Category Archives: SEO Tools

This 10 minute video revels a number of my keyword research tips and tricks that will save you a ton of time and money while also harvesting a bunch of highly profitable keyword gems for your niche.

During last months Family Internet Marketing seminar I spoke with several brick and mortar business owners who were interested in creating an online presence but were unsure on how to get started, so I asked them 2 very basic questions:

What products and/or services were you interested in promoting online?
What keyword phrases would prospective clients type into Google to find your products and/or services?

Seems like 2 very basic questions, but having a clear understanding what products/services you want to promote and understanding how your prospective clients will search for your products/services is critical for your success and is the 1st step ... Read More

Recently on one of my coaching calls, I was asked to give the Top 10 Internet Marketing Tools that I would absolutely have to have to succeed in Internet Marketing.
I really have never sat down and had to explain which ones that I “absolutely MUST have.”  But after I started thinking about it, there are a few tools that EVERY Internet marketer must use.
So here they are…
1.  Fast Computer and High Speed Internet Connection
Some of you just started laughing; others of you are in self-denial.  I am going to make a very bold statement, but “I have never met an ... Read More

We don’t promote any SEO Tools that we don’t use ourselves and for a limited time SEO Power Suite is having a summer blow out sale on their SEO Power Suite and their Keyword Tracking software.
For those of you that may not be familiar with the SEO Power Suite it is a full package of very powerful SEO tools that includes:

LinkAssist – Link building assistant
Rank Tracker – Ability to track your rankings in the various search engines
Website Auditor – Reviews your website and provides SEO suggestions
SEO SpyGlass – Ability to find all your competitors back links

We use SEO Power Suite ... Read More

Microsoft has had several very powerful SEO tools in their adCenter Labs for audience intelligence such as my favorite their Online Commercial Intention tool.
For those not familiar with what the tool does did, it displays the two levels of commercial intent: informational and transactional. If you’re involved in affiliate marketing or selling any product online, this tool is was very useful in identifying the commercial value of keywords.

I used Microsoft’s tool religiously when I oversaw the Radarbusters network, here are just a few examples;
The keyword “radar detectors” has had an OCI value of only 28%, which showed that the people ... Read More

During our Local SEO Training Workshop last week, I received a few comments about a old photo from my undercover law enforcement days hanging in our office where I am posing in front of several millions of dollars of gold and silver bars along with a large cache of weapons seized from a top-level drug trafficker.
This and several other successful investigations from my law enforcement career taught me one important thing; learn everything about your target before you plan any operation to take them out.
Gathering Intel on Competitors
When my team and I decide to enter into a new market, one ... Read More

Don’t you just hate it when once you finally get something figured out that someone comes around and changes all the rules?
This is just the case with Facebook as they are changing the rules this weekend as they will no longer allow the creation and in some case the modification of custom FBML pages or tabs and instead move toward the implementation of using iFrames,
For those of you that already have custom content on your Facebook Places Pages it is important to note that you will not lose any of the content that you have already created and you will ... Read More

This is another of the most frequently asked questions that our staff receives from clients who are considering implementing e-commerce on a WordPress Website.

Several of the items that you will want to consider while doing your research for a shopping cart for your website is the aesthetics (how it will look), usability issues, will your products have different attributes (size, color, etc.) how well it integrates with your current platform and your payment gateway and of course security of the data and processing and if you have your own SSL certificate installed on the server.
As providing a secure environment for ... Read More

Context is Queen – Part 2

In last week’s SEO Tip of the Week we discussed Content is King and the importance of developing great content for your visitors and the search engines, in this week’s SEO tip of the week we will discuss the importance of Context and why Context is Queen.
Before I begin I’d like you to think about context and not just in the terms of developing content for your website but in the scope of everyday life.
The content of what we speak can be different in how we say it. For example, the context of how you ... Read More

Competitive Analysis in Internet Marketing is an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of your current and potential competitors which then will enable you to develop your offensive and defensive strategies.
Michael Marshall, the owner of the Search Engine Academy of North Carolina is also the creator of three SEO tools for competitive intelligence; SEO Recon, SEO Scout and SEO Sniper.
Tonight, SEO Training SW hosted a webinar with Mike, which we recorded and have available at the end of this post that you can watch.
Review of SEO Scout
Mike kicked his presentation with an overview of SEO Scout, a program that will ... Read More