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5 Useful Yahoo! Pipes to Monitor Your Brand

Source: Search Engine Journal

Nov 04, 2009

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After Yahoo! SiteExplorer and Flickr, Yahoo! Pipes is the third reason why I love Yahoo! so much.

Surprisingly, I come across too many people who have no idea how to use Yahoo! Pipes and what one can do with them.

This post is meant remind us of some huge possibilities behind the tool: here are 5 great Yahoo! Pipes that can be used for brand monitoring for competitive research and reputation management:

Pipe URL
Aggregated sites
Best feature

Social Media Firehose
yahoo.com,

google.com, technorati.com,

twitter.com, blogspot.com,

youtube.com,

wordpress.com
Search for multiple terms at a time (comma separated)

Conventional & Social Media Tracker
News sites [Google, Yahoo, Live]; Blogs [Google Blog Search, Bloglines, Wordpress blog search, Technorati]; Social media [Twitter, Friendfeed, Youtube, Digg, Metafilter, Wired]
Set the timeframe

Social Site Submission Watch Dog
Digg, Reddit
Domain backlinks from social media sites

Content Keyword RSS
Digg, Technorati, Yahoo News, PRWeb, and Google News
Filters out identical content

Meta Search Alerts
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