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

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