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SEO Scoop is DazzlinDonna's blog focused mostly on organic SEO tips, SEO tools, and Internet marketing in general.
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8 Utilities to Track Keyword Rankings
One of the more tedious tasks in my monthly routine is preparing keyword ranking reports. While I enjoy analyzing the numbers and discovering how well our clients have (hopefully) improved over the past 30 days, actually collecting those numbers is a...
Getting a measure on social media metrics
One of the primary barriers I encounter when talking to businesses about social media implementation is measurement. For years, web marketers have sold the virtues of web marketing via its’ accountability. Clicks could be tracked, conversions could...
Use Yahoo pipes!
Yes…you! Yahoo pipes is as easy to use as any other type of drag-n-drop style application. It’s also no more complicated than WordPress for example. You can use it out of the box, or you can customise, or even build your own template. The...
Internet Marketing Blogs Ranked By Various Metrics
Winning The Web has created a list of over 200 Internet Marketing and SEO/SEM blogs with each being ranked by using a variety of metrics. Site categories include affiliate marketing, blogging, copywriting, Internet marketing, link building, make mon...
A Newb Gets Excited About RankSense
I recommended RankSense to a newbie wanting to optimize a site a while back, and I remembered to ask him today what he thought of it. He said that he’d done a little happy dance earlier because he’d watched in fascination as the software...
Looking For An Alternative To Adsense? What About Adcenter?
I’ve been beta testing Microsoft’s Adcenter Publisher for a few months now, and we’ve finally been given the go-ahead to blog about it. I don’t plan to give an exhaustive review of Adcenter, but I did want to point out some o...
Google Insights Bookmarklet
Just a quick post to pass along a new tool for your keyword research. Googletutor has created a handy bookmarklet that lets you quickly check out the search volume of the phrase you are researching using Google Insights. This gives you a one-click ...
Cligs - SEO Friendly Short URL Service With Built-In Analytics
Although there are many URL shortening services out there like TinyURL, the newest one to hit the netwaves is Cligs, and it’s a winner (and free). The most obvious gotta-have-it features are the built-in analytics reports. Every Clig you crea...
SEO CMS
I wanted to be able to offer my ebusiness coaching clients a choice of solutions for creating their web sites. Obviously, WordPress is the first thing that comes to mind, but it’s not necessarily the best solution for everyone, so I plan to of...
Wordze July Sale
Another quickie today. Wordze is having a sale until July 14th, enabling you to use Wordze for the rest of July for only $4, with the price going back to the normal monthly costs of $38.98 in August. So, if you were putting off getting lots of keywo...
All In One SEO Pack Plugin for WordPress No Longer Supported or Maintained
Anyone know when the All in One SEO Pack plugin went belly-up? I recently noticed it now says this: This plugin is no longer supported or maintained. Does anyone know the plugin author, uberdose? Anyone know why he’s no longer supporting or m...
A Widget Solves My Google Adsense Rant
Last week I ranted about a couple of things that Google did that just really got my goat. (That means they annoyed me, for anyone who doesn’t recognize that old slang). So as I do, I ranted and raved and moaned and groaned until someone decid...
Make Those Image Hotlinkers Give You Backlinks!
Ever get tired of people stealing your bandwidth because they hotlink your images? I used to have Myspacer's sucking my bandwidth dry because their pages got so much traffic, and they were using my images for their backgrounds, etc. There are sever...
A Handy Tool To Help You Be First
At least as far back as 2 years ago, I've been advising people to try to be the first person to do something. Being the first person to capitalize on some new trend is often one of the most important things you can do for good search rankings. Bein...
SEO Automation or Smart SEO Tools?
Let's get this out of the way right from the start. SEO cannot be COMPLETELY automated and stay legitimately white-hat. HOWEVER, just because it cannot be completely automated, doesn't mean that many of the processes cannot be helped along by the u...
Download Google Trends Historical Data Search Terms
Just got word from the folks who make my favorite keyword research tool (Wordze), that they are offering a very nice little download for free. You can download Google's top search terms for every hour of the day since Jan 8th 2008. Their keyword tra...
Software To Interpret Adwords and PPC Data
This is for all of you folks who want to get the most out of your PPC campaigns. I'm not going to even try to pretend that I am an expert at the PPC game, because that would be far, far, far from the truth. I'm an organic kind of gal, and there are...
Free Month of Wordze Keyword Research For Everyone!
Oh man, there’s nothing better than free. I love free. Free makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. And right now - and for the next 7 days only - you can sign up to get a 30 day FREE subscription to Wordze keyword research. You can grab all the ...
Mourning The Loss of WeBuildPages SEO Tools
It’s a sad day. WeBuildPages has decided to remove their awesome tools from public consumption. Granted, you can still get them (plus lots more) with their new Internet Marketing Ninjas program, but the “free” tools are history. ...
One Part Ideas, One Part Marketing, One Part Giving
Those of you who know me, even a little, have probably gathered by now that I’m an idea gal. It can be frustrating to be an idea kind of person, however, because you often don’t have anyone around to bounce all your ideas off of. Family...
Reputation Management Spreadsheet
I was reading an article in the latest AMA Marketing News publication in which they were discussing reputation management and how the online posts should be tracked. I took the information they gave and turned it into a simple spreadsheet. It’...
