Find Where Your Content Is Being Shared on Social Media

One of my favorite things to do is check out who’s been sharing my stuff on social media (it’s a nice boost to the ole ego.) And hey, it’s a great way to find new places to strategically share your content or give the share a boost. I use the following bagful of tricks to find the presence of my blog posts and articles on social media.

How to Find Your Content Reposted on Pinterest

Pinterest is the easiest social media network to work with in terms of finding whether your stuff has been shared.

To find out what stuff from your blog has been shared on Pinterest, put http://www.pinterest.com/source/ in your address bar, followed by your blog’s URL (without the HTTP and WWW stuff.) For example, my URL is melbel.hubpages.com. To see which of my articles people have shared on Pinterest, I go to http://www.pinterest.com/source/melbel.hubpages.com/ and voilà!

How to Track Retweets on X/Twitter

X is slightly more painful than Pinterest. If you have a badge on each of your blog posts, like I do, you can just click the number, and it’ll take you to some of the tweets users have made. If you don’t, this is where the pain comes in.

You can search X for various URLs of blog posts. For example, if I want to see who has tweeted about my Michigan Accent article, I search Twitter for the URL of my article. You can also search for the title of your article, which is especially helpful if you have a somewhat unique title.

Tracking Your Shared Content on Facebook

Let’s face it, Facebook is nobody’s friend right now when it comes to marketing on social media. Many users have private pages (and rightfully so), and this makes the search process even more difficult. You can search on Facebook, but its search function isn't going to bring you very specific results.

This is where our friend Google comes in. Enter your search term. You can search for a URL, but if you’re using the title of your blog post, put it in quotes and then end the query with site:facebook.com.

Reddit

If you’ve been blessed by the Reddit gods and somehow ended up with your stuff on Reddit, I bow before you. This trick is just like the Pinterest one. Just tack on your domain name at the end of http://www.reddit.com/domain/. As in http://www.reddit.com/domain/yoursite.com/

Where to Get All Your Stats at Once

For a quick and dirty look at how many shares a specific page has across several social media sites, check out SharedCount and punch in your URL. You’ll get a rough number of social shares across various social media sites.


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