Request: Feedback on new free tool that provides social analytics for recent blog posts

[AdamThompson]

We have created a tool that provides "at a glance social metrics" for the URLs listed in an RSS feed. Its intended purposes are:

1. Monitor the social success of your recent blog posts
2. Spy on the social success of your competitors' recent blog posts
3. Quickly analyze a blog for social sharing metrics to determine whether it is a good outreach prospect or guest post opportunity

Check out the tool at http://www.rypmarketing.com/tools/rss-social-analyzer.php

I've attached a report run on the YouMoz RSS feed.

Would love to hear some feedback on the tool...

• Do you think the tool is useful? Nice, but not worthwhile?
• What could be done to improve it?
• What ways do you think it will be most useful?

Thanks!

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[danatanseo]

Woohoo! Thumbs up! Great job, I love it!  I am jealous because I wish I could build something as cool. Nice job.

[MoosaHemani]

Adam, you asked for a feedback so I will try to be as honest as possible so that things that are missing can be added and over all it should be improved.

I would love to call it a blog tracking tool.. the only idea that immediately comes in my mind is to look in to the competitor and see what they are up to and what audience reaction they are getting against different post in the past few weeks and months... this can help one write what is significantly hot these days... but what about the following updates?

• You give the stats of facebook share, like, tweet, SU, reddit... which you can easily and quality find from other services like sharedcount.com. Dont you think it will be great if you can come up with a formula or something that calculate the total social power of a blog post...
• If you go a little deep in to the post and pick up keywords from it... you will be able to feature the top 5 powerful keywords that the blog you are looking for is targeting...this will be a feature that most people will like.
• How about getting a data from Majestic free API and feature the top 5 links they recently get against their posts. (This is a rough idea but it can be fine tuned to make it beneficial for targeted audience and off-course for you!)

If you can include more features to it... this really can get a pickup by people in the industry! I honestly don’t see any paid value for it but as a free tool this can go good!

[AdamThompson]

Moosa, thanks so much for the feedback!

"services like sharedcount.com"
I use sharedcount.com a lot - this tool differs because you don't have to enter each blog post url manually. It's designed to give you social metrics for all recent blog posts at a glance, without copying and pasting a bunch of URLs.

"calculate the total social power of a blog post"
We could create a simple total of social shares, but it may be more misleading than accurate. I think to accurately calculate social power, you would need to calculate the social power of each user that shared the post. I like the idea, but am unsure whether it's practical to do that for a free, on-demand tool like this. (For example, if you examined an RSS feed that had 10 posts with an average of 500 shares each, we would have to fetch and/or calculate the power of up to 5,000 users for a single query.)

"top 5 powerful keywords"
Interesting idea, thanks.

"data from Majestic free API"
Another interesting idea. Challenging, because in many cases the posts will only be hours or days old and Majestic and SEOmoz won't yet have crawled the pages and/or backlinks for them. But maybe could be useful. Thanks!

[AdamThompson]

Thanks!