If you’re one of the many websites that’s been affected by the latest Google algorithm change on Tuesday, April 24th 2012 , then you’ve most likely been hit by the recent ‘Penguin update’ .  Why Penguin?  Well it’s black and white and refers to black hat and white hat [...]]]>

If you’re one of the many websites that’s been affected by the latest Google algorithm change on Tuesday, April 24th 2012 , then you’ve most likely been hit by the recent ‘Penguin update’ .  Why Penguin?  Well it’s black and white and refers to black hat and white hat SEO strategies. (Black meaning bad and white meaning good) . Some people are saying that this is a minor change compared to the previous Panda release, (but if ‘small’ means your business is losing revenue from a drop in rankings, then I beg to differ), but has without doubt got a few web masters and business owners flapping to get back on dry land after experiencing that sinking feeling.  Are Google working there way through the whole animal kingdom. If so, no doubt your quaking in your boots in anticipation of the ‘Killer Whale’ and ‘Zebra’ updates.

So Why has Google implemented the Penguin update?

It’s a subtle change that helps Google detect and combat web spam, poor quality web sites with a resultant relegation to obscurity and off the search engine radar. Look, there is no need to panic but you will need to play to the new rules, and probably have to tweak your SEO strategy and methods, in order to gain robust rankings in the future.  Apparently only 3% of search queries have been affected, but the jury is still out on this – if Google has got it right and not inadvertently filtered out some good quality sites with the same brush stroke. There is point to this though – it’s probably time to stop playing chess with the computer, because unless you have the brain of a champion chess player, there’s only going to be one winner in the end.

Panda or Penguin – Which one has my website been hit by?

The easiest way to tell is look at when your keyword rankings went negative, in conjunction with viewing your analytic’s and determine when you took a drop in visitor traffic.  If your site was hit a few days before the 24th, then you’ve suffered at the hands of the Panda change and been whacked with a large thick bamboo stick.  Ofcourse, this was a cunning move by Google releasing them within a few days of each other, so it’s difficult to reverse engineer the algorithm and work out what the dependent issues are.  Give yourself a pat on the back if your rankings have stayed the same or your site has even benefited and been promoted upwards.

To clarify, Panda 3.5 was formulated to combat poor quality web pages with sub standard content (Example – pages with poorly written keyword rich content, possibly duplicated text and full of spammy adverts), where as the Penguin update was all bout web spam:  over optimisation in terms of back linking and over use of anchor text. (Example:  Using blog networks and linking from spammy pages.  (More details on this to follow later..!)

 There’s Been Plenty of Warning and Information: and it’s been a long time coming, but is it Game Over?

Google has been striving to create the perfect search experience for its users for many years now.  The signals and warnings have been coming for a long time, but seems asthough they have finally made some big strides in the right direction.

Webmasters have been flummoxed for the past few years in that they have  adopted only pure white hat techniques, all by the rule book (and with good results), but some  have still been getting away with marginal black and grey hat spam techniques that have often succeeded  in achieving equivalent standings. I strongly believe that it’s game over now for a lot of link builders and spam merchants. It’s check mate, MATEY!

The following information is an insight into what I have experienced over the past few weeks, with regards to analysing competitor sites rankings and back link quality , and gleaning the results from a few of our test sites.

Have you been participating in any of the following link building methods?

1. Lazy Link building techniques:  resorting to link buying or brokering text links.

There’s no doubt that site wide links have been down graded, and are now carrying much less weight.

a. Acquiring blogroll links from non-related sites –  utilising site wide links, with our without anchor text.

 Google has just got cleverer and is now acting on these types of links. Is it likely that this type of link is going to be natural?  No of course not, why would it be likely that someone owning a fashion site would link out to a car website.  Avoid this like the plague, even if not using rich anchor text.

b. Acquiring blogroll links from related sites utilising site wide links and using keyword anchor text.

