You Need to Know What People are Saying About Your Business!
Both of the following sites are easy to use and they are free. They let you know who is talking about you and where. They can help you determine if some social media and Internet marketing techniques are working and they can help see if your online reputation management is positive or negative. These tools will also help you determine if your overall online presence is strong of weak.
123People.com
This site lets you find information about specific people. If you want to know what people are saying about you this is the place to look. There is so much information in one place. Some things 123People looks for:
- Weblinks
- Images
- Videos
- Social Network Profiles
- Emails
- Phone Numbers
- Blog Posts
- Documents
- IMs
- News
WhosTalkin.com
Whostalkin.com is entirely different than 123People. It looks for everything related to your search query, such as keyword phrases, business names, your name or blogs. Where this site looks to find information is broken is down below:
BLOGS
Backtype, Blogdigger, FriendFeed, Google Blog Search, IceRocket, identi.ca, Indianpad, Myspace Blogs, Plazoo, Plurk Social Mention, Technorati, Twitter, WordPress.com
NEWS
Ask News, BBC Google News, ITN, Microsoft Live News, Newspad PRWeb, Techmeme, Topix, Yahoo News
NETWORKS
bebo, Facebook, Friendster, hi5, Last.fm, LinkedIn, Myspace, Netlog, Ning, xanga
VIDEOS
Blinkx, Blip.tv, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Revver, Viddler, Vimeo, Yahoo Video, YouTube
IMAGES
DeviantART, Flickr, Fotki, PhotoBucket, Picasa, SmugMug, Yahoo Image Search
FORUMS
BoardReader, BoardTracker, Omgili
TAGS
Blinklist, Blogmarks, del.icio.us, Faves instablogs, Jumptags, Metafilter, MyWeb, Newsvines, Reddit, WordPress.com
