As I sat with my staff discussing WordPress plugins and talking with my staff about making a list of all the ones we put on the majority of WordPress sites we work on it stuck me, “I’ll bet,” I thought to myself, “that others might find this list handy as well.” That thought was well […]
7 Instagram Analytics Tools to Monitor and Measure Your Visual Marketing
If you are interested in improving your Instagram results, and really boosting your social campaign for brand visibility, there is only one way to do it: the informed way. Having data that shows you where you are at is the first step towards knowing how to move forward. You can use analytics to monitor your […]
Major WordPress Exploit Affecting Hundreds of Thousands of Sites using RevSlider Premium Plugin
An exploit in a WordPress plug-in has resulted in the infection of over 100,000 WordPress websites since Sunday. And what is worse, because the plugin is bundled with many themes, many webmasters might be unaware that they use it and are not getting plugin update reminders for what has been termed as a Zero Day […]
Blogging Tools You Need to Succeed
Building a successful blogging strategy is never easy and should never be completely automated. With that said, however, there are a number of tools that are available that can make blogging along with your listening and engagement strategy much easier. Time is the most important commodity you have. Using tools to speed up processes and […]
How to Archive Tweets
The amount of information we share daily on Twitter is enormous: we rely on Twitter for sharing our most important updates, streaming our events and conferences, for curating testimonials, creating Twitter chats, etc. This article shares some mostly free tools that will let you archive Tweets based on various criteria for you to: Be able […]
Search Engine Marketers Have Become Tools of Their Tools
I live about 10 miles from Walden Pond, where Henry David Thoreau wrote the bulk of Walden, one of the most famous non-fiction books written by an American author. Thoreau’s book was published in 1854, but it still offers lots of key lessons for search engine marketers today. For example, Thoreau wrote in Chapter 1, […]
7 Social Media Bookmarklets from the Social Media Ninja
I am a very, very busy person. Here: I said that! Personal productivity is very important for me to manage to do everything I like doing. My browser is a huge part of my productivity I have selected over years, thanks to all the tools and bookmarklets, among other things. Why bookmarklets? They are easy […]
Ultimate List of Must-Have Tools for Your SEO Toolkit
They say that a carpenter is only as good as his tools, I would argue that in many ways the same can be said for SEOs. While personally I avoid tools that attempt to tell me how to optimize a site, (like somehow a site I’m working on and Wikipedia should be measured by the […]
5 Free Authorship-Related Tools for Author Discovery and Audit
Even though Google Authorship photos are gone, there are no signs of Google dropping the idea of finding real people behind the content. In fact, as we have discussed on our Google Hangout with Jen Slegg and Jim Boykin, Google is putting more emphasis on determining experts and adjusting their algorithm towards giving them more […]