Category Archives: tools

Scoop This: A Comprehensive Guide to Scoop.it for Content Curation

We’ve been hearing (and talking) a lot about curation and how helpful it can be for companies. As you all know, I’m sure, great content is one sure thing in today’s marketing arena; it takes the front seat to anything and everything else. When yo… Continue reading

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7 Alternatives to Google Analytics

Since its launch in 2005 Google Analytics has become almost unassailable in the world of website analytics, with 57% of the world’s 10,000 most popular websites using the popular site statistics suite. Prior to the arrival of Google Analytics, th… Continue reading

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4 Questions with Rand Fishkin About Using SEOmoz Tools Effectlively

A asked Rand Fiskin, CEO & Co-Founder of SEOmoz, some questions about the tools SEOmoz pro offers. There are a lot of tools to play with and I know sometimes you can start to love one and never really get engaged with the others. I asked Rand some … Continue reading

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Come See a Sneak Peek of Raven’s New Research Central

I got a sneak peek at the new Research Central tools in Raven. Still in beta, but the info available is already outstanding. Research Central offers data from MajesticSEO, SEMRush and SEOmoz, all via API access. What is really nice is that a lot of dat… Continue reading

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Real Guide to Getting Links and Traffic from Trending Topics

Taking advantage of trending topics is a tremendous opportunity to net more links and more traffic for your site while using a relatively small amount of resources. The beauty of promoting trending content is that you can ride the wave to additional fr… Continue reading

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SEO Software: Is It Worth the Money?

When I search for “SEO software,” Google comes back with 40,000,000 results. Even if only 1% of those results are unique SEO software product pages, that leaves me with 400,000 SEO software options to choose from! Some of those options can be downr… Continue reading

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The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Chrome SEO Extensions

SEO’s are always on the look out for tools to make their job easier. This is where Google Chrome’s browser extensions can be such a great help. When you go to the Chrome store for SEO extensions you can easily become overwhelmed with the huge list of possible extensions? So which ones are the best? […]

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9+ Free Trials That Can Instantly Improve Your Online Marketing Efforts

I just wanted to share some of the Internet’s most incredibly marketing software that can help you instantly improve your rankings, conversion rates, and revenues in a relatively short amount of time. And oh yeah, you can try each for free! 1) Ontolo – Ontolo is an extremely powerful (semi) automated link prospecting and building […]

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5 Tools for Creating Awesome SEO Reports

Do you spend hours hacking around Microsoft Excel every month to create a compelling SEO report for your clients, knowing that they are probably not going to get read or even opened? In my post below I have provided five tools that can help improve your SEO reports, taking them from being the standard Excel […]

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Simple Strategies to Maximize Your Website’s Revenue

As my career progresses in the merchant account space, I’ve had opportunities to observe and monitor sales figures for several major e-commerce sites. In analyzing the figures, I’ve come across a few interesting practices that can help merchants increase their bottom line and conversions with simple strategies. Whether you’re an affiliate, an SEO consultant or […]

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