This is up for discussion still, but think about this one!  If you own a blog about green energy,  are you  likely to link out to another related site for reference or  because  you simply admire the other site and their opinion in this field. Yes you are, but are you  likely to use keyword rich anchor text? No! So Google is now looking at this type of detail – something which everyone suspected it was going to do a long time ago, but appears it has finally managed to crack this one.

2. Using websites/blogs with poor quality articles that are freighted with anchor text and 3 external links to the same website.

OK, so you’ve been asked to write an article by an acquaintance you met at an exhibition who owns a blog in a similar industry to yours.  You add 2-3 links to the article going to different pages of your site, and all use anchor text. This is in my opinion now deemed unacceptable  - they are all over this. This is likely to have a negative effect on your rankings – especially if this is over used and a common signature or pattern is evident.  Article credits  and editorial links should be more natural. Why should you need to indicate to  Google by using anchor text, what your site is about.  Google already knows this, so keep it natural and leave it to the publisher to choose your credit link at random. They’re probably going to use your website or company name – which is a good thing.

3. Building blogs that are purpose built for SEO

How many times have you seen a well ranked website with back links from PR Zero sites that look asthough they have been built in 5 minutes. This is a major inclusion in the Penguin update and a long time coming.

4.  Using automated spinning article software and automated submission networks.

5. Exchanging links from non-related sites and using spammy resources for reciprocal linking.

6. Exchanging links from related sites and using spammy resource pages for reciprocal linking.

This one may surprise some people. But this is one I see often in link profiles when dredging through a high ranking competitor’s website back links, and I have seen some competitor rankings take a dive after the last weeks Penguin update. Some have only dropped 6-7 positions, others more,  but you can see why, when 70% of their back linking strategy falls into this category.

How to Recover from the Google Penguin Update! Information On What You Can Do Now?

There’s probably few websites that have recovered from the Penguin update yet,  as it’s still quite early. I would recommend digesting the following guidelines from Google, and get a feel for the reasons and their thinking behind these changes.

The following list has been aggregated from Rankability SEO experts as well as external sources including various sources in  the SEO industry.  These are  informed opinions (and assumptions) based on our experience and knowledge of SEO.

Google Penguin Recovery Tips

1. Look for signs of  Over optimisation of your website

I’m referring to on page SEO here, decluttering pages of high keyword density and  over use of keyword phrases, poor repetitive copy writing, ensuring your headers and title tags are more natural and less aligned as well as reducing the number of internal links.

Google have changed their Page Rank (PR) algorithmn recently, so linking back to the home page using anchor test is no longer a valid signal of strength.

2.  Check you Anchor Text Distribution & Remove Site Wide Links

Most decent SEO’s know about keeping the anchor text natural, but there could just be one poor link out there that’s bringing your site down.  Analyse your anchor text, check for links from poor quality sites with poor content, low Alexa rankings and site wide links using keyword rich anchor text from blogrolls and sidebars. Remove these links and focus on replacing and building better quality links.

3.  Write Better and Get More Creative: nurture your content

Create better content, balanced, impartial and longer articles (over 500 words).  Get inventive with your words and include some factual information and credit other authority websites from the article. If its a factual article, think of it as a Wikipedia style reference entry.

4.  Get Higher Quality Backlinks

What’s now acceptable and what isn’t for link building. This has been a well debated one, but is becoming more clearer than ever before. Manual Link Building is going to go out of fashion but if you are going to do this, make them natural from related websites and avoid over using anchor text for a long while.

But what about directories?  Are they still ok? Yes these are fine provided they are of good quality, relevant and is part of a wider link baiting/link building campaign. Make sure you don’t use duplicate snippets/content when posting to directories for your business listings descriptions.

Here’s a range of comprehensive charts and recent data based on anchor text distribution and how it’s affected some websites.

What’s the Future of SEO?

Lets Forget Google for a minute and look at other means of driving traffic to your website. Most SEO’s and company directors are obsessed with Google optimisation, yet there are a myriad of other ways of gaining traffic.

