by Mark Thompson | Oct 13, 2019 | SEO, Tools
Today it’s hard to imagine the Internet space without Google. Thanks to it, users can find almost any information with little effort. The most important thing is to formulate your request properly. In addition to the usual search Google offers its users several...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 13, 2019 | Tools
There are hundreds of free Search Engine Optimization tools out there. I have selected 5 of what I think are the must robust and useful SEO tools on the web. SEO Book’s: SEO for Firefox Aaron Wall’s SEO for Firefox, is a Firefox extension that you can...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 12, 2019 | SEO, Tools
It may be a sweeping statement but if certain tools disappeared it would be devastated – in fact I would probably cry…(a lot!). In this article I thought I might cover some of the tools that I use when working on a clients site. Some you will no doubt be...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 11, 2019 | Tools
There is nothing worse then having an outstanding idea for a product, but not being able to take action on creating it, because you don’t have the technical ability or the money to pay someone to create a website where you can collect leads and promote your...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 11, 2019 | SEO, Tools
There are plenty of good SEO tools out there, both free and paid, that will help you analyze on-page and off-page optimization. One of the most important factors of modern day optimization is link building and finding one-way links from relevant, authoritative...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 10, 2019 | SEM, SEO, Tools
Keyword Research is the foundation for any good search marketing campaign. Whether you are running a PPC campaign or optimizing your site for search engines, keyword research can make or break your search efforts. If you try to rank for keywords that are too broad you...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 10, 2019 | Design/Development, News, SEO, Tools
In April 2008, Google announced that page load time would effect your ad quality score for Pay Per Click ads. They stated the main reason for implementing this factor was to give the user a better experience and to be able to serve web content faster. In further...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 9, 2019 | Design/Development, Tools
Organization and communication are necessary components of a successful business. Businesses nees instant access to all data, ensuring tasks are managed properly. Accomplishing this requires more than simple determination, however. It instead demands software...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 9, 2019 | Tools
If you are a small business owner, there are many concerns to attend to but one of the supreme fears of a many executives today is that the payment of their clients. Most corporate offices find the billing and invoicing a bit difficult. Most of the times you have to...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 9, 2019 | SEO, Tools
As some of you may or may not know, I am not one to do product reviews, however Squeeze Theme is one product I truly believe in and want to give you some useful information about how you can use this product. Basically Squeeze Theme is a suite of premium WordPress...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 9, 2019 | SEO, Tools
Today is the official launch of the Link Builders Toolkit. The Link Builders Toolkit is THE ultimate resource for finding quality websites to gain inbound links. Over the years I have been collecting websites that I found to be of high value and worth investing time...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 8, 2019 | Social Media, Tools
Let’s say you are just starting out in link building, maybe as a freelance consultant or maybe just for your own websites. It’s easy to start out link building, creating social profiles, blog commenting, etc. But after a bit, you may want to see the...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 8, 2019 | Social Media, Tools
While perusing the recent Twitter lists that I have been added to, I spotted several that were generated by @formulists. Intrigued, I Googled it and was led to an interesting service that automatically creates Twitter lists based on particular specifications. Basic...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 8, 2019 | Tools
If you plan on hiring a professional, confirming credentials have become a very important necessity. Not only is this a great way to confirm that you hire a true professional with the requirements needed, but it also means that you won’t have to worry about any legal...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 7, 2019 | SEO, Tools
Keyword research is the foundation for deciding on whether you should enter a certain niche or not. If you enter a niche with high search volume and high competition, it could take years before you can see any type of return. If you enter a niche with low search...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 7, 2019 | Tools
Have you ever wondered how much your site or blog is worth? Well there are a number of website valuation tools out there that can help give you an estimate as to what you could sell your site for. Of course these numbers are not going to be 100% accurate because you...
