. While many large companies will enjoy the peace of mind that comes from having a company track their reputation for them, the rest of us (tags: reputation.management buzz) Bookmark to: This entry is filed under Daily Reading. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [...]
amanda Says:
October 11th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Great post. Very useful stuff.
Sasha T Says:
October 14th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Great collection of tools but do you really think that people have enough time to watch through 26 different tools? I think not…
S.
arsham Says:
October 19th, 2007 at 11:21 am
As very useful tools I would adwise these
www.monitis.com
mon.itor.us
Marco Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Hi Andy,
I translated to Italian and added some (few) more tools here:
http://marcobandini2.blogspot.com/2007/10/31-strumenti-per-il-monitora ggio-del.html#links
Hope it is not a problem!
Otherwise let me know.
Thanks again!
Andy Beal Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 10:25 am
@Marco – you asked, and you linked. That’s fine in my book.
Reputation Management Tools Says:
October 31st, 2007 at 12:02 am
[...] up on multiple keywords, spend hours on forums and networks that are important to your brand, curse Andy Beal for putting together that nice list of about a bjillion tools you need to incorporate into your [...]
publicidad en internet en mexico Says:
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I use several tools from this great list, Yahoo alerts and the recently beta MSN alerts are also a couple tools to take in count.
BONTB Says:
November 6th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
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.
Blog Roundup for 11/07/07 » Chris Webb on Publishing, Media, and Technology Says:
November 7th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have (tags: brand research buzz tools monitoring intelligence business) SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Blog Roundup for 11/07/07″, url: “http://ckwebb.com/shared/blog-roundup-for-110707/” }); [...]
tarihtenesk Says:
November 8th, 2007 at 9:30 am
This is exactly what we call blogosphere
Additional Buzz MonitoringTools Says:
November 20th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
[...] Moreover and Yahoo! News, Keotag and others. To see the full list checkout his post titled “Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have“. November 20th, [...]
Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have / Web Words / WizarDev Says:
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:13 pm
[...] Read Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have [...]
SEO Resources, Links, Blogs & More | John Shehata - Marketing Strategist Says:
December 7th, 2007 at 2:16 am
[...] – Top SEO Posts for 2007 – 26 Free Buzz Monitoring Tools [...]
Top 50 SEO zapisov leta » Optimizacija strani | Bloganje | Internetling Pika Kom Says:
December 7th, 2007 at 2:17 am
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have [...]
SEO Around The Clock » SEO World in 50 Posts Says:
December 12th, 2007 at 8:50 am
[...] can find valuable posts about topics like press releases, local search and Wikipedia. Andy Beal, Andy Hagans, Todd Malicoat and many others. It’s definitely not a full listing of interesting [...]
bittenbydesign.com Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
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.
26 Free Buzz Building Monitoring Tools Says:
December 28th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
[...] can find the list here: 26 Free Buzz Monitoring Tools Site Tags:buzz monitoring, good karma addthis_url = [...]
links for 2008-01-03 Says:
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 am
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have (tags: list work tools marketing metrics blogmat) [...]
What's Your Buzz Share? 4 Easy Steps For Tracking Online Buzz Says:
January 5th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
[...] buzz about your company and products using free tools. Andy Beal of Marketing Pilgrim recommends 26 free tools you must have for your buzz monitoring needs. You may not need all of them, so keep it simple and [...]
Massimo Says:
January 6th, 2008 at 11:53 am
it’a a very interesting article for my new internet job. Thanx
emergencemarketing.com » Blog Archive » links for 2008-01-08 Says:
January 8th, 2008 at 3:26 am
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have cool list of the latests tools to track your buzz (tags: buzz news intelligence) [...]
Gordon Gould Says:
January 9th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
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
Jonathan Moody Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 3:08 am
Good list and great to see that there are some forum searching tools there. People in this space are soooo blog obsessed. Forums/Boards / User Groups frequently provide much more UGC than blogs and for many purchase decisions I’d rather see what 50+ people think about product/service A than the wisdom of a so called guru /”influential” and the people who comment on his/her posts.
