Category: Marketing

Top 50 Bloggers To Follow In 2014 And My 2013 Blogging Recap
It is the time of the year again and 2013 is coming to an end. Basically, hours left to celebrate the new and upcoming year 2014.

As a recap, I started this blog back in May 2013 and it was great. Honestly, great could possible an understatement.

I was basically known for my crazy case studies, controversial comparisons and super long blog posts.

As for the record, I do get tons of email from corporate companies complaining about my blog post as I did no-BS reviews on them. Some even offered me to re-review their product with test runs etc. Thank you for that.

I believe I was also known for my absent-minded when it comes to blog designs. Within 6 months, I changed my blog theme nearly a dozen time and thank you to all of you to have taken the effort to bear with me. Yes, put the blame on Genesis Framework 🙂

Along the way, I was lucky to make some of my posts went (some sort) viral and I really appreciate that. Some of my favorite posts are:
In terms of affiliate marketing, I consider myself extremely lucky. I managed to tweak certain parts of affiliate marketing strategies and landed myself constant affiliate earnings of at least $500 per month. Pretty sweet for a decent blog.

Also, my paid services such as SEO and social media are also moving to third gear and funding me a decent amount of income too. Read more about it here.

Of course, the downside is that I am spending around 18 hours in front of the computer or laptop. Even my optician had advised me to reduce the usage of computer and these technological stuffs or I am asking for trouble.

Yeah right! <- Okay, I am just a hard headed dude.

Top 50 bloggers and influencers in my circle

Just me on Christmas day … away from my laptop

In today’s world, blogging is all about influence marketing and with proper marketing, you are going to be successful.

I was lucky and blessed to have met up with thousands of bloggers in this 6 months and it was great. Of course, I wish I could list them all down but I can’t. The list would be never ending!

I would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who had been a huge part of my blogging success and for those not included inside the list, you are still in my heart! Thank you for that again.

Nonetheless, here are 50 of the best bloggers, content writers and influencers you should be following in 2014. Most importantly, these are the lovely peeps that made me who I am today (in no specific order):
1. Adam Connell
2. Adrienne Smith
3. Harleena Singh
4. Amal Rafeeq
5. Ryan Biddulph
6. Suresh Khanal
7. Daniel Sharkov
8. John Paul Aguiar
9. Neal Schaffer
10. Kristi Hines
11. Devesh Sharma
12. Ashley Faulkes
13. Brian Belfitt
14. Jane Sheeba
15. Adi Domocos
16. Brian D Hawkes
17. Brenda Lee
18. Barry Wells
19. Darrell Cherry
20. Sue Neal
21. Lisa Sicard
22. Ileane Smith
23. Gilbert Samuel
24. Tim Bonner
25. Angela McCall
26. Ankit Kumar Singla
27. Nirmala Santhakumar
28. Randy Hilarski
29. Silviu Constantinescu
30. Corina Ramos
31. Enstine Muki
32. Ron Sela
33. Sherryl Perry
34. Aditya Nath Jha
35. Nate Leung
36. Donna Merrill
37. Mayura De Silva
38. Elizabeth McGee
39. Wade Harman
40. David Leonhardt
41. Renaud Gagne
42. Jason Mathes
43. Harsh Agrawal
44. Ti Roberts
45. Navid Moazzez
46. Sarah Arrow
47. Aaron Lee
48. Cole Wiebe
49. Joseph Josylad Adediji
50. Emmanuel Kabenlah Cudjoe
What to expect from Reginald in 2014?

I had said this in my previous newsletter; it will be explosive. Many plans are already on the way and I am already forecasting a super busy and hectic time.

Just to keep you in the loop, here are a few of the upcoming projects:
- More contests
- Membership site
- Redesigning my website (for real)
- Free blogging courses
Of course, these are just the icing of the cake. If you want to know more, you can sign up for my newsletter below to get notified as soon as the projects are up and running.

In 2014, I would be publishing around two articles per week as I am running my own SEO and social media services. Nonetheless, you guys are still important for me and I will do my best to share all those juicy bits of SEO and influence marketing here.

