Social Media Strategy versus Tactics and the Tools to Use

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Social Media Strategy versus Tactics and the Tools to Use

Facebook and Twitter are not a social media strategy. These are tactics within a social media strategy.

But what exactly is a social media strategy?

A social media strategy is a messaging platform and defines the perceptions, issues and tactics. A social media strategy needs the same preparation as a speech that is prepared for a politician.

In the movie, “Our brand is crisis,” James Carville explains these principles which should be considered for political candidates as well as companies social media.

- Simplicity – the ability to simply state, in a single phrase, what you will do for your clients.

- Relevance – the ability to tell the story in the eyes of your clients.

- Repetition – the relentless effort in telling the story over and over and over again.

So once you have your messaging platform, content creation becomes easier as you can listen to social media and engage in the conversations that are most important by following others, listening to thought leaders, publishing blog post, commenting, creating media and sharing opinions on an industry. Every company should think about defining a strategy so they are consistent with their message, brand and product marketing within all of social media.

Buzz Mouth has built a tool for mid to large companies to integrate their entire online presence in one place. We have clients managing over 500 places where their brand, content and messaging touch. Every time they publish they create a huge impact on their marketplace and have a large voice. This is great as the tool also allows for companies to listen to competitors, thought leaders and the media to engage in the conversation. This is great when they are a 3-person consulting firm with a waiting list of clients. Yet, often small business does not have the werewithall to implement such a dynamic social media strategy. So they outsource it to us.

Otherwise, some nice alternatives are TwitterFeed, HootSuite and Ping.fm to manage multiple channels of social media content.

For 1-5 person companies:

Minimally, we recommend Twitterfeed integration with a WordPress blog that automatically post to Facebook fan page and their Twitter followers. We then suggest using Google Alerts and Social Mentions to monitor what people are saying about you, your employees, your brand and your company. Now with an integrated messaging platform, a small company can be growing a social media strategy. Keep the content focused to your overall goals and you are set.

I often share a couple more analogies about a social media strategy, first it is like writing a book and second like sharing your vision for your company in 3-5 years. What do you want it to be? If you are writing a book about your company, what would it say and why? What do you stand for? What is really interesting to your clients about you?

For 5-25 person companies or aggressive 1-5 person companies:

We recommend using HootSuite as it allows more robust tactics. Although not scalable as a Professional Social Media Management tool.

For 25 or more employees in a company, we recommend a Professional Social Media Management tool where 100′s of tactics can be managed simultaneously. Our goal of the software is to be able to manage your entire online presence from one place.

More tools to come as Buzz Mouth shares their social media strategy through the next 150 blog post. Check back soon.

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Link Building Tips and Tools Part Two: Backlink Checkers

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Link Building Tips and Tools Part Two: Backlink Checkers

This is the second part of the article about link building and backlink checking tools, be sure to check the first one called “Link Building Tips and Tools Part One: Directories & Article Marketing”. Without further ado let’s get right into the meat of the link building advice.

Forum commenting

There are lots of forums on the internet, where you can not only speak out your mind and share your ideas, but also drop some links leading to your website. Most forums let you add a dofollow link in your signature and choose your anchor text that will be displayed below each of your posts there.

But be careful. Make sure that you speak to the point of the threads’ topics. Don’t just drop in spamming with the posts about your product, otherwise you are running a risk of being banned and all your optimization efforts on this field will be in vain.

Social bookmarking

Social bookmarking websites are one of the most widely used tools for link building. They can make considerable contribution into SEO and gear up your business on-line.

Before the advent of social bookmarking sites saving the ways to favorite web stuff looked like that: users had to click the bookmark icon in their browser and save the link. This is known as offline bookmarking. But now with the online bookmarking they can do much more. Social bookmarking sites let store, tag and share one’s favorite links. Now users can access to the list of their favorite sites from any place where you can find internet connection, they can arrange their favorite links, split them into categories and moreover they can share those links with friends, colleagues or just a random guy, who hits their account.

Social bookmarking sites can be used for SEO purposes in two ways. First, search engines crawlers love links coming from there, because these sites are treated as credible link sources. That adds up to the level of credibility to your site and lets it gradually move up in search results. Second, social bookmarking puts the idea of favoring and promoting website content on steroids. People, who have accounts on social bookmarking sites may interact with your content: rate it up, comment on it, repost, crosspost it in their blogs, which eventually makes it go viral. All that works like a chain reaction that ends up in your website’s higher rankings.

In a word, social bookmarking sites make the cream of the cyberspace rise to the top.

Top 10 of social bookmarking sites are: Digg, Propeller, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Newsvine.com, Delicious, Fark, Blinklist, Clipmarks, Showtwire, etc.

