by Mark Thompson | Oct 18, 2018 | 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 18, 2018 | 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 | Oct 18, 2018 | 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 18, 2018 | 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 18, 2018 | Social Media, Tools
Metricly is a new social media tool you can use to help monitor, analyze and manage your social media presence on the web. It contains an aggregated dashboard and analytics platform that helps you track your metrics all in one place. For agencies and in-house...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 17, 2018 | 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 17, 2018 | Tools
I’ve been using a Blackberry since 2005. Back when the blackberry was blue, hard-covered and didn’t fit into a normal sized pant pocket. True story. Over the last 5.5 years, Research In Motion’s blackberry smartphone has come a long way as a medium...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 17, 2018 | Social Media, Tools
My favorite Twitter management tool HootSuite has made the announcement that they are going to start offering different plans for using their service. New users from now on will have to choose a plan (with the option of a 30 day free trial), and current users will...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 17, 2018 | 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 | Oct 16, 2018 | 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 15, 2018 | Tools
I thought I would share some new tools and applications that I have recently stumbled across during the last month. For the most part they are random tools ranging from iPhone applications to SEO research tools, however I thought I would share some of them with you. ...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 15, 2018 | Social Media, Tools
There is a lot of information about how to get more retweets for your content, the most popular being the Science of Retweets with Dan Zarrella of Hubspot. But the simplest way to get retweets is to make your content easy to retweet. Amazingly, I still see lots of...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 15, 2018 | 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 15, 2018 | 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 15, 2018 | 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 | Oct 15, 2018 | 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 13, 2018 | SEO, Tools
Glen from Viperchill recently wrote a post about the resources that are in his internet marketing toolbox, so I thought it would be a good idea to share the tools I use on a daily basis. I think I should mention that I probably have used hundreds of tools to perform...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 13, 2018 | 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 | Oct 13, 2018 | 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 13, 2018 | Blogging, SEM, Social Media, Tools
With all of the new communication tools and technology being introduced, the way that companies handle customer service has been transformed into a more effective and efficient manner. Users want to be able to receive real-time support and have multiple options to...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 13, 2018 | News, Tools
Happy Monday to everyone. We are just one day away from the List Eruption launch, so as you can imagine I am super excited! I am looking forward to giving you guys what I use to really help grow my list. List Building Essentials – Tip #5 Social Media is a great...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 13, 2018 | 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 13, 2018 | 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 12, 2018 | 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 12, 2018 | 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 11, 2018 | 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 9, 2018 | 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 | Oct 8, 2018 | Tools
Why use a landing page platform? One of the key reasons is templates offer the ability to quickly scale up landing page campaigns with no need for web development resources or any advance knowledge of CSS or HTML. One of the best platforms on the market that I have...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 8, 2018 | 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 | Oct 8, 2018 | 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 | Oct 8, 2018 | News, Tools
Since the launch of the Link Builders Toolkit back in April of this year, I have received a ton of positive feedback on the product. I also received some awesome suggestions on how I could improve it. So I took all of that feedback and have updated the toolkit to...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 8, 2018 | 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, 2018 | 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, 2018 | SEM, Tools
I am extremely excited for next week, as it marks the date of my first REAL product launch. As many of you know, I have been working on a WordPress plugin called List Eruption that I anticipate will make a huge impact on the industry. This WordPress plugin has been...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 3, 2018 | Analytics, Tools
If you are an Internet Marketer, you have undoubtedly heard of SEMrush. SEMrush has probably the most comprehensive data set on the web, when it comes to keyword research and competitive intelligence. Yes, there are plenty of free SEO tools available (including...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 3, 2018 | 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 2, 2018 | 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 | Oct 2, 2018 | 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 | Sep 30, 2018 | 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, 2018 | 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 | Sep 29, 2018 | 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 | Sep 28, 2018 | 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 | Sep 27, 2018 | 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 | Sep 27, 2018 | 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 27, 2018 | Social Media, Tools
In my personal opinion, I have found Hootsuite to be by far the best Twitter client out there. I’m sure a lot of people can make an argument for clients like Tweetdeck and Seesmic, but I find Hootsuite to be the most user-friendly, feature-rich, and up-to-date...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 26, 2018 | SEO, Tools
Have you ever wondered what it would take to move above your competitors in the organic search results? To do this, you need to spend a good amount of time researching what you want to rank for and then analyzing your competitors who are already ranking for those key...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 26, 2018 | 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 26, 2018 | Tools
During these economic times people are always looking for cost effective alternatives and ways to cut corners to get things done. For marketers, there are plenty of great premium tools and resources out there, but most you have to pay for. I thought I would share a...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 26, 2018 | 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 25, 2018 | 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,...
