Find Out When Someone Mentions You Without a Backlink!

Legitimate backlink building is one of the most important parts of building the reputation of a website or online business, Getting previous little backlinks from other sites is hard enough, and it really shows a great gesture when someone mentions you and links to you in their content. But often over the course of your name or brand's online lifespan, you will come across situations where your name or brand was mentioned, but you weren't linked. This is because some people just might not be willing to give out a link as easily, or they might just have overlooked it. In that case, you have to contact them personally and ask them for the favour. Today, we'll show you how you can find out when someone mentions you, but doesn't link to you.

After all, you never know what opportunities you might have been missing out on! Even a couple of 'missed' backlinks could save you hours of work on building new ones, and/or help you with your website's rank and authority.

Using Google Alerts

Now, I'd first like to introduce you to some Google Search tricks that some of you might already know, but most won't. In Google Search, you can use use some advanced search operators like AND, OR, site:, inurl:, intext:, and so on. The AND operator finds sites that have keywords written on both side of the AND operator. The OR operator finds sites that have either the phrases on the left of the operator, or the right of it, or both. This is handy, for example, if you want to search for both cars and bikes on the same site (Cars AND bikes), or if you want to search for either cars, or bikes, or both (Cars OR bikes).

Now, the site: operator will search for keywords only within the domain you specify after the site: part. For example, if I want to search for only windows 8 on Microsoft's website, I can type this in Google "site:microsoft.com Windows 8" (without the quotes), where Windows 8 is my keyword. Now, if you add a minus sign behind any operator or keyword, Google will give you all results that do not contain the result generated by the keyword or operator you put a minus sign to. For example, let's say I want to search for sites that have my name, excluding this site where I regularly contribute to. So the search query for it would be "-site:mybloggertricks.com Qasim Zaib". It will exclude all results from mybloggertricks.com.

Now, coming to the task at hand, we want to find out whenever someone mentions your name, your brand name, or a keyword specific to your site. All you have to do is, simply build a query, and set a Google Alert for it. Start by typing a query. Exclude all sites you contribute actively to, and enter the keywords you want to watch out for (maybe your name or URL). It would look something like this.

-site:mybloggertricks.com -site:smartearningmethods.com -site:richincomeways.com Qasim Zaib

Now go to Google Alerts, and enter your query there. Keep all the settings like you see in the image below.

Now, whenever new content that matches this query is found by Google, you will be emailed. In other words, I'll get an alert whenever someone mentions my name. As soon as Google finds that new mention, it will be listed in the query. And any changes in the query results trigger an email alert. You can then check up on each new mention to see if someone has linked to you or not.

This was one of the simplest approaches there are. We'll soon teach you how to use SEO software such as Screaming Frog to perform bulk actions, and automate many processes. Until then, stay tuned.

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5 Tips to Increase Pageviews Using Images on your blog

A picture is worth a thousand words. Especially for a website, the importance of images is evidentfrom the enormous difference in the impacts a text-only versus an image-only website has on your minds. And in the current scenario when internet marketingis one prime marketing channel, you need to make sure everything’s proper. Asfor images, they not only contribute towards the beauty of your site but canalso be used as a marketing tactic to boost up your site’s conversion rate (howmany among the viewers convert to customers) provided you use them well. Let’stake a look at a few tips and tricks about using images to boost up your site’sconversion rate.

1.     Use a Mascot:

A mascot is a figure used as a symbol for an organization e.g. the bluebird of Twitter. The mascots are primarily used to create a bonding with the customers as these mascots are easy to remember for the user and serve as an identifier for your website. It also becomes really easy to convey a specific emotion using these graphic images. They have a long lasting effect in the viewers mind and are reported to be contributing a lot towards the conversion rates of various websites as it serves as a unique key to identify your company and the user can easily be directed to your website using that mascot.

2. Target the Emotions:

Emotionally attracting a viewer is one easy way of turning him from being just a viewer to a customer. You can use the images to make the viewers experience and idealize your products which naturally makes their choices easier. It’s the images that let you control the moods of your customers and not really the text. You can make them happy when you want and if they’re in the right mood when at your website, consider your product sold. So instead of just using plain photos, try to add the ones that attract and persuade your customers by targeting their emotions.

3.     Choose good stock photos:

Finding images online is a matter of seconds and that is because of the vast stock of photos of any type you can find on Google Images. However, a major portion of the images you’ll find there are used on more than a hundred different websites and are majorly not that impressive. Since you’re dealing with your business’s future here, you should be very careful when choosing stock photos. Avoid the viral ones but choose the ones that give a professional and proper look.

4.     Portray your customers:

Your current customers are the key to getting even more. You might have come across many sites that, in images, show their customer’s review and feedback about their service/product. That is actually a very good marketing strategy as it gives your viewer a third person review of your product and that can really be convincing at times. This also primarily is the reason why companies, in their commercials, hire some famous personalities and actors as this is one pull approach that actually gets you viewer’s preference.