Link baiting

The notion of link baiting is self-explanatory. This term has been recently coined in SEO sphere and basically it’s about creating some appealing web content that is aimed at generating links leading to your website. With the increasing popularity of social bookmarking sites and blog platforms the content can easily go viral, brining more visitors and traffic to your site.

Some webmasters and bloggers describe link baiting as one of the methods of link building, the other say that it’s a natural outcome of making up compelling website content. But indeed link baiting is a wide-ranging notion that includes a great variety of practices, such as writing mind-blogging, sensational and even raising controversy posts, conducing awards, organizing on-line competitions and lots more.

So, is you stretch up the resources of your imagination and shape outstanding content you can garner a lot of high quality links, your website can gain more popularity and automatically excel in terms of rankings.

Link exchange

Link exchange can augment your on-line popularity to the heights and boost you website’s traffic.

Exchanging your links with other sites you must take into account the following points. First of all links from different site have different SEO value. For instance links from sites with a higher PR (Google’s standard determining the quality of a website) are much more valuable for SEO. Another key point is relevancy. If you have a website about organizing wedding ceremonies and get a link from some funeral agency’s website it’s not going to work out well for your SEO.

Also mind that reciprocal links have practically no effect on SEO. Search engine spiders tend to ignore the links that are obtained in quid-pro-quo way. That’s why you have to build up more complicated schemes of link exchange, such as three-, four-way links, link-rings etc.

When you get your links you can’t but keep a hawk eye on them. You should run constant checks to control whether your links stay in place and your link partners don’t cheat you.

And after all keep in mind that SEO job is never done, what concerns link building. You can’t relax and rest on laurels since it is an ongoing process and demands your constant attention.

A good backlink checker- a keystone to on-line success.

As you see, link building is quite long and painstaking process. That’s why you can’t do without good SEO software.

A backlink checker is an indispensible leg-up in website optimization. It can help you tackle the challenges that may you may face when doing link building. A cutting edge backlink checker sniffs out the premium quality link sources, does the research of your own backlink profile or X-rays the links of your on-line competitors, checks whether the links leading to your website stay in place and many more. It’s a must-have SEO tool that will assist you in your quest for links and finally contribute to your website’s high ranking.

There are lots of free and paid backlink checkers out there. Among the most widely used in SEO are Yahoo! Site Explorer, Backlink Watch and SEO PowerSuite.

Yahoo! Site Explorer is the grandpa of all backlink checkers that has ever existed. It is free and easy in use. All you have to do is enter the URL of your website and it generates the list of sites lined to yours. But maybe because of its advanced age it can’t handle some tough link checking tasks properly. Sometimes it shows the wrong count of backlinks and it lets you check only 1,000 of them per domain, no matter how many links your website actually has.

Backlink Watch is another on-line SEO tool that lets you check what sites link to your webpage. Basically it works like Yahoo! Site Explorer: you are to enter your website’s URL and run the app. Besides the info about links to your site it provides you with some valuable analytical data such as the anchor text of the backlinks, the title of linking pages, whether the links are dofollow or nofollow etc. But don’t expect that Backlink Watch work wonders and provide you with a complete list of backlinks. It shares the same database with Yahoo! Site Explorer, that’s why the results will be practically the same.

If you exercise a serious approach to link building you need a solid backlink checker. One of them is SEO SpyGlass. It’s the only backlink checker that has bypassed 1,000 links limit and reached the record number of links found per site – 50, 000. Besides SEO SpyGlass evaluates each link according to 26 criteria, such as Google Page rank, Alexa Rank, the number of links that come from Yahoo! or DMOZ directories, exact anchor texts and URLs of each link, domain age, exact link value and dozens more.

So, as you see, good SEO tools can uncover nuggets of opportunity for your optimization campaign. The only thing that is left for you to do is bet on the winning horse and choose the software that really works.

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4 Useful Productivity Tools For Social Media

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4 Useful Productivity Tools For Social Media

We all want to do more in less time with social media.  The good news is that there are lots of tools to help automate your social networking activities.

Although I don’t suggest automating your entire experience (that’s kind of missing the point), there are some great productivity-boosters worth checking out.

1) Ping.fm: Have you ever wanted to update your Twitter status as well as Facebook, LinkedIn and other sites all at the same time from one place? Ping is great for this.  Tools like Ping are one of the top “secret weapons” of the most savvy social media users.

So, if you have something to say to your Twitter followers but that you would also like to share with your Facebook friends and fans and your connections on LinkedIn, you can—without going to each site and logging in separately.  Ping has the ability to update over 40 different social sites.  Talk about a major time saver!

In addition, you can even create groups, so that if you only want to update Facebook and Twitter but not LinkedIn, for example, you can do that.  It’s definitely worth exploring.

