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Friday, December 11, 2009

Feedera - Your Personalized Daily Twitter Digest

Feedera delivers your personalized daily Twitter digest to your inbox.

Why do you need Feedera?

Feedera delivers the top videos, photos and links shared by your friends and this will avoid information overload.

Feedera calculates the feedscore for every top story based on the total number of tweets and the overall popularity across the web.




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To start receiving your personalized daily twitter digest, Visit http://feedera.com

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Web Based Competitive Intelligence Tools

Google Alerts

Google alerts lets you track competitor's company, their employees, product launches,new features, blogs, public profiles, photos,videos and more.

Yahoo Site Explorer

You can find who is linking to your competitors using Yahoo Site Explorer

SocialMention

By entering your competitor's name or keyword SocialMention will help you track how many times the term was mentioned in different in blogs and social media websites and it allows you to export this information.

Twitter

You can follow your competitors and their employees on Twitter. You could also follow the people your competitors follow.

Twitter Search

You can create and save twitter searches to track competitors keywords, product names and more.

Quarkbase

By submitting your competitors URL quarkbase lists you the most popular pages of your comeptitors and the websites where they have been distributed and the number of subscribers and more.

Compete

Compete lets you know the unique visitors, keywords to a particular website.

SEO for Firefox

Firefox plugin from Aaron Wall that gives you information on a site's PageRank, number of links at a certain page, popularity in social media, directory listing and more.

copernic.com

Copernic will search for new content on your competitor's web pages and then sends you an email on what is changed(keywords, new product pages, etc).

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Why should you optimize your video for search engines

A recent study by comScore revealed that in October 2009, more than 167 million viewers in the U.S. watched an average of 167 videos each, while YouTube (YouTube) reached 1 billion views per day – or 41 million views per hour – in the same month. - Online Video viewing study.

From the study it is clear that online video viewing is increasing. Video's are definitely an effecient way to promote your products or services.

The use of videos to market your products/services on the Internet is a great way to impact your prospect customer.

What is the importance of optimizing your videos for search engines?

Optimizing your videos for search engines helps you reach your prospective customers 10x faster.

Tips for Optimizing your Videos for Search Engines

  • Use keywords in the video title and description and link it to your web pages.
  • Use anchor text for the links from other pages of your website.
  • Use proper extension for your video files.
  • Create short videos say 2 minutes.
  • Create video sitemaps and submit the sitemap to the video and the content search engines.
  • Include RSS Feeds
  • Include a share button that enables visitor to share your videos with popular social networking sites.
  • Distribute your videos to video hosting sites like YouTube, Yahoo!Videos and more
Find below the list of video distribution sites:

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Word of Mouth Analytics

Meteor: measure & activate your online earned media from Meteor Solutions on Vimeo.

Meteor's Key Features Helps:
  • To determine the impact and reach of your earned media traffic
  • To understand which sites, ads and users generate the most word-of-mouth for your site.
  • To create experiences that directly rewards visitors for sharing your content
Source: meteorsolutions.com

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Crown Peak launches New Content Targeting and Testing Tool

Cown Peak's new online marketing tool lets you create and manage the content and your campaigns through a easy-to-use interface.

Detailed listing of the tool's features - Source: www.crownpeak.com

Manage Testing

  1. A/B, or A/B/C or A/B/C/D (you get the idea) all the way through Multivariate testing built right into the product. Test content wherever it lives: your Web site, landing pages, microsites, email, display advertising or social networks.

  2. Get split test measurements in real time and know exactly which version of your content or which campaign is actually driving results.

  3. Promote or demote content, pages or versions based on defined success metrics like page views, conversions or clicks.

  4. Simple, easy-to-understand reporting gives you exactly the info you need to quickly make creative and content publishing decisions.

  5. Syndicate and distribute “champion” content to provide ongoing SEO benefits.

Ad Testing

  1. Track and manage content in flash or static banner ads or in social media as well as the impact of change on the click-through or conversion rate.

  2. Optimize advertising content in the same, easy-to-use interface that you utilize for all your Web content management.

  3. Combine ad testing with landing page testing to know exactly where and how to optimize conversion rates and content.

Segment and Target Content

  1. Easily create “playlists” of criteria to create your audience segments.

  2. Target all kinds of content – from single snippets on a page to the entire page to groups of visitors based on audience criteria you define.

  3. Target content to audience segments based on implicit and behavioral criteria such as referring URL, geography, time of day, ad campaign etc.

  4. Easily re-use targeting groups for any new snippet of content you create.

Automate Content and Campaign Management

  1. Schedule both tests and targeted content to go live and retire on specific dates

  2. Automatically direct your visitors based on rules you establish such as time of day, referring media (e.g. ad vs. email or organic vs. paid search).

  3. Use workflow to trigger email notifications of campaign milestones such as number of conversions, or temporary promotions.

  4. Automate approval processes of content before it goes live.

Run The Whole Site Or Just Part Of It

  1. Unlike other systems there’s no software to install or manage on your servers, it’s completely on demand.

  2. Use the CrownPeak Online Marketing Suite to control your entire site, or just plug in a few snippets of code for your "persuasive content" and use CrownPeak as a marketing layer on your existing infrastructure.