The SEO’s Toolbox: Keyword Eye

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Today I welcome Matt Redford, the brains behind keyword eye, a keyword tool which has a number of really cool features. Matt approached me some time ago following the mention he got in the previous ubersuggest interview and I was only to happy to get him involved in the series.

Thanks to Matt for taking the time out to answer my questions and sharing more information about Keyword Eye!

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Going down the Path of a User Generated Content Strategy

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Please give a warm welcome to Chris Dyson of Triple SEO! Many thanks go to him for donating this post on UGC and sharing his experiences and learning.

As I have started to build up some of my own niche websites this year I have been studying a lot more about the ways in which I can scale my content production as part of my niche site content strategy.

Time and again I keep coming back to looking in to a way in which I can build a community that can develop quality content for me at an ultra low cost, and no I’m not talking about automation or spinning in this instance.

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The anatomy of 16 great SEO blogs

logoFor those of you who’ve not been following my blogging journey over the last few months (Welcome, I’ve been waiting for you) I recently wrote a piece reviewing the first 12 months of StokedSEO.co.uk.

Amongst other things I listed a couple of goals for 2013, one of which was to move from the wordpress.com platform to my own hosted wordpress.org site (and this is it!). I think that the wordpress.com offering is exception at no cost but there were a few limitations I couldn’t live with any longer.

Thankfully, with some gentile guidance from Chris at hitreach the transition was pretty smooth so massive thanks to him  for being so supportive and understanding..

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The SEO’s Toolbox: Raven Tools

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Yep, it’s that time again and according to my calculations *counts fingers to be sure* this is the 7th instalment of “The SEO’s Toolbox” hope you’re all having fun?

Today I’m delighted to be joined by Jeremy from the mighty Raven Tools. It’s probably easier to list all the things you can’t do with Raven the toolset is so comprehensive, everything from SEO and Social to PPC and competitor analysis. I was recently hooked into an email conversation between a few SEO’s regarding the best tools available and Raven was one of the first out of the hat.

Thanks to Jeremy for taking part!

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The SEO’s Toolbox: Ahrefs

ahrefs-logoHello, hello, hello! Welcome to the 6th installment of the SEO’s toolbox series! Today I’m speaking to the CEO of one of the most exciting SEO and link analysis tool around, Dmitry of Ahrefs.

A little over 12 months ago a piece was written about Ahrefs titled, “the best link building tool you’ve never heard of”, fast forward to the hear and now, it’s safe to say most people are well aware of this tool!

Many thanks go to Dmitry for doing this interview, which needed to be translated for our English speaking audience  also to Iana for organising and making this happen. Very much appreciated…

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The SEO’s Toolbox: Followerwonk

wonkWelcome one, welcome all to 5th instalment of “The SEO’s Toolbox”, thanks for sticking with me on these, so far so good!

Today I’m over the moon to be joined by Peter Bray representing Followerwonk, possibly one of the most well known social analytics  tools on the market. I’ve been using Wonk for almost as long as I’ve been using Twitter and I’m always finding new uses for it, with the help of my peers.

As I’m sure most of you are already aware Wonk recently joined forces with SEOmoz making quite the powerful combinational for anybody with a Moz pro membership.

Anyway, enough of me going on, welcome Peter and welcome Followerwonk…

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Have You Run A Branded Keyword Audit? – (S)NoBoard SEO #22

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Hey folks!

Welcome to my very first video post kindly brought to you in association with Dan Shure of Evolving SEO.

I’ve been a keen follower of Dan’s excellent “NoBoard SEO” series for a few months now and have always wanted to feature a video post on Stoked but just don’t have the setup required here at the moment. Thankfully Dan took a break from clearing the snow outside his house to give us some quick thoughts on keeping track of our branded keywords.

Many thanks to Dan for allowing me to hold this video hostage for a few weeks. I challenged him to give me something actionable and he definitely did that. Enjoy…

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The SEO’s Toolbox: Screaming Frog

Screaming-Frog-LogoWelcome ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls to another exciting instalment of “The SEO’s Toolbox.”

Today I’m delighted to be joined by Dan Sharp of Screaming Frog, one of the most brilliantly named SEO tools/agencies around. Dan has been super cool and offered to hang around the blog today to answer any questions you guys may have about Screaming Frog not covered in the post.

I’m constantly surprised with the creative uses SEO’s come up with for this tool so I’m definitely looking forward to this one. Huge thanks to Dan for getting involved!

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Adventures Of A One Year Old Blogger – StokedSEO 12 Months On

Wow, they say time flies when you’re having fun but has it really been 12 whole content laden months since I set up this little ol’ blog?

Why, yes it has.

A little over 12 months ago I decided to get on this blogging thing for a number of reasons, the main reason, to just get better. I knocked out my first post to get the ball rolling (don’t read it, it’s horrible) and have had a great time getting from there to here. Blogging, or writing in general has never been my greatest skill, it’s not something I hugely enjoy, or I didn’t think it was and I didn’t even leave high school with a reasonable level of competence  (I had to retake English to get on my College IT course)

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The SEO’s Toolbox: Übersuggest

ubersuggest_boxWelcome to the 3rd in “The SEO’s Toolbox” series!

Today I’m delighted to be in the company of Alessandro Martin the Italian SEO behind the totally awesome Übersuggest keyword tool. I’m very greatful to Alessandro for giving up his time in order to answer my questions, I know he’s super busy working.

Grazie Mille Alex!

Übersuggest is one of the most popular and useful free keyword tools around (it actually powers the ultimate link building query generator from an earlier post), just a quick look at the site’s backlink profile will bring the scale of this tool’s popularity. Multiple links from industry leading sites like SEOmoz, SEOBook, SE Watch, Marketing Land and ProBlogger make for impressive reading.

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