Spying on your Competitors Part II

Spying on your Competitors

Here is a great tool that will probably have most marketers flipping out on why he is giving this secret out. SEO Power Suite is a full SEO management tool available by http://www.link-assistant.com/ . This includes a rank checker, website auditor, SEO Spyglass, & link assistant and if you need more than that keep an eye out here you never know what I’ll post.

This site will help you get backlinks, analyze your site, and more. They have a free version for the marketers out there the paid is better for the SEO managers out here.

Contact Lense TV in the Future

Here is another possible future of TV built into Contact Lenses.

Powered by the body heat with circuits getting smaller and smaller. This could be the future of not only television but that of computers. Imagine computer monitors that are contact lenses and thought controlled.

Who knows what the future really holds but this article was able to grab my attention even though no working model is currently in existence.

For more details on this please visit the original article at http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/02/contact-lens-co/ 

Please feel free to leave comments that pertain to this and with ideas for future posts. No Spammers please thanks.

$35 Tablet PC Powered By Android

$35 Tablet PC Powered By Android.

I know this maybe hard to believe but India has developed an Android operated Tablet that could soon give iPad a run for their money literally. The great part about this article and video is that they state they think that in the future they will be able to drop the cost to $10 per unit. This will completely take the world by storm and allow anyone to afford a computer. The PC even has USB ports, built in webcam, and headphone jacks.

For more information please see the article directly at http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/35-tablet-makes-an-appearance-on-indian-tv-video/

Spying on your Competition

How to Spy on your Competitors?

Spying on your competition is actually pretty easy to do online. There are hundreds of sites. I’m going to look at one of them here today for you. The site is http://www.opensiteexplorer.org its a site that allows you to pull the back-links of any of your competitors. It will breakdown the links what the google page rank is. Then you can use that info to get similar back-links to your competitors. Plus by having this information you also are advertising in the same venues as your competition.

How Spying helps you rankings?

Spying on your competition not only gives you a competitive edge. But it also helps you find those sites that have the follow links you are looking for. The problem is that you must understand that people are also spying on your site as well. So be sure you stay competitive and do other things that are less noticeable.

Stay tuned for more of these links to help you grow your business. Feel free to post ideas or other links that can help our users links no spam please.

Google Map Listings

Why worry about your Google Map Listings?

Here is one of the most interesting questions and one of the most damaging for business owners. Did you know that google compiles information from the internet about your business whether you wanted them to or not. In order to control the message you first have to claim the page then you can edit the page.

Why is it important to Claim your Google Map Listing?

If you aren’t claiming your page Google compiles the information from the internet correct or not. By claiming your map page you then can control most of the information there.

What can’t you control on the Google Map Listing?

You can not control the reviews people can leave reviews good or bad. So encourage your consumers to leave them the more the better. Good or bad reviews will give your page credibility. Solve the problems in your business your consumers can change the reviews. If you run a great business then you won’t have much to worry about here.

Feel free to give me ideas on topics you would like to see.

Viral Marketing

How does viral marketing work?

I will be using Americas Got Talent contestant Jackie Evancho as an example for this exercise.  She is the contestant that won the youtube audition for the show this season.

With over 3 million views she was able to beat out all other contestants in the youtube auditions and is now on track to win the whole season. The fact she can sing helps but whereas the other contestants only have the one media view of Television she has both the internet and television following.

Viral Marketing in Business

The same goes for business as you increase the media outlets used you increase your exposure to your market allowing you to be seen by more consumers.

This shift in thinking from traditional business models in that you can hit multiple outlets through the internet medium. Viral marketing however means that you have something popular enough that others share your message online or offline. This helps you get free advertising that you normally wouldn’t get. Unlike in the past where advertisers where concerned over people stealing there proprietary information such as commercials today they actually encourage it.

To see the video regarding Americas got Talent contestant check it out here.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=america%27s+got+talent+10+year+old+singer&aq=0s

New SEO Group

For those of you outside of the internet marketing world Larry Brauner is extremely known in the social media realm of things. He just started a new Ning network of which I run a SEO group on. Here you can ask questions and get answers to SEO questions. Join here at Small Business Network .

Flash Media

How Flash affects your ranking?

Flash unfortunately is hard for search engines to read. Most web developers will tell you that it doesn’t really matter and this is an old practice for search engines. However this is still holds true today the only change is that the search engine does now recognize the text only. The problem is that they still drop your rankings because the images can’t be read.

How do you get great animation without Flash?

The best remedy for this problem is to program all animations in javascript.

Why I don’t use flash?

Flash and javascript both slow down upload times which also affect your web rankings so make sure you have less graphics and better content.

Hootsuite

What is Hootsuite?

Hootsuite is a social media management tool that allows you to post to multiple accounts and manage them at the same time. Networks that hootsuite will help you organize are Facebook, Facebook Fan Page, MySpace, LinkedIn, Ping, and WordPresss.com.

Hootsuite can also do some things that Ping is unable to do such as track clicks, allow for team collaboration, assign tasks, schedule messages, and monitor mentions.

This is truly a great tool that is free for managing your social media accounts. Check out Hootsuite for more details.

Ping

What is Ping?

Ping is a social media syndication site that allows you to post to lots of sites with a single post.

Have you ever wondered why some people have massive social media followings and how they have time to post to all of them. This is one of the sites used to make that happen. Ping is a syndication site utilizing the sites API or in simple terms your access codes to send the post to each site from their site.

This access allows them to send the post to about 40 different accounts simultaneously. Remember if you ping it they will come and you can blast it throughout the internet.