We, as bloggers, all participate in social media – it is kinda what we are. So you think you are a social media maven – you are on Facebook, you blog, you tweet, you tribe, you have klout a google page rank. But is that enough? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. How do you validate your blog to sponsors? Sometimes we work directly with companies, sometimes with PR firms. We pitch them with “buzz”. They all love social media buzz and here are some tools you can use to help show your review or giveaway helped actually create buzz!. Now – a word of caution. Social media does not happen overnight. It takes time for search engines to pick up your posts, time for people to search and find them, and time for people to share the buzz. But, here are a few tools to help you along the way!
Simple but easy way to track what people are saying about your blog or company. Also useful for other things…use your imagination – straight to your inbox.
Twitter Search – and Advanced Search
Twitter search is good to search for basics, and twitter advanced search is great to search for phrases, people, hashtags, you name it! You can use this for RT searches, or to find companies and leads.
Hash tracking has free and paid services where you can see mentions – that is if people used a hash tag. This is helpful for events, giveaway or tweets where you have used #xyz
Social media tracking with both free and paid services
Shows mentions in forums – sometimes more helpful for companies – but I have found some interesting things.
Similar to Google Alerts but a bit different – create alerts for your blog, a company or your giveaways and events and see what people are saying.
Wait a minute – isn’t this a giveaway tool? Ah yes, but it is so much more. This is a fast and easy way to send a sponsor how many twitter followers, Facebook likes or newsletter sign ups your giveaway provided.
This is useful for tracking blog comments – about a campaign, a post or your blog.
So step it up a notch! Leave a comment with your favorite tools~
This post is very helpful, thank you!
A lot of these are new to me. Thanks for the info!
Great information – thanks for sharing~
thanks for the information… this realy help me.
I never thought to use Google Alerts track my blog comments! Great idea!
Tina ‘the book lady’
I always send my sponsors their details from Rafflecopter and most love to hear it. I have played around with Google Alerts, but I don’t get results so I’m probably doing it wrong. I could use a tutorial on THAT!! Thanks for all this info!!
Super great tips! Thanks for sharing.
What great tips!! Thank you
Lots of great info! Thanks for sharing
Than you so much for all this very useful information.
Google alerts is new to me and I LOVE using it now. Thank you.
Wow, lots of great information, I learned some new things, thanks for sharing. I had no idea about rafflecopter that’s a great tip and I’m off to go and check out google alerts too
Thanks again!
Thanks for that. Their are a few resources you listed that I did not know about.
Thanks!
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Thank you for some interesting reading. There are things here I was not aware of and will enjoy checking into further.
Great idea to use Rafflecopter to communicate how well your giveaway helped gain followers.