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Free Search Engine Monitoring

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• Free Search Engine Monitoring

Monitor what is being said about you or your company and protect yourself.

Free Search Engine Monitoring
While paying for monitoring can be very effective, individuals can use free tools to monitor their brand online. Below is a number of free, quick, easy and effective approaches to monitor results for your name or business.

Google Alerts for search engine monitoring – You can configure Google Alerts by different areas: News; Blogs; Web search results; Google Groups.

RSS for search engine monitoring – Create a folder in your RSS reader for monitoring feeds. Create custom RSS feeds based on keywords: Technorati.com, Feedster.com, Google.com/blogsearch, Google News, Blogpulse.com, MSN Spaces, MSN News Yahoo! News, MSN News. Filter the feeds into one RSS Reader for easy monitoring options using Newsgator, Google Reader or Bloglines.

Create your own Brand Management Search Engine -Rollyo.com can track sites that do not offer RSS feeds for keywords such as Consumerist, Complaints.com, Better Business Bureau, RipOffReport, PlanetFeedback and ComplaintCenter.

Monitor This – Monitor This allows you to monitor keywords across dozens of search engine feeds at the same time.

Brand Management Key Words and Phrases – Not sure what keywords to track? Use Google Keywords Tool for ideas.

Brand Management URL Monitoring – WatchThatPage, UpdatePatrol, and WebSite-Watcher monitor URLs.

Whois - Research the background of bloggers and web site owners using domain name search tools such as Whois.sc.

TinEye - TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used,or if modified versions of the image exist. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata.

Yahoo Alerts – Similar to Google Alerts, Yahoo Alerts sends you an alert whenever your keyword pops up in a search.  It gives you’re the option of receiving alerts by Yahoo Messenger or even via SMS.

Social Mention – Social Mention is a free tracking tool that allows you to easily track what people are saying about you across the web and social media landscape in real-time. It monitors 80+ social media properties including Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google and sends you a daily update.

Yacktrack Chatter - YackTrack Chatter is a keyword search for social media sites. This allows you to see “chatter” on various sites that talk about your keyword.

Forums and message boards can host conversations about your company. Sites such as Boardtracker.com will keep an eye on popular forums and alert you by RSS if you are mentioned in a thread.

BackTweets.com - A search engine for Twitter. See who is tweeting your links and more. Sign up for email alerts of new findings.

Addictomatic.com - Different than the others, you type in a keyword, topic or phrase and it searches the top blogs, news sites, Google, Technorati, Ask, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Topix and others. Personalized results page to bookmark with everything related to your topic.

Twazzup.com – Another Twitter search engine.

SiteMention.com – Type in your url and find out what’s being said about you. The results returned are gathered from Google Blog Search, Twitter, FriendFeed, YouTube, MySpace, Digg, Delicious and many more.

SocialMention.com/alerts – Just like Google Alerts but for social media. Enter your phrase to be notified of new findings. Searches blogs, microblogs like Twitter, bookmarks, comments, events, images, news, videos and more.

BlogPulse.com – A search engine that searches just for data posted to blogs. Enter your keyword, hit submit and off it goes.