Posted by James Duthie on June 30th, 2009 in Other (NonSEO) Tools, SEO Tools
One of the primary barriers I encounter when talking to businesses about social media implementation is measurement. For years, web marketers have sold the virtues of web marketing via its’ accountability. Clicks could be tracked, conversions could be measured & ROI was accountable to the very last dollar. Yet the emergence of social media blurred the lines of online accountability. The direct response environment that we’ve all become so used to on the web was suddenly replaced by a channel more suited to relationships and referrals than instant sales. Which made the job of measuring results a heck of a…
Posted by Marie-Claire Jenkins on May 14th, 2009 in SEO Tools
Yes…you!
Yahoo pipes is as easy to use as any other type of drag-n-drop style application. It’s also no more complicated than WordPress for example. You can use it out of the box, or you can customise, or even build your own template. The same goes for Y! Pipes. You can use a pipe out of the box, customise or modify an existing one or simply start from scratch and make your own mean machine.
Back-up a bit….what is it?
“Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.” A series of different commands are linked together so…
Posted by Barry Welford on April 8th, 2009 in SEO Tools
We are not concerned here with the first impression that a website visitor may get on seeing your web page in the Blink of an eye. Rather it is about just how many visitors get to see that web page. That number is the most simple of metrics to confirm how a web page is performing in traffic terms. Here we explore how best to capture that number.
This article includes some data, which seems to go against the conventional wisdom. You are encouraged to review what is said and do your own checks on whether the view here is more…
Posted by Barry Welford on March 11th, 2009 in SEO Tools
Introduction
Getting punctuation right is sometimes seen as an irritating chore by some. Others may view it as a way of spotting whether a writer is worthy of consideration. Of course there are many common punctuation challenges.
In addition to having problems with sentence fragments, run-ons, etc., students often become confused about punctuation rules that they may have forgotten. Therefore, we here provide some basic punctuation rules to help strengthen your writing.
There are 24 rules in all with some of them somewhat esoteric, for example: Use a semicolon to separate items in a list that already includes information separated…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on November 11th, 2008 in SEO Tools
Winning The Web has created a list of over 200 Internet Marketing and SEO/SEM blogs with each being ranked by using a variety of metrics. Site categories include affiliate marketing, blogging, copywriting, Internet marketing, link building, make money online, SEO / SEM, and social media.
The metrics used to rank the blogs include:
- Feedburner RSS Subscribers
- Alexa Rank
- Compete Rank
- Technorati Rank
- Google PageRank
- Yahoo Inbound Links
- StumbleUpon Reviews
- del.icio.us Votes
- Links from Winning the Web
- User Votes
The rankings will change (looks like weekly) based on the changes in the metrics. If this was nothing more than a simple list of ranked blogs, I’m not sure how news-worthy it would…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on October 27th, 2008 in SEO Tools
I recommended RankSense to a newbie wanting to optimize a site a while back, and I remembered to ask him today what he thought of it. He said that he’d done a little happy dance earlier because he’d watched in fascination as the software handed him gobs of information that he probably would never have discovered on his own. But he didn’t contact me about it back then because information is just information. He said that he was waiting for results of the actions he’d taken based on that information to make any real decisions about the worth of the product.…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on October 17th, 2008 in SEO Tools
I’ve been beta testing Microsoft’s Adcenter Publisher for a few months now, and we’ve finally been given the go-ahead to blog about it. I don’t plan to give an exhaustive review of Adcenter, but I did want to point out some of the extra-cool features it has. In fact, I’ll focus on two: Amazing ad customization and ad unit rotations for testing purposes.
First, let’s take a look at a screenshot of one of the ads I’m running.
Kinda snazzy, huh? Ok, so let’s take a look at some of the options you have for making your own snazzy ads.
I used one…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on October 9th, 2008 in SEO Tools
Just a quick post to pass along a new tool for your keyword research. Googletutor has created a handy bookmarklet that lets you quickly check out the search volume of the phrase you are researching using Google Insights. This gives you a one-click option to grab a little extra research on whatever search term you are checking out at the moment - from Google, Yahoo, or Live. Nice one!
Posted by DazzlinDonna on September 15th, 2008 in General, SEO Tools
Although there are many URL shortening services out there like TinyURL, the newest one to hit the netwaves is Cligs, and it’s a winner (and free). The most obvious gotta-have-it features are the built-in analytics reports. Every Clig you create is stored in your own private account and reports are available to track:
- Total number of hits
- Referral statistics
- Recent mentions of the clig itself on twitter
- Recent links (mentions) of the clig on blogs
- Recent web links to the clig
- Recent mentions of the destination URL on twitter
- Recent blog links to the destination
- Recent blog links to the destination
- Recent web links to the destination
- Delicious bookmarks of…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on August 4th, 2008 in SEO Tools
I wanted to be able to offer my ebusiness coaching clients a choice of solutions for creating their web sites. Obviously, WordPress is the first thing that comes to mind, but it’s not necessarily the best solution for everyone, so I plan to offer them the choice of a simple, but different type of CMS that concentrates on SEO from the start. While I’ll be adding it to my list of recommendations over on ebuzzcoach, I thought I’d also let y’all know about it too, since it’s SEO compliant. It may not be right for the savviest of designers amongst…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 9th, 2008 in SEO Tools
Another quickie today. Wordze is having a sale until July 14th, enabling you to use Wordze for the rest of July for only $4, with the price going back to the normal monthly costs of $38.98 in August. So, if you were putting off getting lots of keyword research done, now’s the time to jump on it. There’s only a 5-day window to get this price.
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 9th, 2008 in SEO Tools
Anyone know when the All in One SEO Pack plugin went belly-up? I recently noticed it now says this:
This plugin is no longer supported or maintained.
Does anyone know the plugin author, uberdose? Anyone know why he’s no longer supporting or maintaining it? Anyone want to try to get him to allow someone to take the project over? It’s a nice plugin, and I hate to see it go bye-bye.
I know it still works, but that may not always be so in the future. I would think it would need someone looking after it to keep it updated as needed.
Just thought…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 2nd, 2008 in SEO Tools
Last week I ranted about a couple of things that Google did that just really got my goat. (That means they annoyed me, for anyone who doesn’t recognize that old slang). So as I do, I ranted and raved and moaned and groaned until someone decided to solve the problem for me.
Ok, so first let’s refresh your memory on why I was annoyed. Here’s what I wrote back then:
Google recently told all Adsense publishers that they had to have privacy policies that had to meet certain Google requirements, but they couldn’t actually spell out those requirements. Ok, fine, we all…
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