How to Get High Quality Backlinks (Without Guest Posting) You already know that the only way to move your site to the top of Google is to build high quality backlinks (and lots of them). That much is clear. But how do you find authoritative sites that might want to link to you? And how do you get them to actually add your link…without bribing them with a guest post, link exchange or cash? Well, that’s exactly what I’m going to share with you in today’s blog post. Because over the last few months I’ve been experimenting with a new link building strategy (“The Moving Man Method”)… …and have some AMAZING results to share with you. Let’s Start With a Case Study of The Moving Man Method in Action Before I reveal the step-by-step plan that you can use to generate high quality backlinks to your site, I want to show you some real life results. Using “The Moving Man Method” I recently scored links from… A DA87 .edu site: A PA81 resource page: And several contextual links from relevant sites in the SEO and online marketing space, like this: And this: And you’re set.
OpenTok Quick Start Guide Step 1: Sign-up to get your API key, session ID and token Before you can begin using OpenTok, you must sign up using the developer dashboard. When you are finished and before you start coding, we need to collect a few key pieces of information necessary to create an OpenTok application. They are: API key - This identifies your OpenTok account. Get these from your OpenTok dashboard by following these instructions: Your first project After you login to the dashboard, and click through the Quick Start guide, retrieve your API key from Project A on the Project page. Note: Make sure to copy/paste the whole of the session ID and token. Step 2. To create an OpenTok-powered web application, you first need to add the OpenTok.js library in your HTML document. Step 3: Code! Copy and paste the code below into your HTML document. Remember those values you saved in step 1? Step 4: View your app and share with friends! Load the HTML document onto a web server, and view the application you just created.
18 Social Media Marketing Tips From the Pros Would you like to improve your social media marketing? Are you wondering what social media marketing tactics the pros like to use? We asked top social media pros to share their hottest social media marketing tactics. In this article, you’ll discover strategies the pros use to boost their social media marketing. #1: Stay Top of Mind Using LinkedIn Tags Viveka Von Rosen On LinkedIn, you shouldn’t send an email blast to every one of your connections. When you tag your connections on LinkedIn, you can sort/filter them by Tags and—wait for it—send a message to up to 25 people at a time. You can filter by tag and then send a message to up to 25 people. For example, if one of your niche markets on LinkedIn is marketers who target medical professionals, all you have to do is: Tag your contacts for easier messaging. The message subject line might be something like: “As a medical marketing consultant, are you frustrated with LinkedIn’s new visibility limitations?” #2: Post in ‘Micro-Opportunity’ Windows
exercism.io 14 Social Media Tools Used by Marketing Pros Are you looking for social media tools to get more out of your marketing? Are you wondering what tools marketing pros are using successfully? We asked fourteen well-known marketers to share the latest social media tools they’ve been using. Discover how you can use these tools to help you to get more out of your social media marketing. #1: Mention Todd Wheatland Mention was developed as a user-friendly replacement for Google Alerts. As well as being an absolute joy to use, it captures so many more, ahem, ‘mentions’ online than any other platform I’ve used that it’s become my #1 go-to social mention reference tool. There are many clever things behind the way Mention is set up. Mention provides clean and simple functionality. Apart from doing a fantastic job of identifying online mentions, some of my favorite features are: You can see how many online mentions you have in the left-hand column. Todd Wheatland, head of thought leadership at Kelly Services. #2: Addvocate Jay Baer #3: Swayy Jamie Turner 1.
Geocodio | Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding The Data Resources Resource | rvll.co.uk Welcome to my first blog post on rvll.co.uk - Today I’m going to go through my favourite data resources online, why they are so useful, some related content ideas (ready for you to use) & similar resources so you can find even more information (should you need too). Over the last couple of years the SEO community has been effected by some high profile Google algorithm updates. The two most high profile updates (Panda & Penguin) have revolved around Google ‘promoting’ high quality and ‘penalising’ low quality. Whether it’s through page quality, site quality or link quality the Google PR machine and webspam team are making it quite clear that to be a success in organic search you’ll have to earn it. The combination of these algorithm changes, their severity, the SEO blogosphere and Google ‘propaganda’ has resulted in a change in attitude for a large majority of online marketers. This leads us to a potential issue, where do we get this angle, fact or data from? The Data Resources Resource
IP Geolocation API Documentation - ipinfo.io Use the ipinfo.io IP lookup API to quickly and simply integrate IP geolocation into your script or website. Save yourself the hassle of setting up local GeoIP libraries and having to remember to regularly update the data. Full IP Details When called from the command line or a script we will return a JSON response with all of the IP details that you see on the website. We do a little bit of magic on the server to determine if we should send the JSON response or the webpage. for your own IP for details on another IP Specific fields If you're only interested in specific details you can add a field to get a plain text response that includes just the field you're after. curl ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8/org AS15169 Google Inc. curl ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8/city Mountain View You can also specify /geo to get just the geolocation information, which will often be faster than getting the full response. IPv6 Rate limits You are limited to 1,000 API requests per day.
33 Tools Every Startup Marketer Needs I’ve spent the last twelve years working in (or as) the marketing department at start ups. In fact, every job I’ve had has been at a start up. Marketing for start ups is a lot different than big brand marketing. For one, the budgets are much, much smaller, and often nonexistent. Over the years I’ve compiled a list of tools that are must haves for marketers who are trying to get marketing up and running for brand new businesses. Google Analytics – Start here. Basecamp – There’s one thing that’s consistent across every start up I’ve been at: everything moves at a lightning pace. Campfire – Communication is everything at a start up. Skype – If you’ve got a remote team, Skype video chat is the secret sauce to keeping everyone on the same page and connected to the team. Google Apps – Save yourself the headache and costs of a Microsoft Exchange setup. A DSLR – Whether it’s the Canon or a Nikon, grab a DSLR and learn how to shoot decent shots of your company, product, customers and events.