One of the newest, hottest tools in the SEO market today is SEO Fox. This program uses competitor intelligence to help you build a back link strategy for your business, and then they’ll help you implement it. But of course, the question of the day is – is it worth the cost?

There’s plenty of software out there that will tell you what your competitors are doing. We decided to put SEO Fox to the test to see if it’s the best option for people out there looking to increase search engine presence across multiple search engines – Google in particular.

First of all, SEO Fox services are extremely easy to use. The team is easy to work with, and will help you implement an entire marketing strategy for your business. We’re not just talking SEO here – SEO Fox services will get you going with PPC services, a social media strategy, and anything else that you need to get a full-tilt marketing plan going for your business.

This gets a thumbs up from us. If you aren’t approaching marketing for your business in a holistic way in this day and age, you’re missing out on valuable customers. We’re finding more and more that customers resent being “sold”, and that the best way to keep a customer coming back for your services is to get them interested as part of a process, rather than moving on to the next customer who you bug to death until a conversion happens.

With a service like SEO Fox, you can get the competitive data you need to understand what is attracting your customers, what your competition is out there doing, and you’ll get a friendly staff to help you develop a marketing plan for your website.

Is the Cost Worth It?

We’d have to say yes. A comprehensive marketing plan isn’t something that you should skimp on. As we’ve said before, you shouldn’t just throw your sail into the wind and see where you end up, or follow exactly what your competitors are doing rote by rote and expect to end up at the top of the market. It’s very important to create a unique marketing plan that fits your business, and SEO should be a major part of that.

So, why not work with a company that you know will have your best SEO interests in mind?

We found that the SEO Fox staff can put a plan together that will benefit your business, and will allow you to compete with a fully integrated, holistic marketing plan. This approach is one that few agencies seem to be using these days, as each agency seems to want to sell you on one point for money’s sake.

We’ve talked a lot more about the staff and the full plan here than the actual software – but believe us, this is worth it, too. You can see for yourself with a competitor back linking report that you can purchase for just a few bucks at www.seofox.com .

Now that it’s taking more to get customers to buy from you, it’s a must to be ahead of your game. SEO Fox can help you do that. It’s a good idea to have a fully integrative marketing plan for your business.

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After receiving a large amount of requests to review textlinks.com, I decided to dive in, create an account and build some links. textlinks.com makes a bold claim, their motto is a “revolutionary new way to create quality, relevant backlinks to your website”.  I have to admit that with such a claim, I was initially skeptical, however after spending a good two hours building links through their site, I found the service incredibly useful for building high quality backlinks.

The most appealing feature of textlinks.com is the ability to evaluate their service with no restrictions for 21 days. On top of that, they don’t even require you to submit any type of payment information before you begin. Now how’s that for a trial?

Getting started

The sign-up process could not be easier. Simply provide your first and last name e-mail address phone number desired username and password and you are ready to begin.

1. Click Here to Sign Up
2. Enter your information
3. Login

Add a Target Page

Once you are logged in, it is very simple to begin building links to your site. First you will add a target page. This target page, use the page to which you will be building links.

1. Once you are logged in, click “sidebar links”
2. Click the “add target page” button
3. Under target anchor text, enter your targeted keyword or key phrase
4. Under target page, enter the URL of the site you are building links to
5. Click Add Target page

Now that you have added a target page, you have the ability to build links to that page through the various link building options.

Select the Type of Link You’d Like to Build

When building links through text links.com, you are presented with various link building options.

Sidebar Links

Sidebar links are some of the most popular, and most clicked. This means they are beneficial for both SEO, and traffic. Although it is most common to see sidebar links on blogs, you will often see sidebar links on websites of all walks of life. These links are highly visible, and most of the time they are  ‘site wide’, meaning, they will be displayed on every page of the website.

Footer Links

Footer links are also popular in the world of link building. These links contain just as much juice as a sidebar link. The main difference between a footer link in the sidebar link is, visibility.  Obviously a footer link is not as visible as a sidebar link since it is at the bottom of the page. Footer links will very rarely get you traffic, however they hold their value in SEO.

Contextual Links

This is where text links.com begins to rise above their competitors. So, what is a contextual link? A contextual link is a link within a blog post which is related to the keyword that you specify. So if I wanted links from blog posts related to SEO, I simply type SEO in the search box and click search. textlinks.com Will locate blog posts related to SEO. The ability to build contextual links, is one of the great features of this system. One of the most important factors when building links is to keep the link within context. For example, if you own a website that sells computers, you want your back links to be from computer or technology related websites. This tells the search engines that your website is relevant to that topic. Throw in some quality keyword research and you have a recipe for SEO success.

Article posts

This feature allows you to write your own article or blog posts, which can be posted to one or more of the 8000 blogs in the text links.com database. In this post were allowed to include up to three different text links. Each post must contain a minimum of 100 words.

