8 Easy Ways To Monitor The SEO Your Competition Is Doing

For each ranking site, you will be able to see important ranking factors. For example, look at the following elements:

  1. How many links are pointing to the competitor’s ranking page?
  2. How many of these links are using the target keyword?
  3. How many of these links are owned by the competitor’s brand (such as family domains or links from the same site)?
  4. When did the page originate (you can determine this by using the WayBack Machine)?
  5. How many Delicious or DIGG listings does the competitor site have?
  6. Does the competitor site have a DMOZ listing?
  7. OnPage Factors – does the competitor site have well optimized content (Title, URL, body content, etc.)?
  8. You can then determine which of these ranking factors are giving your competition the benefit by doing a side-by-side comparison against your site. Create a Matrix and list out 4-5 competitor sites for each of your important keywords. You’d be surprised how useful this can be in determining your strategy and next steps. For example:
    • Modify your content if needed to be better optimized for the target keyword
    • Create a PR or Social Media campaign aimed at generating awareness (and thus, links) to your content using important keywords.

Doing this on a monthly basis will ensure that you (and your stakeholders) have a clear roadmap for success with those business critical keywords.

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iPod Touch with Camera finally

f23b1f80b5a8bb201c09786 iPod Touch with Camera finallyFinally, 250 days later, Apple shows us the iPod Touch with a camera. They were planning to release this version as the original 3G iPod Touch, but a size restricting manufacturing mistake left the camera housing empty.

The serial number of the Camera part indicates 2.0 megapixels, but this could easily change as newer models are developed. I certainly hope they upgrade to a slightly better camera.

Another issue is the camera’s actual function. Will it be restricted to purely video or will it have the ability to take pictures as well. Running a diagnostic mode, no internal specs are known as of yet.

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The iPhone 4, the biggest revolution since . . . the iPhone

designiPhone 4: The Definitive Guide

  • Aluminosilicate glass that claims to be 20-30 times stronger than plastic
  • 34% thinner
  • 3 grams heavier, weighs 137 grams
  • “thinnest smartphone ever”
  • Split volume buttons
  • stainless steel rim – acts as atenna for 3G and WiFi
  • 4.5 x 2.31 inches and .37 inches thick

The hardware

  • A4 Chip processor – just like the iPad
  • Power VR SGX 535 graphics card
  • subcomponents automatically switch off when not used
  • battery is 16% larger
  • 40% more talk time
  • Apple states
    • Talk over 3G: 7 hours.
    • Browsing over 3G: 6 hours.
    • Browsing over Wi-Fi: 10 hours.
    • Video: 10 hours.
    • Music: 40 hours.
    • Stand-by: 300 hours.
  • 3.5 inch display – same as before
  • 960 x 640 pixels retina display – four times as many as in the previous iPhone
  • 326 ppi
  • oleophobic layer – easier to clean
  • bigger sensor for the main camera, bigger lens as well
  • back light that can be used for flash as well as videoing
  • standard VGA conference camera – face time
  • built in 3-axis gyroscope and accelerometer – so 6-axis motion sensing
  • micro-SIM standard
  • additional microphone on the top used for noise cancelation

The software

  • iOS 4
  • multi-tasking
  • Retina display will re-scale all apps to looker sharper and less pixelated
  • facetime available over 3g
  • iMovie with 1,500 new features
  • 720p high definition video recording
  • ibooks

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