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    Online Marketing Power Tools: Research, Analysis

    Last updated: Mar 2011

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    Use these, mostly free tools, to find out where your competition is, what keywords to use, help build strategies for content, links and more. See if your business is viable (to make money) online. Use these to also to enhance and expand what you have. Updates are coming.

    Match up findings from the online work to your business planning and more. Find out how you stack up with a SWOT analysis. Make sure you have a business. Don’t assume anything. Pretty pictures don’t sell, but a sound business model does, and can sustain you for the long term, and until a possible sale.  Finally, if any questions, or if you need help, feel free to contact me regarding any use of these tools.

    Competitive Marketplace Tools

    Use this to find out what your marketplace is up to – and especially your competitors.

    1. Spyfu
    2. KeywordSpy
    3. Compete
    4. SpyonWeb

    Keyword Research Tools

    Once you have determined the marketplace to be valid, start the keyword research process, and build out your segmented lists for SEO & PPC.

    1. Google Keyword Tool
    2. Google SK Tool
    3. Google Insights Tool
    4. Google Sets
    5. Market Samurai
    6. SEMRush
    7. Wordstream (keywords and grouper)
    8. Wordtracker
    9. Wordze
    10. Google Trends

    Content (on-page) Tools

    After you have built out some of your key pages, checked the on-page factors using these tools.

    1. SEO Browser tool
    2. Lynx Browser
    3. Ranks.nl
    4. Website Grader
    5. Pear Analytics
    6. Synonym

    Links Analysis and Link Building Tools

    External ‘voting’ factors are key to Google’s search engine. Find out what your competitors are doing, and hunt down more links, and fix the onsite links as well.

    1. Xenu link sleuth
    2. Backlink Analyzer
    3. OpenSiteExplorer
    4. Bad neighborhood checker
    5. Solo SEO link search
    6. Link Diagnosis (Firefox)
    7. BacklinkWatch
    8. Majestic SEO
    9. SpyderMate

    Rank Checker Tools

    Ranks are interesting to a point. Think more about conversions. Here are some tools you can use. Use with caution, not exact.

    1. Mike’s Ranking Reports
    2. Firefox Ranking Plugin

    Domain Research Tools

    Domains are the anchor points of the Internet. A carefully researched domain can do amazing things for your online success and branding.

    1. Domaintools
    2. Godaddy bulk checker
    3. RegisterCompass
    4. Namecheap
    5. PsychicWhois

    Web Page Speed Tools

    Another signal now used in Google’s algorithm. Make sure you have presentable, fast loading pages for your users.

    1. Web Page Analyzer Speed Report
    2. Google Page Speed Tool
    3. Pingdom
    4. Link Vendor Speed Tool

    Server Tools

    For techno geeks and others too.

    Conversion Tools

    Using free tools that work – will excite anybody. Here are some free conversion tools and also paid too. Don’t worry about paying for high-end tools. No tool is absolutely perfect, but they will get the job done and good enough to build out your business. Look at a few variables to change at a time.  Background colors, border colors, fonts, headline colors, sizes, buttons, images (hero-shots), offers, price, headline/hooks – are good to look at, just don’t do them all at the same time. Traffic will be important so you can test properly. Test videos, emails, custom sales pages, order forms, banner ads and – really – anything you want to improve.

    1. Google Analytics / Conversion code
    2. Google Website Optimizer
    3. Get Clicky

    Social Media  Tools

    Social media is the latest and greatest out there. Listen and watch the ‘rivers of news’, before you engage. Use some of these tools to start out.

    1. Twitter search (search.twitter.com)
    2. Twitalyzer
    3. Klout
    4. SocialOomph
    5. Hootsuite
    6. Twitter Feed
    7. Friend Or Follow
    8. Tweet Beep
    9. Back Type
    10. Blog Pulse
    11. Social Mention

    Website Analysis Tools

    Take a quick look at how your website is performing, or could be optimized with these free tips and tools

    1. Website Grader
    2. Quark Base
    3. Pear Analytics

    Press Release Wire & Publishing

    Press releases are a great way to share your activity and news, including building links and creating deeper visibility. These are typically very trusted, but comes at a price. You can use free services also, but not as effective (prlog, for example).

    1. PR Web
    2. Business Wire
    3. Email Wire
    4. Web Wire

    Audio Editing Tools

    Audio editing and scoring is easy with these tools.

    1. Audacity (free)
    2. Sonic Fire Pro (Smartsound)

    Video Recording & Editing Tools

    Video editing and video management.

    1. Camtasia
    2. ScreenR
    3. Windows Movie Maker

    About Jon Rognerud

    I came to this country over 25 years ago as a musician (guitar and lead vocals). While I was playing in Los Angeles / Hollywood and working in recording studio sessions, I found a job with a technology company in Culver City. The music didn't pay the bills, but software sure did! I learned to program in several software languages and began helping people and companies with software applications and database problems.

    Today, I am a full-time Internet Marketer and consultant. I published my first web page in 1995. Since I was programming using Microsoft Technology at the time, and had been for 10 years up to that point, I thought HTML (using a Netscape browser) was ridiculous. Continue Reading

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