Another point – imagine you use these tools and find 500 references to your product/service. You need some structured analysis to gain the insight about what people are saying, who they are, where they talk and the impact that makes.
(links removed)
links for 2008-01-11 | Daily EM Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have a very comprehensive list (tags: marketing tools buzz monitoring research reputation intelligence business 2007 advertising analysis article analytics aggregators) [...]
Lana @ Talking Feather Communications » Blog Archive » Who’s talking about you? Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have [...]
SEMMYS Says:
January 15th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have Andy Beal, Marketing Pilgrim | 8/27/07 [...]
BUZZ - 1/22/08 « Buzz Weblog Says:
January 20th, 2008 at 10:49 am
[...] - 1/22/08 Here’s a cool article that lists 26 free ways to track online buzz (everything from your products to hot topics). Most [...]
Reputation Management - All 2008 Nominees » SEMMYS.org Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:42 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have Andy Beal, Marketing Pilgrim | 8/27/07 [...]
Reputation Management - 2008 Finalists » SEMMYS.org Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have Andy Beal, Marketing Pilgrim | 8/27/07 [...]
Reputation Watch » Blog Archive » Reputation Management Blog Post of The Year Nominees Announced Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have, by Andy Beal [...]
Най-добрите SEO & SEM блог постове на 2007 - финалистите! | Четете повече, оптмизирайте по-добре Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have Andy Beal, Marketing Pilgrim | 8/27/07 [...]
5 Free Brand Monitoring Solutions Says:
January 31st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
[...] to use to go into more detail to build some off-topic links, but I think Marketing Pilgrim did that pretty well. If you liked this post Subscribe to our [...]
Reputation Management - 2008 Winner » SEMMYS.org Says:
February 1st, 2008 at 12:09 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have Andy Beal, Marketing Pilgrim | 8/27/07 [...]
Bryan Eisenberg Wins SEMMY Award for Best Online Marketing Post Says:
February 1st, 2008 at 3:00 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have – Andy Beal, Marketing Pilgrim [...]
HillBlues » Blog Archive » links for 2008-02-02 Says:
February 1st, 2008 at 7:35 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have Excellent list of tools for online reputation monitoring (tags: marketing buzz tools reputation intelligence business monitoring research bestpractices advertising) [...]
Two SEMMYs - Thanks, SEO Fast Start readers! Says:
February 2nd, 2008 at 2:24 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have – Andy Beal, Marketing Pilgrim [...]
Mobile guy Says:
February 2nd, 2008 at 6:59 pm
There was a lot of work have been done.
Super Tuesday Free Line - Dan Thies SEO Video Contest - Andy Beard Buzz Tracking Tools - Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities Project (SIOC) - Free Line Report 2.5.08 Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
[...] Beard, also known as Marketing Pilgrim, has a great list of 26 free tools you can start using right away to track your company’s popularity and online buzz. He lists [...]
Jeff Knize Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Andy,
Thank you for the 26 free tools! I found out about the tools through Brad Fallon’s FreeLineReport. Bookmarking this one page is going to save me hours of valuable time!
Thanks again,
Jeff Knize
TheVanBlog Wins A SEMMY - TheVanBlog Says:
February 6th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have – Andy Beal, Marketing Pilgrim (Reputation Management) [...]
The SEMMYS - Hobo SEO UK Says:
February 6th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have – Andy Beal, Marketing Pilgrim (Reputation Management) [...]
Jaan Kanellis Says:
February 7th, 2008 at 2:44 am
Some more link building ideas:
http://www.jaankanellis.com/top-10-reputation-or-brand-management-tips /
Real Fresh TV | 5 Social Media Tips For Busy Marketing Executives Says:
February 8th, 2008 at 10:59 am
[...] Recommended reading: 26 Free Tools for Reputation Management and Buzz Monitoring. [...]
