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Put up a page anywhere that you have hosting: your server, a new server, etc. Then, noindex/nofollow that page and iframe it into your tab.

Right now, my favorites are Pagelever, Edgerank Checker, and Blitzmetrics.

Finally a PRO question, I can answer

My org only does marketing for nonprofits and uses this a ton. The impact can be big, but it won't last long, so it's best to start with a bang around a major event, a holiday, etc and then not belabor it for too long.

I can't recall if they have this case study on their site or if you need to have them send it, but check out their World Cup case study. It's for profit of course, but it's kind of cool how twibbon was used to grow their audience.

Look for a local SEO if possible...at least to get started with. Later, when you know more about working without outside SEOs, it might be easier to go with someone remote. Also, I'd probably question hiring an SEO that just says, "Yeah," "We can totally do that," etc, etc, etc to everything and never pushes back on what's realistic, the benefits and drawbacks of certains approaches, and so on. If I'm working with an outside SEO, I want someone that will educate me a bit, be as open as possible, and help me understand when I'm being too conservative (avoiding all risks) or too daring/questionable/etc.

It sounds to me like you might be looking for 2 SEOs as well...depending on how much your budget is. Some people only specialize in local, while others only specialize in LB. Certainly, you can find someone to do both though. It just depends on how much of each, and how much specialty, you want.

Why did you decide to noindex,nofollow the pages instead of canonicalizing them? It seems like that would solve these issues, no?

Check out Tynt, use an auto-linking plugin, or periodically drop manual links within your content. That won't stop people from copying, but it will at least you links from lazy copiers.

The price is really going to fluctuate depending on whom you hire, what you're asking for, the size and complexity of your site or project, and a number of other factors. I totally agree with all of the recommendations about finding someone local. You don't have to stay local, but if you can at least get started with someone local, it'll probably help to expand your (and their) understanding of what is needed and being done. Then, you might have a better basis for deciding on future work whether with a local or not.

I second Alex's & EGOL's recommendations and will add this. It looks like you're in Seattle. It'd probably help to contact some local SEOs and see whom they might recommend if they're not a fit. Ross Hudgens, Click2rank, Ian Lurie, and Distilled all come to mind. They all post a lot of content on SEO, so you can research them that way and have all spoken at some of the bigger, more respectable SEO events/conferences. I'm sure there are plenty more that I'm not thinking of in that area that are good as well, but I'd start there.

Agreed. Paste in the keywords, concatenate it, go to your favorite search engine, and you're ready to rock. You could get fancy and probably have the results pull directly into Excel, but if that is possible, it's over my head.

Visual Economics pretty much explains it all. 97th Floor is the king of infographics if you ask me.

There are a number of different ways in GA, Omniture, etc to track specific link clicks from places like the footer...many of which I'm not extremely well versed in, but the googles certainly know. I would definitely recommend doing that to get a pure numbers look at the situation.

I'd also though recommend you modify Will Critchlow's mturk method of grading content for a look at usability of the footer and/or use something like usertesting.com to get some qualitative feedback on the footer. Guaranteed you will get a look at your design that you've never even thought of, and the cost is so extremely low when you consider what you can get out of it.

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This is what I do:

1. export inbound links from OSE to Excel.
2. put the linking pages into column A.
3. tag each set with the respective domain they're linking to in column B.
4. merge the two sets.
5. create a pivot table.
6. put linking page as the Row Label.
7. put the domain being linked to as both the Value (as a count) and the Column Label.
8. Sort columns highest to lowest.
9. Look for all of the places where you have a value in both domain columns.

Those are all of the pages that link to both domains.

Actually, I typically strip the linking pages down to just their domains so that I can see which domains link to both of the sites I'm reviewing, but you might prefer to see it at the page level.

It probably depends on what you're looking for, but you might want to specify what type of SEO you're seeking: linkbuilder, auditor, strategist, content creator, etc, etc, etc. I know a lot of people that prefer to just create content or just build links or whatever else.

Good to hear. I've also had this problem.

René seems to have answered this pretty well, but help me understand something, Atul. You want to track traffic coming from Twitter to your website via only tweets you have sent out?

If that is the case, use a URL shortener like bit.ly as René recommends or use the URL builder to segment further. Using the URL builder is in my opinion though a lot of work for likely very little return. But, this at least will tell you how much traffic was generated due to your tweet regardless of whether someone clicked on your link on Twitter.com, in a Twitter app, via an RSS feed, or some other method/channel.

If you instead just want to track all traffic driven by Twitter to your website, why not simply segment out the traffic using something like a GA custom segment? It's not perfect, but it works...especially if you do not limit yourself to just Twitter and instead have a "social media" custom segment, a la http://www.seomoz.org/blog/segmenting-social-traffic-in-google-analytics

I guess I made an assumption and thought he was asking if he could see the info Google has on email clicks even if GA is not installed. Without that assumption, you are right.

"Can Google know how many clicks a website has received from emails ?" It would seem so. See attached screenshot.

"What if the GA is not installed ?" No.

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You mean monitoring as in you just want to see what's going on? Social Mention, Ice Rocket, Board Reader, Search.Twitter, Google Blogsearch, etc, etc, etc. If you just want to see what's going on now and then, I'd set up what some people call a social media listening station. It's pretty straightforward, is very flexible, and runs through whatever your favorite RSS reader is.

If you need more, take a look at the answers here: http://www.quora.com/What-social-media-tools-like-Radian6-SM2-etc-cost-less-than-500-month

Reddit's tricky. It helps to be established there, have a gimmick, work within the strictly defined norms of each subreddit, and have content that causes people to want to comment. Generally on Reddit, submissions that get lots of upboats get lots of comments and vice versa.

I know that people will say that it's not cool to submit your own stuff, but I haven't actually seen anytime when that was explicitly a problem.

If you haven't already, try submitting your stuff to lesser known subreddits that have frequent activity. If people submit new things and comment daily, but there is not a torrent of new submissions every minute, you'll have a much better time of getting attention and building your credibility there...assuming your content resonates with redditors of course

Barry and Ryan both make good points, and it really could be any number of things because there are so so many rules associated with AdWords. It really seems like there should have been a notification in the account or an email sent to the address/es associated with it.

Recently, I had a US-based nonprofit client run into an issue because they did not list on every page that any donations made were tax deductible, which it turns out is a requirement if your ads have anything remotely to do with donations. Thankfully, it was a very simple fix, but still, it caught us off-guard because we had not previously been aware of that stipulation.

Don't be concerned with how often your account/s should tweet specific keywords and/or custom shortened URLs. Button up your on page factors first. Then, figure out how to let people know about your awesome pages and how to motivate them to share, and link, to them.

You can rest assured that having 5 or 10 small, but topically focused, Twitter accounts tweet your stuff once is more influential as far as social signals go than having your 1 large account tweet your own stuff 5 or 10 times.

I don't really know if this is what you're looking for, but I'm beta testing http://pagelever.com/ right now. I haven't really had a chance to dig into it much as of yet, but it does seem promising.

If it happens to be a wordpress site, there is a plugin called something like "Broken Link Checker." If I recall correctly, that checks internal and outbound links. Otherwise, not too sure.