Also, I am starting up a secondary website (which I will not disclose yet) thanks to the overwhelmed requests from some of loyal my readers. It is going to be epic and mind blowing. Period!

Being said that, I would like to take the opportunity to wish everyone a Happy New Year 2014 and may you be blessed with success in everything that you do.

You have been great and thank you for being apart of my lovely journey in 2013.
February 4, 2024
6 Easy Steps To Build A Hello Bar Alternative With Genesis Framework
Hello Bar or Hellobar is a website notification bar which is said to be a great way to direct traffic and promote your website’s most important content.

So, what is a Hello Bar?

Hello Bar is a web notification bar which appears at the top of the screen. As of now, Hello Bar is free for all but words from the support team is that it will become a premium service soon.

Hello Bar is a simple website notification bar (some call it web toolbar) which displays important messages, content URL’s or simply asking your visitors to sign up for you newsletter. Yes, that’s the bar you are probably seeing on the top of your screen right now.

While this is a very powerful advertising tool, it could be pretty ‘nasty’ to deal with especially when you have a Content Delivery Network running on the background or having minify setting turned on. Plus, I am using CloudFlare custom page rules which made my Hello Bar not working at all.

Even though I decided not to use Hello Bar for that matter, I am still very interested to build something and thus, Google had just became my good friend (as always).

I came across this article and I said, “Hey, let’s make it happen!”

Yes, I am talking about building my own Hello Bar from scratch with the help of some tools I had in my inventory; Genesis Framework and Genesis Extender plugin.

In this tutorial, I will show you how you can actually build your own and custom-made Hello Bar alternative from scratch under 10 minutes.

How to build your own, custom-made Hello Bar alternative?

Basically, this is a 6-steps tutorial and no fuss, follow these steps and you should be rocking with your shiny Hello Bar in a few minutes time.

We will be doing these:
- Creating a conditional rule (more after this)
- Creating a custom widget area
- Using genesis hooks to customize the widget created
- Tag the conditionals to control the display of the Hello Bar alternative
- Adding the text into the widget area
- Style your Hello Bar laternative to make it looks prettier
Step 1 – Creating a conditional rule using Genesis Extender plugin

This would require Genesis Extender plugin and you can get a copy here (with 30-days money back guarantee).

Genesis > Extender Custom > Conditionals > Examples

Click on ‘Examples’ and select the location you want the website notification bar to be visible. Here are some of the common legends you could use:
- All pages except front page – Is NOT Front Page
- Front page only – Is Front Page
- On posts only – Is Single Post
- On pages only – Is Page
Once done, click on the Save Changes button.

Step 2 – Create a widget area for Hello Bar

In this step, you would need to create a new widget area for your website notification bar and Genesis Extender plugin makes it all look so easy.

Genesis > Extender Custom > Widget Areas

For the name, any name to label the widget area is fine. I used genesisbar as the name for my widget area. Remember to save the setting once it is done.

Step 3 – Using Genesis Hooks to select the widget area

On the same page, head over to ‘Hooks’ and using the drop down button, choose genesis_before.

Leave the rest of the settings as default and press save.

Step 4 – Tagging using conditionals

Head over to conditionals option and select the conditional tag you did earlier. Ensure the right conditional is checked and press save.

Once completing this step, you have completed creating a widget area for your custom Hello Bar alternative.

Step 5 – Setting up the widget area with text widget

You would be able to see genesisbar column in the widget section. The next step is to create a text widget area and paste this code in it:

<div id=”genesisbar-pusher”></div>
<div id=”genesisbar-wrapper”>
<div id=”genesisbar-container”>
Check out this link. <a href=”http://example.com”>Check it out</a></div>
</div>

All you need is to change the ‘check out this link’, ‘check it out’ and the link of the call-to-action button.

Step 6 – Styling your custom-made Hello Bar

By now, your website notification bar should be in place but the styling should be very weird. At times, your site might look broken.

