{"id":13735,"date":"2014-02-17T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shareaholic.com\/?p=13735"},"modified":"2014-05-13T11:29:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:29:24","slug":"monitor-your-brand-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/monitor-your-brand-online\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Monitor Your Brand Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Quick-Tip-of-the-Week-How-to-Monitor-Your-Brand-Online.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16009\" title=\"Quick Tip of the Week -- How to Monitor Your Brand Online\" alt=\"Quick Tip of the Week -- How to Monitor Your Brand Online\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Quick-Tip-of-the-Week-How-to-Monitor-Your-Brand-Online.png\" width=\"560\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not narcissistic: staying on top of your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/personal-branding\/\">personal brand<\/a> is crucial to your success as a blogger. Knowing what people are saying about you and how they are linking to your site could be the difference between a social media crisis and a small conflict, or an awesome business opportunity and silence from a brand you\u2019re trying to work with.<\/p>\n<p>To try to stay on top of all the incoming links to your blog, you may think that Google is best\u2014after all, you can sign up for alerts to email you whenever you are mentioned online. Not so fast\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordstream.com\/blog\/ws\/2012\/04\/10\/google-alerts\">Google Alerts doesn\u2019t always catch everything<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To stay on top of your online brand, you need to have something else: <a href=\"https:\/\/shareaholic.com\/publishers\/analytics\/\">Shareaholic Analytics<\/a>. In our Top Incoming Links Report, you can see who is linking to your website or blog over the past day, week or month. Using this report actually saved us before\u2014we were featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/holykaw.alltop.com\/\">Alltop Blog<\/a> last March, but never received a Google Alert about it, even though our name was clearly stated in the post. Fortunately, we checked Shareaholic Analytics and saw we were getting traffic from the Alltop Blog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-3.31.27-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13736\" title=\"Top Incoming Links Report by Shareaholic featuring Alltop\" alt=\"Top Incoming Links Report by Shareaholic featuring Alltop\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-3.31.27-PM.png\" width=\"481\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-3.31.27-PM.png 601w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-3.31.27-PM-335x400.png 335w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-3.31.27-PM-251x300.png 251w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-26-at-3.31.27-PM-300x358.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you see that people are linking to your blog, it\u2019s up to you to take action! Whether you\u2019re looking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/grow-your-blogging-network\/\">grow your blog network<\/a> or leave a nice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/blog-comment-etiquette\/\">comment on their blog<\/a>, our Top Incoming Links Report will help you keep track of your blog\u2019s brand online.<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Like \u201cQuick Tips\u201d like this? Stay tuned for next week\u2019s tip. Better yet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/shareaholic-email-signup\/\">subscribe below<\/a> so you never miss a post from us.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/shareaholic-email-signup\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Shareaholic Email Signup\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/shareaholic-newsletter-cta.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>p.s.\u00a0Interested in joining the Shareaholic team? <a href=\"https:\/\/shareaholic.com\/careers\">See our available gigs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not narcissistic: staying on top of your personal brand is crucial to your success as a blogger. 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