Saturday, April 28, 2007

Delexa.org - web analytic tool

From the very day I found this site, I have used it almost every day.

It's a web analytic tool that ranks domains by topic. It combines U.S. rank with Tag Count rank, giving you some pretty accurate results. Think Alexa combined with Del.icio.us.

I have found it extremely useful as a search tool. Say I'm looking for sites that are similar to a particular site - I go to delexa, enter in the site and search. It will pull up the top ranked sites that are similar to the one that I just typed in. Regarding the site I typed in, it will give a ton of info like Statsaholic Daily Traffic Rank Trend, topic tags, and more. Then you'll see a list of the top 100 related sites and their rank and topic tags. You can also search by tag.

I LOVE IT.

I do a lot of site reviews so I have found delexa to be helpful in assisting me to find site's competitors. Now don't get me wrong, I still Google, which is helpful but I MUST "Delexa" too because it helps me return a lot of relevant results and it leaves out all of the irrelevant mess that I get with regular search engine searches.

Now it won't return perfect results every time. If it's not in the top 50K, it won't be listed there, but most sites I have looked for are there. And sometimes it will return some results that aren't necessarily similar in my opinion, but I suppose they share some of the same tags and that's why.

One feature they haven't implemented yet, but I hear they intend to, is searching for multiple tags. This will be really handy and helpful in returning more specific results.

Did I say I LOVE IT and it's free so I LOVE IT even more...lol. Check it out at delexa.org

'Till later!
K

Friday, April 27, 2007

Screen Capture Videos

Obviously we are in a web era of videos. Videos for everything. Out with text tutorials, in with video tutorials.

Surprisingly enough, I first learned about this when one of my client/employers provided me with training videos to learn her systems via the web. They were awesome. It was so much easier to follow and learn than reading a text 'how to'. I sat and took notes as I watched the cursor in the video guide me on where to go and what to press and listened to the audio instruction. I thought this was some high-tech stuff. But guess what, it's really not! In my later endeavors, I saw these instructional videos everywhere. And now I find out that the program to do my own is cheap! You'll learn I love cheap! I believe in fair, I know the creators of products and programs have to earn a living too, but I can't afford overpriced stuff.

So, now I have it and love it and you can get it here:

Camtasia

TTYS
K

MySpace - How can you easily find the most trafficked pages?

Ok, let's talk a little bit about how "finding the most trafficked pages" can benefit you.

Let's say you're an artist, you want to market yourself to as many people as possible right??? Ok, I thought so. Now, while every single person counts...think about the traffic that someone's page who has say 10 or 20 friends brings as opposed to the traffic that has say 500 or 1000 or 5000 friends brings!?! Those pages that have the higher number count of friends are the pages that are visited most, obviously.

Say you're a marketer, same concept applies. The more friends your friends have the higher your chances of getting your page trafficked more. And if you post comments on those 'higher count friend' pages, MORE people will see your comments and MORE people will visit your page. Curiosity is human nature.

This concept can apply no matter what you're into or what you do.

This program will allow you to set paramaters...say profiles with only 500 friends or more...and it will scan through however many profiles you tell it to scan through and compile a list of those profiles for you. (And you can just click on a profile in the list to go right to their page and add them as a friend, etc.)

I hope that gives you a better idea of why finding the more trafficked profiles can be extremely beneficial (and profitable) to you.

(Have you subscribed to my blog yet? You should.)

Here's the link to the program:

Friend Laser

TTYL