Clicky is, after Google Analytics, probably the biggest Web Analytics tools catering for everyone from the hobbyist up to 100K+ views a day sites. I did use Clicky for a site several years ago, and was very interested to see how they had grown and whether they are a serious alternative to Google Analytics which I currently use for my sites. Google is free and Clicky charges $4.99/month for the basic version, $9.99 for the pro version and then increasing amounts depending on the daily traffic. The question is, is it worth it, and to put that to the test I have been using Clicky on SeededBuzz for the last few weeks.
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Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category
Clicky – How does it compare to Google Analytics
PluginSEO – A late followup review
Ooophs – it nearly 4 months since I last posted to this blog – things have been very busy with SeededBuzz and a few other projects, but that is no excuse as all you bloggers know – so I promise to do better in future.
So when I left off, I was starting to look at PluginSEO as a tool to help drive organic traffic. Once you have installed the tracking code and setup the configuration (see my first PluginSEO post), you leave it for a few weeks and then start to get suggestions on how to improve your SEO.
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Finding trending topics to increase your blogs traffic
Have you ever thought to consider how different searches either go hot for a short period of time and then die down or are seasonal and only used at specific times of the year?
I know bloggers who make small fortunes from identifying new unique trending topics and either creating new blogs for them or pages within their own blogs for those keywords. (more…)
Blog post ideas that prevent writer’s block
We gearing up to market our community of blog post ideas that we call Seeds and we’ve been doing our keyword research using Google Adwords Keyword Tool and we’ve noticed at 1,600 people a month search for ‘blog post ideas’.
Although not a huge volume of searches when compared to terms like ‘blog promotion’ with 8,100 searches and blog marketing with 110,000 searches it’s not a hugely competitive term and it’s in our sweet spot. If we’re not a good result for bloggers looking for a great blog post idea then I don’t know who is. So why am I telling you all this? (more…)
What’s your Woo rank?
WooRank is a new site just launch by a team in Belgium which does an SEO audit on your site and gives it a WooRank – not sure what it means but the higher the better.
So no messing about I went straight in for an SEO analysis of SeededBuzz – we came out with a rank of 46.9 which is a tad under the current average of 48.7 but not too bad given the age of our site and we are just building links and content. However, there were a few embarassing spots – who forgot to put the meta description on the home page 
So in case of full disclosure our WooRank SEO analysis is here.
The challenge now is who out of the SeededBuzz community has the best rank – go on take the Woo test and leave your rank/link below
Keyword research & copywriting work better together
I was wondering how many blog posts get written without any consideration for which keyword may drive traffic via natural search. My guess is close to 100%, amazing as it sounds.
For those who are well versed in search marketing, you’ll know that if you want to generate high levels of traffic via Google and other search engines, keyword research via Google’s keyword generator or specialist tools like Wordtracker is the basis for deciding on your sites content strategy and link building strategy.
Pluginseo – A Simple SEO tool for beginners?
Pluginseo launched late last year and were a finalist in the London Seedcamp 2009 – they claim to offer “a simple way to get more and better quality search engine traffic to your site”, so I thought I would put them to the test and use it on one of my sites.
First their 60 second signup is really that – grab the javascript you need to put into your site onto the pages you want to track, add the keywords you think that are relevant, and put in the URL of your competitors. Being honest my application actually got corrupted, but my email to their support line got an instant reply and fix, so no complaints there. And then once I added the javascript, the tracking started reporting immediately, so so far fairly idiot proof.
Linking your blog to natural search stardom
Having a great product has never been a way of guaranteeing success. Having a great blog with brilliantly written content is the same thing. The difference between being a winner and an also ran is more often than not, marketing.
There’s a lot to blog marketing and we’ll be covering all the key areas in future posts, so you may want to subscribe.
This post will however touch on one of the most difficult areas – Link Building.
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