Friday, June 11, 2010

FREE SOCIAL MEDIA MEASUREMENT TOOLS

These FREE social media “listening” tools are available and their RSS feeds can be consolidated into Google Reader for daily scanning and reporting.

· Google alerts – obviously
· Google Trends – tracks trends on key words
· Google blog search – track active bloggers in your industry sector
· Google advanced search “find that link to this page” – tracks other sites linking to your site
· www.search.twitter.com – advanced search on key words
· Trendsmap.com – visual representation of regional “tweet” activity
· Bit.ly – produces customized short URLs and tracks the number of visitors to these URLs
· Socialmention.com – tracks sentiment, tone, etc. on key words
· Klout.com – monitor others talking about you and gauge their influence
· Radian6 – about $500/month – consolidates all the above

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