Monitoring your blog and your social media accounts is important. With the right social media monitoring tools, you will be able to see the traffic and stats from social media and your blog. Here are a few of the top tools for monitoring.

<h2>Hootsuite</h2>

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<a href="http://signup.hootsuite.com/signup-upgrade/">Hootsuite</a> may be the most popular social media tool for WordPress. This too will allow you to monitor and manage everything from one dashboard. It will allow you to add teams and team members, along with schedule tweets, posts and so much more. The analytics will show you how well you are engaging on social media and will allow you to see the traffic you receive. 

<h2>Google Analytics</h2>

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It may be free, but it's very powerful. The Google Analytics tool allows you to do quite a bit with tracing pageviews, popular content and more. You will be able to see where your traffic is coming from. 

<h2>Buffer</h2>

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Another very powerful tool is <a href="https://buffer.com/">Buffer</a>. This tool will allow you to share updates on your social accounts, along with schedule the updates for as much time as you want. This service will also show analytics and will allow you to engage better with your users.

<h2>Mention</h2>

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An interesting tool that will allow you to find mentions of your username, <a href="https://en.mention.com/">Mention</a> is a tool will allow you to easily respond to media, customer queries and blogs. You will be able to send alerts and even see the analytics. This is a paid service, but there is a trial you can use to start.

Other social media monitoring tools you can use for WordPress include: 
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<li><a href="https://analytics.pinterest.com/">Pinterest Analytics </a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/analytics?o=U"> YouTube Analytics</a></li>
<li><a href="https://followerwonk.com/">Follower Wonk </a></li>
<li><a href="http://sproutsocial.com/"> Sprout Social</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.icerocket.com/"> Meltwater icerocket</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.beevolve.com/"> Beevolve</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.tailwindapp.com/"> Tailwind</a></li>
<li><a href="http://viralwoot.com/"> ViralWoot</a></li>
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All of these tools can help you track what happens on your WordPress blog. They can all be very helpful in figuring out when and where to share your content.




