Today we saw a beautiful rainbow develop as the gray mist faded away and the afternoon sun took hold of the early evening. Gorgeous. It reminded me of that song rainbow connection. Classic. Here’s a list of my favorite sites that help with connections.
Red: Traffic n’ brand connection
- HowSociable? – Measures the visibility of your brand
- Compete – Measures traffic, more of a sampling site that allows you to compare sites and their trends.
- Addict-o-matic – Aggregates rss feeds
- socialmention – A social media search engine that searches blogs and presents a ranking.
- domaintools.com – Allows you to see who owns what domain and some of the basic rankings in SEO, Alexa, Compete, wiki, aboutus, etc…
- aboutus.org - give you a good overview of a site if it has been indexed and pulls in the mentions on major social networks.
Yellow: Search Tools
- TECHNORATI Search – Technorati’s new search interface. Use it to find top blogs based upon inbound links only.
- TECHNORATI Advanced – Technorati’s advanced search page.
- Google Blog Search – Google’s index of blog posts.
- IceRocket – Blog search tool
- BlogPulse – Search for blog posts by keyword.
- Google Insights – allows you to look up keyword trending.
Orange: Buzz a buzz a bee!
- Serph – Track buzz in real time
- Google Trends – shows amount of searches and news under specific keywords
- Trendpedia – Create charts showing discussion volumes
- BlogPulse Trends – Compare the mentions of specific keywords and phrases in blogs
- Omgili Charts – Omgili Buzz Graphs let you measure and compare the Buzz of any term. Mostly from review sites/forums.
- eKstreme – blog data is obtained from Technorati and the social bookmarks come from del.icio.us.
- Twitter Sentiment
- Twendz
- Twitrratr
- Yahoo Buzz
- Google Buzz
Green: Twitter Search Tools
- Twitter Search – Search keywords
- Twittercounter - Measures and compares twitter accounts
- Twitstat – Twitter Tweitgeist – Tag cloud for last 500 Tweets
- TweetScan – search for words on Twitter
- Twit(url)y – see what people are talking about on Twitter
- Hashtags – Realtime Tracking of Twitter Hashtags
- TweetBeep – Track mentions of your brand on Twitter in real time.
- Twitrratr – Rates mentions of your search term on Twitter as positive/neutral/negative
- TweetMeme – View the most popular Twitter threads occurring now.
- TwitScoop – Through an automated algorithm, twitscoop crawls hundreds of tweets every minute and extracts the words which are mentioned more often than usual and creates a tag cloud.
- Twilert – Twitter application that lets you receive regular email updates of tweets containing your brand, product, service.
- TweetSpinner – Tool for automating your twitter and evaluating your followers based on mimicking and keyword follows
- Twitterholic – Great tool to rank twitter accounts locally..when it’s working.
- SocialOomph – Probably one of my favorite twitter and social tools out there.
- Who’s Following who – Great tool to figure out who’s following you and anyone else for that matter.
Blue: Traffic
- Compete – Competitor site traffic reports. Estimates only of monthly visitor data. Best used on large high-traffic Web sites.
- Quantcast – Useful if the site reports their traffic or is a high volume site.
- Alexa – Comparative site traffic reports. Includes estimated reach, rank and page views.
- domaintools.com – Allows you to see who owns what domain and some of the basic rankings in SEO, Alexa, Compete, wiki, aboutus, etc…
- BlogFlux Page Rank – Tells you Google Page Rank for a web page. Use this to compare different websites.
Purple: Search Data
- Google Trends – Search trends and see search volume by country and region.
- Google Insights – Compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames.
- Wordtracker Keywords – Displays average daily search volume of a given keyword or phrase.
- Yahoo! Keyword Tool – Displays search volumes for specific keywords and phrases for previous month’s search data.
- FACEBOOK LEXICON – Displays volume of wall postings for specific term(s). Similar to Google Trends.
- Google Keyword Tool – Generate keyword ideas for related keywords and search volumes.
- Adsense – You have to set up an account (note, you don’t have to pay) but Adsense has valuable tools and insights to what people search for and what each term is worth.
Gray: Multimedia Search
- YouTube – Search for videos and channels by keyword.
- MetaCafe – High-traffic video search engine.
- Google Advanced Video Search – Search for videos
- Flickr – Search Flickr for photos, groups or people/users.
- Truveo – Aggregate video search engine. Search videos from YouTube, MySpace, and AOL.
- Viral Video Chart – Displays top 20 most-viewed video
- Guardian’s Viral Video Chart – Weekly roundup of what’s excellent on the web
Black: Social Bookmarking
- Digg – Social Bookmarking
- StumbleUpon – Social bookmarking
- Delicious – Social bookmarking
- reddit: – Social bookmarking
Additional little Gems:
Feeds
- Yahoo Pipes – Feed aggregator and manipulator. Best part – Cloning.
- Feedburner – Aggregation service with tracking!
URL crunchin’
- Bit.ly – URL cruncher with dashboard metrics enabling measurement of number of clicks, countries clicked from, conversations around url etc
Specific Social Network Trackin’
- Adonomics – Facebook analytics and developer application tracking and graphing.
- PageRank – Measures all of your social media endeavors.
Search Engine rankin’
- PageRank Checker – Shows Google page ranking
Advertising and Event Trackin’
- MediaHound – Competitive tracking and analysis