Como Estar Al Corriente Sobre Lo Que Se Escribe Sobre Tu Empresa? Says:
February 11th, 2008 at 10:45 am
[...] Beal ha elaborado una lista muy útil de herramientas y sitios web que podemos usar para estar al día sobre que tipo de [...]
SEO, SEM & SMM събития: Най-добрите SEO & SEM блог постове на 2007 | Четете повече, оптмизирайте по-добре Says:
February 13th, 2008 at 1:42 am
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have Andy Beal, Marketing Pilgrim | 8/27/07 [...]
Cesar Says:
February 13th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Great list of tools. I already use some of them but I even not recognize the most of tools you wrote. They are definitely great. Thanks.
SEO, SEM & SMM събития: Най-добрите SEO & SEM блог постове на 2007 | Четете повече, оптмизирайте по-добре Says:
February 13th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have Andy Beal, Marketing Pilgrim | 8/27/07 [...]
Liberate Media » Blog Archive » Social media tools list - from analytics to Digg Says:
February 20th, 2008 at 6:57 am
[...] next link is 26 must-have buzz monitoring tools, all of which are free of [...]
pop64.de | Hamburg vs. Berlin Blog » In eigener Sache: Blog-Monitoring Says:
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:13 am
[...] für diese Liste waren unter anderem: marketingpilgrim – Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have Blog-Monitoring: 20 Tools und ein paar [...]
Reputation Watchdog Coming Soon? : CultureFeast | Culture Blog Says:
February 27th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
[...] are plenty of places you can read more about the ORM industry, such as here and here and [...]
Canuckflack / Info links for government communicators Says:
February 29th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
[...] 26 free tools to monitor buzz and online conversation. This is a must read, folks! [...]
Nonprofit Web Windfall at Work | Mission to Learn Says:
March 1st, 2008 at 11:24 am
[...] First: Relevant to my main post today, I noticed on The Bamboo Project that Marketing Pilgrim has posted Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Tools You Must Have. [...]
Le web a des oreilles | La gazette du Hangar Says:
March 5th, 2008 at 12:18 am
[...] Si vous faites partie de la plèbe, je vous conseille d’aller faire un tour dans l’excellent post du Marketing Pilgrim sur les outils de Buzz monitoring. Pour la noblesse, et donc pour les outils [...]
Jeromy Says:
March 24th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Here’s a new one to add to the list, they’re not free, but they’re pretty inexpensive: reputationhq.com
38 Must Reads on Online Reputation Management Says:
March 24th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
[...] Management – Reputation Advisor Using Social Media to Help Manage Online Reputation – Search Rank 26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring – Marketing Pilgrim 31 Places to Monitor Your Reputation Online – Search Marketing Gurus An Introduction to Reputation [...]
» rep-management Web Notes: Design | Strategy | Marketing Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:38 pm
[...] The Washington Post has an interesting case study on the topic and here are some suggestions for buzz tracking tools. [...]
Minisite templates Says:
April 8th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Awesome list of services here Andy – thank you. I have to say using Google Alerts has become part of my daily routine now, so handy!
Herbalife Says:
April 8th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
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.
Andy Beal Says:
April 9th, 2008 at 8:36 am
@Herbalife – the list isn’t in much of an order. That said, Google Alerts is very limited because it only tracks Google channels and only offers email alerts–no RSS.
Marc Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 11:54 am
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
For water 4 gas review Says:
April 16th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Andy again you proved yourself to be best.
great set of resources. I really enjoy reading your posts and get a lot of good info from your posts.
Thanks…
Vanessa Says:
April 17th, 2008 at 7:32 am
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
Facebook-Monitoring: Lieber Sex als Blogging - Crossmediale Kommunikation Says:
April 18th, 2008 at 8:41 am
[...] Wer als Unternehmen wissen will, was online über ihn geschrieben wird und welche Themen die Leute beschäftigen, kommt um ein Social Media-Monitoring nicht herum. Viele Tools sind dazu online kostenlos verfügbar (siehe dazu eine Zusammenstellung bei marketingpilgrim.com). [...]
