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Internet marketers Top keyword SEO and Social Media tools

Don't know about you, but as an SEO industry survey is performed by a trusted authority in the topic, I'm all ears to find out the results of such an effort. The reason for this is that, among other things, the results reveal some interesting information about how internet marketers do their SEO and online incoming marketing techniques.

Recently, SEOMoz released its 2012 SEO industry survey and that there are indeed a number of interesting results that I want to share with you, as a result of its importance, for those who are looking to understand a bit more about it would be inbound marketing tactics SEO tools, tool, etc., which internet marketing professionals and like-minded people. While the online survey is not a representative of the industry as a whole, there were nearly 6500 people and/or organisations (from different countries) who took part. That's quite a good song, if you ask me.

Anyway, following below are some of the most interesting information which in my opinion is worth mentioning.

What types of inbound marketing content you or your team produce?

The vast majority of the respondents use blog post and social media, as their favorite content strategy. I'm guessing that includes blog posts, which are published directly on the website owners and those of the guest blogging too. Note that video marketing, for some reason, only the 7th choice of respondents.

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SEO industry Survey, Video SEO, CLP, SPEEDLink 33: 2012

Hello everyone! Hope you all have a great week. SEOMoz has recently released the results of the SEO industry survey for 2012. This survey (which I also took part in), it appears that some interesting data because SEO professionals and internet marketers responded to, during the survey. Are you interested in knowing what SEOs and IMs as their top SEO tools (Tools for Web Analytics, keyword research tools, outreach tools, etc.), among other things, this research is a must read.

Some of the highlights worth watching:

Top 5 analytics tools such as Google Stats13% respondents93% Analytics16% of WordPress OmnitureTop 5 Google AdWords Google keyword research 58.6% 20.2% SEMRushTop 5 content marketing Insights and 88.3%% Twitter53%% tools74 outreach tools LinkedIn45% Google Insights for Search

On another front, but again from SEOMoz, is the YouTube contest results are released. The purpose of the contest was to "give" tips on just about anything, using video and longer than 2 minutes. One of the winning entries is this cool Video SEO tip by Ronnie Bincer of http://www.videoleadsonline.com/. Other winning entries can be found here (good stuff there).

Finally, and this is just a reminder, the CommentLuv premium "festival" (aff link) has begun. If you ever get your hands on this great plugin wanted, now perhaps the right time to do this. Andy runs a "sale of dime" and it goes for a little less than $ 23 (for the unlimited license version). Do the math, CLP is an 8-in-one plugin. Another 4 premium plugins that Andy is giving away, and that totals 12 plugins Add. Something like $ 2 per pop. And there is more ... Check it out!

As usual, in no particular order:

Content Marketing/Small Business Bites600

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8 effective Tips to make your Blog more interactive

Take a serious look at your blog. What do you think? You will find an attractive page that encourages viewers to communicate and continue reading, or find you a messy page that is a challenge to navigate? Creating an attractive, appealing and interactive blog can significantly improve your chances of long-term success.

Here are some tips to help you to make your blog more attractive:

# 1: write Quality Content

Build an attractive blog is certainly not easy, but it is not complicated. Simply put, content is King. When designing your blog, you have an idea of what identifying information about the intended audience. Do you know what age group would be interested in your blog content? Would it appeal more men or women? What occupation or income level do the majority of people reading your blog have? Answering questions like these can help significantly to the profession of your blog, and the amount of it encourages interactivity.

# 2: connect with your readers

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Create interactive videos and more conversions with Clickberry

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Rich Video messages and ads on FaceBook. Create Rich Video experiences and publish them as Facebook posts. Use it as interactive video ads on Facebook with the highest percentage of viewers involvement.

Gone are the days when creating videos where reserved only for professionals. Making videos requires advanced equipment that were expensive and complicated to use. Today, with all available tools out there, it is not about making more videos, but rather, creative, make quality stuff and promoting it. Granted, his videos a great way to promote and spread the word. You can videos to promote your website, products, services and just about everything you can think of.

Now, what is cool, but, traditional videos as we know that it lacks a little more "something". What if I told you that you can still take a step further and make your videos interactive, clickable, feature rich and more? That would be really great!

How to create feature-rich videos?

Enter Clickberry Interactive Video Maker, a video app that allows you to create each object within a video interactive and clickable. Now hold on to your seats before saying, Yes, so whats new? Well, what is new with this awesome app that only your creativity is the limit. It's not about putting some notes or something similar, but actually making your videos more informative, interactive, and put what you most need, call to action.

To simplify the process, I have a small demo (30 seconds) of an intro video I did a while back. Rather, it was the video only an introduction and nothing else. Now, I added a link to my home page, added a sidebar on the Twitter link (oopss, forgot to put some stuff in there), added a link to my services, a similar button is added and added to the end, a call to action widget to download a free eBook (see shopping cart, no link, just a demo). I tried to get as many "interactivity" as possible for you to have an idea. Of course, would be a longer video "less" annoying.

