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4 Free Tools for Researching Guest Blogging and Advertising Opportunities

Kikolani

Maybe it will give you an idea of how many sites are linking to the blog, but it doesn’t help determine traffic, engagement or if Google even considers the blog an authority. Let’s face it – in the last major Google update, it slammed the rankings of sites with PageRank as high as 7, 8, and 9. Google Ad Planner.

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5 metrics to track on Twitter

Akamai Marketing

According to Twitalyzer ) You can also use a tool like TweetReach to monitor a particular #hashtag, URL, phrase or user name. PostRank will help balance out the information from Google Analytics, including RSS feed tracking and conversation on Twitter surrounding a particular link.

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8 Best Practices for Collaborative Blog Groups

Kikolani

Otherwise, you can include the links above, but do not make them live – this way people have to cut and paste into a new window, which makes sure that the referrer to the network is not always the blog group or forum URL. Groups such as Google (free) or Yahoo (free). Member Promotion. Anchor Text 1. Anchor Text 2. WordPress Hack.

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Creating a Custom RSS Feed for Guest Posts

Kikolani

Using the shortlink should ensure that if the title or URL change, your feed will still be able to find it. You can still get to it and burn it to Feedburner using the direct URL such as [link]. Once your feed is complete, you can subscribe to it in Google Reader or another feed reader to see the results. On CommentLuv Blogs.

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44 Blogging Questions and Answers

Kikolani

But since we all seem to use shortened URL’s these days, does it really make a difference? I am concerned about losing the existing followers that I currently have if the URL changes. URL would not actually include the word categories)?WP that you will want to setup goals in Google Analytics.

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Socialnomics Book Review | jasonyormark.com

Jason Yormark

Tons of notes referenced throughout the book at the end to dive into when and if needed, most with URLs to the source If you haven’t seen the “trailer” for the book, it’s a must see. I also love Qualman’s writing style, very informal and narrative. Makes for a more enjoyable read. My natural tendency will be to go for 2nd option.

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Best of #SMAZ – Blogging Tips, Social Media ROI, & SEO

Kikolani

Google tracks links and related keywords in social mentions, so having a tweet stating “Our updated link building services page [link] will Google will associate link building services with the referenced website. Google Alerts – Email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.)

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