SMX Sydney 2012 – Michael King – Tools for pulling rank

This is a summary of Michael King’s presentation at Search Marketing Expo / Online Marketer Conference held in Sydney 1-2 May 2012.Mike King at SMX Sydney

Michael King is Director of Inbound Marketing at iPullRank and is also leading the expansion of iAcquire’s offering into on-page optimization and digital brand strategy.

Michael’s presentation is all about his favorite tools. He starts by saying he has 78 slides but only 20 minutes to present them so it’s going to be a FAST presentation. Here are the tools Michael uses:

 

Programming Tools

Code Academy – learn javascript

Udacity.com – learn python


On Page Analysis Tools

Screaming Frog

Scraper for Chrome

Web Developer Plugin for Chrome

SEOmoz Tools

HttpFox

Firebug add-on for Firefox

Page Speed Plugin

Open Graph Helper

 

Keyword Research Tools

Keyword Eye

Yahoo Clues

Soovle

Ubersuggest

Scrapebox

Google Adwords API Excel Plugin by SEO Gadget

 

Content Ideas

GoFish

Google Docs Tool by Seo Gadget

Facebook Recommendations Demo

Zemanta

 

Spreadsheet Tools

SEO Tools by Niels Bosma

Import XML for Google Docs

 

Link Building Tools

Link Research Tools

Link Detective

FollowerWonk

Outreachr Bulk Domain Check Tool

Ontolo

Link Building Guides

 

Competitive Analysis Tools

Searchmetrics Essentials

 

Analytics Tools

Keyword Level Demographics

Social Analytics WordPress Plugin

Google Analytics Debugger

 

Audience Targeting Tools

Facebook Ad Creator

Facebook Insights

DoubleClick Ad Planner

 

Social Media Tools

Twitter Follow / Link Tool

Simply Measured

KnowEm

MentionMapp

IFTTT

Rapportive

BuzzStream

 

Time Saving Tools

Boomerang

ManageWP

 

Infographics & Data Visualization Tools

World Government Data

Google Public Data

Infogr.am

Dipity

Story Bird

 

Link Analysis Tools

Majestic SEO Site Explorer

Ahrefs

Blekko

Link Diagnosis

Broken Link Index

 

Search Engine Ranking Tools

Stat Search Analytics

 

Staff and Freelancers

Mechanical Turk

 

Phew! That’s a lot of tools. If you want to see some screengrabs or read more, Mike’s full slide deck can be downloaded from here.

A couple of my own favorite tools that weren’t in Mike’s list:

Copyscape – which enables you to search for stolen/scraped copies of your content on the web.

Raven Tools – which is a suite of time saving tools for a wide range of SEO / SEM tasks, including keyword research, link building, rank checking, reputation management and social media posting and monitoring. I’d be absolutely lost without this one!

Do you have a favorite Search Engine Marketing tool not in this list? I’d love to hear about it. Please share it in the comments.

 

Search Industry Job of the Week – SEO Manager (Senior)

Job Title: SEO Manager (Senior)
Position Type: full time
Name of employer: Straight North
Location: Oak Brook IL
Date Posted: 2 June 2012
Position description:

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Responsibilities

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  • Examples of SEO campaign management experience
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Salary range: Unknown
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