Powerful Reputation Monitoring Tools & Services

People are talking about your business online. Do you know what they’re saying? Online reputation monitoring is the best way to ensure that the chatter is accurate and positive. It can also help you identify trouble so you can fix online reputation issues sooner.

When you manage your online reputation you’ll discover positive stories to share when customers write glowing reviews. You’ll also find unfavorable search results to remove from Google. It’s important to monitor your online reputation with a variety of different channels. Don’t limit your scope to Google and Facebook. Be mindful of every social media site, complaint website, and even image search.

Sound exhausting? It can be. Read on to learn about the brand management tools and processes you can use to simplify reputation monitoring.

Want professional help instead of DIY solutions? Explore our reputation management services, or read this article about choosing the best reputation management company for your needs.

How to Monitor Your Reputation on Social Media

Social media is the new water cooler. People discuss everything on social networks, including your business. Whether they’re leaving Facebook reviews, sharing inspiration on Pinterest, or lodging a complaint on Twitter, customers are talking about you.

Consumers are turning to social media to connect with brands and high profile individuals more than ever. In fact, people now prefer using Twitter for customer service more than a company’s website.

You’ll need to monitor more than just your pages and accounts, but public mentions and comments also. Social media isn’t limited to what you share. What people say about your company also defines your brand’s reputation.

Social Media Reputation Monitoring Tools

Keyhole

Keyhole is the ultimate resource for monitoring your social media and online reputation. Use Keyhole to easily monitor your brand across different social media platforms, and listen for both direct and indirect (‘dark’) mentions of your brand.

Keyhole also monitors news articles, blogs, and discussion websites (like Reddit) and allows you to set up AI-driven Intelligent Notifications that immediately notify you if someone has made a negative post about your brand. Keyhole’s dashboard also gives you key insights into your audience, brand, and competitors, such as sentiment, trending topics, top users or influencers and much more.

Mention

Monitor the entire social web with Mention, a service that monitors millions of sources in 42 different languages. The tool offers analytics, statistics, reports, and more, and you can respond to mentions without even leaving the application as well.

Hootsuite

Hootsuite was made for social media monitoring. This tool allows you to monitor emerging trends, create custom conversation streams, monitor based on geolocation, and much more.

Monitoring Reviews for Reputation Management

Online reviews are great for companies with a strong online reputation. However, a few complaints can really damage a brand. It’s vital to actively monitor review sites so you can identify issues and quickly take action.

You may need to report fake complaints or work with platforms to correct inaccuracies. In the case of employee feedback, you might be able to get them taken down if you can prove they’re false. But, if that’s rarely possible. Read our post about how to remove negative Glassdoor reviews for more tips.

Don’t just monitor the big review sites, like Angi, Google, Yelp and Tripadvisor. Look into niche review websites as well. Stay on top of them all by using the following review monitoring tools. They can even send you updates and let you know any time you get a new review.

Review Monitoring Tools

ReviewPush

monitors the most popular review websites each day. You’ll get an email alert each time someone posts a review about your brand. You can even use this service to ask for new positive reviews.

Review Trackers

helps you listen to what customers are saying online. This tool analyzes reviews from customers on Foursquare, Trip Advisor, Open Table, Google, and more.

Chat Meter

offers an easy way to monitor and respond to online reviews each day. It even looks at the attitude of the reviews your customers are posting and more.

Monitoring Your Reputation on Your Website

Often, the most trusted source of information about your reputation or the reputation of your business is your very own website, which you control. This is great news, as you’re in charge of this resource, and you can manage the information on it.

Of course, it’s important to get a handle on any user generated content to make sure things aren’t getting out of control. Using a commenting platform like Disqus, you can get notifications for upvotes, comment replies, or new comments on articles so that you can stay on top of the conversation on your website.

Monitoring Your Reputation on Google

In addition to social media and review websites, your reputation exists on Google, which is basically the entire rest of the internet. This includes blogs, news websites and even review websites. It’s tougher to pin down monitoring in this area because it is simply so large and spread out, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do it.

Monitoring online allows you to learn about new links, news articles, and more — and finding out right away gives you a chance to respond. Monitoring tools can let you know as soon as a web page has changed, if there’s a new search result for your name, even if someone has used your image.

Online Reputation Monitoring Tools

Google Alerts

If you use just one reputation monitoring tool, Google Alerts is the one. It will tell you about any new mentions of your name, your brand’s name, product names, and anything else you’re concerned about. Check out our guide to setting up a Google Alert for more.

Google Autocomplete

Google’s autocomplete feature can say a lot about what people think about your reputation. When a name or phrase is typed into Google, the search box will automatically pop up with what it thinks might be what users are looking for.

For a company, a bad autocomplete term might be “Your Company fraud” or “Your Company complaints,” but more positive ones would be “Your Company charity” or “Your Company new location.” To take a look at what Google thinks of your reputation, simply go to Google.com and start typing your name to see what pops up.

WatchThatPage

Have a page about you that you’re concerned about? Set up a WatchThatPage alert to find out any time a page on the Internet is updated or changed.

Brand24

Brand24 lets you monitor what people are saying about you across the internet, engage with your audience, extract customer insights, identify sales leads, and monitor competition.