Free Software for Internet Marketing from Crowd Mountain
Posted by Lisa | Posted in IM Software | Posted on 14-04-2010
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I’ve been a member of Crowd Mountain for a couple of months now and I promise a full review very soon (especially as I believe the doors will be re-opening to new members shortly). One of the great tools inside the membership area has just been released as a free software download by Michelle MacPhearson.
The software fulfils 2 functions:
- helps you keep track of which social media sites are popular with the search engines, which are becoming more popular and which are being ignored, and
- enables you to input your own keywords and see which websites are ranking best across all those keywords so you know exactly where to place your content and create backlinks.
Click here to download the Rank Decoding Engine Software free.
I find backlinking one of the most tedious jobs ever, so knowing the best sites to target is a major bonus in my book.
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I loved your “shpeshul meshage” Lisa!
Your video was really useful to me because of the detail of the example you showed.
A tip: You can highlight any of the lists & then copy & paste them into text files (you prolly already knew this but other visitors might not have realised). I used Notepad, and have to make my Notepad window quite narrow to get just one item per line (otherwise it’s difficult to read the list.
The list can also be pasted into something like Word if/when you want to get it into alphabetical order.
I am curious about a couple of things:
1) how is this different from just doing a Google search and seeing what’s at the top; and
2) is there some way of getting links at ehow? The articles I’ve looked at there don’t have any links to author’s webpages and nor do the authors’ bios.
Feel free to move this comment and/or questions to the SWBN forum.
Thanks.
Isha
Shucks the pasting of the list into a .txt file only works properly with the last list “Overall URL frequency”.
The other items need to be pasted into an .rtf or doc file or similar otherwise it looks a mess.
Lisa- I love Crowd Mountain as well and have found this software incredibly useful!! What a great way to share it. This software makes it so much easier to find the first place to concentrate your links.
Thanks for the comment Onna. Yes, it definitely saves a lot of time.
Isha, in terms of how it’s different from doing a search on Google – it means you can take all your main keywords at once (up to ten phrases) and see which sites are the most popular across those keywords. A lot less hassle than individual searches and a great overview of the niche as a whole.
Of course, the social media site aspect alone is gold because you can see which sites to concentrate your efforts on first (and especially sites you may not have thought to use that the search engines are favouring).
On eHow – if you become a contributor – you can have a home page link on your profile e.g. http://www.ehow.com/members/ev_771ccac3-c100-41c8-8c15-bf7eb2e854d3.html, so it’s worth setting up a different profile for each niche and making sure the bio is highly targeted to your niche keywords.
Lisa x
You know what this wp theme needs? Nested comments so I can reply individually under each comment. Better go sort that one out
Thank you Lisa – why didn’t I think of that! I also suspect that the list includes high PR pages that are not a the top of Google for one reason or another.
Re the particular niche I tried it for yesterday: unfortunately Market Samurai brings me a load of v nasty spam for those keywords so this is going to be *so* helpful.
Nishhh Video Lisha! ;^}
I had gotten an email about the software & just ignored it because on the download page it gave no real info & so I had no interest.
Then you sent out the link to your blog & video…I knew I could get the scoop here.
Brad downloaded the software & is trying it out. Funny thing is…For some keywords…..My sites are coming up. I think that is good. I just hope that the people using the software are not spammers (I worry more when something like this is free).
I do have a question – what is the (# results)?
I’m confused because if I search for “Calico Cats” & I get sites that are all about calico cats…it may say 1 Result yet, there is pages with the term. Brad watched the video’s & did not know (maybe he missed that part).
Sheryl, the numbers refer to the number of times that site ranks in the top (10?) search engine results for those keywords.
I know what you mean about downloading software. I’m always pretty wary of it, but I trust Michelle’s stuff and have found this software really useful.
Lisa
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