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by Mark Thompson | Oct 7, 2019 | Tools
Over the past 6 months, Tim Atkinson and I have been working hard at developing a brand new list building WordPress plugin, that we are really exciting to tell you guys about. List Eruption is a list building plugin that has proven to help rapidly grow your email...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 7, 2019 | SEO, Tools
For any company or internet marketer who is looking to better optimize their website for the search engines, it can be a huge time saver to have software that can gather important site data that the search engine analyze when ranking your site. Meet the new and...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 6, 2019 | Social Media, Tools
Brand and online reputation management has become a growing concern for a lot of companies because of the multiple ways people can interact with each other online. People now are communicating via blogs, forums, discussion boards, wikis, Q&A, and video sites. ...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 6, 2019 | News, Tools
Today is the day! Hopefully by now, you have been following the List Eruption launch week posts and have been getting as excited as I have been. Today we are officially launching List Eruption to the public. If you may have missed the sneak peak post about List...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 4, 2019 | SEO, Tools
SEOmoz just updated their site with a new design, as well as some new resources. Here are the best SEO resources offered by SEOmoz without having to be a PRO member. Simply sign up for a free account and take advantage of the following resources. Free SEOmoz Tools...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 4, 2019 | Blogging, Design/Development, Tools
First of all, I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. This is the first post of 2011 and I am really looking forward to another outstanding year of high-quality content, new guest bloggers and feedback from our readers on how we can continue to deliver...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 4, 2019 | Tools
Nowadays, it feels like there are a ton of products popping up to help you with your website traffic, SEO, and making money online, as well as various course and membership forums. So how do you know which ones are right for you, and how do you get the best deal?...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 4, 2019 | Tools
Being able to track bots and spiders on a website can give a deep knowledge of the way search engines interact with its pages, but, unfortunately, in most cases this information is not available since common javascript based stats softwares can’t monitor spiders...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 4, 2019 | Tools
If you haven’t heard of WebSEOAnalytics, you need to check out their Toolset. They have developed quite a robust set of SEO tools that rival some of the premium tools that you pay hundreds of dollars a month to use. Overall, they have 14 tools that diagnose...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 3, 2019 | Tools
One of the biggest areas I have worked to grow my expertise and portfolio is in securing both new and expired domains. I have admit I have bought a number of domains on the spur of the moment and regretted it at a later stage I still find it a much under appreciated...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 3, 2019 | Tools
I hope that everyone has been enjoying the List Eruption, launch week tips so far. As we are getting closer to the List Eruption launch (fyi…Tuesday, May 3rd at 10am EST) I wanted to provide you with yet another simple and effective way that you can be rapidly...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 3, 2019 | SEO, Tools
In today’s digital times, we sometimes focus too much on SEO and PageRank. While they’re incredibly important to a site’s success, they’re also not the only driving force that’s in play. After all, if your sole aspiration is SEO and not your conversion rate, you’re...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 3, 2019 | Tools
With privacy being such a concern, you would be surpised to know (if you don’t already) how much information Google keeps about your search history. From the day you created your Google account, logged in, and used their search engine, Google has been logging...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 2, 2019 | SEM, Tools
For any Google Adwords advertiser, you know that having a great Quality Score is the key to running effective, low cost ad campaigns. However many advertisers are always wondering how they can improve on their QS. Well now, Wordstream has made it much easier, with...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 1, 2019 | Tools
If you’re feeling a bit stifled and overwhelmed when it comes to writing new blog posts, working on your SEO, or any other task during your work day, then the first place you may have to blame is your own working environment. I don’t mean just your office,...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 30, 2019 | Social Media, Tools
Want to find out who is talking about what in your niche or industry? There are many search engines that allow you to search one or multiple sources of information to see real time results. Check out these popular (and free) blog, forum, and social media search...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 30, 2019 | SEO, Tools
With Google’s algorithm placing more emphasis on off-site optimization and link building, it is essential that you take the time to analyze who your competitors are gaining backlinks from. There are a number of link analysis tools out there that will help...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 30, 2019 | News, Tools
