Monitoring your social media presence

If you use social media to market your business, chances are you want to know everytime your brand or business gets a mention. You might even want to keep an eye on what is said about your competitors?

But how?

Well there are a couple of really handy (and free!) tools which will monitor the internet for your keywords and then let know what’s been said about you.

First up there is Google Alerts; simply visit http://www.google.com/alerts choose what you want Google to notify you of, and how often, type in your email address and press create.

Next up, is Social Mention. It’s actually very similar to Google Alerts and you’ll find it at http://www.socialmention.com