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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. What tools do you miss?

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Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

Adam Sherk

PostRank has a comparison tool that uses its Domain Activity API to measure total engagement based on user participation across multiple social platforms. PostRank counts “engagement events” which it defines as individual activities such as a tweet, like, comment, digg, RSS view, etc. So I ran 30+ news sites through the tool.

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How Do You Define Blogging Success?

Jason Yormark

As much as I enjoy writing and actually having a decent audience that actually reads what I write, it’s definitely become part of my regular routine. My own desire to crack the AdAge 150 often has me banging my head on blog topic choices and how to drive my Alexa, Yahoo Backlinks, and PostRank ratings higher.

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Social Media Book Giveaway Contest Follow Up

Jason Yormark

I knew running a contest would give my blog a traffic and engagement boost, but I was definitely curious to see how much exactly. 10 PostRank (50% higher then average). I always appreciate when people take the time to leave read anything I write, especially when they take the time to leave a few words. 187 page views (about the norm).

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Social Media Book Giveaway Contest Follow Up | jasonyormark.com

Jason Yormark

I knew running a contest would give my blog a traffic and engagement boost, but I was definitely curious to see how much exactly. 10 PostRank (50% higher then average) -187 page views (about the norm) So my takeaway is that obviously my reader engagement increased quite a bit.

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Top SocialFish posts of 2010

SocialFish

So you will definitely be doing me a favor if you have a guest post in mind that you would like to publish here. As a quick wrap-up to 2010, here were the top SocialFish blog posts of the year (based on Postrank score, which measures pageviews, RSS views, comments, tweets and retweets, shares, Buzz, bookmarks, clicks, trackbacks etc.)

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What I've Learned About Blogging Based On A Year's Worth Of Data

Jason Yormark

Most achieved a Postrank of higher then 6, and 9 out of the 10 articles dealt with social media. For those not familiar, Postrank is a nifty little WordPress plugin that provides some analysis into the social engagement factor of the content you create. Definitely took more time to put this post together and appreciate the comment.

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