Ping also has a browser toolbar you can install, making it simple to update your social networks with a link to any web page you are on.

2) Hootsuite: I consider this to be the ultimate Twitter tool—and its ability to automate so much of your Twitter experience is pretty impressive. Hootsuite is web-based and free and here are just some of its most useful features:

•    Manage multiple Twitter profiles

•    Pre-schedule tweets to go out ahead of time

•    Monitor keywords of your choice

•    View multiple columns to see @ replies, direct messages, keyword tracking and more

•    Have multiple administrators for your Hootsuite account

•    Create groups of friends by simply dragging and dropping them into columns

•    Integrate with Ping.fm to update many social networks including Facebook and LinkedIn

•    Track statistics of how many people have clicked on the links in your tweets

•    Automatically feed RSS to your Twitter stream

3) Selective Twitter Status: If you use both Facebook and Twitter, you’ll want to take advantage of integrating the two in order to reach even more people–without more effort.

Selective Twitter Status is an application you can add to your Facebook profile or Fan Page in order to update your status with your tweets.  Once you have this application installed, you simply add #fb to the specific tweets you want to make your Facebook status as well.

4) Facebook Fan Page to Twitter tool: If you want to do the reverse and send your Fan Page status updates to Twitter, you can do that with Facebook’s Twitter tool.  This is nice because you are allowed to use over 140 characters for status updates on Facebook, so when you update Twitter (which has a 140 character limit) with a longer message, it inserts “…” along with a link back to your Fan Page so people can finish reading your update.  This means more people are driven to your Fan Page from Twitter.

So, if you’ve always wanted shortcuts to help manage your social media activity, check out these four tools and start streamlining your experience like the pros.

Article Marketing Software VS Top Article Submission Tools

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Article Marketing Software VS Top Article Submission Tools

Ever wondered how internet marketing worked? How does anybody who is into internet marketing inform his potential customers that he exists? And how do customers who are looking for something specific, know where to look for it? Given the sheer profusion of pages on the internet, this can be a herculean task for both the buyer as well as the seller.

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Internet marketing is all about catching the ‘eye of the spider’. ‘Spiders’ are ingenious little devices that search all the pages of the World Wide Web looking for those pages that are most relevant to the search term that the internet user has entered. Not only do spiders find the appropriate pages, but they also rank these pages in order of relevance, making it easier for the user to find what he is looking for. Goes without saying, anybody looking for something would first click on the page that is right on top of the list. If he finds what he is looking for, that’s it- he looks no further. It is only if he does not find what he wants that he will then go down the list of pages that the spiders have ranked in decreasing order of relevance. The key then, is to make sure your website is ranked right up there above all others that have the same keyword.

Here are a few tips on how you can use article marketing to catch the eye of that all-important spider and get your website ranked right up there, where it can be seen by millions of users.

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Make sure your article content is original

Spiders never forget! They memorize every article they have ever crawled over. If they come across a similar article during subsequent searches they immediately pick it out as a plagiarized copy. Instead of the brownie points you would expect to win for featuring valuable content on your web site, your web site would get penalized for featuring copied content. It is critical to make sure that your article content is always original.

Post your original articles on your own website first

By posting your original content on your own website before distributing it to other sites, you stake a claim to your article, and prevent those spiders from penalizing it for duplication.  Also, when the spider picks up your article during a search, if the article is posted on your website, it will lead the reader straight to your site circumventing the round-about route.

Proper use of the SEM tools can help the websites

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Proper use of the SEM tools can help the websites

Search Engine Optimization is so far the best way to make a website visible to the millions of worldwide users and promote the business to them. Some people hire any Search Engine Optimization company to take care of the website’s marketing, whereas some people do it by themselves using any Search Engine Optimization tool. If the website is a normal one, then using SEM tools can work. But, if the website belongs to any business, then the small search engine marketing tools may not work. In that case, the website owners must hire any SEO company to optimize the website. Such websites need to be optimized using every possible procedure. Any simple Search Engine Optimization tool cannot help the websites to get good profit in the online business. Hiring the right SEO company is the most important task of the website owners; once they get hold of any experienced and well reputed Search Engine Marketing company, then can leave all the responsibilities of the website on that company.

Search Engine Optimization is of two main types, the on-page optimization and the off-page optimization; both of these processes are important for the websites. The tools used for SEO cannot provide the on-page optimization techniques, only the off-page optimization techniques can be obtained from these tools. But, if any website owner hires any Search Engine Optimization company, then they can get both the on-page and off-page optimization process. Both of these techniques are very complex and difficult; only the experienced Search Engine Optimization companies can provide all these SEO techniques. In the on-page optimization technique, the SEO companies perform several tasks like keyword addition, adding Meta tags, certain codes and texts in the pages of the websites. Keyword research is the first task of the on-page optimization process. None of these above mentioned on-page techniques can be attempted using the SEM tools. The off-page optimization technique is easier and can be done using any special tool.

