Sentiment analysis is something very new and immature. Sentiment analysis allows you to identify general attitudes towards your brand )or a product(. The goal of sentiment analysis is to assign a given social media comment with a degree of association to three basic categories: positive, negative or neutral. 1. Social Mention Social mention is always my first choice when it comes to the sentiment analysis.

Xmarks is one of those FireFox plugins that I've been using for ages. I mentioned it in my one of the first FireFox tool overviews and I still find it awesome. With some )arguably( great "social" features added Xmarks has turned a cool search engine as well. I find it quite relevant and precise. Sure, the database is not as huge as Google's but what it currently has is the best of the best.

One of the most advanced and usable features inside SEJ tools is its SERP tracker. The benefits of the tool include: )!( The tool is easy to use and configure; )!( The tool is organically integrated with all other tools inside which makes adding terms to tracker simple and fun; )!( The tool generates pretty and well-organized reports; etc.

It is not really often that I am actually impressed by the tool )this is because I come across 2-3 new ones weekly so it is not really easy to surprise me already(. But today's one is truly awesome. AlertRank is a free web-based tool that helps to make sense of your Google alerts. Most of us use Google Alerts to keep an eye on our keyword or brand mentions but few of us are actually satisfied with the tool' Until you try AlertRank.

SenSEO is a Firebug FireFox addon )this means you have to install FireBug to use it( checking important on-page-SEO criteria and calculating a grade of how good the current site fulfills these criteria. The tool adds one extra tab to FireBug window which allows to inspect the current page. The first thing to do is to identify a keyword )or a key phrase( to inspect the page against it. Just type in the search box and click "Inspect SEO Criteria.

Last year I did a short post on building links via local blogs . Looking back at that post I think it is quite limited. Those resources are so much more than just link building tools. Learning to find and build contacts with local journalists and bloggers will benefit you in plenty of ways )yes, it may take quite some time but it is well worth it in the long run(. What should I do with these resources?

I love Twitter for putting me into contact with really outstanding people )well, since I don't have time for conferences, Twitter is my major source of valuable contacts(. Today I am happy to feature the interview with one of the marketers who has always been someone I've looked up to. Geno Prussakov is a well-known affiliate marketing expert,

I have once shared a few ways to check Twitter comments about any page but what if we need to keep an eye on all Tweets around some domain? All the three tools listed here have three things in common: )1( They will list all the aggregated Twitter updates related to the domain )home page + all Tweeted subpages(; )2( They support multiple URL shorteners; )3( They allow for some ways to subscribe to the generated search results. 1. Topsy Use SITE: search on Topsy : [site:domain.

LinkSidebar is a useful FireFox addon that allows to view, search and test hyperlinks in a web page. Let's give it a test drive, shall we? It took me a few minutes to figure out how to actually open the sidebar after the installation. It turned out I should have used the shortcut key [Ctrl+Shift+L] or the view menu )View->Sidebar->Links(. LinkSidebar allows the user to: See all hyperlinks in the current web page,

One of the most useful features of the SEJ toolset is its SERP tracker )which will be reviewed in a more detail in the upcoming posts(. Plenty of built-in and third-party tools are interconnected with the SERP tracker to make sure you can easily add and monitor words. So this post looks at multiple ways to add keywords to the tracker to monitor your )or your competitor's( domain rankings: 1. Add keywords manually from the SERP tracker options Naturally,

Saying hello to all Google Chrome users out there: today's post is right for you. I am sharing a new )fun!( productivity addon for Google Chrome: "StayFocusd" . Now an introduction which I loved first of all: You sit down at the computer, and you swear you'll be productive. Next thing you know, it's twelve hours later. You've checked your email, updated your Facebook status, browsed the trending topics on Twitter, read your RSS feeds,

I am no web designer )I have neither time nor talent to learn web design(, however for SEOs it is essential to know some basic tools and tips to test a website design when it is delivered. Thus this post is not intended to share some advanced tips for web developers: instead it lists three quick ways to test a web design in FireFox: 1.

If you travel much and still need to keep your blog active, you will definitely find these tips useful: they will show you how to post to your blogs from email )and thus from your mobile phone (. Of course, you won't be able to apply those to all types of blogs but generally this is very useful to know. Post from Email to Your Wordpress Blog Detailed instructions can be found here ; the steps: 1. Create a dedicated e-mail account to be used only for posting to your blog.

Seeing what a web page links out to is one of the major steps of SEO diagnostics process. This way you can see which internal pages are given more emphasis to, which anchor texts are used for both internal and external links; you can identify some red flags of possibly paid links, research the site "neighborhood", etc.

Previously, I have already shared some tools that can extract key words and phrases from a web page and analyze its prominence. SEJ tools have a somewhat improved version of such a utility that can analyze the page copy, identify most prominent phrases, analyze how relevant they are to the page content and define the type of each one. Let's briefly see it in action: 1. Provide the full URL of a web page you want to analyze. 2.

Last week or so I was approached by Danny Wong asking me to publish his post on why he thinks link building via guest posting is a bad strategy. I replied to him saying that this largely depends on each person's approach to guest blogging. I did agree to publish the post )because I think we should discuss various points of view here( but promised to share my own opinion on it in the upcoming weeks )for this same reason I didn't comment on the original post(. Now,

There's hardly a person I know who is not using Gmail today. Finding an available Gmail username is no easier than finding a new .com domain. No matter how popular Gmail is, not everyone is still aware of what he can do with it. Search option is one of the most awesome features of the service which )together with some external utilities( is a great fun to use: 1. Advanced search tricks Gmail advanced search is pretty well outlined on this table ,

I've looked at a few tools allowing you to research on-page links like this post on extracting links from a page based on their placement and exporting links from a page to Excel . Today I am reviewing one more tool to analyze on-page links )both external and internal(. FireLinkReport is a Firebug extension that allows to see and analyze all links on the currently open page. First, you will need to install Firebug )if you haven't already(. Once you are done,

Google suggest can be both helpful and fun . It may save your time and give you an idea what other people are looking for when searching for similar words as you are. Last week I discovered one fun web application that allows to compare Google Suggest results for two search queries: Web Seer The tool allows to enter two search phrases and will display where Google Suggest results overlap for them.

Affiliate marketing is huge; there are thousands of various products, different types of offers and terms, etc. It is almost impossible for a newbie to decide how to compare the affiliate programs to decide which program to give a try first. Luckily there's some good material to help online.