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Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Site Seer is totally free, other than requiring registration. Is it worth handing over your email address? Comparisons are bound to be made with the many free tools available from SEOmoz and SEObook, some of which are purely online services, and others are browser plugins. Many of the SEOmoz tools also require registration, and some are under the hood of their paid membership, especially tools which provide long term analysis of both your own site, and that of competitors.

How Far Will Stompernet Move The Free Line with Site Seer?

Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins are among the most astute marketers I have ever come into contact with. They want your email address, they are going to use it for marketing their products and select partners, and they are going to a lot of effort to get you to give them permission to do so. My hope is that they will continue development of Site Seer to make it more useful, and thus retain as many referrals as possible. I am a Stompernet affiliate, by referring my readers to them I want them to provide incredible value even in their free material. So far Stompernet Site Seer shows promise, but is certainly not without its flaws So on with this review...
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Exclusive Content For Membership Sites and Agencies

At the end of last year Donna wrote "Some Days I Wish This Blog Were Private So I Could Share More" giving some vague but interesting hints as to how certain links can give a site a boost, and how the benefit of those links decreases if they are removed at a later date.

This was especially significant for me at the time, because I was struggling with a problem which I couldn't solve.

A few days later 5ubliminal posted, "If I Told You… I'd Have To Kill You" - a simlar idea, again specific to SEO techniques but with

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IzeaRanks & RealRank – How Many Lies Can You Tell Your Advertisers?

Lets face it, bloggers love stats and rankings, even if they are based upon meaningless data. For some it is an ego thing, or just a measure of their own worth or progress to achieve whatever goals they have set for themselves, and for others it is monetary. If you want to sell advertising on your blog other than PPC or CPM based, you need to have some kind of carrot to wave at advertisers to encourage them to part with their advertising dollars.

Adage Power 150

Over the last few days for instance I noticed that Advertising Age have rejigged their

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Blogrush Testing and Tracking (Updated – John Reese Quote)

There has been a lot of criticism thrown at Blogrush and very few of the reports I have read really took any time to analyse how Blogrush is currently working using 3rd party tracking tools.

I am writing this article because I keep on being asked the same questions, not with the intention of beating the drum about Blogrush, or to promote my referral link. In fact you won't even find my referral link in this article. Go and use someone else's, or look at one of my previous articles.

I thought about adding some "notice me" links in this post

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Important Tips On Using Feedburner Pro – Now Free

Feedburner have just annonced that 2 of their professional features are now available free of charge.

I have been signed up for Feedburner Pro for a while

Feedburner Pro – I don’t use all the features

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Performancing Metrics vs Clicky vs MyBlogLog

ClickyHaving previously discussed Performancing Metrics as being a little bit of a “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”, I decided to sign up directly with Clicky. I also removed any Performancing affiliate links from the article.

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Performancing Metrics Could Steal Your Undies

Performancing metrics has risen like a phoenix from the ashes, but is it a devil in disguise that it not just looking to steal the shirt off your back, but your undies as well?

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MyBlogLog API – How Far Forward Are You Thinking

MyBlogLogMashups utilizing 3rd party services are a growing and competitive market, and only people who are fast on their feet get the chance to grab mind share with early adopters. Rarely is there a chance to take advantage of an API – before it is available.

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Google Reader News and When Will Google Create a Social Network?

Google Reader is one of the easiest to use RSS Readers currently available. The code is fairly light, thus allowing you to skim read 100s of RSS articles quickly. One of its many failings however, which I have pointed out previously was the lack of reporting subscriber counts to Feedburner.

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How Technology Can be Used to Improve Your Business Management

You can tell I am going through a lot of posts on other blogs, and some are just too good not to mention, Michel Fortin has just posted a list of all the tools he uses to manage his business, and exactly why.

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Subscriptions | Feedburner Changes

I had been having some ISP problems connecting to Feedburner for a couple of days so I hadn’t logged into my Feedburner account.

I am happy to see that I have crossed the 200 subscriber count. It isn’t a number to create a big fanfare about, but would like to thank those who have subscribed.

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Google Reader Stats With FeedBurner

It is nice to finally see one of the mainstream blogs pointing out that it is hard to track readership numbers from Google Reader. Techcrunch have been looking at a report from Hitwise

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Analytics | Tracking | Keyword Research

Various forms of web metrics and keyword research are one of the cornerstones of internet marketing, and I have decided that some reviews of such services could develop into some good “cornerstone” content.

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Google Hiccup

For a few days I have noticed a small hiccup in my SERPs on Google, especially relating to my theories on how Google treat tags.

It seems it was Google just juggling numbers, because not only were terms such as “Wordpress Training” not showing my tag page near the top, but also terms such as “Wordpress Trademark” had disappeared completely.

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Google Analytics in search Results?

Paul who lives and runs his business in Denmark noticed something strange in the SERPs yesterday on Google.dk.

Apparently Google have been adding some kind of click through data to the search engine results.

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