Social media & SEO Guide

SEO Tools: Social Bookmark Checker

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With the exponentially increasing popularity and importance of social media, it behooves a webmaster or SEO to pay attention to the number of inbound links, or backlinks, that are coming from the popular social bookmark services. The free Social Bookmark Checker from LinkVendor crawls the social bookmark services to provide that information. Enter in the [...]

SEO Tools: ClearSaleing

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ClearSaleing offers advertising portfolio management tools to optimize profit and ROI (return on investment). It provides analytics for any type of online advertising such as paid search, email marketing, banner advertising, shopping comparison engines, and social media. It offers targeted recommendations to help you improve your campaigns. Cross-Media Profit Tracking: The tracking tool shows you [...]

YouTube

YouTube is a user-generated video sharing website. It enables users to quickly and easily upload videos up to ten minutes in length where they can be viewed on the computer or mobile device. Employing Adobe Flash Video technology, content includes a variety of original videos produced by users, movie and TV clips, music videos and [...]

Google Groups

Google Groups is a free service that provides a platform for group discussions of common interest topics. Users can participate in discussions through threaded conversations through the web browser or via email. Each group has one or more owners who are able to control access, deciding who may subscribe and allowing, or not, non-member access. [...]

Google Custom Search

In October 2006, Google launched their Custom Search Engine to the delight of website owners and bloggers. This tool allows for an easy to use, customized search engine to be embedded on websites and blogs. It also encourages monetizing the site with the use of AdSense ads while adding targeted search value to users. The [...]

Google Blogger

  Blogger is a blog publishing system introduced by a small San Francisco company, Pyra Labs, in August 1999 in the midst of the dot-com boom. During the bust, the service managed to survive but with difficulty. In 2003, Google purchased Blogger, hiring the team who created it, incorporating it into the Google servers and [...]

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel was given the title “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” by Marketing Magazine. Joel is President of TwistImage, a Digital Marketing agency. He has been blogging since 2003 and podcasting since 2006 with his sites Six Pixels of Separation and Six Pixels of Separation Podcast. Both focus on Digital Marketing and Personal Branding. He [...]

Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse is an Australian minister who has been blogging since 2002. Starting out as a hobby blogger, by 2004, he turned blogging into a part-time income earning business, launching his blog, ProBlogger in September. In 2005, Rowse became a successful full-time blogger earning income from advertising and affiliate marketing. In addition to ProBlogger, Rowse [...]

Todd Defren

 Todd Defren has been a “PR guy” since 1992. He is currently Senior Fellow for New Communications Research and a Principal at SHIFT Communications. He has formerly served as Managing Director of Western Operations at Sterling Hager, Inc. and Communications Coordinator at ENTEX. He has worked with clients such as Novell, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis [...]

Lee Odden

 Lee Odden is the Founder and CEO of TopRank Online Marketing, a team of veteran internet marketers. He is one of 25 internet marketing experts chosen to be profiled in the book Online Marketing Heroes. Odden’s marketing expertise has been cited by U.S. News and The Economist among other industry publications. As a trainer and [...]