Search, Web, Social Media Analytics + Monitoring Resources

these resources are free or free to try

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From Freshbuzzmedia, Aug 2010

Search

• Google Analytics - www.google.com/analytics
• Yahoo Web Analytics - analytics.yahoo.com/
• Google Adwords Keyword Tool - https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
• SEOMOZ has set of Free tools - www.seomoz.org/tools
• Google Webmaster Central - Provides data on how your sites are crawled and indexed by Google.
• Bing Webmaster Center - Provides you data on how your sites are crawled and indexed by Bing.
• Google Trends - www.google.com/trends
• Google Insight for Search - www.google.com/insights/search/#

Social Media:

• Google Alerts - www.google.com/alerts
• SM2 by Techrigy - sm2.techrigy.com/
• BrandMentions - brandmentions.com/
• Keotag - www.keotag.com/
• Yelp - www.yelp.com
• MonitorThis - alp-uckan.net/free/monitorthis/

Twitter:

• Twitter Search - search.twitter.com/
• Twilert - www.twilert.com/
• Twellow - www.twellow.com/
• TweetBeep - tweetbeep.com/
• TweetFind - www.tweetfind.com/
• Twittalyzer - www.twittalyzer.com/
• MeteorTracker - www.MeteorTracker.com/
• TweetReach - www.tweetreach.com/
• Geofollow - www.geofollow.com/

Blogs Monitoring (including Social and Comments)

• Technorati - technorati.com/
• Backtype - www.backtype.com/
• CoComment - www.cocomment.com/
• Yacktrack - www.yacktrack.com

Competitive Analysis:

• Alexa - www.alexa.com/siteinfo
• Compete - www.compete.com/
• Quantcast - www.quantcast.com/
• Google Trends for Websites - trends.google.com/websites
• Google Ad Planner - www.google.com/adplanner.

Discussion Boards:

• Board Tracker - www.boardtracker.com/
• Boardreader - boardreader.com/
• Big Boards - www.big-boards.com/

Reputation Management:

• Trackur - www.trackur.com/
• Talk Back Media - www.talkbackmedia.com
• ContextMine - www.contextmine.com/
• Naymz - www.naymz.com/
• Rapleaf - www.rapleaf.com/

After you've selected which tools you want to use and you've set the proper RSS or email alerts for your name, company and/or topic, now it's time to set a schedule for when you want to check your status.

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