Access your theme’s style.css file using FTP or sFTP and paste this code in it:

#genesisbar-pusher {
height: 33px;
}

#genesisbar-wrapper {
position:fixed;
width: 100%;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
background-color: #eb593c;
color: white;
text-align: center;
height: 30px;
line-height: 30px;
font-size: 14px;
font-family: Georgia;
border-bottom: 3px solid #fff;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 8px 6px -6px #999;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 8px 6px -6px #999;
box-shadow: 0 8px 6px -6px #999;

}

#genesisbar-container a {
background-color: #4a4844;
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
line-height: 30px;
padding: 2px 8px;
border-radius: 3px;
margin-left: 7px;
font-size: 12px;
}

#genesisbar-container a:hover {
background-color: #61645c;
}

To disable the code on mobile devices, add this code to your style.css after doing the above:

/*hide on small screens*/
@media only screen and (max-width: 760px) {
body #genesisbar-wrapper,
body #genesisbar-pusher {
display: none !important;
}

If you have no idea how to access your style.css through FTP, there is another alternative which is using Genesis Extender plugin itself.

In order to do so, here’s what you need to do:

Genesis > Extender Custom > Enable ‘Activate Front-end CSS Builder’ > Click To View Front-end

Once the page is open, click on Show/Hide CSS Builder which is the on the top right of the page. You will then see a sidebar pop-ing out from the left.

Scroll down the sidebar and you will see Custom CSS Editor and click on ‘Pop-out’ link.

Paste the codes above and you press save. Refresh the page and styling is done.

This is what it looks like after creating the widget and notification bar. Looks identical to the original HelloBar?

Your Hello Bar alternative is ready!

While this is a perfectly a good Hello Bar clone, there are one downside which the analytics part. Using the original Hello Bar, you are able to check on the analytics report such as the click-through-rates (CTR) but with this self coding, you do not have the luxury of such.

Moving forward, I feel Genesis Extender plugin is a great tool for any bloggers who are interested in custom theme customization and in this tutorial, it just prove how easy it is to use to create a custom blog feature under 5 minutes.

Download Genesis Extender plugin

I hope you find this tutorial useful and tell me what you think.
February 4, 2024
Boost Organic Search Engine Optimization Using HitTail
Nowadays, ranking for certain keywords on search engine is much tougher than previously. Years back, I could easily rank a two-words keyword within weeks but nowadays, it seems like forever.

Search engine optimization had not changed but it had just got harder.

I am a huge fan of organic search engine optimization techniques and recently, I came across a tool which is said to be (and possibly) one of the best keyword research tool out there.

Being an avid user of Long Tail Pro, I was really skeptical on the idea of using this tool but I thought, I would give it a go either way.

The below are my experience and of course, tell me what you think using the comment form below.

Improving search results using HitTail

HitTail does only one job (literally speaking) and that is providing you long tail keywords to further increase your blog traffic.

HitTail will provide long tail keyword suggestions to help you rank better

You can easily practise organic search engine optimization techniques in just 3 steps using HitTail. Yes, only 3 simple steps and you are probably having a good chance to rank better on SERPs.

1. Integrating HitTail code into WordPress blogs

Probably the easiest part of all. Upon registering (get your trial HitTail account here) for an account, a code will automatically be created for you.

The code looks something like this:

<!– HitTail Code –>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
(function(){ var ht = document.createElement(‘script’);ht.async = true;
ht.type=’text/javascript’;ht.src = ‘//123456.hittail.com/mlt.js’;
var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ht, s);})();
</script>

Copy the code and place it before the closing of </body> tag or wp_footer(). For those who are not using Genesis theme, you would probably need to find the related tag to place the code which wouldn’t take you much time.

Have a look what Geensis theme has to offer: Check out Genesis Framework & child themes.

Once that is done, you would need to wait for around 30 minutes or so (remember to clear cache for faster response) before HitTail would be able to detect the code and installation is complete.

2. Allowing HitTail to crawl and providing results

After your tracking code is verified, you will not be getting an immediate response or results you are looking for. It is best to wait for a few days before coming back to check on the results.

