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Liveblogging PodCamp Nashville

Saturday, March 6th, 2010
I’m spending the day at PodCamp Nashville, where 500 or so members of the social media marketing community are gathered to hear members of the community speak on things they are passionate about, as well as plenty of fun networking. Sessions are running all day long on anything from SEO for Wordpress to covering tax issues for small business. This community always has a wealth of information, and is always willing to share that with others, which is awesome to be a part of. I’ll be liveblogging throughout the day to share sessions and all of the great information that ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/3465/liveblogging-podcamp-nashville

Advanced “Access Rights” for Internet Marketers

Friday, March 5th, 2010
Unlike other Internet marketing tools, Raven has an advanced “access rights” system that controls all of the data and tools each user on your account has access to. Raven allows you to specify access for any type of user, including link builders or clients who simply wants to see their analytics and organic search rankings. The first step in assigning access rights to a user account is to create a role in the Role Manager. Here’s a step-by-step guide to setting up roles and assigning those roles to users in Raven: Setting Up User Roles in Raven 1. Go to Admin tab, select ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/3335/advanced-access-rights-for-internet-marketers

SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 64

Friday, March 5th, 2010
SMX Coverage For those of you who weren’t able to attend SMX West in Santa Clara this week, fear not – Lisa Barone over at Outspoken Media did a stellar job liveblogging. To see the sessions which were liveblogged, head on over to the Outspoken Media blog for more SMX West coverage than you can shake a stick at. How a Search Engine Might Choose Text for Quicklinks or Site Links For some number one rankings in major search engines, there are often websites which contain site links. How these site links are decided upon is cause for speculation amongst Internet Marketers. A ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/3397/seo-weekly-digest-issue-64

Keyword Research: Beyond the Ordinary – SMX West 2010

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Today at SMX West I gave a presentation with Christine Churchill, Alex Cohen, Cady Condyles and Stoney deGeyter. My part of the presentation was to give you some keyword research strategies that involved using your web analytics, PPC and user testing, and a variety of other techniques that you wouldn’t normally be taking advantage of. Below is my presentation which you are able to download via SlideShare. Keyword Research: Beyond the Ordinary by Taylor Pratt Thanks to everyone who attended!

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/3324/keyword-research-beyond-the-ordinary-smx-west-2010

SEO Fox’s New Tool Includes Ability to Export Data to Raven

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
As all Internet marketers know, link building can be very tedious. That’s why we built a link management system into Raven, which now includes our new Site Finder and Backlink Explorer. We’re not the only company building useful tools. Recently, David Ogletree created SEO Fox, which helps you do backlink research. We’re highlighting it, because he made their Backlink Report compatible with the Raven Link Manager. You can export results from SEO Fox and import them directly into our Link Manager. David Ogletree took a moment to answer a few questions about the tool and the data it compiles. Can you ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/3308/seo-foxs-new-tool-includes-ability-to-export-data-to-raven

Introducing the Basic Account and an Update to Subscription Prices

Monday, March 1st, 2010
Building off of the excitement of our new Site Finder and Backlink Explorer tools, we have some exciting updates to our subscription offerings. New Basic Account Based on popular demand, we’ve created an affordable account for entry level Internet marketers, small website owners and non-profits who use Raven’s features on a limited basis. The cost of the Basic Account is only $19/month! Basic Account users will have full access to Raven’s Link Management tools, and limited access to most of the other tools. For a full breakdown of the differences between Basic, Pro and Agency accounts – visit our expanded pricing and features ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/3100/introducing-the-basic-account-and-an-update-to-subscription-prices

Announcing the RavenHunt Winners!

Monday, March 1st, 2010
Last Friday at midnight marked the end of our first RavenHunt scavenger hunt. We had such a great time setting this game up, and hope you all enjoyed playing it. Before we announce the winners, we’d like to first send out a BIG thank you to the blogs who helped us run the game: Outspoken Media 10e20 Dream Systems Media Kenny Hyder LunaMetrics Without the help of those awesome blogs (who you should be subscribing to if you aren’t already), RavenHunt wouldn’t have been possible. If you’re interested in having your blog participate in the next RavenHunt shoot me an email (taylor -at- raventools -dot- com). And now ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/3289/announcing-the-ravenhunt-winners

SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 63

Friday, February 26th, 2010
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda Had Success with Affiliate Marketing Sugarrae tells it how it is. If you’re an affiliate marketer and you haven’t read any Sugarrea’s previous posts on the subject, then go do it. Once you’ve done that, you need to check out the most recent post. In it, are the fundamentals for starting, setting up, and executing a strategy for the success of an affiliate site. Google Caffeine May Be Months Away Back in November the Internet was rife with rumors that Google would be releasing Caffeine after the holidays. Unfortunately, it appears that Caffeine hasn’t came to fruition just yet. ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/3285/seo-weekly-digest-issue-63

Competitor Manager

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Quantifying your work on internet marketing campaigns for your websites or your client’s sites is easy enough, but what if your competitor is performing better than you are? If you could pinpoint the areas where your competitors were out performing you, it could greatly affect your campaign and point you in the correct areas to improve. WIth that in mind, we’ve built several competitor tools into Raven, including the Competitor Manager. The Competitor Manager (found under the Dashboard, and the Competitors link under SERPS will take you there as well) allows you to manually add up to 10 competitors for each ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/3225/competitor-manager

RavenHunt T-Shirt

Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Here’s the t-shirt we’ll be giving away with the RavenHunt contest. It’s modeled by our very own Alyson Woods. The color of the t-shirt is “slate” and it’s made by American Apparel, so it will be super comfy.

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/3263/raven-hunt-t-shirt