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There are SO many products and services available to search marketers and bloggers to help measure and market their websites that one can’t simply keep up with. So I thought I would begin assembling a list of some of the popular products/services I am familiar with in order to help spread the word (I took snippets of descriptions from each of the products’ websites). I hope to continuously expand on this list so that it makes a little bit easier for people (especially me) to keep on top of everything.
I hope to test out Wengo Visio and Eurekster more in the future as they are the products I have used the least.
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| ClickDensity is a type of Analytics Software which reports where users have clicked .
Identify usability and information architecture issues on your site. Get instant insight. - See where people are clicking that they shouldn’t be. |
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Very similar to ClickDensity but has an entirely free version.
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| FeedBurner provides the ability for users to easily optimize and publicize their content through the use of RSS feeds. FeedBurner also provides reporting which allows users to see metrics regarding their subscribers.
FeedBurner provides users another way to promote their blogs or podcasts. FeedBurner also formats your Feed’s content making it readable by all major directories that consumers use. |
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| HitTail reveals in real-time the least utilized, most promising keywords hidden in the Long Tail of your natural search results. It presents these terms to you as suggestions that when acted on can boost the natural search results of your site It helps you brainstorm ways to focus on your long tail inventory so your blogging or marketing campaigns can be more effective in reaching a larger number of people.
Why anyone would want to analyze the long tail? |
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When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you.
Your network consists of your connections, your connections’ connections, and the people they know, linking you to thousands of qualified professionals.
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MyBlogLog is a Communities service to empower authors and readers to operate at the same level. Everyone who reads a web site or blog can learn about and engage with one another, and in the process take the conversation to a whole new level.
Authors can learn more about their readers individually and as a group. What do they like and what are they ignoring? What are they reading elsewhere on the Web? MyBlogLog enables you to take advantage of your existing presence on the Web and ties it into communities of like-minded readers and authors to add context to the conversations in which you take part. |
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A free and reliableinvisible web tracker, highly configurablehit counter and real-time detailedweb stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page and you will be able to analyze and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!
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| Tag clouds are informative, appealing representations about what’s happening in your website.
WithZoomClouds you can put small (or large) tag clouds on your website that relate to whatever is going on in your website. And because you have control regarding the look and feel of the cloud, you will be able to enhance the content and appearance of your page with minimal effort and no cost to you, and at the same time, provide your visitors with an appealing way to see what terms are more often mentioned in your website. |
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| Stumble Upon | StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of 1,799,347 other websurfers with interests similar to you. Rating these sites you like automatically shares them with like-minded people – and helps you discover great sites your friends recommend |
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| A source for what’s new and popular on the web — personalized for you. We want to democratize the traditional model by giving editorial control to the people who use the site, not those who run it. Your votes train a filter, so let reddit know what you liked and disliked, because you’ll begin to berecommended links filtered to your tastes. All of the content on reddit is from users who are rewarded for good submissions (and punished for bad ones) by their peers; you decide what appears on your front page and which submissions rise to fame or fall into obscurity. | |
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del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website — the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.
You can also use del.icio.us to see the interesting links that your friends and other people bookmark, and share links with them in return. You can even browse and search del.icio.us to discover the cool and useful bookmarks that everyone else has saved — which is made easy with tags. |
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| Squidoo is community based on the creation of lenses. A lens is one person’s view on a topic that matters to her. It’s an easy-to-build, single web page that can point to blogs, favorite links, RSS feeds, Flickr photos, Google maps, eBay auctions, CafePress designs, Amazon books or music, and more. Then, when someone is looking for recommended information, fast, your lens gets him started and sends him off in the right direction. It’s a place for searchers to start, not finish. | |
| PollDaddy | PollDaddy is a Free online tool, which allows you to create free polls and place them on your website, blog MySpace, Bebo or Facebook account or anywhere online that you can paste a bit of JavaScript or Flash! |
| WikeSeek |
WikiSEek is custom search engine for Wikipedia.
Wikiseek utilizes Searchme’s category refinement technology, providing suggested search refinements based on user tagging and categorization within Wikipedia, making results more relevant than conventional search engines. |
| Wengo Visio | Wengovisio is a Flash-based widget 100% Free that you can embed in your blog/webpage to allow readers to call you when you’re available through their web browser without downloading any software. The readers have the possibility to make both live audio or video phone calls (without subscribing). You need to signup for a Wengo account and give your site URL to generate the widget code to embed in the website. |
| Eurekster |
Joining a Eurekster SearchParty™ is like being part of a true democracy. When you form a SearchParty for your site, every time someone searches and finds a useful result, Eurekster automatically casts their vote for that result. The more people that do the same, the higher that result is ranked.
So future searches get faster and results more relevant. The results are dictated by the people, not by a corporation or an editor. |
Great post.
A nice little list of some great tools.