Comments on: 25 Monitoring Tools That Will Not Cost You a Penny http://www.mirnabard.com/2010/07/25-monitoring-tools-that-will-not-cost-you-a-penny/ Social Media, Internet Marketing, SEO Blog Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:29:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Arom1000 http://www.mirnabard.com/2010/07/25-monitoring-tools-that-will-not-cost-you-a-penny/comment-page-1/#comment-1039 Arom1000 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:42:00 +0000 http://www.mirnabard.com/?p=1532#comment-1039 I'm with you on that one Marc. Still a good post but links would help. I’m with you on that one Marc. Still a good post but links would help.

]]> By: Marc http://www.mirnabard.com/2010/07/25-monitoring-tools-that-will-not-cost-you-a-penny/comment-page-1/#comment-663 Marc Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:41:21 +0000 http://www.mirnabard.com/?p=1532#comment-663 Hi Mirna, surprised the tool names don't link to their respective sites. Hi Mirna, surprised the tool names don’t link to their respective sites.

]]> By: Mirna http://www.mirnabard.com/2010/07/25-monitoring-tools-that-will-not-cost-you-a-penny/comment-page-1/#comment-611 Mirna Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:12:20 +0000 http://www.mirnabard.com/?p=1532#comment-611 Thanks for sharing more with my readers, David…I am sure that will give them a lot more work to do! :) Thanks for sharing more with my readers, David…I am sure that will give them a lot more work to do! :)

]]> By: David http://www.mirnabard.com/2010/07/25-monitoring-tools-that-will-not-cost-you-a-penny/comment-page-1/#comment-609 David Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:24:48 +0000 http://www.mirnabard.com/?p=1532#comment-609 Mirna You are right, there are hundreds of free tools out there (don't get me started). I tried not list more here than you included in your post :) competitious.com - Free service to track changes to competitors sites alexa.com - traffic estimates top keywords for a website. Good to spy on competitors or find sites to advertise on quantcast.com - provides demographic data for a website. Good to spy on competitors or find sites to advertise on compete.com - traffic estimates top keywords for a website. Good to spy on competitors or find sites to advertise on checkrankings.com - free version tracks your a site's ranking for up to 10 keywords. Graphs the results prettylinks - WordPress plugin that cloaks links and tracks the hits each link recieves edopter.com - Trendcasting. tracks the spread of new trends around the world in real time twittercounter.com - tracks your twitter followers in a graph tweetstats.com - tracks your twitter stats feedburner.com - tracks your RSS feed stats (owned by Google) pogee-web-consulting.com/tools - tools to track where your Google AdSense ads, Google Adwords and Yahoo ads are being displayed spyfu.com - competitive analysis info tynt.com - tracks what is copied from your site and adds a link back if it is posted on another site sitemeter.com - real time site traffic getclicky.com - website analytics aremysitesup.com - website uptime monitoring 247webmonitoring.com - website uptime monitoring uptimerobot.com - website uptime monitoring clockingit.com - time clock for time mgt or tracking how long you work on a project Ego Searches - monitor blogs and news portals for keywords (your company or product or a competitor or their product). Create dynamic RSS feeds that update when the keyword is mentioned news.google.com/news - do akeyword search in Google News, click on the RSS link and add the RSS URL in your RSS reader blogpulse.com - Find what is being said about your products, company or industry on blogs. Same procedure as Google News. Provides graph of keyword occurences pubsub.com - Can direct your search to include only specific areas such as press releases, SEC filings, Newsgroup posts, etc. Same procedure as Google News technorati.com - Real-time blog search engine. Add keywords to a watch list and use blue RSS icon at the bottom icerocket.com - Same procedure as Google News findarticles.com - Searches traditional media channels (magazines and publications) for keyword mentions. Same procedure as Google News (use "RSS Alert" link) newstrove.com - Searches news articles. Same procedure as Google News (use the "XML" icon on the right) blogdigger.com - Seearches blogs. Same procedure as Google News (use XML icon) daypop.com - Same procedure as Google News news.yahoo.com - Same procedure as Google News. Click "view as RSS" Mirna
You are right, there are hundreds of free tools out there (don’t get me started). I tried not list more here than you included in your post :)

competitious.com – Free service to track changes to competitors sites
alexa.com – traffic estimates top keywords for a website. Good to spy on competitors or find sites to advertise on
quantcast.com – provides demographic data for a website. Good to spy on competitors or find sites to advertise on
compete.com – traffic estimates top keywords for a website. Good to spy on competitors or find sites to advertise on
checkrankings.com – free version tracks your a site’s ranking for up to 10 keywords. Graphs the results
prettylinks – WordPress plugin that cloaks links and tracks the hits each link recieves
edopter.com – Trendcasting. tracks the spread of new trends around the world in real time
twittercounter.com – tracks your twitter followers in a graph
tweetstats.com – tracks your twitter stats
feedburner.com – tracks your RSS feed stats (owned by Google)
pogee-web-consulting.com/tools – tools to track where your Google AdSense ads, Google Adwords and Yahoo ads are being displayed
spyfu.com – competitive analysis info
tynt.com – tracks what is copied from your site and adds a link back if it is posted on another site
sitemeter.com – real time site traffic
getclicky.com – website analytics
aremysitesup.com – website uptime monitoring
247webmonitoring.com – website uptime monitoring
uptimerobot.com – website uptime monitoring
clockingit.com – time clock for time mgt or tracking how long you work on a project

Ego Searches – monitor blogs and news portals for keywords (your company or product or a competitor or their product). Create dynamic RSS feeds that update when the keyword is mentioned
news.google.com/news – do akeyword search in Google News, click on the RSS link and add the RSS URL in your RSS reader
blogpulse.com – Find what is being said about your products, company or industry on blogs. Same procedure as Google News. Provides graph of keyword occurences
pubsub.com – Can direct your search to include only specific areas such as press releases, SEC filings, Newsgroup posts, etc. Same procedure as Google News
technorati.com – Real-time blog search engine. Add keywords to a watch list and use blue RSS icon at the bottom
icerocket.com - Same procedure as Google News
findarticles.com – Searches traditional media channels (magazines and publications) for keyword mentions. Same procedure as Google News (use “RSS Alert” link)
newstrove.com – Searches news articles. Same procedure as Google News (use the “XML” icon on the right)
blogdigger.com – Seearches blogs. Same procedure as Google News (use XML icon)
daypop.com – Same procedure as Google News
news.yahoo.com – Same procedure as Google News. Click “view as RSS”

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