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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
Do you know where your site is positioned in comparison to the other sites in your niche? Have you any idea what is exactly missing in your business strategy? If not , then you are missing out a vital element. User engagement is the key to successful business. So its...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Do you share your social profile links via Twitter, or on other social networks where there is a character limit? Do you want to track the number of times that your profile link was clicked? If you answered yes to any of the above, then the obvious thing you would...
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...
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...
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...
This post are my notes from the live session at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas. Please forgive me if I misspell anything or if some of the notes don’t make sense, as I am trying to gather as much information from each speaker as I can. Quick Facts on the Session...
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...
SEOmoz launched a new link analysis tool yesterday, called Open Site Explorer which leverages the Linkscape index to provide comprehensive link data. Currently it will provide up to 1,000 backlinks and link metrics in its analysis. There is also an API that you may...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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. ...
You may have seen them around town: odd black-and-white squares on signs, brochures, and product packaging. QR codes (Quick Response codes) function similarly to UPC codes, which most of us are familiar with. Two major differences between a QR code and UPC code are...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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