Alternative Measures Required: how to optimise without relying on Mr Google

1. Adopt Social Media as a Core Strategy: Create informative, shareable content, something different (infographics, articles/videos/badges) and socialise via Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter and other relevant sharing sites.

2. Exchange Blog Posts: Connect with like-minded people and contribute blog posts, articles and opinions to one-another’s blogs.

3. Buy into Social Media Advertising: Target demographic and related companies/brands/services on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

4. Blog & Write More Engaging Content: write or get a seasoned writer to produce some great content for your own blog and make sure it’s current and relevant.

5. Optimise Your Social Media Profiles: get your social media platforms working for you – engage online, develop a following and enhance your  Google + profile. (ok, not totally ignoring Google)

  This is a first pass on analysing the Penguin update, so keep up to date and look out for changes, tweaks, and further opinions/test data. In the mean time if you require an analysis of your website after your rankings have suffered minor or substantial drops, get in touch and receive a one-on-one  technical discussion with  our top SEO analyst.

If the answer to the question is an affirmative ‘YES’, then you’re most likely either wallowing around in a pitiful mess and trying to pick up the pieces of a promised SEO campaign that’s fallen flat on it’s tail end, or just at the beginning and not realised what you’ve just [...]]]>

If the answer to the question is an affirmative ‘YES’, then you’re most likely either wallowing around in a pitiful mess and trying to pick up the pieces of a promised SEO campaign that’s fallen flat on it’s tail end, or just at the beginning and not realised what you’ve just got yourself into!

Don’t take this the wrong way if you’re on the receiving end of this, but I have thoroughly researched this subject. (So to make that clear – I’m not speaking from a position of advanced of ignorance). I’m not saying there aren’t any decent off shore SEO companies in India or the Phillipines, but it would be like trying to find a shiny needle in a haystack or attempting to coax the whole Google algorithm out of Matt Cutts from a feeding him a frenzy of Harvey Wall Bangers.

In life, you generally pay for what you get!  This is mostly true, and being promised 1000′s of back links for $100 per month – I can see how on the surface, this can appear a steal!

Outsourcing your link building to a far-away, hourly SEO contractor with no knowledge of your company is a good decision and A1 strategy for your business?…. No IT’s…REALLY  NOT!  Get this…! The blogosphere is already omni-present with useless, spammy comments in broken English from third-world link builders. Why fall foul and get sucked in by their ridiculously cheap prices. You’ll only be disappointed!

Do Any of The Following Apply to You..?

• You’re keyword rankings aren’t performing as well as you thought.

• You’re not sure how many or the quality of back links you’re receiving per month.

• You signed up to a link building package that looks good on paper;

Example: 50 Blog links/month, 100 Free Article Directories/month, 500 Free Directory submissions/month, 300 Social Bookmarks/month plus 50 Forum links.

• Your SEO company are using spammy link building methods like; free article submissions, free directory submissions and spammy automated methods.

• You’re not receiving detailed monthly link building reports, and the ones you’re getting are freighted with ambiguity.

• You’re not getting a positive Return On Investment.

• You’re paying £XXX amount per month and feel asthough you’re throwing your money down the drain!

• You’re thinking about changing SEO provider to improve your results (kicking yourself or scratching your head wondering what to do next?)

If so.., you’ve probably outsourced your SEO to an off shore based SEO company.

10 Facts You Need To Know About Off Shore Link Building Companies

1.  Many of them use bulk automated submission tools. The more back links you get the higher your rankings.   This is largely true if your links are coming from good quality sites and are built progressively over time, but the point here is if you think you are getting a good deal from an SEO promise of 1000′s of links per month for $200, then think again! Large volume directory submissions is not a viable SEO strategy.

2.  They often have a portfolio / network of web sites that they have built themselves for link building purposes.  Most of these sites are poor quality with very little content and invariably have little authority, relevance or  Google page rank.  These are easy to spot – they often use the same wordpress templates and 99% of them are littered with a myriad of spelling mistakes, not to mention you will find they’ll mostly all cross link to each other.