Many small scale business owners use the Search Engine Marketing tools for the optimization of their company’s website. They use these tools for the off-page optimization and they hire a programmer to take care of the on-page optimization. Only a person with adequate knowledge on webpage development can attempt the on-site optimization techniques. The main purpose of any Search Engine Optimization company is to increase the volume of traffic of any website and they try their best to draw the maximum traffic to the website. But, they cannot increase website traffic directly; they help the websites get superior ranks in the pages of the search engine, which makes the websites visible to the worldwide internet users. The more people get to see a website in the search engines, the better gets the sale of the website. Each and every website owner aim to reach the first page of the search engines, as they know that if they succeed to do that, then they can easily get hold of the millions of target customers. nowadays, no website owner even thinks of publishing a website without getting it optimized by any well reputed SEO company.

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SEO Professionals agree it’s all about backlinks! One way links! Backlinks!
Without it? You dead inside the water!

Profile backlinks what are they
These are web sites that permit you to leave your links during the registration process.

Is it black hat? Not necessarily… Google and search agents don’t frown upon profile backlinks unlike other backlink building you see in blogs and forums, which are truly nothing much more than just spams!

It is about having your cake and eating it too!
Even puritan Whitehat SEO professionals themselves use a great deal of profile backlinking to increase their websites positions. That speaks a whole lot about safety with these strategies…

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As you quite possibly know, receiving one-way connections pointing for your internet sites and for your webpages a bunch even more solely is extremely substantial for obtaining the internet pages ranked in Google, especially in Yahoo and google. Properly maybe other lookup engines also pay attention for the quantity of inbound back links you get, but Yahoo and google is almost certainly the only one particular that pays most attention to this factor. I would like to speak concerning the 3 aspects that matters in terms of one of the ways one way links. And all people 3 aspects are: Preliminary, the volume of inbound links you’ve pointing to your net web sites. Second, the value of those backlinks or even the authority of those back-links. Lastly, the anchored text of all many backlinks.

So let’s talk about the first one, that’s the most clear one. The sum of oneway back links, the a entire good deal more & the higher the quantity of back-links pointing for your site or for your page, the better it will ranked. The thinking behind this is simply that a backlink if I connection it for your site that is like a recommendation. It’s like me saying this site is worth looking at or something worth reading on that site. And of course, the a lot further persons are saying that, the even extra males and females are linking to a page saying: “this is worth looking at” the better it must be. So it makes sense to rank webpages that get a lot far more back links higher up. So added one-way back-links are generally better.

But, that’s not all the reason to it. That’s where the second element comes in. Back link have different values. And let me main say, no 1 knows exactly how worth of a backlink is determined except a few folks right now who were programming the Yahoo and google lookup engine. But most of it, are just guess or speculations and looking at what the results you get and trying to deduce what’s going on in the background. But here are somethings we can be fairly sure of when it comes to url worth.

Preliminary of all, the extra authoritative the page is that the connection is placed on, the a complete bunch more value the webpage link carries. So for example: if you get a weblink from a PR10 site, that gets thousands & thousands of visitors everyday and that has a in reality reactive community and so on, then that weblink is gonna be very much additional valuable than if you get a webpage link from you know some blog that has only 10 readers that never gets updated. Right? So the a number additional is going on in a site, the higher authority of a site the extra valuable the web page link from that site will be. And the other essential aspect is Context. If you look at where your web site link is placed around the site that’s linking to you. So for example: first of all the location, if your website link is placed in the footer belonging to the page or in a side bar or somewhere like that; it carries less worth than if it is place in the body from the primary text somewhere.

Another mainly vital thing is, another example: if you’re just in a rear weblink page. So if your web page link is only one particular among dozens or maybe a hundreds and hundreds of hyperlinks relating to the same page, then it’s a lesser amount of valuable than if its the only url on a page or just one among a few links. So the ideal case is possessing a websites that is integrated in the textflow is just part of your text and that is on a page that doesn’t have too many other one way links that is going out from it as nicely. And then looking at the bigger picture of all of your one-way links, it also matters where they’re coming from. And pretty simply, you want your backlinks to come from a large multitude of different net online sites placed on quite a few different servers and so on. And that’s just to reduce connection spamming because evidently otherwise; you could just have your money side through here and you can build the second site that does nothing else but just list of thousands & thousands of back links for your money side. But of course that doesn’t count, right? If all with the one-way links are coming from the same site. Same domain or even just the same server, then it’s much less valuable than if they’re coming from different places.