Research Companies Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 2:05 am
Wow! Very informative post, thank you
Simon McDermott Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 2:54 am
www.Trendpedia.com is also free, it has European blog index and trend function…
Sheri Larsen Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Check out Northern Light Search at http://www.nlsearch.com. You can create complex Boolean searches against online news sources and industry authority blogs. Saved searches are available as headlines, email alerts or through RSS. All sources are editorial selected to be of interest to the business user.
Sheri Larsen
Northern Light
Sheri Larsen’s last blog post..My Groundswell Social Technographics Profile
Web Developer Says:
May 5th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Thanks for the list. Great that you took the time to add the logos and short descriptions, classy, impressive.
Eva White Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Its a really good list Andy, will save time hunting for all these tools.
Eva White’s last blog post..Rising Hemlines.. Rising Stocks
Social Marketing Journal Says:
May 15th, 2008 at 6:49 am
This list sums up the best buzz tracking tools.
Social Marketing Journal’s last blog post..Working Smarter On Your Reputation Management
usun Says:
May 24th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
its realy a good list,thank you andy.
usun’s last blog post..来自seomoz成员的调查报告
Pete Says:
May 25th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Thanks for the list, nice to have them in one place, bookmarked
James Says:
May 26th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I bookmarked this page, really helpful, thanks!!
Collabtopia Says:
May 30th, 2008 at 8:44 am
[...] Relacionados: 26 Free Buzz Tracking Tools Escrita por Pedro Maiquez Publicado en Herramientas Puedes seguir todas las respuestas a esta [...]
Personal Branding « Jeremiah Smith Says:
June 4th, 2008 at 11:27 am
[...] There are several tools and methods for monitoring your brand, identity, and what people are saying about you and one of my favorite tools was developed by a search marketing expert named Andy Beal. [...]
Jeff Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
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.
Jeff’s last blog post..green
Mike Says:
June 11th, 2008 at 4:06 am
Very good list. I use some them already. Google blog search should be promoted by them more. You can find so much information on the blog searches.
Mike’s last blog post..Queen – A Night at the Opera
SEO FAQ Says:
June 16th, 2008 at 10:54 am
how do I move photos around in my photostream on Flickr?
SEO FAQ’s last blog post..RSS feed Directory
TheBand Says:
June 17th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Cool!
Very easy to read….
Goran Web Design Says:
June 21st, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Wow, what a comprehensive list, there is just not enough time in a day.
seopositive Says:
June 25th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
This thing is excellent!!! Thanks
Michael Johnson Says:
June 27th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
That is a great list of sites to use. I will put it to good use. Appreciate it.
Search Engine Optimisation Says:
July 6th, 2008 at 6:19 am
Andy, Good post, A few things I din’t know there. Cheers
78 Essential Search Engine Marketing & SEO Resources! | SEOptimise Says:
July 8th, 2008 at 6:29 am
[...] Reputation Management Basics of Online Reputation Management Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Social Media Tracking Tools 10 Ways to “Own Yourself” Online Online Reputation Management, Are You Doing [...]
shital seo india Says:
July 17th, 2008 at 1:19 am
Nice Article.
Good To read it
Thanks
Robert Says:
July 17th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Thanks for this huge SM list. There are some completly new for me.
Robert’s last blog post..Disaster Movie HD
Bookmarked resources | BizzyWeb Says:
July 19th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
[...] Marketing Pilgrim: 26 Free Social Media Tracking Tools There are a lot of companies that will happily relieve you of your dollars, in exchange for buzz monitoring services. While many large companies will enjoy the peace of mind that comes from having a company track their reputation for them, the rest of us need something a little less expensive–or better yet, free! [...]
John Cena Says:
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:33 am
You have provided very new information. Thank you.
