Ahrefs is happy to announce the launch of a new tool - Mentions Tracker. A feature-rich pack of Ahrefs SEO tools is now supplemented by an option to effectively track fresh links and mentions (updated every hour) about your brand across news, blogs, and forums. How to Benefit from Ahrefs Mentions Tracker
In short, Mentions Tracker enables you to discover the most recent mentions of your brand or relevant terms and act fast based on the results.
- Enlarge your reach: find recent mentions of your brand which you’re not linked to and claim these links. This includes possibilities of press coverage (and building relationships with bloggers), brand growth, improvement of customer service and direct traffic.
- Enhance your content strategy: discover new topics for content creation based on the found mentions.
- Track your competition: find competitors’ link growth pace compared with yours, sources mentioning your competitors that potentially can mention you as well.
- Audit your links: find paid links, sponsored posts, SEO / social / PR campaign activities of your colleagues, and even negative SEO.
All the above is supported by an option to overview all trends relevant to you via a comprehensive reporting of Mentions Tracker - no seasonal changes to remain uncovered.
How to Use Ahrefs Mentions Tracker
The data grabbed by Mentions Tracker covers the recent time (up to 3 months but only one week in beta) within which you are shown not just a few links but a snippet with the context they are found in. Social metrics for every URL are included.
Besides, you can save a number of queries to use them automatically in the future.
To unlock the full potential of Ahrefs Mentions Tracker, be prepared to make a good use of search operators: site, link, intitle, lang, quotes, minus sign, |, etc. For example, ‘Match phrase exactly’ operator (double quotes around your search term or phrase) enables Mentions Tracker to return results with a phrase found exactly as you searched for it:
Let’s take "dancing with the stars" - it gives us the result found as in the following:
Kickin Country – Kellie Pickler, Wynonna Hit Late Night Talk Shows After Dancing With the Stars Debut
http://mykickincountry.com/kellie-pickler-wynonna-hit-late-night-talk-shows-after-dancing-with-the-stars-debut/ March 20, 2013 Kellie Pickler and Wynonna are following up their debuts on ABC’s Dancing With the Stars with late night TV appearances. Related » @mykickincountry So, I got myself a new dog recently. It took me awhile to name her, but I finally ...
In case with 'Match phrase exactly' and ‘OR’ combined (OR, | - search operators to combine the searched terms)
— "paid subscription"|"paid account" - we get both variants:
Want to try out App.net for free? Here's 200 invitations! | iMore.com
http://www.imore.com/want-try-out-appnet-free-heres-200-invitations ... , and it's smart to let people try it out for themselves and get a feel for it before deciding to go all-in on a paid account. Until recently, however, invitations were limited and could be hard to come by. So, ADN has reached out to iMore, and other ...
Microsoft to cooperate with feds in bribery, kickback probe | The Industry Standard - InfoWorld
http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/microsoft-cooperate-feds-in-bribery-kickback-probe-214829 ... on that theme in a longer blog post Tuesday, was responding to a report in today's Wall Street Journal ( paid subscription required ) that an executive in Microsoft's China subsidiary told a partner to offer officials kickbacks in return for signing ...
Also, Mentions Tracker supports ‘intitle:’ and ‘site:’ search operators:
intitle:"facebook graph search" (search for the phrase in titles of articles)
Facebook Graph Search: The Good, The Bad, The UGLY! | A+ Computer Professionals
http://www.acomputerpro.org/seo/facebook-graph-search-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/ ... The What of Facebook Graph Search, which launched in January 2013. Graph Search was hardly a surprise to many of us, yet its implementation to date has been interesting. If well-understood, it can be leveraged by… Please visit Search Engine Land for ...
site:bbc.co.uk (limits the search scope to a particular domain)
BBC News - Oxford University Harlem Shake librarian 'sacked'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-21847581 Share this page Oxford University Harlem Shake librarian 'sacked' About 30 students took part in a version of the internet dance craze Students at an Oxford college have called for the reinstatement of a librarian who they say was sacked after the ...
ahrefs -bot -AhrefsBot -link:ahrefs.com lang:en (search for articles in English mentioning Ahrefs excluding the words‘bot’ and ‘AhrefsBot’ and without link to ahrefs.com)
Google Webmaster Tools | Webmaster Forum - SEO Forum, Marketing Forum, Hosting Forum and More!
http://webmasterpeak.com/threads/google-webmaster-tools.1500/ ... Webmaster tools is great but make sure that you don't rely exclusively on it for your SEO activities. For instance, I use ahrefs for checking backlinks to my sites since Google Webmaster tools may not index them fast enough or in some cases do not ...
Such an ability to quickly access the overview of a large amount of recent mentions sorted by source and date can make a huge difference for your content or brand development.
More options on the way!
