Favorite FREE SEO Tools and Services to Outsource Your SEO Work
March 9, 2009 by Brian Hawkins
Here is a helpful list of some of the SEO tools and services I use to help manage my daily SEO work load.
Picking a Domain Name:
Half of your SEO ranking battle can be won, just by picking up a targeted keyword rich domain name. I try to look for a .com only domain that has at least a 100 search a month. But it depends on how competitive your industry is and the cost of buying that domain.
Bustaname.com for quick domain available searches
WebConfs.com has tons of free SEO tools. One helps you compare the monthly keyword search volume and its domain availability.
Social Media Optimization:
Ping.fm will post your twitter like message to about 50 additional sites.
SocialMarker.com posts your link to the top 49 social book marking sites
TwitterDesk.com lets you manage and organize all your twitter peeps.
TwitterHawk.com will auto tweet people back that mention a targeted keyword that relates to your service or product.
Video Optimization
Animoto.com free video creation software or hire someone on digitalpoint.com SEO forum for about $20 to get a basic video or go professional on elance.com for under $200.
TubeMogul.com Video is HOT for traffic & SEO rankings! This tool will submit your video to the top 50 video sharing sites. Then it will monitor all the traffic stats for you. You just need to create the accounts on YouTube etc. If you have the time, its proven to best manually submit each one with a different optimized description & title to earn you multiple search engine rankings.
Press Release Optimization
PressReleasePoint.com for $18, this service will manually submit your release to five free distribution sites for ten days. The 50 pr mentions will help keep your story stay on top of the search engine news feeds. But if you want to ensure the media might read your story. Then cough up the additional $80 bucks to release it on PRWeb.com.
HelpAReporter.com aka HARO is a great service to connect with reporters or submit your publisher request to 50k+ well connected readers.
SEO Outsourcing
Even with all these free SEO tools, you simply can’t do it all yourself. You’ll need a hand to get you the volume of targeted SEO links needed to stay ahead of your competitors.
Odesk.com its not just another freelance site. Odesk has a tool that will help monitor your staffs work with min by min screen shots to build your trust in paying by the hour. Plus they have some tools to help with project management of your freelance team
AgentsofValue.com I meet the founder of this company at Affiliate Summit. He built this virtual marketing assistant business from five to well over 200 agents. You hire a college educated English speaking experienced agent to work full time for you at under $4 an hour. You assign the daily task to your hired link builder, designer or programmer.
The web is filled with several tools to help you save time while earning the most attention that you can for your brand. Just remember to always provide value online and continually network to earn natural links. I look forward to meeting you and providing some additional SEO tips at the next Boston SEO Meetup.
About the Author
Brian Hawkins is an assistant organizer for the Boston SEO Meetup and an affiliate marketing manager for Pingo’s global virtual prepaid calling card service. He provides free Internet marketing support to his phone card affiliate partners that earn up to $35.00 CPA for there referrals. He also blogs a 140 characters daily at Twitter.com/BrianHawkins
UpdateDate: I know longer recomend using TwitterHawk. It clossed down a test account I had because of the automated emails.
Please comment & share your favorite SEO tools?
Hi, Dan McGonagle here from Medford, MA, and WF…
Favorite SEO tool lately has been Backlink Solutions link building service, it has the perfect storm of quickly getting a lot of links with minimal input (not a lot of writing) involved, so I can still do this myself for all my sites.
I’m looking to outsource article writing soon for the niche sites I know nothing about and will be trying MyArticleNetwork and Unique Article Wizard soon, for more exposure and traffic, and will be hiirng writers to do these articles for submission.
I Teach SEO to my members, but it’s hard to stay on top and teach at the same time, so I usually end up just learning and doing, and teach whenever I can.
Honestly, most of this “high-end” SEO stuff is way over people’s heads so I just teach it one on one to those who qualify.
Favorite SEO tool besdies a link building service would have to be using lenses that capture my blog post feeds for automated link building, and automated content addition for the lenses themselves.
Thanks,
Dan