Backtype, the web comment tracking service (where you’d better register to claim your comments and report fake comments) has a really nice feature that allows to monitor any keyword in a comment: Comment Alerts.
Basically, it sends you an email alert listing the comments where your phrase has been mentioned.
Here’s how it can be useful:
- Monitor your reputation (personally answer all comments mentioning your company name);
- Get more post ideas (Comments are the best source of cool story ideas);
- Get additional help with keyword research (notice where your base terms are usually mentioned and which words tend to surround it).
Let’s see how this works:
- Login to BackType and click “Alerts” at the top of the page;
- You should land at the dashboard where your future alert summaries will appear:
- In the right-hand sidebar, type in your terms to track and set the email alert frequency: Once a day, Instantly (As they happen), Once a week, Never Dashboard only):
- Depending on your settings you will now be receiving email alerts containing your search term:
just after google buzz about its integration with twitter to show real time searches , many big players are gearing up with the products or features of their own :)
Anyways this seems to be interesting.
I think its a great service. But is there any software/service that allows to monitor any keyword in a title of a blog post? and not in a comment.
I think a mix of keyword alert in a blog post title+in comments would be great.
Ann, thanks for the great post.
Indu, while alerts are for mentions in comments, search on the site itself is for what’s being said about that topic. It includes the post, comments, and more to try find the best conversations.