3. They’re promising to giving you a 100 social bookmarks per month and a bunch of juicy blog comments.  Sounds good, but to be honest, there aren’t even that many decent social bookmarking sites out there anymore. Most have just disappeared or have changed business or been bought out.  There are a handful of social bookmarking sites, but it’s the standout micro sites like Digg and Technorata that should be used with sharing content in mind .  The methods normally used by offshore SEO companies is using bulk submission social bookmarking tools to dozens of Pligg sites which are only guaranteed do more damage than good.  As for blog or forum comments, these are ok in small amounts, but scouting blogs for articles with long trails of comments from other similar link builders (a high number of outbound links from any one page will lower the effect and SEO power) will result in indifference for search engine positioning purposes.

4.  You may have tried hiring an SEO consultant from ODesk, then prepare to be disappointed.  You maybe able to watch them work, but not much of a consolation when most of their time is spent submitting spun content and articles to pointless free article sites –  I have heard many stories from disgruntled business owners that have largely experienced very shoddy work.   Also be aware of fake appraisals and testimonials.

5.  99% of them can’t afford to use paid SEO tools to help with an SEO campaign or source the best, most valuable sites for advertising or link placement.

6.  They’ll try to sell you the link wheel strategy.  This used to be a reasonably effective method, creating web 2.0 sites / profiles to create a complex network of sites to link from using entities like Squidoo, Hubpages etc.  These are an ok strategy if blended with good quality back links, but by themselves with their other sub-standard adopted SEO methods is largely a waste of time and resources.  Show me a competitive keyword that ranks from this strategy.

7. They are very, very likely to damage your back link profile and either deliver poor results or demote your website to Google obscurity.  Once the damage is done, it’s often harder to retrieve your rankings and a lot of effort removing the bad links. Is it really worth risking your online business in this way!

8. They may be able to deliver first page results for a poorly competed long tail  keyword, but what good is this, when it delivers next to zero traffic. There’s a big difference between a link building campaign geared to get you top 3 results, than just getting one of these lesser keywords on to the first page.

9. Most off shore personnel are one man bands with little or no training in SEO,  using yesteryears methods and tactics.

10. They can afford to charge such low prices for SEO, not just because they can live on less income out in India, but mainly because the SEO methods they deploy are all FREE.  (plus they won’t feel so guilty when they TRASH your rankings).

If you’ve got any stories about outsourcing your SEO off shore, then please feel free to share with us!

Reading the obituaries column is always depressing, but the relegation of Yahoo Site Explorer to obscurity by the gang at Microsoft and Yahoo, will have left a few people severely disappointed and caught short!   There where plenty of warnings and notices issued in advance, but this is one [...]]]>

Reading the obituaries column is always depressing, but the relegation of Yahoo Site Explorer to obscurity by the gang at Microsoft and Yahoo, will have left a few people severely disappointed and caught short!   There where plenty of warnings and notices issued in advance, but this is one tool that will be sorely missed by the SEO industry.

Yahoo site explorer was widely used by many SEO consultants and smaller businesses that could manage without buying one of the paid alternatives. Free SEO tools are one of those things that are often taken for granted, but are the days of a decent free back link analysis tool, possibly numbered? We took it on ourselves to research and find a few other alternative SEO tools that can step up to the mark for analysing backlinks.

So What Form Has Site Explorer Tools Now Taken?

Bing claims that Yahoo site explorer has been merged  into Bing Webmaster Tools.   This is one gargantuan instance of poetic license I have EVER read!!!

This is Microsoft’s statement about the expiration of yahoo site explorer.

“Once organic results are transitioned to Bing in all the markets, we plan to shut down Yahoo! Site Explorer and Microsoft’s Webmaster Tools will be the source for Bing and Yahoo! webmaster site and analytics data.”

You’ll know what I mean when you expect to see a Yahoo Site explore alternative within Bing web master tools.  Don’t spend time looking for it, you’ll be bitterly disappointed and have wasted valuable link building time.

