Aptus Consultants

Plenty of bloggers are talking about the inevitable intersection of social media marketing and search engine optimization. Keyword optimized social content and channels of promotion provide abundant signals to search engines for improved visibility on standard, social and real-time search. The changing nature of social media marketing and optimization create the need for tools whether for research, marketing and promotion or analytics. Here are 11 social media and SEO tools you might find useful:

• howsociable.com  Social visibility score
• knowem.com  Profile building tool
• Social Media for Firefox  Build a powerful social profile on social news & bookmarking sites
• semrush.com  Find competitor organic search rankings
• Google Insights  Keyword demand trends
• Page Inlink Analyzer  Analyze inbound links, their Delicious bookmarks & keyword tags
• majesticseo.com  Historical back-link tracking
• trackur.com  Social media monitoring
• socialmention.com  Real-time social search & scoring, social keyword research
• bit.ly  Search friendly URL shortening with analytics
• analytics.postrank.com  Track social engagement with combined Google & social analytics

What low cost or free tools have you found to be effective for social media optimization tasks? Link to original post and say hello at @leeodden: Free Tools for Social SEO