Semrush just launched a new Backlinks Analytics tool that they’re making available for everyone to use completely free until 2022. Their backlink database is winning the market: With their new backlinks analyzer, you can check out what backlinks your competitors are getting, find linkbuilding opportunities, and apply filters to slice and dice the backlink data ...
You’ve created a piece of content and want to gauge its information density? Here’s one way to do this in MarketMuse: Take the word count of your piece of content. Take MarketMuse’s Content Score. Relate the two together. If you find that content ranking in the top 20 spots in Google has 1500 words on ...
Pixlr is a free online image editor (works in your browser) that’s pretty fast and powerful. If you got Adobe Photoshop, you obviously don’t need this, but if you’re a marketer who just every once in a while needs to do some common image edits, Pixlr is a great tool. I particularly use Pixlr’s free ...
If you quickly gather some user feedback there’s two solutions right now that I go to by default: Wynter Pick criteria that defines the audience you want to get feedback from. Set up a test in a couple of minutes. Get results within 12-48 hours. Great for testing messaging, evaluating A/B testing alternatives, cold email ...
I’ve tried copy.ai around February of this year, and I really wasn’t impressed with it. However, there’s been a steady stream of positive buzz around it, including people in the content and marketing space that I trust and respect, so I figured I’d give it another try. Signed up for a trial account, and they ...
If you or members of your team want to get the word out and share their expertise, being interviewed on podcasts by people in your industry is a great way of doing so. Sparktoro is a tool that makes it easy to type in a keyword, and then come up with a list of podcasts ...
AI tools are definitely moving aggressively into the content world, and there’s no doubt that soon, AI-generated content will saturate the web. Right now the quality of that content is… well, nothing to worry about. But this will change as the technology improves. Ryan Law from Animalz shared an insightful article: His take: For many ...
Lex Fridman shared an interesting framework for learning and mastering a new skill: Year 1: Spend 2 hours a day doing this. Every day. This builds the foundation Year 2-5: Spend 1 hour per day to build the expertise. From year 5 onwards: Spend a few minutes ever day, but make that a hard lower ...
The folks over at DemandCurve just published a massive guide on using (organic) LinkedIn as a B2B customer acquisition channel. It’s all about posting great content on LinkedIn, building a following, and eventually taking that following off LinkedIn to specific offers to convert them into high-value leads and eventually customers. Read the full guide here. ...
Tim Soulo recently tweeted some of his learnings from a quick link building outreach experiment. Let’s talk about “Link Building Outreach.” I recently tried to acquire some links to one of my blog posts.. So I reviewed ~200 link prospects (collected by a contractor) and sent ~90 emails. …and it was quite a learning experience ...