Golden Goose Marketing

If you’re doing SEO, you shouldn’t even bother without some kind of SEO internet marketing program.  What do I mean by that?  I mean that you shouldn’t attempt to do it all manually.  When it comes right down to it, you’re going to waste hundreds, if not thousands, of valuable hours doing mindless tasks that could have been automated.  And of course, we all know what that means – money lost.

One of the most time-consuming aspects of good SEO is finding potential inbound link sources.  You have to manually enter your competitors’ URLs into Yahoo!, you have to look at each potential link partner, and you have to send them an email to see if they will link to you.

With software, you can run a report designed to give you a quick spreadsheet of that information, often with the “unlikely” link partners deleted.  You can also use Hub Finders to figure out which pages are linking to multiple competitors.  Those sites are often the ones most likely to link back to your site as well.

You can also use software packages to look over your site and determine its strengths and weaknesses.  Instead of looking through your meta tags and keyword usage, a software can let you know exactly what search engines will think of your page.

Almost any SEO program can handle these basic tasks and many more.  Do you use any specific packages that you’ve found helpful?  What tasks do you most enjoy automating?