How To Track Social Media Traffic of Your Blog

Nowadays, visits from various social media sites contribute a large chunk of total traffic received by a blog. We invest lot of our time in social media marketing without analyzing which social media platforms are giving the best results and where we should invest more of our energy to get the maximum benefits. Fortunately, Google Analytics provides some powerful options to monitor social media referrals.

There are several methods to view social media referrals via Google Analytics. Below are the 3 most common methods to see SM referral data. One of these methods requires Firefox add-on, while other one requires a simple filter to exclude traffic other than coming from social media sites

Check Page Rank & Generate Pagerank Button

If you'd like to add a pagerank button that displays the current Google PageRank of your web site right to your web pages, please use the Page rank checker  to generate the HTML code for the page rank icon that you can put to your web page, where you want the page ranking image to appear

Polldaddy : The most powerful and easy-to-use survey software around.

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Create stunning surveys, polls, and quizzes in minutes with Polldaddy. Collect responses via your website,
e-mail, iPad, Facebook, and Twitter. Generate and share easy-to-read reports.

Build highly Social Real-time apps

Echo is a hosted database bundled with a collection of extensible javascript clients designed for developers to quickly build real-time web applications.
Echo is capable of capturing all sorts of "social" content generated by users on your site and across the web (e.g. Tweets, Comments, Articles, and any similar data).
With Echo you can develop applications such as highly customized real-time commenting systems, "Topic Radars" (live display of photos, Tweets, articles for a given event or topic), real-time Forums, Live Blogging, live photo galleries, and other custom applications.

Feedjit Live Web Traffic Widget

Feedjit is offering a widget that provides information about who is visiting your blog or website. An entry is posted to the widget everytime a person arrives at your website and again when the person leaves

Blog Widgets box

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Box the web

Add engagement to your site, aggregate your content,
and grow your audience with dynamic web widgets.

Put one of these blog widgets on MySpace, Blogger, Facebook, WordPress, TypePad, iGoogle or your favorite website.