________________
John
Social Media Marketing
Chetan Says:
July 25th, 2008 at 3:37 am
What a list. Thanks. I haven’t even heard about many of them. Will surely help.
Chetan’s last blog post..Teaming Up With Other Bloggers
Online Reputation Management: Where to Start? | Aleyda Solis Blog | Web Enthusiast, Developer and Promoter Says:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:20 am
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Social Media Tracking Tools [...]
Manejo de Reputación Online: ¿Dónde Comenzar? | Aleyda Solis Blog | Entusiasta, Desarrolladora y Promotora Web Says:
July 27th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Social Media Tracking Tools [...]
Linda Margaret Says:
August 7th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Have you heard about Trendpedia? www.trendpedia.com
Linda Margaret’s last blog post..Competing with traditional marketing is just not necessary
MGH Word of Mouth » Blog Archive » Maintaining Your Reputation Online Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
[...] than you count on a full set of fingers and toes. Here’s a list (with descriptions, more at MarketingPilgrim) of some of the tools you need to stay on top of things and enter the conversation early on, before [...]
Lucas McDonnell Says:
August 9th, 2008 at 2:11 am
Wow, I had left a quick comment on another post, and then came across this… excellent post. There are quite a few in here that I hadn’t even heard of before (Keotag for instance).
You’ve already converted me into a regular reader.
Lucas McDonnell’s last blog post..A dusty, but hilarious, Microsoft advertising gem.
Andy Beal Says:
August 9th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
@Lucas – thanks and welcome!
Ps3 Gamer Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Nice tools, i mainly use digg.com. The others will come in handy. Cheers!
Linda Margaret Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 6:46 am
what about some more Euro-centric tools? For example, www.trendpedia.com, which trawls blogs (including a huge number of European blogs) in all the major European languages?
Linda Margaret’s last blog post..Competing with traditional marketing is just not necessary
PS3 Addict Says:
August 13th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Very informative list, but i agree with one of the earlier comments that you have to be selective, instead of trying to get them all to work in the best way for you
PS3 Says:
August 13th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Thanks for the list. It is much appreciated and will come in very handy.
Dany Says:
August 26th, 2008 at 5:12 am
WoW Thanks For The Great List I Bookmarked
Knowledge Base: Phoenix » Blog Archive » Protect Your Image on the Digital Highway: 7 Tips & No-Cost Tools to Prevent a PR Nightmare Says:
August 26th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
[...] MarketingPilgrim: 26 Free Buzz Monitoring Tools [...]
Tinx Money Says:
August 27th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Thanks for the list.
Tinx Money’s last blog post..SubIDs202.Com
78 Essential Search Engine Marketing & SEO Resources! | Sourfizz Says:
August 28th, 2008 at 1:52 am
[...] Reputation Management Basics of Online Reputation Management Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Social Media Tracking Tools 10 Ways to “Own Yourself” Online Online Reputation Management, Are You Doing [...]
Sherif K Says:
August 28th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I hadn’t heard some of these tools. It is an excellent list , I appericiate it.
Thank you
26 Ferramentas de Métricas de Social Media « Says:
August 28th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
[...] Ferramentas de Métricas de Social Media Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Social Media Tracking Tools Monday, August 27th, 2007; – Andy Beal [...]
izwan00 Says:
August 31st, 2008 at 8:11 pm
thats a great number of list. thanks.
izwan00′s last blog post..Studica.com – Save up to 85% on Student Software
Ana Says:
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:04 am
This is a great way to stay on top of things. Track any news about specific products or anything that interests you.
Thanks for the list. There were a few I never heard about and look forward to try out.
Ana’s last blog post..RSS FEED for http://www.healthylifenow.com
Ogilvy Feeds » Blog Archive » A reputation 2.0 problem - wiki-circularity Says:
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:55 am
[...] Of course, I would say that, since we have an online reputation monitoring tool but I’m also going to give a shout out to other ways of doing your monitoring such as Andy Beal’s Trackur or if you want to put more work in but do it for free, you can follow Andy’s advice and monitor it all yourself. [...]
