Thursday, September 5, 2013


3 Free Sites for Monitoring Your Keywords

 As a small business owner, you’ve embraced social media and you’re blogging or tweeting and want to monitor certain keywords. How do monitor these keywords? Here are three free sites where you can monitor your keywords:
1.   Google Alerts 

Google Alerts is probably the best known monitoring tool. It is really easy to use and it's free. You only need to put your keywords in the system. Then, Google Alerts will email you when your keywords are being mentioned.

With Google Alert, you are able to put in over a 1000 keywords. Remember, you’ll get a lot of email notifications.

2.   Mention 

Mention is a simple app you can download for monitoring your keywords. You can use it on your laptop and there is a free app for your smart phone. This way you can easily see what is said about you anytime and anywhere.

How it works: Enter a keyword that you would like to monitor and this creates alerts that you will see through your email. One of Mention’s great features is that it integrates with your Twitter account. This allows you to easily re-tweet a tweet you find interesting.

Mention is free, but if you want more features, you will need to purchase the advanced account.

3.   Social Mention 

Social Mention is a tool to see what people are saying about you, your company or all the things you would like to monitor. Social Mention monitors all the major social networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google. Just like Mention and Google Alert, this tool is also very easy to use. You will find your results provided in a number of statistics not just the mentions. Social Mention provides you with sentimental ratings, top users of your brand name, top keywords used in conjunction with your brand, passion, strength, reach and more. You can also click on the mentions, this way you can give a really fast respond.

As you can see, monitoring your keywords can be easy and free. You just have to find the one which works the best for you and your company. They all have different features, so decide which features work best for your needs, and start monitoring your keywords.

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