Build Those Links!

Once you have selected the appropriate link type, a list of your target pages will be displayed.

To start building links simply click the “select links” button.

From the select links page, you have the option to either search a keyword or browse sites by category. I have yet to find a category that is not listed in this directory.

Once you have narrowed down your search, you are shown potential pages where you can place your link, pricing is based on the pages Google page rank. You can even see eight page preview and the exact URL of each site. when you are ready to add a link, click the checkbox next to the link, then click the “add link to selected pages” button. It’s as easy as that. Now if you go to that site, you will immediately see your link. These links are never marked as no follow, so rest assured, these links will carry juice for increasing link popularity.

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Let’s face it! There are hundreds, even thousands of resources available online that claim to help you with your search engine optimization strategy by getting quality backlinks and better search results, but most of them offer little more than information you already know. There are however, a few quality resources available on the World Wide Web, and if you have done any searching online for information about SEO then there is no doubt you have heard of Aaron Wall’s SEO Book. SEO Book is an eBook and related website community that promises to “improve your ranking, traffic and profits today”. So what can SEO Book give you that you already don’t know? You may be surprised!

Aaron Wall’s SEO Book was a result of the move in 2003 by Google to punish the SEO spammers of the internet world whose black hat SEO tricks had essentially made Google a useless tool for finding relevant information. He was the first to respond with content that explained how SEO can be used to effectively get top search engine results without using shady strategies. The result is that his website, SEO Book.com and the eBook itself are some of the best resources available online on search engine optimization.

What SEO Book Covers

It’s always nice to know what you’ll get for your money, and though Wall offers a money back guarantee, knowing what you’re paying for makes sense. The SEO Book provides you with an in-depth look into everything you’ll need to know, not only to get the search results you want, but also it gives you a better understanding of how all this SEO stuff works. It includes;

• Brief history of the Internet and general information about how it works
• Tips on effective writing for the internet
• Tips for interacting with specific search engines
• Info on pay-per-click ads
• Tips on how to monitor your results
• Tips on hiring an SEO professional

It also includes a handy Quick Tips guide to getting started which is great if you are looking to get results fast. Though it is on the pricier side at $79, the tips and tricks that he provides are unmatched by cheaper resources, and with free updates for life the time you’ll save in keeping up to date with the latest in SEO is definitely worth the price!

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Monitor your visitors and increase your profits!

Last week, we discussed some methods for equipping your blog with analytics services that will tell you more about your visitors’ behavior. Today, I’d like t present you with some specific scenarios regarding how a program like Google Analytics could work for you. If you’re not using Analytics, you’ll see that you’re missing out on some seriously helpful information, and hopefully you’ll jump on the bandwagon!

Bounce Rates

You can use Analytics to determine what percentage of visitors come to your site, and leave without moving on to your intended action. Whether that’s clicking through to another webpage on your site, or signing up for an offer, you can bet pages with high bounce rates need to be modified.

If your click-to-conversion page has a high bounce rate, ask yourself questions like these – Is your offer large enough for people to notice? Do you give your visitors a proper value proposition to get them interested? If they should be able to contact you with questions, is your contact info clear, or is there an FAQ?

If visitors are bouncing on pages like a sitemap, it’s possible that you need to organize your information better. With more and more pages becoming optimized for Web 2.0, you’ll need to arm yourself with the best pages possible to compete.

Visitor Time

There are reports available in Analytics that will let you know how long visitors are spending on your site based on what keyword brought them there. This is as useful as a Google Adwords Search Query report in that you can use this information to help build out your negative keyword list in Adwords. If you find a visitor coming to your site with a keyword that isn’t relative to your content, it’s a good idea to consider making that a negative keyword in your Adwords campaigns.

You can also see if the average visitor over time bounces from your site when brought there with a certain keyword. If you see a repetitive pattern happening where users spend under a minute on your site by using a general keyword, you may want to consider changing match types in Adwords, or eliminating that keyword from your marketing arsenal.

Another useful way to use visitor time is to look at content placements. If you find that, over time, a certain site brings in traffic that either won’t convert or bounces quickly, you can exclude that placement from within your Google Adwords account. It’s easy!

Geography

Many people don’t consider how useful geographic information can be. Take a look at what countries, states, or general area your visitors are coming from depending on your market. If you find that a majority of your visitors are coming from one country, why not build a campaign or landing pages that specifically cater to that country or area?

You may also want to construct your campaigns built on your power country’s peak time zones, to get more converting traffic out of that country.

With so many useful tools available in Analytics, there’s no reason not to take advantage of all the reliable, and FREE information out there for your blog.

If you’ve worked with a self-hosted WordPress blog, you understand the SEO ranking power of blogs. Blogs, when updated frequently, optimized for SEO and kept spam-free, can be powerful tools to help you rank higher in Google than any ordinary website can.