Basically, HitTail will record the source of your traffic and it will focus only on search engine traffic. As I had said above, HitTail helps to boost organic search engine optimization and it uses organic search results to provide you with the most relevant data.

HitTail provides several result options which are:
- Search hits
- Keywords
- My HitTail
- Suggestions
Search hits – This is where it gives you an exact information for the source of your traffic

Keywords – Keywords that visitors were searching which lands them on your site

My HitTail – Give you an outlook of the top 10 keywords of your search traffic and the number of long tail keywords that contributes to your traffic

Suggestions – HitTail takes a the list of long tail keywords (refer above) and provide you suggestions on future blog posts topics.

3. Searching for the best keywords for blogging

This is what it looks like on HitTail’s dashboard

With the above, HitTail basically does all the keyword research you ever need to do and give you (in return) a pot of gold. Now, the last step is to choose the right keywords from the Suggestions tab and start blogging!

Let’s assume that you are doing a niche blog and you are looking for a great writer to do it for you. Well, HitTail team thought of that too!

You can use the ‘Order an Article” button on HitTail and get a complete article for the price of $19. And if you think that it is some sort of low quality blog post, you are absolutely wrong.

These are written by professional and you are guaranteed a high quality post that is according to your requirements.

So, is HitTail worth it?

For me, HitTail is really an excellent tool for bloggers. If you are looking to invest time and effort into organic search engine optimization techniques, HitTail got to be in your goto keyword tools.

HitTail cost from $19.95 per month and it comes with a 21 days free trial. Register for HitTail for free!

Are you using HitTail already? Tell me what you think and your experience using the comment form below. Don’t be shy!
February 4, 2024
3 Must Have (Free and Premium) Content Delivery Network Providers For Bloggers
Content Delivery Network helps to boost website loading speed. If you want to rank well on search engines, getting your website speed up to par level is important. Even Google advise that sites should be loading at the speed not more than 1.4 seconds.

Brands such as CloudFlare, Incapsula and MaxCDN are no longer uncommon names when it comes to branding themselves as the best CDN providers. Before we go any deeper, let’s take a quick dive on what CDN totally means to a website.

What is a CDN and how it helps increase website loading speed?

Content Delivery Network is a large distributed system of servers deployed in multiple data centers across the Internet. Simply by using a CDN, webmasters are able to serve static content to their readers or visitors from various data centers which are closest to the readers.

And this means that websites will load blazing fast. Yes, I mean like sonic. Okay I am just aggregating but you get the point.

Sites loading over 3 seconds should seriously consider using Content Delivery Network to ensure that they are not losing visitors. Still not convinced?

The web should be fast – Google Inc.

1% increase in revenue for every 100ms of improvement – Amazon

One of the biggest misconception done by bloggers are paid Content Delivery Networks are equivalent with the free CDN services. The truth is, they are miles apart.

The most important part to remember is that free CDN providers usually offer limited cache resources compared to premium ones. Nonetheless for those bloggers who are on tight budget, starting off with free Content Delivery Network services could be the best choice among all.

In the market right now, there are only two Content Delivery Network providers which you should really consider when it comes to caching and performance which are:
- CloudFlare
- Incapsula
Recommended read: The fastest web hosting provider – Synthesis vs WP Engine

Best CDN for Overall Performance: CloudFlare

CloudFlare is one of the most popular CDN provider for many bloggers. It has also partnered up with hundreds of hosting providers to ensure that web hosting clients are able to sign up for CloudFlare and enable it with just a few clicks of the button.

It is one of the most recommended CDN by many hosting companies as it is easy to integrate and it could easily speed up a blog within minutes. As a matter of fact, CloudFlare guarantees that they will supercharge your site in just 5 minutes.

All you need to do is to set it up (even by default is fine) and that’s it. No special settings needed … ever!

For bloggers who are looking for faster website loading speed but at the same time on tight on budget, they can easily use CloudFlare Page Rules to ensure that CloudFlare is caching more static resources on its servers. If you have no idea what it is or how it works, you can refer to this article for more information, How to setup CloudFlare Page Rules.

