I’d like to thank Justin Parks for highlighting this News today about “Video Hits Twitter” with the Vine iPhone App.
VINE LABS INC have created an App (iPhone Only currently / Android is planned to be released) which allows users to create a six second looping video which they can post to twitter. The APP’s development co-insides with a recent acquisition twitter made back in 2012 of the Start up “Vine”. – The app was actually launched before twitter purchased the company.
Today in London the UK Searchconference takes place. It is a gathering of winners and judges from the UK Searchawards. One of the winners was Searchmetrics, they won the best tool of 2012 award. Founder of Searchmetrics Marcus Tober came in to talk about their tool and the thoughts behind it. An insightful talk which gave some insights into how Searchmetrics think.
Searchmetrics was already founded in 2007. One of the important things for Searchmetrics is that they have a scalable technology. As like many successful tools they have a strong partner network. (more…)
Keeping your own website or blog takes time and effort but what happens if you lose even part of your information? Having to re-do content or scrape the Wayback Machine for indexed page records is time consuming and sketchy. Even after that there is no guarantee that you can retrieve all files.
Having recently experienced perils of cheap hosting on WordPress affiliate sites (cobbler’s children worst shod and all that), I found out the hard way that not practicing what you preach to clients with regards to backing up database files can result in a lot of extra work and effort and of course lost income!
Even hardcore professionals suffer from procrastination when it comes to boring tasks like backups so I thought that I would share my plugin findings in the hope that it saves you data, time and prevents you from ever having to re-make anything ever again - [*disclaimer* - in theory]
Raven, one of the most popular SEO tools and digital marketing platforms used by search marketing agencies and in house teams; last week they announced their decision to close the rank checking element of their platform motivated partially by pressure applied by Google, who aren’t keen on the scraping of their results for rank checking.
If you’ve not come across the story before I recommend reading this thoughtful piece on the decision written by their CEO Patrick. Which I think is a glowing example of how to handle a difficult decision like this.
However while many have admired how Raven have handled the changes it’s inevitably lead to a scramble of their customers exploring other options for rank checking.
I thought it would be interesting to reach out to some other players in the space to get their take on where they see rank checking going in the future. (more…)
Since I started working in digital marketing around four years ago, I’ve found and used hundreds of free tools with the intention on making my working life easier.
Of these hundreds of tools, here are some of my favourites that I now use religiously. (more…)
Yesterday CEMPER.COM announced that after 3 years of innovation of their tools, they will be stopping link building services as a separate service to new clients and changing focus towards the creation of more Link Research Tools.
We spoke to Christoph C. Cemper about the change of Direction and about the New Link Detox Tools.
“By no means is link building a dead end street, but without the proper knowledge and data, it’s easy to fall for ‘quick cheap link’ scams that can definitely get you in trouble really quick.” Christoph C. Cemper (more…)
It was only a matter of time, and today’s announcement from Majestic SEO confirms that the tool is growing into a link management suite.
The new Bucket List allows users to collect links that are of interest and create a collection making it even easier to select relevant URLS and apply the most commonly used tools… AND for the first time you can create BULK REPORTS! (more…)
While we were in New York at SMX East – we thought we would visit the iAcquire Offices to meet Mike King (@ipullrank).
Had a great chat with Mike (thanks again for letting us take over your office!), and found the answers to many questions such as:
What Tools does Mike use regularly? What’s all this about a cookbook? Building Tools, ‘Big-Ups’ to Bill Hunt and Tom Anthony, and an insider look at how iAcquire work with clients and develop tools in house.
Watch the video interview to find out this and more!
Identifying your competitor’s most shared content has just got a whole lot easier…
Further to our recent post on new features in Social Crawlytics, Yousaf Sekander at www.rocketmill.co.uk tells us they have recently finished working on an enterprise scale API. This means means that now anyone can use the Social Crawlytics API to pull social stats into their applications/dashboards and use all the features of Social Crawlytics through the API.
Loved by many including Mike King at iAcquire (AKA @ipullrank) who had this to say:
“SocialCrawlytics is an invaluable tool that fills a need for all digital marketers and the launch of API makes it that much easier to integrate it into everything we’re doing at iAcquire and in my own personal work. I encourage everyone to jump on it!” – Mike King - Director of Inbound Marketing at iAcquire
With search marketing and social marketing changing from being a channel to send out your message through to channels that help you let others do the talking for you authors are playing a bigger role every day. And I am not talking about authors who write books, but those who write about specific niches, in some cases you could call them bloggers 
.
With this change it is also becoming more important to get a grip on these and trying to get a hold of them. Some might call that good old fashioned PR. Finding specific bloggers in your niche can be hard, I’ve written about that before. But help is on the way. Linkdex developed a feature which will make the life of those trying to find and get in touch with these authors much easier. A feature also which got a special commendation at the UK Searchawards last week. And the lucky blogger I am, I had the opportunity to test it out for a period of time. (more…)
In good old fashioned SEO, which still is very important (and far from dead), there is much to gain in analysing your back links. Especially with updates like Google Penguin back links to your site can not only make your rankings, but also break them.
Google has different tools which can help you get under way in analysing your own back links and even potentially cleaning them (in which the Disavow tool comes in handy). In Google Webmastertools for example Google also presents you with a number of back links to your site. Not all of them, but it does give you a nice insight in which links Google feels might be important.
As an SEO or even webmaster you want to analyse these links to find if some need changing or in case of ‘bad links’, if some need removal. That can be a lot of work. Majestic SEO today rolls out a feature which will help SEOs get under way with this: the “Bulk Backlinks Checker” tool with Google Webmaster Tools. This tool allows you to upload links in bulk, from Google Webmastertools, and check them. (more…)
In July, Blekko introduced ROCKZi – a social news site to complement the Blekko search engine and generate social signals. This month, the Blekko team have introduced an embed feature to “un-box” results and feed them directly to site owners.
With a Tagline “read, vote, rock” we are expecting great things from the Blekko news feed, and with Digg being revived recently by Betaworks (as mentioned in our SMX Keynote Conversation post), the social news space is about to get a lot more cluttered but potentially a lot more interesting,
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