Comments on: Trackur – Online Reputation Monitoring Tool

By: Paolo Amoroso

Paolo Amoroso — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:41:08 +0000

Web mashup development systems such as Yahoo! Pipes make it possible to build useful, specialized reputation monitoring tools. As an example, I have created a pipe for keeping track of online media coverage (news, photos and videos) of ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli: http://pipes.yahoo.com/amoroso/nespoliscope

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:52:43 +0000

Been using G’s alerts for a little while, also always found them to be not as capable as they could be.
I’m wondering what other social/tracking/alert systems are out there too.

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:00:57 +0000

@Reginald – Google is full of examples. Search for “Dell Hell” and you’ll see the most famous example. :-)

By: Reginald

Reginald — Sun, 25 May 2008 02:05:15 +0000

Andy Beal,

What exactly do you mean by being ruined by an attack from a blogger?

How exactly is this done?

Do you have some examples?

By: Sandy Naidu

Sandy Naidu — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:16:54 +0000

Though I am not ready to sign up for it yet, I can see huge potential for it…Especially for companies it can be such a valuable investment (valuable and not expensive)…

By: Reginald

Reginald — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:16:43 +0000

Based on your post, am I to assume that Trackur should be used in conjunction with Google; or should one devote yourself to Trackur and get rid of Google?

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:26:50 +0000

Thanks for the post Darren!

If you spend any amount in online advertising, then $18 per month is a small percentage to ensure your hard work is not ruined by an attack from a blogger. :-)

By: Sangesh

Sangesh — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:04:26 +0000

Well, if Trackur gives a detailed information on my traffic then I wouldn’t hesitate in signing up with Trackur. We can always take the better options rather than sticking to just any one.

Cheers.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:02:09 +0000

What will they think of next. I’m afraid that I’m not quite to the point where I need something like that, would be great if I was. However, I’m working hard on it and look forward to the day I need such a tool. I think I’ll bookmark this page if nothing else but to keep me motivated. Thanks.

By: Soccer Dad

Soccer Dad — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:32:23 +0000

I agree with the alerts being flaky. I setup a few RSS feeds to track my site name, my name, some keywords as Darren suggested in an earlier post a couple weeks ago. The stuff that came in, even using ‘Sort by date’ in the original search was mostly junk. Tons of slog spam, Some REALLY old stuff. I didn’t find much useful – granted I’m not exactly ‘A’ list – I did it out of curiosity. But still surprised at the random stuff Google was spewing out.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:30:32 +0000

Never tried google alerts before… what do you do when you find that someone has scraped your site?

And also yes, I will be sticking with free tools for now.. :-)

By: sejur

sejur — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:30:09 +0000

let’s check it out

By: On Stage Lighting

On Stage Lighting — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:17:28 +0000

Thanks for the heads up.

Google Alerts is pretty flaky, as Darren points out. I have found exactly the same problems with GA. However, such a tool is becoming vital for bloggers and a professional level one is quite attractive.

I wonder if Google won’t just up it’s game. Here hoping.

Rob

By: blog4net

blog4net — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:13:13 +0000

This is a nice tool i did not know about. thanks for the post. i will check out google alerts also..

:-)

By: Joy

Joy — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:21:05 +0000

Interesting tool. Thanks for posting about it! I’ll definitely try it for a couple of clients who are in the medical industry ['word of mouth' and online testimonials/forums can either make or break a sale for them]. As for individual use, I’m not sure I’ll have use for this as of yet.

By: Ryan Mac

Ryan Mac — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:03:37 +0000

Interesting post.
I will consider using this for my blog. But not until my financial blog becomes a bit more well known (it’s still in the beginning stages)…
Thanks for all the info Darren

By: Neil Duckett

Neil Duckett — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:02:13 +0000

I had started using this method unofficialy for a project i have going and am now glad to see it’s a proven method … glad to know i was on the right track.