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Tool Tuesday: PostRank Analytics

Akamai Marketing

Enter: PostRank. A deceptively simple yet dynamic tool for bloggers which measures what it calls “Engagement Events&# such as a comment, a bookmarked link, or a tweet about a particular post. In short, PostRank endeavors not only to show you how much TRAFFIC you got, but how many times a particular post was talked about.

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Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? by Adam Sherk on October 6, 2010 It is safe to say that most news sites are now experimenting with various forms of user engagement and content promotion through social media. on their site).

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How I Organize Google Reader for Blog Commenting

Kikolani

And one thing I discovered very quickly about the photo community is if you want comments, you better start giving comments first. I started out on sites by photo bloggers I met at a photowalk in downtown Phoenix and branched out from there with people in their comments and on their blogrolls. In Google Reader, of course.

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3 Marketing Tools I Miss (and Their Alternatives)

Kikolani

PostRank was a social analytics platform that scored blogs based on their engagement (comments and social shares). I wrote about PostRank regularly as a way to discover the most engaging content on blogs for inspiration, guest post pitches, and competitor research. PostRank Alternatives. Google Reader.

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Top 25 Blogging and Social Media Posts on Kikolani

Kikolani

This first list is a compilation of the top posts on Kikolani, as determined by PostRank ’s engagement analysis. Without further ado, here are the posts readers have engaged with the most. Commenting. What is PostRank? To find your blog on PostRank, use the search bar under Topics. Social Media.

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5 Steps to Submitting a Guest Post & Getting It Published

Kikolani

One of the easiest ways to do that is using Google Reader in the Chrome browser with the PostRank Chrome extension. Simply subscribe to your desired guest post destination in Google Reader, and let PostRank do the rest. Some great ways to get to know blog owners include: Commenting on their blog. Get to know the blog owner.

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6 Critically Undervalued Social Media Success Metrics

Convince & Convert

Instead of just counting the number of Facebook “likes” you accrue – which signifies nothing more than digital bumper stickering, instead track how often your fans click “like” and comment upon the status updates you post. One of the challenges of writing a blog is knowing how to value the wide variety of reader engagements and behaviors.

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