Finally, the really crucial aspect for your backlink is the anchored text. The anchored text is a piece of text that the a number of citizens click on to get for your site. And ideally, this anchored text should be your keyword. It’s the keyword you’re trying to target or closely related to your keyword. So for example: I’ll take Dog Training. If you’re trying to rank for the term “dog training”, then you want to get backlinks that reads “dog training”, right? Because again this makes a wonderful package of sense ’cause this anchored text helps the lookup engine determine what the site is all about. Clearly, if I site link to a page with the text “dog training” that must have something to do with dog training. It’s not gonna be about cars, right? But what you’ve to look at here, if you’re building your own links and for example: let’s say you’re doing articles and you’re submitting articles, don’t submit articles with all of them having the same anchored text. If you just submit hundreds and hundreds of articles each 1 has “dog training” as the anchored text pointed to your site, then that looks spamming because it is just not real. It doesn’t happen with natural link building with everyone one-way links to you with the same text. So you may wanna mix it up a little. You may wanna get “dog training” maybe “dog obedience” or something and also just people today completely unrelated ones. Perhaps “click here” as your anchored text. Just to make it look a lot of more natural.

So those are the three factors that matter concerning one-way links. And the general rule for your profile links is just this; make it look as natural as possible. You know, get links from diversed sources from many different internet sites with different anchored text related to your keyword. So in relation to link building when in doubt, diversified.

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9 Internet Marketing Tools That You Need to Know About Now

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9 Internet Marketing Tools That You Need to Know About Now

Internet marketing is a fast-paced business, primarily because new tools are becoming available all the time. Some of them are gimmicky, to be sure, but others can actually increase you traffic, and your links, and therefore your popularity. So check out these SEO strategies and marketing tips. You might just find some that are perfect for you!

1. Video Marketing

Just about everyone who’s spent any time on the internet has seen at least one YouTube video. That’s because video has become so user-friendly that almost anyone can figure out how to watch videos or even upload their own videos. So don’t pass up the chance to market your business using YouTube or Google Videos. Embed videos with your links or with your site url. You can also place streaming audio and video on your own website.

2. Peel Away Ads

Gone are the days of intrusive pop-ups and fade-ins. Instead, peel away ads are placed at the top corner of your webpage. When the user places their cursor over the icon, the page “peels away” so that the user can see your promotion or advertisement.

3. Add This

This is a great way to take advantage of the popularity of social media websites. Just put the AddThis button on your webpages and your visitors will actually bookmark your content. This is a free service and is relatively easy to install.

4. Social Media Bookmarking

Social bookmarking sites are all the rage among internet marketers and users alike. They generate enormous amounts of traffic and should be a primary part of your internet marketing campaign. Social media sites use tags. Tags are simple keywords that classify content, which makes it easy for you to connect your content with social media sites.

5. Joint Ventures

This is probably the quickest way to increase your traffic and your revenues. Simply connect with big internet marketing experts and utilize their contact lists. If your product or service is top-notch, you won’t have any problem getting one (or more) of these experts to set up a joint venture with you.

6. Make Yourself a Internet Marketing Expert

Convince the online community that you are an authority in your field. How? By writing ebooks, articles, and blogs on subjects about which you are passionate and about which you have made yourself knowledgeable. Internet marketing is much once easier once you’ve established yourself as an expert.

7. Micro-List Building

Instead of using large opt-in lists, develop micro-lists for each of your products. You may find that you have hundreds, if not thousands, of these lists, and you can use an autoresponder program to manage them.

8. RSS Feeds

Blog regularly and make sure that your blog has an RSS feed so that your subscribers will know when you’ve updated your content. This is a “must-do” for all internet marketers, and one of the easiest ways you can guarantee that your potential customers will continue returning to your site.

9. Long Tail Keywords

Long tail keywords are one of the most effective online marketing techniques. Rather than targeting specific keywords, target keywords that are less competitive within a niche market. The trick is to figure out the exact phrases that people are entering into search engines and then writing content to match.

The internet marketing business is constantly evolving, so it’s crucial that you keep up with the latest trends and tools as you market your service or product. These are just a few of the most recent tools that many internet marketers have found effective. To know more, contact an SEO expert or internet marketing consultant. These professionals are up to date with the cutting edge tools that you need for a successful internet marketing campaign.

SEO Tools: Backlink Checkers to Check Links to Any Site

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SEO Tools: Backlink Checkers to Check Links to Any Site

In SEO backlinks are the single most precious resource. That’s why website promoters spend most of their time hunting for links. Searching for link sources by hand is no longer an option. Whether you want to research your own link profile or scan the links of your competition you need to use backlink checkers for this. That’s why backlink checking apps are among the most popular SEO tools.

To help you in your quest for links here’s a list of most popular backlink checking tools and software (both free and paid).