While CloudFlare offers unlimited free accounts for everyone, you may still opt for premium plans which starts from $20 per month. Here are the current plans CloudFlare are offering:

While CloudFlare is a great CDN choice for many bloggers, it could also be a huge problem for some as CloudFlare has the tendency to block visitors of several IP’s and country specific. Even though the odds of this to happen is relatively low, it is definitely something to consider before deciding to use CloudFlare.

Best CDN for Security Protection: Incapsula

Incapsula uses a global content delivery network to provide website security, DDoS protection, load balancing and failover services to clients. For most bloggers, Incapsula is a great alternative for CloudFlare when bloggers are trying to install CloudFlare for their sites.

So, what is Incapsula offering compared to the rest of the CDN services?

When it comes to security, Incapsula could probably be the #1 on the chart. Among all the free CDN providers available, Incapsula is one of those who offer top notch security features and lots of addon features other CDN providers might not be offering … for free.

For blogs who are always hit by spam bots, Incapsula could be a better choice for CDN service as it comes with Bots Protection feature which is said to counter attack automated spammers.

Incapsula offers both free and premium CDN services which started from $19 per month and here are the plans it is offering:

Can’t decide which free CDN provider to use? This article could help, CloudFlare vs Incapsula.

Most Popular Premium CDN for performance and price: MaxCDN

When it comes to premium Content Delivery Network at a good price, nothing beats MaxCDN. It is trusted by many top sites such as Yoast, ZippyKid, The Next Web and WPBeginner.

So, what makes MaxCDN so popular?
- Global flat rate pricing
- Free HTTP & HTTPS requests
- Instant purge
- 24/7 customer support (including live chat)
- Supercharge and make sites blazing fast
- Easy integration with W3 Total Cache and thousands of hosting environment
I use MaxCDN because I am always a speed junkie. I want my site to load extremely fast and I always aim for the 1 sec mark. Without MaxCDN, I was loading around 1.8 seconds on average and with MaxCDN, I was rocking at below 1 sec (608 ms to be exact).

This is how fast my site loads after enabling several custom settings

MaxCDN offers very competitive rate which starts at $9 per month (for 2 websites) and an allocation of 100 GB per month. I am no big fan of monthly payment and if that is the case, take up the annual plan and get 2 months free.

Not only that, use coupon code Max20 and get another 20% discount off your total bill. Now tell me, how cool is that?

Here are the plans MaxCDN is offering:

For those who are interested to make your website even faster, I would highly recommend you to use W3 Total Cache Pro + CloudFlare Page Rules + MaxCDN. Of course, this is when you are serving lots of images and JavaScripts which could affect the loading speed severely.

Give MaxCDN a 30-days trial run for free and upon sign up, get 20% off instantly with coupon code Max20. Click here!

Is your website loading over 1.5 seconds or do you want a faster website?

We all know the importance of having a fast loading website. Analytic sites such as Moz and QuickSprout has always recommend a quicker loading site if you want to rank well on search engine. If you are not using any CDN service yet, I would recommend you to grab either one of the above immediately. Not only you will have a better chance to rank well, you are going to make your visitors happy too!

Are you using any of the Content Delivery Network providers above? Tell me what you think and share your CDN experience with me using the comment form below.
February 4, 2024
Gmail Disables Display All Images Feature And How It Can Benefits Marketers?

I thought that Google PageRank Update last week was the only gift from Google for the year. Guess I was wrong.

When I saw this Google announcement, I was smiling. I knew that my Internet marketing campaigns are going to skyrocket immediately after this Gmail update.

For those who are wondering what I am talking about, Gmail has announced that all images attached in all Gmail emails will be automatically displayed by default.

Google first announced the usage of Display All Images setting to ensure that Gmail users are not getting unwanted images from unknown sender which could compromise the security of their computer or mobile devices. As much as it was considered a good move for users, it wasn’t the same case for marketers.

An image represent a thousand words and one of the best ways that Internet marketers use to encourage readers to continue reading (and in some cases, purchasing an item).

