5 Handy Social Media Monitoring Tools for Bloggers

As a blogger, you’ll have to wear many hats. Spending time to plan your future posts, optimizing your website for the search engines, taking time to promote your posts, and engaging with your visitors are just a few things you will have to do. If you do a lot of these things by yourself, you are going to miss things. You don’t want to miss the coverage your blog gets (and the latest developments in your niche) in the social media. All bloggers should take time to monitor top social sites for story leads, things said about their brands, and everything in between. Thankfully, you won’t have to rely on the good old way of tracking things to keep up. There are many tools that can save you time tracking the social media. Here are 5 tracking tools to get you started:

Tweetwally: a very helpful tool that enables you to keep an eye out for topics that are important to you on Twitter. Pulls everything together and saves you time.

Twittorati: the name should ring a bell. This is Twitter meets Technorati. Bloggers can use this tool to find out about highly popular links. When you are stuck and have no idea what to write about, a trip to this site can help.

Tweetvisor: Tweetvisor is a powerful web-based solution that lets you manage your Twitter account more effectively. It makes it easy to manage your Twitter lists, gain more followers, keep track of what others are saying on Twitter, and even schedule future tweets.

Trackur: Trackur is a premium online reputation management service that should be used by more popular bloggers and small businesses to set up alerts and track brand-related news on the Internet.

Trackle: one of my favorites, Trackle can monitor your brand, track your competitors, and alert you when something new happens in your niche. This is also a premium service.

These 5 tools can save you some time and keep you informed of developments that are important to your business (blog). Are you using any of these tools?