5 Free Social Web Monitoring Tools

After the relevance of the social web and its community is also recognized in this country more and more, we would like to introduce again a number of free social Web monitoring tools for getting started.

The following services offer the possibility of keywords and domains names and / or companies in order to monitor relevant reviews, opinion leaders and moods to discover and analyze. Also, for example, the state of competition can be detected as quickly and efficiently.

 

addictomatic.com

Addictomatic searches a variety of social sites you want to tag. The range of sites and communities is a very broad and individual pages can choose according to their own preferences. However, suffers from many quarters the depth of the results. For a first start but still a good and clear social web search engine.

 

socialmention.com 

Socialmention there is a very ambitious Social Media Monitoring Project. There is no "either / or ". The tool searches over 80 different services of the social web to the desired tag. Searching content from across the universe ... "it says will be processed during the search query, and this seems to be no way an exaggeration. Socialmention scans in addition to traditional blogs, news sites and Twitter too many communities like Facebook or YouTube. According powerful falls from the presentation of search results. In addition to the traditional list of the contents by date, here is the general sentiment (positive / negative) is determined and relevant hashtags, users and keywords. In addition, four separate measures (strength, sentiment, passion, reach) indicated. The proportion of the term in the talk, the ratio of positive to negative votes cast, representing a degree of influence on the social web is calculated.

 hootsuite.com

The Twitter Suite, or much more "silver bullet" Hootsuite combines all strengths of Micro Blogger Twitter. The dashboard can be easily expanded and adapted to personal needs. Onw Twitter accounts can be added, the latest Tweets on search terms, # hashtags and @ users are displayed. And Facebook fan pages can be subscribed in its own tab as a feed. Round-a highly recommended tool for a successful entry in Twitter and Facebook monitoring.

boardtracker.com

Board tracker is a monitoring tool specifically for the forums area. As one of the older "social media disciplines", the forum did not or only very weakly on the new social web monitoring tools often. Especially in technology, gaming, or automotive forums but remain important focal points for buyers, users, experts and opinion leaders. Also home to tons of forums opinions, criticisms, problems and wishes of the users, since the exchange is taking place in forums much more detailed than, say, on Twitter or Facebook. Board Tracker helps relevant forums and topics to find and usually provides good results for a deeper entry into the forum search.
Also, the service Boardreader.com or Google search with the word "forum"provide (including quotation marks), other good results.

  socialwebsiteanalyzer.com

The social website analyzer searches the top 20 social sites at the mention of a website entered. Thus, for a quick picture of the "dissemination"of their own website or blog make. Google, Yahoo, Delicious, Flickr, Youtube and many other candidates can be found in the clear result dashboard. However, you should check the result in the connection "by hand", as incorrect keyword links, etc. At first glance, are not identifiable. This only takes a click on the respective result.