Free Social Media Monitoring Tools

There are various ways to track and manage your brand’s engagement and reputation on the social web. Some simple methods consists of leveraging Google Alerts and Twitter Search. There are also lots of elaborate tracking tools available. But I have compiled a list of free social media monitoring tools, which you may find useful. They are as follows:

Addictomatic : Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the Web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It’s the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and feed your addiction for what’s up, what’s now or what other people are feeding on.

Backtype : Backtype is an analytics platform that helps companies understand their social impact and make sense of social media so they can make better marketing decisions.

Blog Grader : Blog Grader measure the marketing mojo of your blog and makes suggestions to help you improve it.

Blogpulse : BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs. It applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs.

BoardReader : BoardReader was developed to address the shortcomings of current search engine technology to accurately find and display information contained on the Web’s forums and message boards. It uses proprietary software that allows users to search multiple message boards simultaneously, allowing users to share information in a truly global sense.

BoardTracker : BoardTracker is an innovative forum search engine, message tracking and instant alerts system designed to provide relevant information quickly and efficiently while ensuring you never miss an important forum thread no matter where or when it is posted.

Collecta : Collecta is a real-time search engine bringing content to you as it’s posted.

Facebook Grader : Facebook Grader is a free tool that measures the power of a Facebook business page.

FollowThing: FollowThing is a powerful, Web-based professional networking and media monitoring tool that informs inbound and outbound marketing decisions.

Google Blog Search: Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. It enables you to find out what people are saying on any subject of your choice.

HowSociable : HowSociable provides a simple way for you to begin measuring your brand’s visibility on the social Web.

IceRocket : IceRocket is a real-time blog search engine.

iMooty: IMooty is a next generation media monitoring tool that helps companies, PR professionals, and marketers gain real-time insights on the latest news and trends that matter to them and who the important opinion makers are.

Monitter: Monitter is a Twitter monitor — it lets you “monitter” the Twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying.

Samepoint : Samepoint is a conversation search engine that lets you see what people are talking about.

Social Mention: Social Mention is like Google Alerts but for social media. Sign up to receive free daily e-mail alerts of your brand, company, CEO, marketing campaign, or on a developing news story, a competitor, or the latest on any topic you choose.

StatsMix: StatsMix allows companies to easily build and share custom dashboards for displaying and analyzing all the metrics they generate. It provides an overview of all your metrics and what drives them.

Topsy: Topsy is a new kind of search engine that sees the Internet as a stream of conversations. Topsy results are the things people link to when they’re talking about your search terms. Topsy ranks results based on how well they match your search terms, and the influence of the people talking about them.

TRIBE Monitor: TRIBE MONITOR is a social statistics aggregator that helps you find out where your fans are and where conversations about your brand are taking place by tracking your online presence once every hour.

Twazzup: Twazzup operates a leading real-time news platform that enables users to filter the news out of live Internet content.

TweetFeel : Tweetfeel monitors positive and negative feelings in Twitter conversations about many things, including popular brands, and displays the results in a clear and simple way.

Twendz: The twendz Twitter-mining Web application from Waggener Edstrom uses the power of Twitter Search, highlighting conversation themes and sentiment of the tweets that talk about topics you are interested in. As the conversation changes, so does the twendz application by evaluating up to 70 tweets at a time. When new tweets are posted, they are dynamically updated, minute by minute.

twitt(url)y : twitt(url)y tracks and ranks the URLs people are talking about on Twitter.

Twitter Grader: Twitter Grader is a free tool that allows you to check the power of your twitter profile compared to millions of other users that have been graded.

Twitter Search: There is an undeniable need to search, filter, and otherwise interact with the volumes of news and information being transmitted to Twitter every second. Twitter Search helps you filter all the real-time information coursing through the service.

Vitrue Social Media Index: The Vitrue Social Media Index is an easy-to-use tool designed to provide you a snapshot in time to help you measure your brand’s online conversations.

Workstreamer: Workstreamer is a business listening platform that delivers a competitive advantage to professionals by providing real-time social updates on competitors, customers, prospects, partners and more.

Xinu Returns: Find out how well your site is doing in popular search engines, social bookmarking and other site statistics. Check PageRank, backlinks, indexed pages, rankings, and more.

YackTrack: As a content producer, you can search YackTrack for comments on your content from various sources or other blogs that talk about your content. Another site feature, Chatter, gives you a keyword search for the social media sites — this allows you to see “chatter” on various sites that talk about a specific keyword.