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How to Track Branded Keywords?

In the world of social media, every user is online sharing their experiences. Your customers too are talking about their experiences. How your customers discuss your product or service online leaves a great impact on your business. It is critical to track branded keywords to understand the context in which your brand is being discussed online. 

How to track Branded Keywords

Most brands, these days, use social listening or have a regular Google check to keep up with the conversations. However, most of them are not receiving much value out of it! Tracking branded keywords brings in a sea of information most of which is noise. Filtering out valuable insights is a form of art. But it is not entirely difficult. With the help of these tricks, you’ll be able to derive the most out of online consumer insights. 

Tracking Branded Keywords

For most marketers, the objective is to find out more about the brand’s position in the market. Tracking branded keywords can help with this and a lot of other metrics like competitive benchmarking, sentiment analysis et cetera. 

Some of the proper ways to track branded keywords are:

Using Google

If your main focus is finding brand mentions on search engines, Google offers powerful solutions. Simply login to Google’s tool – Google Alerts! Set it up for your brand name and it will religiously track down all mentions of your brand across blogs and other articles. 

You can also use Google Analytics to see how queries related to your branded keyword are leading people to visit your website. 

Twitter/Instagram/Facebook Analytics

Managing your brand reputation online also means being aware of your social media reputation. One of the most common ways to check your social media performance is to opt for the platform’s native analytics. 

These tools are perfect for a quick look at the metrics. They tell you about your brand’s engagement rates, basic audience demographics, and even the time of the day/week at which your posts have the maximum engagement. This is all useful information when you’re trying to judge when to post your content or which audience to target. 

Social Listening – The Best Way to Track Branded Keywords

Think of your branded keywords and all the words or phrases related to them. Now imagine how wonderful it would be to have one tool tracking all these keywords at the same time. The tool also goes beyond basic metrics and analyzes the data for you. Does this sound like it would make life easier for you? Social listening tools do exactly what I just mentioned and more. 

You can use social listening to track branded keywords or campaigns or trending hashtags – anything you like. And the features don’t stop at this. 

Social listening helps you:

In addition, Auris presents customizable reports to help brand marketers receive timely updates about actionable insights. Head over to our previous blog posts if any of these use cases particularly interest you. 


Why are Branded Keywords Important?

The secret to the success of every brand marketer/content strategist is branded keywords. Branded keywords are also one of the best bets for an SEO win for any company. These  keywords offer valuable insights like:

  • How many people know about your brand?
  • What is your audience talking about you?
  • Your Top Competitors, and so on…

And chances are, you already know about monitoring branded keywords. However, for most of us, the concept of monitoring our brand is limited to looking for comments mentioning “@ourbrandname”. But that’s not always enough. Sometimes people forget to attach the official handle when talking about your brand. Or they might make a mistake while typing your brand’s name and so on. In such cases, you will miss out on these conversations if you’re only relying on app notifications. And missing out on such conversations can mean missing out on a wealth of information. 

Branded Keywords

What are Branded Keywords?

Technically, a query that includes your brand name or variations of it is called a branded keyword. For instance, Apple, iPhone, iPad, are all brand keywords associated with each other. 

Sometimes, however, branded keywords can be deceptive. Apple itself is a classic example. Without any context, it is difficult to know if a user is talking about the fruit or the brand! This is where we start talking about the role of social listening in analyzing online chatter to better understand your brand’s performance. 

Why are Branded Keywords Important?

The answer to this question seems like a no-brainer. Every business owner, every person, in fact, wants to know what others think of them or their brand. Marketers, however, worry about SEO and SERP when they think of brand performance. Branded keywords often aren’t the first metric marketers think of. But they should. Here’s why:

  • Direct access to more meaningful conversations. People are overwhelmingly invested in social media these days. Naturally, they share each experience with friends and family over social media. Filtering relevant data from here can offer a world of insights for companies. 
  • Monitoring branded keywords help you to listen to every conversation around your brand whether or not the user tags your brand’s official handle. And when you listen to every customer/lead and take the appropriate action, you make them feel valued. This helps you build a healthy relationship with the customer. 
  • Brand-related keywords also are a powerful tool to spy on your competitors. Monitoring the chatter around the keyword – [‘your brand name’ competitors] or [‘your brand name’ alternatives] can highlight what your competitors are up to. 
  • Most importantly, branded keywords inform you about your customers’ sentiments. Measuring your brand’s share of voice and customer sentiment are two critical steps. Measuring the brand’s share of voice lets you know how many people are talking about you. While listening to customer sentiments tells you how they feel about your brand. What do they like, and what do they not like? These insights further help you to improve customer service or your products or whatever is the pain point. 

Trying to get a comprehensive hold of your brand’s marketing and operations? Tracking branded keywords is one of the key steps. Social media intelligence tools like Auris can help you through the entire process. Want to experience the tool? Take it for a trial run!