Twitter Alpha One Tip - Discover Missing Website Mentions

Discover Missing Website Mentions With IFTTT

Twitter does a great job of letting you know when someone mentions you in a tweet. However, it doesn’t notify you when someone mentions your website without mentioning your Twitter username. You might be surprised by how many hidden mentions you have!

Here’s how to find missing website mentions with Twitter Search and IFTTT.

Do a Twitter Search

In the Twitter search box, enter your web address (including the http:// or https://), followed by a space, a dash (-), and your Twitter username. For example, for Social Media Examiner you’d enter: http://socialmediaexaminer.com/ -smexaminer.

Search Twitter for website mentions without username mentions.

When you add a dash before a word, that word is excluded from the search. In this case, you’re excluding your Twitter username so the results don’t include mentions or replies. There’s no point in including mentions in the search because you’ve already been notified of them in Notifications.

After you run your search, you’ll see tweets that link to your website but don’t mention your company’s Twitter handle.

Review your search results to see who has tweeted links to your website without mentioning your Twitter handle.

Now you know what people are tweeting about your website and you can start engaging with users to generate leads and opportunities to build relationships.

Set Up an Email Notification

Manually searching Twitter every day for missing website mentions can be time-consuming. With IFTTT, you can set up a recipe so you’ll automatically receive an email notification when someone tweets a link to your website.

To get started, set up a free IFTTT account. Then click on My Recipes, followed by the Create a Recipe button.

Create a new recipe in IFTTT.

First you’re going to create the trigger, which is when there’s a new search result for your website mention in Twitter. To do this, click the This link.

First choose the trigger channel for your recipe.

Then choose Twitter for the trigger channel. Start typing Twitter in the search box and click the Twitter icon when it appears.

On the next page, select the New Tweet from Search option for the trigger.

Now it’s time to use the Twitter search query you used above: Enter your website URL, followed by space, a dash, and then your Twitter username. When you’re finished,click the Create Trigger button.

Enter the Twitter search text for the trigger.

The next step is to create the action for the recipe. This is the part of the recipe that will send the email to you. Click on the That link in the “If This Then That” text.

Select Mail for the action channel by typing “mail” in the search box and then clicking the Email icon.

Choose the action channel for your recipe.

On the next screen, select Send Me an Email for the action.

Now, you’ll compose the email that’s triggered when someone links to your website in a tweet. You can choose the wording for the subject and body of the email. Be sure to include the username of the author of the tweet, the tweet text, and the link to the tweet itself (so you can click on that link to reply).

To add this information, click on the blue flask icon to the right of each field. Here’s an example.

Create your alert email for Twitter website mentions.

When you’re finished, click Create Action. The next screen shows your finished recipe. Once you click Create Recipe, your alert service is set up.

If you receive a lot of these alerts, it’s a good idea to set up a filter for these messages in your email app. You can move these alerts automatically to a special folder so that they don’t clog up your inbox. At set times each day, you can go through your website alerts and respond to them quickly and easily.

Great article by Social Media Examiner.  

Link:
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/6-productivity-tools-for-twitter/awt_l=NEyMw&awt_m=3VJKM7Kn_6r.ILT

Thanks,

Danna

http://alphaoneinnovations.com
danna@alphaoneinnovations.com

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