A couple of weeks ago I took a look at some examples of how brands collect and leverage Tweeted feedback - which has a positive effect: This creates favorable social media context around the brand )and thus makes it "friendlier"(; This engages users to promote the company social media profiles )by adding them to friends, sharing, etc( This makes the brand more trust-worthy )as Twitter testimonials are easier confirmed and verified(.

If you do business online and participate in social media networks, the number of contacts you have is overwhelming. Networking is the most important step to succeeding online. Contacts are gold. Therefore finding the way to value each contact you build is so essential. Yet, it is hard. You come across dozens of new people daily. It is impossible to keep everyone in mind. Rapportive is a nice Gmail assistant that helps you better manage your email contacts.

I am sure you are familiar with )and using regularly( Google's most useful search operator SITE: - that restricts search results to the domain you specify. I for one have covered multiple tips on: How to diagnose your site using Google's operators )SITE: being the main one(; How to tell a penalty from non-penalty )also using SITE: operator(; etc Obviously,

Choosing a reliable and SEO-friendly web hosting service is one of the very first and most important steps in your website development and marketing process. No matter how "cliche" it may sound, your website hosting is literally the foundation of its success.

I have reviewed several tools to analyze sentiment : their methods varied from manual sentiment setting to textual analysis, emoticons and symbols. Today we are looking at a semantic sentiment analyze r: Opinion Crawl which uses SenseBot )we have mentioned previously ( as the semantic analysis engine. Opinion crawl has two large section we'll review separately: the sentiment tracker )for hot topics news broken into categories( and sentiment search .

Facebook is an awesome social media marketing tool and the brand Facebook presence is GOLD but it has some bugs and limitations you should be aware of before trying to leverage the platform. Apart from an infamous 5000 friend limit that restricts a personal profile from having more than 5K friends, there are a few other, less-known restrictions: 1. 500 "Liked" Page Limit If you are one of those people who feels you should "like" each page you are being shared,

The AdMax SEO Toolbar is a new-launched tool that consolidates the best SEO tools into a single browser plugin. This is also the first FireFox addon that addressed mobile SEO as well )it features mobile keyword rankings and mobile link building tools(. Let's take a detailed look at the toolbar features and options: To start off, download and install the toolbar from here .

I have done detailed reviews on SEO PowerSuite Tools previously: both SEO SpyGlass and Rank Tracker have got some highly positive feedback from our readers. Today I am pleased to review another new tool I have just tested and found cool: Website Auditor. Website Auditor is a multi-feature on-site diagnostics assistant that can help you in various tasks: Site architecture and internal linking analysis Full SEO site health check )broken links, code errors,

Ontolo guys we have interviewed once at SEJ always bring in some cool news and tools. This time they have partnered with Darren Shaw of Whitespark to launch a great local link building tool: Local Citation Finder First, about the process which is automated through that tool: here's a post by Darren that details the steps taken to find local citations,

CTRL+F )which triggers built-in on-page search( is one of my most frequently used keyboard shortcuts whenever I browse. It is wicked I miss it so much when I am reading a "paper book" and need to find anything on a page. I use the feature regularly to: Quickly find the place on a web page I need )for example when landing on page from search results(; To visualize the on-page keyword usage )including derivations, compound words,

Are you launching a new viral campaign or link bait? Sharing your results by displaying your brand name recent web mentions will work like wonders. By doing that you can: Demonstrate to your visitors how much buzz your site, product or company generates; Display live third-party testimonials; Engage your visitors in your viral marketing campaign, etc. 1.

The best thing about Twitter is the evolution of the concept. I feel too lucky to enter the Internet Marketing world at the right time - to be able to watch that evolution. Yes, every )even great( idea can be abused and accompanied with spam: thousands of Twitter bots spamming people by sending them public replies and adding to friends are annoying. This post is not about those. This post is about useful Twitter bots - it's about creative approache s to everything,

The first and most obvious way to promote your Facebook page has long been using "Suggest to Friends" feature. While it may be really effective, you can use it once )maybe once per 6 months - but no more( because more frequent bulk sharing may annoy your friends: they must be getting dozens of page suggestions daily: This post shares three more effective ways to promote your Facebook page from within Facebook : 1.

You probably know that I am a big Excel fanatic )though not an expert(. To me, Excel has always been the ultimate SEO and productivity tool. I've been collecting Excel tutorials for years and this post lists the most useful )yet, the least geeky( of them: no matter which SEO task you have come across, chances are you'll find one of the following tutorials handy: 1.

It is always fun to discover new awesome tools and think "Why haven't I thought about that myself?". Last week I was lucky enough to come across two awesome keyword research tools that take advantage of data provided by Google. Here are the tools: 1. Google Adwords Tool Result Visualization Keyword Eye )first discovered me via the guest post submission to DailySEOTip ( is an Google Adwords tool visualizer.

Accepting guest posts is an effective way to freshen up your blog, share various perspectives and build a stronger community )especially if you manage such a multi-author, multi-topic resource as SEJ(. Naturally, if you want to get the maximum benefit from guest blogging, you will need to give back. This post is about the most popular )yet,

I feel lucky enough to work from home for about 3 years now and to be able to travel wherever I want with my family. This is what I have actually been doing for the past month - traveling )and struggling with somewhat screwed schedule(. However another side of this story is that being an Internet marketer who works from home, I am never free. I work while traveling and try to make each of my vacation minute "useful" for my work and business.

Primal is a new interesting semantic search assistant that has drawn my attention due to keyword-research potential. It is being promoted as the tool that builds customized pages around your search term )which is not the reason I am sharing it here(. What I liked about the tool is its dynamic manner of generating related terms )as well as related terms of the related terms - are you still with me?(.

I have already reviewed how Facebook Group is different from Facebook Fan Page : a group is better to use for )two-way( discussion while a page is easier to brand and promote. A LinkedIn group is definitely closer to a Facebook Group in this respect, so comparing it to a Facebook page )a wider-used tool nowadays( would be like comparing apples to oranges. Why do we need to compare, you might ask. Why not use both?

I've been in the web marketing long enough to realize how important connections are. But being highly important, "online" connections are also very unstable. One day you know the person nd consider him your good friend and solid partner, the next day you lose contact with him and never hear back. Things may get hectic. Your important email sent to a potentially valuable contact may get into the spam box, accidentally deleted or lost in the weekend mail.