So What are the Alternative FREE Backlink Tools for Checking Your Sites Back Links… ?

Are there any still out there or have all the free ones suddenly enabled a subscription payment, thus now benefiting from the removal of Yahoo Site Explorer.

We have researched a number of free and paid tools available for use.  Jump straight to (5) and (6) if you want the FREE STUFF!

1. SEO Attack

This is a relatively new tool, still in beta but one of the best alternatives. Plug in your domain name and after around 30 seconds, gives free data up to a maximum of 10 URL’s. Click on the links column and it opens up another window and you can view the top exterior links pointing to your chosen URL.  I like the ‘juicy’ rating that gives you an indication of how good the back link is based on how many in bound links are pointing to it. Again the list of back linking sites are limited, but you can filter on the best back links.  It does display a further list of URL’s but with no associated data and cuts off the whole URL. Maybe sufficient for checking domains for acquisition purposes but not a comprehensive tool for competitor back link analysis and link scouting, unless you opt for the paid version to unlock the necessary features.

So what does SEO attack offer for the paid subscriptions?  Their paid version is based on the number of searches per day.

For example their Bronze: $9.97/month will get you 50 searches / day, 200 link depth and various data including anchor text and CSV export.

2. SEO Moz 

These guys don’t need a lengthy introduction, unless your’re a newbie.  Most SEO’s have heard and are aware Open Site Explorer, in the form of a paid tool that gives you a myriad of features for link building research.  They have a 30 day trial but this costs $99.00 per month to use as a Pro member  Just one go at checking a domain backlinks and then the subscription screen kicks in.  Very much worth it’s salt and probably the best tool out there for mining backlink data. You can get up to 10,000 links, track links over a time period plus it now includes additional data on social media backlinks.

3. Using Google Operators

There are many google operators you can use to filter your search results. One of them is by using the following search operator in the Google search field.

So how to get back external backlinks using google operators?

Just type in “link:www.domainname.com” and you are rewarded with a list of sites linking back to your domain, excluding internal page links from your domain.

It would look like this:-

with the following results:-

Try this your self with one of your own domains.  You may be asking “why doesn’t google link operator show all your backlinks”?    You’ll see Google doesn’t show you a true count of inbound  links pointing to your website.  There is a very good reason for this according to Google, to prevent  “spammers or competitors using the information to reverse a sites ranking.”  Sceptics amongst the industry would say it stops the boffins from reverse engineering the Google algorithm.  What ever the reason, it doesn’t substitute yahoo site explorer by any means.  A half baked set of back links isn’t going to help you excel and impress your girlfriend  with your link building skills.

4. Majestic SEO

Anyone familiar with Market Samurai will have seen a notification email of the departure of yahoo site explorer data from the public internet domain and the Samurai client interface.  Market Samurai gave you the option of back link data from Yahoo or Majestic SEO (a paid subscription tool).  If you’re an avid user of market Samurai, no doubt you will be taking a closer look at Majestic to keep your data reporting within the same interface.  So how does Majestic SEO fair against the other paid tools?

It’s a great tool, fit for purpose giving you a myriad of back link data to chew on. Includes back link history, graphs for reporting, last crawl dates, top pages and much more.  So what if you like the tool, how does the price fair against it’s competitors?

Subscriptions start at £ 29.99 every month, (which is approx $46 US dollars), very affordable for the one man band and SEO professionals with a small number of clients.  it goes up to £299 per month for the full API version if you need to integrate this with your own system.

5. Link Diagnosis Tool

At last a totally free tool! Check this out from iAcquire and Linkscape!  With a stand out logo (no its not made in Switzerland)  and a good first impression landing on the home page, if you’re one of those who switched to Chrome from Firefox for speed, well now is the time to dust the cobwebs off your Moxilla Firefox browser. Yes it works best in Firefox.

Click on the Download the Tool image, allow plugin to install, restart,and you’re ready to roll.