Israel Kloss Says:
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:22 am
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
Social Media Marketing - Overcoming the Overwhelm! | Craig White Says:
September 5th, 2008 at 12:31 am
[...] Risk without measurement is suicide so check out this range of 26 Free Social Media Tracking Tools posted by Andy Beal at Marketingpilgrim.com. Social Media is less about technology and more about [...]
Mitesh Patel Says:
September 5th, 2008 at 6:10 am
Hey its great tools. i aware about this tools thanks for share with us.
A Reputation 2.0 Problem - Wiki-Circularity | Search Engine Optimization Says:
September 5th, 2008 at 7:20 am
[...] Of course, we at Distilled have an online reputation monitoring tool, but I’m also going to give a shout out to other ways of doing your monitoring, such as Andy Beal’s Trackur. Or, if you want to put more work in but do it for free, you can follow Andy’s advice and monitor it all yourself. [...]
James Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Ok now this list is what I needed! I will make note of this….thanks!
James’s last blog post..5 Tips on dealing with customer complaints
80 Essential Search Engine Marketing & SEO Resources! Says:
September 13th, 2008 at 11:44 am
[...] Reputation Management Basics of Online Reputation Management Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Social Media Tracking Tools 10 Ways to “Own Yourself” Online Online Reputation Management, Are You Doing [...]
80 Essential Search Engine Marketing & SEO Resources! Says:
September 13th, 2008 at 11:44 am
[...] Reputation Management Basics of Online Reputation Management Buzz Monitoring: 26 Free Social Media Tracking Tools 10 Ways to “Own Yourself” Online Online Reputation Management, Are You Doing [...]
Melanie Burke » what’s the buzz? Says:
September 17th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
[...] buzz monitoring becomes more established and more tools become available there will really be no excuse for not knowing what conversations are taking place and taking [...]
Eight Case Studies Showing the Power of Online PR | Prior Communications Says:
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:02 am
[...] increasing the site’s online visibility. All impact was measured as much as possible through Online “Buzz” monitoring and IndexTools Web Analytics. The following tactics were [...]
Tina Says:
October 6th, 2008 at 3:43 am
Thats lots of information. I am often worried about the reviews. This is quite helpful.
Patricia Skinner Says:
October 8th, 2008 at 5:09 am
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.
Patricia Skinner’s last blog post..Connect With Your Audience
Internet Marketing Tips Says:
October 9th, 2008 at 1:17 am
Wow! Great post. I use a handful of these but will look into using more. Thanks for the tips!
Internet Marketing Tips’s last blog post..Effective Internet Marketing Strategies
Fix Pc Error Says:
October 24th, 2008 at 12:48 am
Ok now this list is what I needed!
Major Paper Topic Summary « Stacy’s Blog for JHU 480 Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
[...] http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/08/26-free-tools-for-buzz-monitor ing.html [...]
Murfreesboro Townhomes For Rent Says:
October 28th, 2008 at 10:30 am
WOW awesome list…THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Internet Marketing Do-Follow Blog Says:
October 29th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
All great resources Andy.
Thanks,
JR
Internet Marketing Do-Follow Blog’s last blog post..4 Tips for Writing Effective Articles for the Internet
Monitoring Social Media Marketing | Social Media Marketing (SMM) Blog Says:
October 29th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
[...] Andy Beal. (2007).Online media monitoring: 26 Free Social Media Tracking Tools. Retrieved Oct 15th, 2008, from http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/08/26-free-tools-for-buzz-monitor ing.html [...]
Tania Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Look at the links. What an active forum! I could find best links here. Thanks for the information.
Tania’s last blog post..Herbalife Products Data Feeds
Sharpen Your Saws! 20 Simple Ways To Prepare for a Turnaround! - Scott Clark Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
[...] Your Industry. Free tools such as Google Alerts and RSS make it incredibly easy to listen to the community and competition at a glance. If your industry has bloggers (most do) subscribe to the best and skim [...]
