10 great tools for tracking mentions of your brand across the web.

If your brand or website are engaged in social media you´re most likely already tracking what people are saying about you on the web. The tools listed below can be used for a variety of things, like tracking mentions of your social self. Or, to see who is talking about you or your brand on twitter. I tested each one of these, and they all give different results. I would suggest that you do the same to see which tool suits your needs.

The social mention search results page is great. It gives you plenty of information on your brand, including sentiment, top keywords, top hashtags, post rank, sources, and all links that point toward the mention that you are searching for. There are also alerts and a widget you can place on your site.

Try it: ^— http://socialmention.com/ ^—

uberVU is relatively new and still in beta. The interface is nice, showing graphs and stats of mentions. There is also a Firefox plugin for Google reader called gReactions.

Quoted from thier webpage - Find out what people are saying about brands, stories or events. And follow the comments all over the social web. * on blogs, Twitter, Digg, FriendFeed and many more

Try it: ^— http://www.ubervu.com/ ^—

Topsy shows your top retweeted links and the people who retweeted you most. You can track by the month, week, day, even hour to narrow down your search. Topsy displays your twitter avatar and bio if you search for your twitter username. If you are a highly influential user it will mention so below your profile.

Try it: ^— http://topsy.com/ ^—

Quoted from the page - Keep track of conversations that mention you, your products, your company, anything, with hourly updates! You can even keep track of who´s tweeting your website or blog, even if they use a shortened URL (like bit.ly or tinyurl.com). Now, how cool is that?!

Try it: ^— http://tweetbeep.com/ ^—

Tweetvolume is an interesting tool. It let´s you compare different keywords from across twitter and displays the results for you in the form of a graph.

Try it: ^— http://www.tweetvolume.com/ ^—

Google alerts searches the web to find mentions of your chosen keywords and sends you an email of the results.

Try it: ^— http://www.google.com/alerts ^—

Yahoo alerts offers up a list that you might choose from, it includes daily and local news, blogs and more. They keep a list of the most popular alerts. There is also an alert button that can be added to your blog or website

Try it: ^— http://alerts.yahoo.com/ ^—

egoSurf tracks your keyword or brand and rates your search results using a points ranking system. It gives you all the links to the mentions for you to inspect.

Try it: ^— http://www.egosurf.org/ ^—

Social Media Firehose

The authors description -
This is a social media search for tracking brand or product mentions on a slew of social media sites, including flickr, twitter, friendfeed, digg etc. It taps into their search APIs directly, so it´s much more immediate and comprehensive than say, Google alerts.

Try it: ^— social_media_fire_hose ^—

Socialseek by sensidea is a desktop application that runs on adobe air. It is a very powerful search tool that gives you results from twitter, YouTube, blogs, Flikr and events. There is a cool graph built into the software that shows you the dates and times when your brand was mentioned the most.

Try it: ^— sensidea.com/socialseek/ ^— via: techcrunch