1.            Yahoo! Site Explorer

The grand daddy of all backlink checkers and perhaps the single most widely used SEO tool on the planet. Yahoo! Site Explorer is great for running quick checks on sites’ ranking profiles. It’s free and very straightforward to use: you enter the url of the site you want to check and Site Explorer generates a list of pages linking to it.

There are options that let you exclude the internal links coming from same domain or subdomain. You can also use advanced search operators such as site:/-site: command to check/exclude links coming from a particular website or all sites with certain TLDs (.coms, .edus, etc.)

Note: Yahoo! Site Explorer let’s you check only 1,000 links per domain regardless of how many backlinks the site actually has.

2.            Backlink Watch

Backlink Watch is an online backlink checker that helps you not only see what sites link to a page, but also gives you some data for SEO analysis, such as the title of the linking page, the anchor text of the link, whether the link is dofollow or nofollow, etc. The tool pulls the list of links from Yahoo! Site Explorer, so don’t expect wider or different results.

3.            Webconfs

Webconfs offers a collection of free online SEO tools. Two of them are designed for backlink research. The first tool is called Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer. It shows you what pages are linking to a particular domain and with what anchor texts. If there are several links on a page you’ll see all the anchor texts used on each page. The second tool is Backlink Summary. It does exactly what its name suggests – gives you a summary of the domains linking to a page and shows you how many links are on each.

Just like Backlink Watch, Webconfs tools are also powered by Yahoo!, so the results are the same and also limited to 1k links per domain.

4.            SEO SpyGlass – Majestic SEO – Linkscape

If you’re really serious about SEO you need to have some more solid backlink checkers at your disposal that would let you dive deeper into the link index, check more links and gather more data for analysis. That’s where tools like SEO SpyGlass, Majestic SEO and Linkscape come in handy. These three tools can dig up much more backlinks to a site than any other backlink checkers out there. The difference between them is that Majestic and Linkscape rely on their own crawlers and link bases while SEO SpyGlass queries a vast number of search engines and uses advanced search operators to find more links. Both approaches have their strong points. Using their own crawlers allows gathering larger number of backlinks but also makes the service more expensive both for the company and for the end user. Plus large data sets are usually harder to analyze and make use of. The search engine based approach of SEO SpyGlass gets you only the links that search engines display resulting in a bit smaller link profile but you can run unlimited backlink checks at no additional cost and the data you get is more actionable.

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Top 10 Offline Website Marketing Tools

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Top 10 Offline Website Marketing Tools

When ever most people think about marketing their website they think about “how can we get more traffic online” and yet they seem to totally disregard the Offline Website Marketing Tools already available free and in most cases they are already using.

I want to set about in this article to give you 10 Offline Website Marketing Tools that are guaranteed to give you traffic. However, one point to note, it will not be easy to track how many people are using these offline website marketing tools unless you ask them. So on your contact page on your website make sure you have a drop down box with these options in their. To often website owners only include online website marketing tools in their “How You Heard About Us” drop down boxes.

So let us get started …

Offline Tool #1 – Put Your Website Address on Your Business Signs

If you are like my company we have spent thousands of dollars on advertising signs on our business at our location in Townsville Australia but it still amazes me as I visit other places and even countries, that businesses with really effective websites still do not advertise their web address on their signs.

Let me throw a few things at you … How would you like 37,000 per day to see you! You would do anything to get that sort of traffic wouldn’t you? Course you would. Well there are 200 – 300 business on the street where we are located and we have coming past our building everyday 37,000 vehicles, free traffic. Then why wouldn’t you as a business owner have your website address plastered all over your business signs. Do you realize that of the 200-300 business less than 10 actually have their website address on their business?

How crazy is that! This is free traffic. Never underestimate drive by traffic, and if you do not believe me then ask yourself a question, “Why do companies like Wal-Mart, Harvey Norman, Coles Myer etc put their stores on main roads?” For the drive by traffic! It doesn’t matter whether you only get 100 cars a day or 1 million cars a day, having your website address on your signage means that as people go to work and see the address, they are more likely to have a look at your website as soon as they get to work than any other time. If a person has a particular need for your products, studies have shown, they are more likely to first check out your website, than actually come into your store.

Offline Tool #2 – Put Your Website Address On Your Vehicle

Just like the previous offline website marketing tool, this is a no brinier. If you have sign writing on your car for your business, would you forget to put your phone number on the car? Course Not (Mind you I have seen a few cars that have even forgot that) then why would you forget to put your website address on your car. If your business sells products and services via the internet, then you need to tell your customers where to find you.

30% of our car detailing traffic that I own actually comes from our vehicles and within that 30% over 60% of our business is derived from people seeing our cars on the road, then visiting our web address to see our prices and services and then booking their cars in. Never forget your website address on your vehicle.

