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WhoisRanking.com - Who Ranks The Web. Customising Google Analytics for your business - 6 key types of. The SEO Success Pyramid. John Wooden, the greatest basketball coach ever, never talked to his teams about winning. He talked to them about preparation and about the process of becoming a great team. Wooden’s philosophy on coaching (and life) is summed up in the “Pyramid of Success,” which beats the tail off all that Self-Help Guru junk you see peddled in books, on blogs, on daytime chat shows, and on late night TV. I was lucky to hear Coach Wooden speak about the Pyramid of Success while I was a student at Pepperdine University; to this day, it’s one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard.

(Seriously, if you don’t know what his Pyramid of Success is, visit CoachJohnWooden.com.) What’s all this have to do with SEO and online marketing? Well, the best SEOs don’t talk to their clients about rankings; they talk about the process of making great web sites that earn traffic and convert visitors into customers. I would never compare myself to John Wooden, but I do like teaching others about online marketing. Internet Marketing Blog | SEO Blog. Turn an Email Address into a Social Profile. / Flowtown. Visualizing Blog Analytics. There are many ways to analyze the effect of blogging with Google Analytics ranking at the top for most due to the pricetag of free and robust features. As the social web continues to grow and become central to the internet experience, analytics and social monitoring software will HAVE to converge to measure on and off page interactions.

We don’t have that quite yet, but here are a number of other blog analytics tools that offer rich visualization and real time reporting features that are worth a look. Woopra is a desktop client but also offers web based visibility to reporting. The interface is not only visually appealing but offers an entirely different format for viewing interactions with blog content and in particular, information about visitors. Woopra also offers a live traffic page with a “Start a conversation” feature: Clicky is probably one of the most popular blog analytics services besides Google and offers many standard measurement tools in real time as well as a spy feature.

15 Tools for Monitoring a Website's Popularity. As a web designer or developer building a site, it’s helpful to first scout similar websites (i.e. the competition) to help you make design and development decisions. Knowing what websites work and which ones tank can give you insights and inspiration on what design elements, website features, and website content is effective. To help you in your analysis, here are 15 top-notch, free, and simple web tools to help you learn more about a particular website. 1.

Yahoo! Site Explorer Site explorer allows you to inspect certain aspects of a URL. 2. Compete is a web-based analytics tools that allows you to compare the traffic statistics and trends of up to three websites. 3. Quantcast is another popular site traffic measuring tool. 4. Started in 1996, Alexa is the most popular traffic ranking service today. 5. An effective way to determine a website’s popularity is by tracking its RSS feed subscriber trends. 6. popuri.us 7. socialmeter 8. 9. 10. 11. Technorati is the leading blog search engine. Social Media and SEO: 5 Essential Steps to Success. Lee Odden is the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing and editor at Online Marketing Blog.

Now more than ever, company marketers are charged with improving performance with fewer resources and shifting marketing budgets from traditional to digital tactics like SEO and social media. There are significant benefits from combining search engine optimization and social media marketing tactics ranging from increased social network discovery via search to the ability to attract links for improved SEO. Making the most out of combining SEO insights with social media marketing tactics can be accomplished with a roadmap that identifies the audience you’re after, the goals you’re trying to reach (and can measure) as well as a strategy that sets the stage for the tactics you’ll use to execute your game plan.

Read on to get a better understanding of how SEO and social media complement each other and a step by step guide for creating a social media roadmap. The benefits of SEO and social media 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Compete | Compete.