1. Prospecting/Monitoring Tools Tools to research topic performance: Track Maven Reports number of times competitors are blogging Number of social shares each post receives Compares against your blogging/shares RankUr Monitors social networks, identifies influencers Monitors news, blogs, etc for mentions Tools to research influencers: FollowerWonk --------------------------------------------------- Google+ = Circle Count (no charge) Twitter = Social Oomph Facebook = EdgeRank Checker Instagram = Iconsquare Pinterest = Pinalerts (no charge) Copyright 2015 Alliance-Link.com @debramastaler

2. Prospecting/Monitoring Tools Best (and most overlooked) prospecting tool: Hashtags. Tagboard: Uses hashtags to search for and collect public social media within seconds of being published on Instagram, Twitter, Google Plus, Facebook, Vine and Flickr. HashTagIt: Search engine for hashtags, pulls from Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram Copyright 2015 Alliance-Link.com @debramastaler

3. Prospecting/Monitoring Tools To find where an individual website is getting its traffic from: (yours or competitors) SimilarWeb SEMRush (shows which words are sending traffic) Quantcast.com* Copyright 2015 Alliance-Link.com @debramastaler

4. Prospecting/Monitoring Tools Find well ranked/well linked pages to host your content Majestic Ahrefs Link Risk BuzzStream RankSignals (no charge) Copyright 2015 Alliance-Link.com @debramastaler Link Risk integrates with Majestic/Ahrefs