Offline Tool #3 – Put Your Website Address in Your Yellow Pages Advertisement and White Pages Advertisement

The world seems to be obsessed with the Yellow Pages. It is truly a phenomenon. We page thousands of dollars to be in the Yellow Pages and the three things we check to make sure are in there are our Address, Telephone number and web address. Most people before they ring you, will in fact check out your website first. If the website address tells me nothing, then I simply move on to the one that has a website address that tells me what I need to know.

Offline Tool #4 – Put Your Website Address on Your Business Cards

Look this one is another one of those no brainier. Everybody in business should have an email address and website address and they should both appear on your business cards prominently. Since a large proportion of business these days is done through email then not having just your email address is costing your business. I know of some businesses that will not communicate with you through anything but email and the phone. They simply refuse to deal with people who have a fax because they want to save money.

Get your website address on your business cards. If you have only just gone and got them printed then go down to your local stationary supply company and buy some small stickers and stick them on the back. Might look tacky but at least your customers will know how to contact you.

Offline Tool #5 – Put Your Website Address on all Media Advertising

When ever you do any advertising at all, whether it is a leaflet drop or billboard advertising in Time Square (Nice if you can afford it) make sure that your website address is on the advertising. When people see your website address they are more likely to visit your site first before coming into your store. Many important sales are made won or lost long before you ever see the customer and in many cases your website could be that deciding factor.

Offline Tool #6 – If you are sponsoring a Charity or Sports Group have your website included next to your name

If you have decided to sponsor a Charity or Charity Day or even a sport group then make sure that the Charity or Sporting group includes your Name and Your Website on their printed material. The human race is really quite bizarre as they are more likely to remember your website address than your telephone number. Just like before, if they see your details at a Charity or Sports function, then they are more likely to goto you then your competitors because your support your community, then make sure that the Charity or sporting group gives the customers a way to find you.

Remember to have your website address on all of their printed material and signage if possible.

Offline Tool #7 – Put Your Website Address on your Uniforms

One of the core reasons we give our staff uniforms is so that they are easily identifiable when they are out and about but more so, the uniforms make my staff walking billboards for my company. Most companies when developing their uniforms will only include their logos. My recommendation to everyone is to include your website address as well.

Many people have told me they have seen my staff at the shopping centre and seen our web address on their uniforms and that is how they have found us. Some of our biggest customers have come from the website address on their uniforms. This is one of the cheapest and free website marketing tools.

Offline Tool #8 – Put Your Website Address on all of your Business Merchandise

If you are creating merchandise to give to your customers, make sure you include your website address on the merchandise. In fact, it is less intrusive to include your website address on your merchandise than it is to include your telephone number. Let me give you an example. I am sitting in our business writing this article and I looked over at a Stainless steel mug that my brother gave me from Canada. The mug is a merchandise item from Prince George Savings Credit Union. I tried to look up their site and put in the usuals but all I got was spam sites. It was simply to hard for me to find them so I gave up.

I should note that this stainless steel mug takes pride and place on my desk in my office and I use it all the time. If they had their website address on this stainless steel mug then I could have easily looked up their website and maybe set up a bank account or invested some money with them but they have made it too difficult to do so.

If your merchandise is designed to push your name or market you in the workplace, then make sure you make it easy for your customers to find you. Remember, most people will go to your website rather then to call or visit your store first, simply to avoid the heavy sell.

Offline Tool #9 – Incorporate Your Website Address Into Your Logo

When I work with our SEO clients and their business coaches one of the things we look at is their logo. When I first setup our training and car detailing business, one of the things I did was to incorporate our website address in the logo. The core advantage to this is that where ever our logo is our website address is and it allows people to find an easy way to contact you.

Often when you are sponsoring teams at football games, the only information about you they allow is your logo. This means sometimes that it can be difficult to find you but if you include your website address in your logo, your customers will always have a sure fire way to find you.

Offline Tool #10 – Put Your Website Address On Your Press Releases

When ever you release a press release ensure that you put your website address on it. Many a time, media companies will actually include your website address, in particularly when they post information about your press release on their websites. I have noticed a trend at MSNBC, Ninemsn and CNN to do this. The advantage to you as the website owner is that the link they include in the text will be treated as a high quality link than any other, because most of these three sites have PR rankings of 8 or more which means this will help you in your webpage rankings in the search engines.

The other point to this is that you may find a traffic peak whilst your article is actually visible. For example, as a proud Australian I was heartbroken to hear about the death of Steven Irwin an Australian Icon and Legend and a proud Queenslander like me but when their family did the press releases they included the Wild Life Warriors website address on the press release. Virtually every single media outlet around the world has posted the website address on their websites which means this website is doing outstandingly well. At least in this tragic circumstance there will be some good come out of it.