Women’s Biz News » Blog Archive » Simple Tips To Prepare Your Web Business for Returning Customers! Says:
October 31st, 2008 at 9:56 am
[...] Your Industry. Free tools such as Google Alerts and RSS make it incredibly easy to listen to the community and competition at a glance. If your industry has bloggers (most do) subscribe to the best and skim [...]
Xbox Says:
October 31st, 2008 at 12:06 pm
This is going to help loads, just what i need to try and get my site out there.
unsworth pr Says:
November 1st, 2008 at 5:00 am
Great blog! I work at a PR agency and we always use Google news for our clients. It’s free and worthwhile. i can definately recommend.
On their terms, on their turf: Roadmap for Developing a Social Media Strategy - by Nancy « London Strategy’s Weblog Says:
November 1st, 2008 at 6:56 am
[...] Good free tools for buzz monitoring include Addictomatic (http://addictomatic.com) and the list at Marketing Pilgrim [...]
savings Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
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.
Mission Creep | Neil Williams » Blog Archive » Four methods and 40 free tools for listening to online conversations Says:
November 4th, 2008 at 6:31 am
[...] 26 free online tools for buzz monitoring [...]
brandon alan scofield Says:
November 7th, 2008 at 5:05 am
my favorite are digg and youtube ,insert youtube on postinng, submit new posting to digg to get indexed and backlink …
brandon alan scofield’s last blog post..Social security fund
The B2B Lead Blog - The B2B Lead » Blog Archive » 3 Great Tools for Online Reputation Management - B2B Marketing and Sales Tip #169 Says:
November 7th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
[...] more? Marketing Pilgrim published this great post with 20+ others. Share and [...]
Web SEO Says:
November 8th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
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.
Web SEO’s last blog post..#1 Weekly Report
savings Says:
November 8th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Does anybody here use radian6? I am looking for an alternative…these guys price are quite reasonable fromwhat I can see.
Jonathan Moody Says:
November 10th, 2008 at 2:45 am
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…
Research your posts with Buzz Monitoring | Collective Thoughts Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
[...] about you. – Vanessa Fox 13 Tools for Tracking discussions in the Blog-o-sphere – Mashable 26 Free Social Media Tracking Tools – Marketing Pilgrim Reputation Management made easy, and Free! – Search Engine Land [...]
Brown Bag Social Media | SocialMedia404 Says:
November 18th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
[...] Buzz Monitoring from Marketing Pilgrim [...]
Journal Entry #4 « ASR Journal Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
[...] tools, such as Radian 6 or Clip Metrics, I Googled free measurement tools, and found this: Online Media Monitoring: 26 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools. Next period, I will research these further to find useful tools for this [...]
martha Says:
November 24th, 2008 at 6:28 am
Nice list…
joel Says:
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:04 pm
This is an awesome post from you Andy. Keep it up.
Web Business Tutorials - WebProBusiness.com » Social Media Monitoring Tools You Should be Using Says:
December 4th, 2008 at 8:52 am
[...] been a little more than a year since I put together my list of 26 free social media monitoring tools you should be using to monitor your brand’s [...]
Santa SEO Melbourne Australia » Blog Archive » Essential Social Media Monitoring Tools Says:
December 4th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
[...] December 05th, 2008 | Author: Santa SEO It’s been a little more than a year since Andy put together his list of 26 free social media monitoring tools you should be using to monitor your [...]
iPods Says:
December 6th, 2008 at 10:12 am
very interesting list. Like the flickr one
Moksh Juneja Says:
December 8th, 2008 at 12:36 am
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!!!
Moksh Juneja Says:
December 8th, 2008 at 12:38 am
for micro-blogging, and specially twitter, we should be able to looking at search.twitter.com and tweetbeeps (like Google Alerts) for tracking any brand or a company.