Anyway, click on the links to see how they work. If you click on them, the video pauses automatically, cool!

As you can see, there are a lot of things that you can do with the Clickberry app. With their technology, you can take a new or existing video and comments or links within the embed the content more engaging and informative.  IMO, it's just a matter of time until her colleagues follow.

Here are the key features:

Add clickable areas inside of videos: links, sidebars and pop-ups.Add

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5 reasons why you may not earn good money with AdSense

The concept of money with AdSense sounds easy, but when it comes to reality, many bloggers are left bewildered as to why their online business on some real dollars of this revolutionary program failed!

Here are the top 5 reasons

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SEO Secrets, Medium, Link Building Tips, CommentLuv Madness, SPEEDLink 32: 2012

Hello everyone! Hope you all have a great week. This week had a few interesting stories I would like to share with you, in case you haven't heard about them yet.

Let's start with the Medium, the soon to be born "New Twitter", a new publishing platform created by the founders of Twitter. According to Evan Williams (Twitter co-founder), Medium is go

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Izzonet Review: build an Online shopping made easier

Review of: IzzonetPrice: free 15 day TrialReviewed by: DiTescoRating: 4.5 On August 15, 2012Last changed: August 15, 2012Summary:

Izzonet e-commerce solution helps build an online store from scratch a piece of cake. With so many features it's just an online e-commerce tool that small business owners use to consider.

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e-commerce is been on lately midpoint of the interest and tools to help you build and manage your online store is just about everywhere. This is no surprise as digital shops have increased in numbers in a very fast pace and as consumers embrace the idea and the comfort of online shopping, traditional retailers will have to eventually get or risk losing to competitors who are already in.

Admittedly, while it is desirable to have your own online store, it can be a building from scratch not only complicated but also quite expensive. Fortunately, with the advancement in technology, e-commerce software such as Izzonet, are now at your disposal to help you have an online shopping painless and believe it or not, very, very quickly.

Anyway, just like anything else, it is always wise to carefully consider your options. While there are many solutions out there (for example, BigCommerce, Volusion, Shopify, etc.), is certainly an option Izzonet to watch, not only because it offers similar features to that of his colleagues, it has unique features that is not available elsewhere. These include, dropshipping integration (good to eliminate the need of the stock), groupon integration, integration of the storage of eBay, a revolutionary Drag and drop interface to build your website, among other things.

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5 Suggestions about using Google images in order to increase traffic

Many bloggers and webmasters are struggling to have their photos indexed by search engines. To top it off, they have to contend for the first page or main page spot in SERPs with millions of other website owners to grab the attention of their target audience.

Despite this, they apply each strategy imaginable just to their uploaded photos will be displayed on Google Image Search.

For some people have no idea about the great impact of no.1 in query results, they are probably wondering why other people spend so much time developing and optimizing their sites.

Now if you already know the importance of getting a high ranking and you want to take advantage of the benefits, you can try these strategies, that I have personally tried.

Image renaming

Technically, cameras seemingly random assign names to your DC3098506986 snapshots such as .JPEG.

Hence, it is important to change the file name to upload your photos. To do this, right-click the file, select

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Google Copyright Penalty, Pinterest Drops Invites, Speedlink 32:2012

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great week. This week, one of the most noteworthy news definitely goes to the announcement of Google saying that they will be penalizing sites who repeatedly been accused of copyright infringement. Already dubbed “Emanuel“, some fear that such a signal may trigger abuse as removal requests have dramatically increased. According to Google, in the last 30 days alone, more than 4.3 million URLs where submitted for removal. That’s a lot and while most sites that appear on Google’s transparency list are mostly “torrent and related sites”, there may be “others” that are just a victim of “false accusations”. We’ll see how this goes.

Here’s an excerpt of Google’s official announcement:

We aim to provide a great experience for our users and have developed over 200 signals to ensure our search algorithms deliver the best possible results. Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site. Sites with high numbers of removal notices may appear lower in our results …

Other noteworthy news comes from Pinterest who this week decided to open registration to anyone without the need of an invitation. If one of the reasons you have not joined Pnterest yet was due to lack of an invitation, you should know that you can now register with your FaceBook/Twitter account, or even with your own email address. Hmmm, what do you think? Will this encourage more “spammers” to create Pinterest accounts?

Finally, if you are interested to know more about Google’s advertising products and solutions, among other things, here is the calendar of their upcoming webinars. There might just be something that may interest you.