To finish off, I want to reiterate the 10 Offline Website Marketing Tools you should be utilizing -

Offline Tool #1 – Put Your Website Address on Your Business Signs
Offline Tool #2 – Put Your Website Address On Your Vehicle
Offline Tool #3 – Put Your Website Address in Your Yellow Pages Advertisement and White Pages Advertisement
Offline Tool #4 – Put Your Website Address on Your Business Cards
Offline Tool #5 – Put Your Website Address on all Media Advertising
Offline Tool #6 – If you are sponsoring a Charity or Sports Group have your website included next to your name
Offline Tool #7 – Put Your Website Address on your Uniforms
Offline Tool #8 – Put Your Website Address on all of your Business Merchandise
Offline Tool #9 – Incorporate Your Website Address Into Your Logo
Offline Tool #10 – Put Your Website Address On Your Press Releases

Backlink tools to propel your website’s popularity

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Backlink tools to propel your website’s popularity

Cyberspace has become a huge boon to consumers as they can find and buy online everything they wish. But that’s a kind of mixed blessing for folks running online business, since there is a great number of similar products and services, which makes beating online competition extremely tough.

As soon as you have set your online venture you can’t waste a single second in fierce online competition struggle. Otherwise, if sit back and relax your site will eventually get covered with dust somewhere in the doldrums of Internet.

The first thing to do after you have created your website is to make Google aware of it. Search engine spiders may occasionally stumble upon your website, when crawling the World Wide Web. They carry this info to search engines datacenters and search engines may automatically submit your site. But you can significantly speed up the process. Go to Google, find “submit URL” link and notify the search engine that your website is live. It means your site will be added for Google’s spiders to crawl.

But it’s not enough. To make your website shoot to Google’s top you must run a proper Search Engine Optimization (SEO) campaign.  At a very basic level it refers to placing enough keywords on a webpage and building a wide-spread network of good quality links to your website. So, you must raise flags all over the web for Google spiders to stumble on them, knock at your website’s door again and again and carry the updated information to search engines that will lift up your website in search results.

Proper usage of keywords is important, but without link building SEO campaign can’t be a success. A good quality link works like a weighty vote that adds to your website popularity. If your site has a solid backlink profile search engines assume that the site is popular with visitors, has good quality content and lots of folks want link to it. All that results in high rankings and mind-blogging sales.

When running a link building campaign you must check how many incoming links your website has and what value they all carry. You also shouldn’t forget about monitoring your competition and check their websites as well, since that can help you discover premium quality backlink sources and capitalize on them. There’s no need to say, that doing this job manually is ineffective time hog. But you can skip all that routine if you get armed with a cutting edge backlink checker.

There are a lot of backlink tools for backlink research and analysis available on the Web. The top 3 that have won a huge share of popularity among users are Yahoo! Site Explorer, Backlink Watch and SEO SpyGlass.

Yahoo! Site Explorer

Yahoo! Site Explorer is a free SEO tool for backlink research and analysis. It provides users with the list of backlinks pointing to the targeted domain. To get the results you just go to Yahoo! search and enter link:yoursite[dot]com. The system will automatically redirect you to Site Explorer, where you’ll be able to see the list of links to the specified website.

Yahoo! Site Explorer can be of great help in backlink research, but it isn’t perfect. Its main drawback is that it never shows more than 1,000 links for a specified domain, so you’ll have to damp internal links and check links to deeper pages to get a complete picture of a website’s backlink profile.

Backlink Watch

It’s a free SEO tool powered by Yahoo! Site Explorer.  It lets you not only see who is linked to a specified website, but also provides you with some extra data for further analysis. Alongside with the list of backlinks it shows you the info concerning link value, the exact anchor text for the link or the image, etc. All that lets you get a more coherent account on a website’s backlink profile. But since Backlink Watch pulls its results from Yahoo! Site Explorer it can’t break the 1,000 limit of backlinks.

SEO SpyGlass

SEO SpyGlass is SEO software that focuses on backlink research and analysis. There are three versions of this backlink tool available: free (with slightly limited features) and paid (that includes the number of unique features). SEO SpyGlass a breakthrough solution for website optimization since it’s the only SEO tool that lets you find up to 50,000 of backlinks for a targeted website in 655 search engines.

SEO SpyGlass not only provides you with an extensive list of links, but also lets you get the most complete picture of a website’s backlink profile. This tool shows the exact anchor text and anchor URLs site owners are using, the number of links coming from forums and blogs, Google PR, Alexa Rank, the exact age of a website. It also checks for a website’s submission into Yahoo! and DMOZ directories and many other important factors.

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