SeoAlchemist

Last week, my friend Chris Bennett at 97th Floor and his brother Patrick at

Modern Blue launched a new analytics package called

BLVD Status that I am particularly excited about. I was one of the original pre-beta testers and was able to see this grow into a really powerful and helpful tool for anyone trying to better track their search & social media marketing efforts.

BLVD Status is an analytics program that has a live dashboard similar to something you would see in
Have a Mint but with really robust information like conversions, search engine rankings, outgoing link information and many more data points. BLVD Status presents a slick and clean user interface, but I am more excited about the actual data it provides you. With many analytics programs I have tested, it seems like you can’t get the data you are looking for without custom programming and tweaking.
Below, details about what features it currently includes, and what I would like
to see in future releases.

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If you are an experienced link builder, you might be tempted to read something other than today’s column, which on first glance may appear a bit to rudimentary for your skills. If you do stick around, and I hope you do, I’ll share with you what I consider to be one of the tragic mistakes that even sophisticated link builders often make when contacting a site to request a review/link: Using the wrong contact method.

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A review of Microsoft’s research on BrowseRank.