As usual, in no particular order:

Content Marketing/Small Business BitesNine Articles for Serious WordPress PublishersContent: A Blessing, A Bubble, A Burden13 Ways to Spice Up Your Marketing Content With DataShould You Create Your Business Plan on Pinterest?SEO/Inbound Marketing101 Ways to Link Build in 2012Is Your Linkbuilding Working? How to Easily Check Using Webmaster Tools and a Pivot ChartHow YouTube Will Escape Google’s New Pirate Penalty10 Old SEO Methods You Need to StopSocial Web/Other Cool StuffThe Buffer API is ready: check out 15 awesome apps you can use to share with Buffer

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Best e-commerce free WordPress Plugins

One of the most amazing facts about WordPress is undoubtedly the flexibility. Nowadays, unless you're looking for something extremely complicated, anyone could start a website, a blog and Yes, an e-commerce solution built right in your WordPress powered site. If you are a small business owner, have a relatively small amount of stock, you will be surprised that existing e-commerce solutions are just at the tip of your fingertips, ready to be deployed.

With that said, lets look at why are you interested in quickly perhaps setting up a an online shopping solution for your website. Online sales are growing at an astounding rate, year after year (ca. 19% py), and according to Invesp.com have to, at least 80% of the online population bought something online (50% more than once). It is estimated than online sales $ 1.4 trillion in 2015 (279 billion dollars in the US will reach). Moreover, with the growing popularity of mobile devices is growing rapidly, many mCommerce (mobile commerce) also predict that it may even catch up e-commerce very soon. What do you think?

Now, why you ask can, consumers prefer to shop online?

It saves timeIt saves money (normally better deals, coupons, discounts, etc.)It saves crowdEasier varietyUnder servicesMore gasLess to compare products and certain circumstances, maybe even more secureetc ...

Very compelling reasons if you ask me.

So, are you a small business owner or someone who wants to sell for some products online and have relatively a small amount of stock, these plugins can help you create your online store quickly and efficiently. Each plugin has several functions, different payment gateways, location, base, etc.

These plugins where chosen on the basis of:

Popularity

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YouTube Ranking factors, DIGG DOA, Viddy.com, SPEEDLink 31: 2012

Hello everyone! Hope you all have a great week. For the last few weeks, I've mention are here and there about the "new Digg", and on 1 August, it finally happened. The new Digg was born, and frankly I'm not yet to figure out how to work with it. At first glance, it reminds me of delicious stacks, and apart from the design, everything seems to be completely new. By this, I mean and all my previous posts have gone, links of search engines that return Urls to the "cache" refer, can't login with my 404 with 's-old credentials, access is limited for now through your FaceBook account only, etc. It seems to offer integration with FaceBook and Twitter. WTH are they there, I do not know, but given that the relaunch in such a short period of time and was created from scratch, its really too early to make an assessment about it, we'll see. What about you? Have you tried or seen the new Digg yet? What do you think about it?

Anyway, on the other side of things, SEOMoz published an awesome video sharing valuable tips about YouTube ranking factors. If you have videos used as part of your content marketing strategy, together with the video below, this article on how to optimize your videos, are a great way to start and a little more information about the creation of video and optimization.

And since we are talking about videos, maybe you would want to know about Viddy, a sort of Twitter for videos. Here's a cool article that tells you how to connect with your audience using 15 second videos.

YouTube Ranking factors

As usual, in no particular order:

Content Marketing/Online Business Bites50 blogging ideas to steal and take credit ForHow I got back my GoDaddy domain stolen NamesBlog Posting frequency: can I care how often you Post?What Michael Phelps Olympic medal can teach you about smarter Online 19th MarketingSEO/inbound MarketingTo captures a Spammer: uncovering negative SEOAdjusted Bounce Rate available in Google Analytics-Web marketers rejoice!Post-Penguin SEO Link building: the naked (URL) Truth3 ways to use Social Media to search your Web RankingsSocial/other Stuff12 cool must-know Tips to Improve Fan Engagement on your Facebook-a Facebook timeline PageHow to Cover with no designer Skills5 rules every SEO should Live ByCreating Twitter Tweet old Post WordPress Web PluginAround requested

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Create, Optimize and Promote your Video: 15 Great Ways

Videos are a great way of making people aware about your company, its brand, products and services and anything and everything that will help you capture the attention of your target customers. But, more importantly it is also a great way of getting unique customers to your site, through video optimization.

In fact the year-over-year growth of website traffic through sites like YouTube, Google Videos, Yahoo! Video, and MSN Video amongst various others has shot up like a rocket. This is why online video optimization is not just a good idea, but an idea that needs to be executed without any second thoughts whatsoever.

For me, the process of optimization is not restricted to SEO alone, but begins right at the beginning with the creation of a video, and ends with the promotion of the video. Optimization acts as bridge that connects these two aspects and also is the catalyst that helps videos become

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