Moksh Juneja’s last blog post..Monkey outside my office, just abt to attack me
renaissance chambara | Ged Carroll - Links of the day Says:
December 8th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
[...] Social Media Monitoring Tools: 26 Free Online Reputation Tools [...]
Richard Says:
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Great post,
Have been bogged down over the last week trying to find the right solutions for brand monitoring!
Rich
Online reputation tracking Says:
December 29th, 2008 at 8:22 am
[...] 26 tools for monitoring buzz [...]
10 of my favorite lists from 2008 | The Responsible Marketing Blog Says:
January 1st, 2009 at 3:06 am
[...] of free social media monitoring tools (1, 2, 3) Mashable.com, [...]
bhanupraklash Says:
January 5th, 2009 at 4:33 am
This is an excellent piece of information. I was looking for some complete tool which tracks everything on social media. I have started using( www.Serph.com) and it is really good. Are there any free tools available which can help tracking down every possible conversation on Social Media?
bhanupraklash’s last blog post..Influential Jounalists of the World Wide Web
100+ Resources to Boost Your Social Media Savvy in 2009: Top Tips & Advice from the Experts Says:
January 6th, 2009 at 7:33 am
[...] Online Media Monitoring: 26 Free Social Media Tracking Tools From Marketing Pilgrim: Review of 26 freely available buzz monitoring tools [...]
Wii Says:
January 13th, 2009 at 4:27 am
These look like some great tools for monitoring my productivity, thanks
Ken Says:
January 16th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Great post. iMediaStreams is providing some aggregate data from the social networks for free, http://imediastreams.com/iServe_Demographics.htm specifically, we give an insight on the demographics showing interest in different categories. Media Planners, Enjoy the free planning tool:)
Ali Hussain Says:
January 17th, 2009 at 1:39 am
I saw the use of serph.com in the comments while reading, it has really proved me handy.
Thankyou
Ali Hussain’s last blog post..Color Overlay
Step 1: Listening « Judicious Web Says:
January 21st, 2009 at 2:43 pm
[...] a list of tools to help you find out what others are saying about your brand, your organization, [...]
David Says:
January 26th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Great Post – Thanks post…. I’ll add some tools to my favorites.
Social Media Marketing Presentation Resources | Gelfand Design Says:
January 27th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
[...] Social Media Monitoring Tools: 26 Free Online Reputation Tools Posted in: presentations, social media [...]
Hamza Says:
February 1st, 2009 at 2:40 pm
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
Hamza’s last blog post..You Won’t Go Wrong With Natural Methods of Losing Weight
Social Media Metrics Superlist: Measurement, ROI, & Key Statistics Resources Says:
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:04 am
[...] 8 More Free Social Media Monitoring Tools You Shouldn’t Leave Home Without From Marketing Pilgrim: Addition of 8 more tools to original list of 26 free social media monitoring tools. [...]
Online Reputation Management | Says:
February 4th, 2009 at 8:29 am
[...] And if you want to spend all day long tracking everything like a CIA spy, visit Marketing Pilgrim and check out their great list of 26 buzz-monitoring sites: Marketing Pilgrim [...]
oyun Says:
February 13th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
great post andy,thanks you.ı’ll add this site to my favorites
SaaStream Says:
February 15th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
New Year’s top resolution: Managing your online reputation!…
Well, 2009 has arrived, along with the New Year’s resolutions and the ever-present pundit predictions. Now that we’re on the other side of the New Year, I thought I would share my thoughts on what I feel should be one……
scott Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 6:46 am
great list thanks!
scott’s last blog post..Free Selsun Blue Sample
Jerry Okorie Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Great tools. Will do the job.
Sohan Says:
February 26th, 2009 at 2:21 am
Nice tips Thanks.
wholesalesr Says:
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:58 am
Great,Thanks for your sharing.
freebies Says:
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:41 pm
very cool
Oyun Says:
May 29th, 2009 at 5:24 am
Thanks