Automation & discovery
Social Listening
2 min read · Updated 2 Sept 2026
Some of the best SEO and brand-building happens in conversations, not on your own site. Social listening finds the Reddit and Quora threads where your topics come up each week, so you can join in with a genuinely useful answer.
LiveAll paid plans
How it works
The first time you open it, you review a short list of listening phrases (RankAgent can suggest them from your keywords and profile, or you type your own) and approve them. Nothing scans until you approve — you're in control of what it looks for.
After that, once a week it searches for public threads mentioning your phrases and drops them into an inbox — "Conversations to join." Each thread shows:
- A platform badge (Reddit or Quora)
- An "asking for help" tag when the title is a question
- The phrase that matched
- 💡 Talking points — 3–4 AI-suggested angles you could speak to, value-first, with a note to disclose that it's your product if you mention it
You mark each one saved, replied, or dismissed. Hitting "I replied ✓" logs it to your History timeline as proof of work.
The Conversations-to-join inbox: Reddit/Quora threads with match phrase and talking points
Screenshot coming soon
What it does and doesn't do
No accounts, no auto-posting
This is the important part. RankAgent never connects your social accounts and never posts anything. It finds threads by searching Google's index (via DataForSEO's site:reddit.com / site:quora.com search) — so it holds no credentials and can't get your accounts banned. The talking points are angles to speak to after you read the thread — never a paste-ready reply, because a good reply depends on the actual conversation. You post, by hand, from your own browser.
- Sources: Reddit and Quora only. Facebook and X aren't supported (their content is gated behind logins/APIs) — the panel says so honestly and gives a manual recipe instead.
- Cadence: a weekly scan across up to three keywords plus your approved topics; finds expire after 30 days so the inbox stays current.
- An empty week is a real answer, not a bug — sometimes there just isn't a good thread to join.
Plan
Social listening is included on all paid plans. If a data source is ever unavailable it shows an honest "not available yet" state rather than fabricating threads.
Next: the agent takes this further — proposing and applying work for you, with approval.