If you needed one more reason to switch Twitter clients, well here you go. Hootsuite released their iPhone application today, that will allow you to perform all of the functions the web application can do, on the go. Even with the long list of twitter iPhone apps...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 30, 2019 | Analytics, News, Tools
If you are not familiar with SpyFu, they provide intelligence data on your website and your competitors, offering organic and paid search data that will help you outrank and learn more about your target market. SpyFu just announced its Recon Files Report, which is a...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 30, 2019 | Tools
Do you use services such as Aweber or Mail Chimp to send out email newsletters or other mailings to your mailing list? If you do, there is one key thing you need to do – be sure to make the email address your mailings are from is different from your personal...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 30, 2019 | Social Media, Tools
How many times have you been reading a great blog post or page and just knew that you HAD to share it with your followers because you knew how much they would love it or find it beneficial? So you scroll up to the top, scroll down to the bottom, look to the left, then...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 30, 2019 | Social Media, Tools
I have been avoiding putting the new Twitter retweet button on my site for a few reasons. For starters, it uses the t.co shortener instead of giving the option of getting to use the URL shortener of your choice like you can with the Tweetmeme button. And there are no...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 29, 2019 | SEO, Tools
BlogGlue is a blog marketing plugin that creates related links between partner blogs as well as on social media. Although not advertised they have a solid SEO Analyzer built into the system. The SEO tool lets you grade your posts before you publish them and even gives...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 28, 2019 | SEO, Tools
There are a number of SEO tools out there that will let you analyze a site for a number of different factors. There are link analysis tools, competitive research tools, keyword analysis tools, domain info tools, social bookmarking tools, etc… So instead of...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 28, 2019 | Analytics, SEO, Tools
Most of us who have a website would love to get it to perform a little better, two obvious ways to do this are to increase traffic to the site or to increase what we get from the existing traffic. By increase what we get from the existing traffic I’m talking about...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 25, 2019 | Tools
Syndication services can be a real time saver. I have used a few of them in the past and found that it can be a great way to spread content across the web. Of course with syndication, comes duplicate content and borderline spamming, so you want to use in...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 24, 2019 | Tools
Over the past 2-3 weeks I have been using a new plugin called WP Subscribers. This WordPress plugin is a lead capture machine! For anyone who has a blog and is looking to build their email list, this plugin is for you. Regardless of your technical abilities, you can...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 24, 2019 | News, Tools
So over the last 3 days we have talked a lot about things you can do on your blog to help increase the number of subscribers you can get. Let’s shift gears a little and talk about an effective way to inexpensively drive THOUSANDS of targeted people to your...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 24, 2019 | Tools
Usually I blog about SEO related topics, however I thought I would discuss something that is relevant to anyone who wants to increase their productivity. Now days, many people have more than one computer. Usually you have a computer at work, a computer at home, and...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 24, 2019 | News, Tools
In celebration of the 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, I have decided to put together 64 websites and resources that you can use to find the latest Web 2.0 tools, applications, and news. Feel free to click on my bracket to see my picks. Even though I...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 22, 2019 | Tools
If you work in an online industry, whether you’re in the brand management business or you help clients with online conversion, there are certain Internet tools that can make your job easier. Not only will these web development tools significantly enhance your...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 20, 2019 | News, Tools
I am not sure if anyone has noticed, but i added a new WordPress plugin to the blog that will pull in related and recommended posts at the bottom of each blog post. This new plugin is brought to you by Arkayne, an awesome new product that will help you optimize and...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 20, 2019 | Tools
Duplicate content and plagiarism can be an easy way for a website to get penalized by the search engines or possibly banned. The search engines have gotten much better at being able to check for duplicate content. If you are interested, here is what Google has to...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 20, 2019 | SEM, Tools
First off, if you didn’t have a chance to read the first tip I highly recommend that you do. Yesterday we discussed providing content for free and how perceived value and tangibility can significantly improve your subscriber rates. Today we are going to talk...