If you’ve wondered why blogs seem to do so well in the search engines, and get picked up more quickly, the secret is in the power of the ping. Pinging is an important part of the way your blog works, notifying various websites when you update your blog, or change content in any way.

To find out which ping services your blog notifies, go to your WordPress dashboard, and find the Settings menu. Then click on Writing. You should see a list of services, which will likely include http://rpc.pingomatic.com/. This is the default ping service WordPress uses. Ping-o-matic will notify search engines and other services that you’ve updated your blog, which can be really helpful to getting you indexed. Since WordPress automates this process for you, if you’re paying attention to your blog, you’re going to be sending out pings. Your pages will be crawled on a much more consistent basis if you’re notifying the engines of new updates via pings.

What about Pingbacks?

A pingback happens when another website links to one of your blog posts. If you have pingbacks enabled on your blog, you’ll receive a comment notification when your article is linked to. This will also increase your blog’s SEO power, and help improve your ranking.

Is it Possible to Ping Too Much?

Every time you edit or make an update to a blog post, your blog sends out a ping. It is possible to get penalized in search engines or with different ping services for excessive pinging. In the case of ping services, too much can be a very bad thing.

For instance, say you are working with a blog posting, and realize there are several typos. You edit your post and publish the changes, only to realize there were several other typos you missed. Before you’re finished, you’ve published at least three more times. You also decide to check your other postings for errors, and you end up finding several. In the end, you’ve re-published various posts several times, and sent out a ping to your different services each time.

Even if you’re not prone to typos, there are other situations where you may need to make several post edits. As an affiliate, you may also be using different TIDs for products listed in different parts of your blog. Say you need to change TIDs for your affiliate links on several different posts. You may end up re-publishing posts several times – and again, pinging your services multiple times in one sitting.

So, how can you set your blog up to keep you from getting penalized or banned as a result of multiple pings?

MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer

MaxBlogPress is a the most popular ping optimizer plugin for WordPress on the web. Best of all, it’s free! You can try it out at: http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/mpo/

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The interface is super easy to use, and will actually allow you to specify a time increment for pings. This ensures that you will still be pinging, just not excessively.

In terms of optimizing pings, the MaxBlogPress plugin is virtually unrivaled. You can continue customization of your pings by researching the ping services that are best for you. There are many ping services out there, so research carefully to ensure that your list is up-to-date, and utilizing the services that are best for your blog.

Choosing products and services to maximize the SEO results of your blog or website can be a daunting task. With the ever growing number of consultants, web companies and software programs available, finding the right option can require a bit of research. Any recent online search for SEO software will yields results for SEO PowerSuite, a software package that markets itself as the most effective SEO software available. Found at Link-Assistant.com, SEO PowerSuite offers several options of SEO script packages, including a free one. So is SEO PowerSuite worth the free download or purchase investment, and more importantly, can it improve your search engine optimization? A quick run-down of the 4 available applications can help you make that decision a bit easier.

Website Auditor: This tool allows you to evaluate your keyword density. It also allows you to determine the best places to put your keywords in your html code, whether in the title, tags, or body. The Website Auditor feature also compares your results to those of your major competitors, depending on which package you choose. Checkout Website Auditor Professional trial edition. Or Buy Website Auditor Professional.

Rank Tracker: This script allows you to discover your website’s search engine rank based on the keywords and phrases you use in your html code. It also has a feature that outlines strategies to improve your ranking by suggesting keywords or phrases that may be more effective using some of the most popular tools, including WordTracker and Google AdSense. Lastly it includes an efficiency tool that allows you to see which of your keywords and phrases are being searched the most, and are bringing the most traffic to your site. Checkout Rank Tracker Professional trial edition. Or Buy Rank Tracker Professional.

SEO Spyglass: For those keen on backlinks as their part of their primary SEO strategy, this is an invaluable tool. SEO Spyglass can find out who has links to your page, the number of times these links are used, and the all important rank of those pages on which your links appear. It can also provide similar analysis of your competitors. Checkout SEO Spyglass Professional trial edition. Or Buy SEO Spyglass Professional.

Link Assistant: This tool allows you to build backlinks. The Link Assistant script contacts webmasters of sites or blogs with similar content to yours, and assists you in cultivating and managing their backlinks to your site. Checkout Link Assistant Professional trial edition. Or Buy Link Assistant Professional.

Overall, SEO PowerSuite is a great tool for your Search Engine Optimization marketing efforts. Though it is offered in three price ranges, sometimes, and in this case free really can’t be beat. Most of the features described in this article are available in the free version, and while you can’t save sessions, the free download is a great option for small business owners, or to give the product a trial run. From professional SEO companies to individual users, this can be the right SEO software for you.