Gmail display all images feature is enabled automatically

With the new feature, instead of serving images directly from their original external host servers, Gmail will now serve all images through Google’s own secure proxy servers.

This means that your messages are (assumed) to be safer and more secure as Google will have a layer of protection to check on viruses and malware. The Display All Images or Display Images options on your Gmail will not be visible anymore.

Gmail team had also said that this will roll out soon (expected by this week) for PC’s and it is expected by next year for smartphones.

Question: How can Internet Marketers and bloggers profit from this update?

Gmail Display All Images feature can be very annoying. Yes, let’s be frank.

How many of you actually click on the pesky ‘Display Images’ button every time you receive an email from a trusted site? One thing for sure, I know I don’t unless the email is really interesting.

This means that with the Display All Images features enabled by default, you can probably kiss good-bye your email marketing campaigns if your emails are based highly on images.

So, what are the advantages you can gain with the images displayed automatically?

1. The possibility of increasing click through rates (CTR)

For those who are sending out newsletters and uses many images as a form of description, chances are your response rate is going to skyrocket.

Previously, readers will not be able to see the images if the Display All Images option is not turned on or the sender isn’t whitelisted. Now, images are all shown automatically and thus, you can leverage traffic with images from your blogs and even using 3rd party applications such as Pinterest and Flickr to host your images.

2. Using more image-rich newsletter templates

Before this, my newsletters contain mostly words and it is pretty clear cut. While it may sounds lame and boring, this is probably the best method to reach out to many recipients. Before this, I was using AWeber and it was great especially when it comes to sending text emails.

I totally understand that while having tons of images could easily increase the click rates (and boost anxiety), it is tough to do so if readers do not enable the Display All Images or whitelist me as a safe sender on their Gmail account. So, it makes all the sense to use more words than images in all my newsletters.

When it comes to image-rich newsletter templates, email marketing providers such as AWeber and GetResponse are top of their class. With the Gmail enabling Display All Images automatically, it makes absolutely all the sense to start using quality images in your newsletter to boost CTR and of course, building prettier newsletter templates.

Here’s a video I found about GetResponse about image-rich and responsive designs:

Pretty cool right? Sign up for GetResponse for 30 days free (plus 25% discount and $30 direct credit)!

3. More personalized emails and lesser automated ones

While email providers such as GetResponse and AWeber offers RSS-to-email feature, this could probably be a turning point (at least, for me) of it with the Gmail Display All Images feature enabled automatically.

I got to admit that RSS-to-email features got me pretty lazy. Trust me on that!

Imagine you have a tight schedule and right after publishing a new blog post, your email marketing provider automatically create a newsletter and send it out to all your subscribers at the scheduled time. I bet it certainly sounds good right?

I have tested that and I got to say that it is one insanely crazy and great way to boost traffic and building a stronger brand power.

However, the side effect is that you are basically putting it on automation which could (most of the time) totally kill your human touch. This means that every email sent out would look like ‘˜that’ and for eager subscribers, that could be a huge turn down.

What’s next? A huge drop of subscribers!

So, what does Display All Images by Gmail could possibly affect my marketing strategies?

The answer is simple; I tend to build (again) my own customized emails instead of using RSS-to-email feature completely.

Even though this might not be the best advantage with the new and updated Gmail Display All Images feature, it is certainly a good way for me to kick start (back) semi-automatic newsletter.

Over to you

Now tell me guys. How did this update on Gmail image display feature affects you? Tell me what you think using the comment form below and let’s discuss.

February 4, 2024
Long Tail Pro Review, Features And $20 Discount Code
Long tail keywords had become a way to gain search traffic and probably one of the best tips for SEO 2014. While there are many proven theories that long tail keywords is a great way to achieve better SERPs, many bloggers and content writers are still having issues trying to find untapped keyword niche.

Years back, long tail keywords are usually used for niche blogging only; very specific blogging topics and today’s world, everything had changed. In other words, gone were the days where you try to rank for only one to two letter words. Your main focus now is to find for longer and more specific keyword terms instead of very general terms.