5.     Be innovative:

Instead of using the same strategies numerous other websites are using for a particular type of service, use a unique and innovative one. Don’t copy trends, rather create yours and let others follow. This creates user interest in your product and may lead him to buying that. Various mobile review sites introduced the three dimensional model of the mobile phones which lets the user view the mobile from all possible angles. This surely, at the time of introduction, was a unique concept and reports show that more than 30% of the conversion rates of such sites got boosted up just by launching this new feature. New mechanisms may be hard to produce but not impossible.

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5 Great sites To Promote your Music Online

Music/audio is another content vertical like images and videos. People have been going online for years and years looking for music audio and music videos. And today, it still remains one of the most popular niches on the internet. If you work around music, or like sharing music videos or mp3s, you need some serious promotion to make your contributions popular. Social media networks like Facebook can only get you so far. You'll need some more powerful sharing tools working at the back-end to make your music successful. Here are 5 great sites to promote your music online.

1. SoundCloud

SoundCloud is my favourite choice for sharing music. Not only is it a great platform for sharing the music you love, it is also a great starting place for new artists to share and stream the music that they produce, with the outside world.

SoundCloud is a Cloud service (as the name suggests), so your sounds are stored online, ready to be accessed from anywhere. And the best part is, SoundCloud provides flawless integration with social networks such as Facebook, so whenever you play a sound, it gets shared in your activity feed. The SoundCloud music player is also easily embeddable online to blogs and websites, so you can easily share your music with your online followers as well.

2. Bandcamp

Bandcamp is basically an online music store. But it's a free-to-join website as well where artists can create their own micro sites and post their tracks. People can then stream to those tracks for free, or pay for them for personal use, the money from which goes to the artist (and a little bit to bandcamp, naturally).



But while SoundCloud is more user-oriented, Bandcamp has more to do with artists and bands (ergo the name 'band'-camp). It can host photos of the artists, their biographical and contact information, links to website and social media accounts, etc. It even has a section where bands can let their fans in on tour and concert dates. Hence, if you're looking for a serious debut into the music industry, bandcamp is the place you want to be (among other places).

3. Spotify

Spotify is a monthly subscription-based music streaming service that offers a large inventory of music people can listen to. For artists, this is another great way to get their names noticed and make some money, and many popular bands such as the Rolling Stones have a presence on Spotify. So this service is a must-have for budding artists wishing to make a name for themselves someday.

4. MySpace

Yes yes, I know. MySpace died a while ago as a social network. But let's face it, it was MySpace that revolutionized social media and music discovery. And the site is in the process of a major overhaul, and will be relaunched as a socially driven music site. It will allow listeners to easily discover music and artists, and sooner or later, every musician and band will have a MySpace presence.

5. YouTube

YouTube, of course, remains the video-sharing platform of choice for most internet users. It is, in fact, the largest video sharing website on the internet. Not only is it easily embeddable with blogs and websites, it is fully integrated with other social networks such as Google Plus and Facebook. Every musician and band has a YouTube channel where they upload all of their songs and music videos.

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Posted at 09:54 |  by Unknown

Hire Google Analytics Experts for Free!

For any business venture, providing quality to your users can only get you so far. Business intelligence is one of the most crucial areas, your effort in which will decide how successful your business is going to be. Similarly, for a website, just knowing your performance and looking at the stats isn't enough. Understanding your site's performance can help you identify opportunities to improve results and meet your goals. To that effect, the Google Analytics team is now working on a new help feature, whereby you can get the best advice from the top Google Analytics Experts on your site's performance.

Boost your site's performance

The Analytics team will help you turn your website's data into actionable insights. This means that you'll be able to act according to the intelligence reports you get, so as to improve the throughput of your website. You will receive targeted account tips, detailed traffic insights, and fresh ideas to promote your site/business from the team of Google Analytics Experts.

How to access this feature?

This feature involves sharing your website data with the Google Analytics experts, and there's a certain human interaction involved. So in order to be able to access this feature, you will first have to change your settings in order to let Analytics experts see your data, and give you advise. Just follow the simple steps given below.

Step 1: Log into your Google Analytics account.
Step 2: Click on the Home button on the top-left corner of your screen, and then click on the Admin on the top-right.




Step 3: Click on the respective website account you want to share data for, and then click on the Account Settings tab.

Step 4: Now, under the Data Sharing Settings. check the Account Specialists option, and then click on Apply.


You're now all set and ready to receive advice from Google Analytics Experts! You can do this for multiple sites as well - as many as you want.

What this option actually does is, it gives access to Google Marketing and Sales experts so they can find ways to improve account implementation and analysis. and then share their optimization tips with you.

Privacy concerns

The access you provide is only granted to authorized Google representatives. And you can rest assured that your data will be in the safe hands. Like in much else, you can take Google's word for it for what it's worth, because Google already has so much data about you, that this won't even matter. However, if you're still not satisfied, you can read Google's privacy policy to learn how your data is collected and used.

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Posted at 09:39 |  by Unknown