Category Archives: InfluenceFinder

InfluenceFinder – The Next Generation of Link Building

So after an extraordinary (and long) journey we soft launch InfluenceFinder at SMX tomorrow. The beta users were reporting extraordinary gains in productivity – Mydeco said 8 x productivity gains in link building and we felt it was reliable enough … Continue reading

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Search Tools Market – Scoping Exercise

I mentioned in a previous post we asked an MBA student at the London Business School scope out market sizes in the SEO and search tools market. Sanjeev Sharma did an excellent job for us and I’ve decided to publish … Continue reading

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Working with MBA students to help with market planning

We have recently started working with two excellent MBA students from the London Business School, Sanjeev Sharma and Yervand Sarkisyan. We asked the guys to help us out with several market scoping projects (lots of TAM and SAM shaping) in … Continue reading

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Introducing Linkdex Labs

Linkdex Labs – Musing on blog detection, SEO We hired our first two analysts last week – a couple of very very smart guys – Toby and Neil. There job will be two fold – improve on the accuracy of … Continue reading

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Is PR the next SEO or SEO the next PR?

I’ve been asking this question since 2007 when it was apparant that social marketing was going to have an effect on the SEO industry. It wasn’t clear at the time whether it would but it sparked a change in the … Continue reading

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How content uncovers opportunities

As a follow on from my last post I said that I would add some detail to the axis of relevance and opportunity. By looking at the content of a page (not just links) allows us to identify a whole … Continue reading

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Why the conversation is not just about links – far from it in fact

I was recently, well this week, asked to compare the SEOMoz Linkscape tool with InfluenceFinder. In order to do so I need to go back to basics and objectives. Lets deal with objectives. For many many marketing reasons finding sites … Continue reading

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Planning a media landscape to find linking partners that drive rankings and clicks

Influence Finder uses a trillion link databases and page crawlers to find relevant and influential link partners for you. The problem with having a huge webmap and the ability to search source code for keywords in specific places like the … Continue reading

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My interview with Webmaster Radio last week

Announcing the beta for SearchDNA (update – now called InfluenceFinder) this is a comprehensive interview with Jim at Webmasterradio

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