How can long tail keywords affect blog traffic?

Not only the value of long tail keywords had increased dramatically, they continue to be a powerful way to leverage search traffic especially with the growing competition for high value ‘core’ keywords.

What is a long tail keyword?

Long tail keywords are keyword which are mainly unpopular and usually have lower competition. This means that ranking for these keywords on search engines would be easier.

Check out the image below for better understanding:

Do you see the differences between both boxes in red?

The term ‘blogging’ easily lead to around 14,800 searches in a month and long tail keywords such as ‘blogging websites’ has around 1,900 searches only. Chances are that there are more visitors trying to find for longer search terms instead of the generic term of ‘blogging’.

So, what is the easiest way to find long tail keywords?

Performing keyword research using Long Tail Pro

Long Tail Pro is the brainchild of Spencer Haws and if you have no idea he is (still), he is the man behind Niche Pursuits. While there are tons of keyword research tools out there in the market, I was in love with Long Tail Pro immediately after using it.

I got to admit that I am not a niche blogger and usually Google Keyword Planner is the only keyword tool I use. After using Long Tail Pro, I knew it is the best keyword research tool ever created. Period!

Do you believe that Long Tail Pro (or LTP in short) makes keyword research looks so easy? Here are 3 reasons why I would highly recommend it to anyone who is serious in finding the best keywords for niche blogging.

Long Tail Pro feature #1 – Insanely easy to setup

For those who don’t know me well, I am no fan of complicated tools setup. This means that I usually ditch the manual (not recommended) and start immediately.

Yes, I give no second thought on that!

With Long Tail Pro, it is extremely easy to setup. All I need were:
1. Add a new campaign name
2. Add Google credentials to LTP
3. Adding Moz access ID
And I am all done. Yup … under 5 minutes flat.

Long Tail Pro feature #2 – Custom keyword research software

I love to consider Long Tail Pro is a advanced Google Keyword Planner. With LTP, I am able set additional keyword filters such as:
1. Specify global search volume
2. Domain availability
3. Google title competition
4. Bing title competition
5. Average local searches
6. Average CPC
7. Number of words
8. Search up to 10 keywords at one time
Basically with Long Tail Pro, you are able to multitask and complete each task in a very short time period. Personally, these features make it as one of the most efficient keyword research tools I ever used.

Long Tail Pro feature #3 – Competitor analysis

One of LTP’s most popular features is the one-click competitor analysis. Once you have specify a keyword generated from the Keyword Research option, LTP allows you to analyse the ranking factor.

This means that you will get a full report of the top 10 sites which are listed on Google with that keyword. The report consists of several important ranking factors such as:
1. Page authority
2. Page links
3. Juice page links
4. Domain authority
5. Moz ranking
6. PageRank
7. Site age
When it comes to finding profitable keyword, these features offered by Long Tail Pro could possibly be the best thing a niche blogger would require. For this particular feature, it gives a perfect outlook on the chances of ranking that specific keyword.

Do I need to mention that it is extremely important factor?

With proper SEO strategies, you would be able to find low competition but profitable long tail keywords.

Long Tail Pro feature #4 – Rank checker

This is one very powerful LTP feature which is often underused by many bloggers. With just a click of a button, you would be able to determine how your website is ranking for specific keywords. While there are many keyword research tools which can do that for you as well, it is great to see this is included in Long Tail Pro version.

Basically, all you need to do is to:
- Enter the URL or web address you can to check
- Input the specific keyword
LTP Rank Checker doesn’t only check ranking on Google but as well as Yahoo and Bing search engines as well.

Question: Is Long Tail Pro really worth it?

The answer is yes. Among all the keyword research tools I had used, Long Tail Pro is definitely one of the best software that worth your money and highly flexible. If you are doing niche blogging, it is an absolute no brainer to have Long Tail Pro as one of your most powerful SEO arsenal.

Now, let’s take a look at LTP’s pricing:

All plans comes with a 10-days free trial and no credit card required.

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February 4, 2024