A small but useful update to announce. You can now filter results by date–which is a great option for those compiling reports to send to their clients. Look for the new date option on the top right of your dashboard.

Please keep in mind that Trackur isn’t a search index, so you’ll only see date based results if you’re account was set up to monitor during that time period. In other words, you can’t review results from June 2008, if you only signed up for Trackur in May of this year.

We’re convinced that Trackur is the easiest and fastest reputation monitoring tool you’ll ever use. To prove it, we want you to take the 60-Second Challenge.

Take Trackur for a free, no-obligation trial and, if you’re not monitoring within 60 seconds, we’ll double the capacity of any account you purchase!

This video explains how the 60-Second Challenge works:

So everything is now back to normal. What happened?

Well, think of Trackur and our hosting company as two partners that were getting ready to go out for dinner. One of them wasn’t quite ready, and instead of the other being patient and loving, it said “to heck with this, I’m going without you!” Not very nice, right?

Anyway, they’ve kissed and made-up and have promised to better communicate the next time they go out to dinner.

Thanks for your patience!

Just letting you know that our hosting company is experiencing some errors at this time (2pm ET) and are working to restore everything.

This should only effect a small number of users, but we’ll let you know when all is fully functional.

UPDATE: 5:13pm ET - No users should still be seeing errors. We are still experiencing some slowness with new search queries, so we’re working to get things back up to speed. Thanks for your patience!

Andy

We have two Trackur updates to share with you.

First, with our Enterprise and Agency level accounts, you’ll now see your dashboard results updating every 30-minutes! We previously provided updates every hour, so you can see this is a big improvement.

Second, on all account levels you can now drag and arrange the order of your saved searches. Now you can place your most important saved searches first, or organize alphabetically if you so desire.

If you’d like to suggest a new feature for Trackur, please head here.

Cheers!

Wow, what an honor. Trackur has been named to Mashable’s Top 10 Reputation Tracking Tools Worth Paying For.

While we’re listed at #5, the author states that his list is in no particular order, so we’re absolutely thrilled to be listed. Even more so, when you consider that Trackur’s $18 a month service is mentioned alongside the high-dollar services offered by BuzzLogic, Radian6, and Visible Technologies.

If you’ve not yet had a chance to try Trackur for yourself, now’s the time to set up your free 14-day trial and see for yourself why folks are raving about our social media monitoring tools!

Thanks Mashable!

While discussing a European company that had just received venture funding, TechCrunch’s Robin Wauters throws out a recommendation for Trackur!

There are far better tools out there for online reputation tracking and management, in my opinion. One example is Trackur, which offers advanced tools to monitor social media.

Thanks Robin! We’re definitely excited to bring sophisticated social media monitoring tools to the masses.

Have you taken your free 14-day trial yet?

We’re excited to announce the addition of Trackur Agency to the line-up of plans we offer.

With the Agency plan you get:

• Your logo displayed on the dashboard! Client’s can see your brand, not Trackur’s!
• A custom URL for login. Want Trackur.com/youragency? You’ve got it!
• Unlimited saved searches! Not only can you organize your Trackur account by client campaigns, but now there’s no limit on the number of saved searches–track as many brands, clients, competitors, trends, as you want!
• Annual pricing plan. As well as a monthly plan, you can now pre-pay annually and get a discount and a guaranteed rate for 12 months.

You can compare all of our plans here or contact us for more information.

Thanks to your great feedback, we’re delighted to announce the launch of our new Trackur Influence tools. The new tools will allow Trackur users to not only monitor their reputation online but actually determine how each blog post, news story, or comment might have an impact on their brand!

Here’s what we can now tell you about every single site that mentions your brand:

• How many backlinks, social media mentions, estimated traffic, and, the biggy, how often that blogger/news site mentions the keyword you’re tracking.
• With a sprinkling of magic dust, we then distill that down to a TrackurRank out of 100. A rank of 5 and the site is not likely to influence your reputation. A rank of 50 or above, and you might want to take notice.
• Just for good measure, we also show you a screenshot of the site AND let you add your own notes. Great for keeping tabs on whether a blogger has something interesting to say or making a note of a follow-up needed by your team!

Here’s how Trackur Influence looks:

You can access the new tools by clicking on the “View Influence” link alongside each expanded result.

Keep suggesting new features you’d like added and, as always, feel free to ask questions.

Andrew Frank of Gartner recently decided to test whether online reputation monitoring companies were eating their own dog food. So, he listed a bunch of different vendors and waited to see if they would comment. A little fun, and Trackur passed with flying colors!

So, to return the favor, let’s see if Andrew is monitoring his personal reputation?