Next, type in your domain and you get a progress bar up, whilst the tool beavers away searching for your back links.  After about a minutes wait, the results and report stats are displayed in a well layed out and easy to read table with associated data.

You can look at the URL, title of page, anchor text, link type, OBL, PR’ link strength, mozrank to name a few.   The only drawback is if you want to drill down and look at the sites that the links are sourced from, you have to cut and paste the URL, unlike yahoo, where the sites are clickable.  Obviously quite time consuming and  it will quickly dawn on you how much you’re missing and relied upon the yahoo site explorer tool.   However you can export the data for Excel to record your history.

6. Blecko Free Seo Tool

Last but definitely not least! This is a new tool, but don’t let the beta sign put you off.  This is your saviour from those nasty people at Microsoft who spoiled the party.  This is ideal if you prefer looking at data on the fly and don’t need the CSV export feature of link diagnosis.  So who are blekko?  Well if like most of us you’ve had your head in the Google cloud, you’ll have missed the blekko welcome parade and it’s brilliant spam free search engine and SEO interface.

Show me the money! How do you get the back link data?   Make your way to the blekko search engine and type in your domain. Click search and you will get the following page below…

Click on the inbound links figure, in this case 228, and you will get another screen giving you a list of domains.  Just before you do, look at what you can do here – they’ve even included the ability to compare against other domains.

1. Add your site.

2. Click on ‘SEO’

3. Enter the URL of your competitor and click ‘compare’

4. Use the graphs to see how you fair against your competitor web sites.

So far so good…!  

So here’s what you’ve been waiting for >>  A list of back links with ‘action’ options that will give you the following; whois info, compare or view back links of each inbound site.

So what about anchor text?  It can give you that as well. Simply click on the links column for the appropriate row and you get the anchor text used from that domain.  The only thing you can’t do is get an overall view of anchor text distribution for all linking sites at once, but who’s complaining!

Verdict

The short answer is ‘YES’ –  there are totally FREE tools available that can just about step into the shoes of Yahoo Site Explorer, albeit doesn’t quite compare to it’s efficiency and ease of use.

If you want more than a link building analysis tool,  there are a number of trials available for paid tools, but you’re going to have to stump up the money at some point if you want to keep hold of your data and keep researching – a tall order for the smaller guys trying to make a living out of SEO.

Many of the free tools are limited to one page or one time usage and Google webmaster tools is not a valid tool for competitor analysis, but thank the SEO gods that Blekko and Link Diagnosis are available.

So Who needs Yahoo?  Not even Bing needs Yahoo Search anymore!

Facebook has become the de facto standard for most companies in helping to enhance their brand, message and services.

Rankability have designed a number of facebook business pages for clients, and keeps abreast of the changes and updates to the facebook platform.

For just over a year now, facebook [...]]]>

Facebook has become the de facto standard for most companies in helping to enhance their brand, message and services.

Rankability have designed a number of facebook business pages for clients, and keeps abreast of the changes and updates to the facebook platform.

For just over a year now, facebook has introduced the use if iframes within facebook pages.  This has allowed for companies to enhance their facebook pages and maintain synergy between their existing web sites. When implemented correctly, this can help with the user experience, landing pages, and conversions.

Here’s is the finished product and facebook page for www.my-photo-school.com

For the myphotoschool  project design , we were tasked with providing a flexible facebook business page that reflected their existing website and showed off their unique photography courses. They wanted to show not just their courses, but monthly competitions and their ‘piste de resistance’ – a FREE photo website for customers.

One of the ways of adding iframes to your facebook page is to use the facebook developer app – it’s free and easy to configure. Each page tab on the left hand side is a separate facebook app running an individual iframe instance.

One of the things to note is the removal of the horizontal slider, which takes up space in the facebook page. This can be done by adding java script code to each page, and setting the facebook canvas to fluid and the height to settable. Another thing that can catch you out is the menu tabs within your iframe site. If you want the links to take you to the individual apps pages, you will need to hyper link using the target _parent attribute to maintain the right page sizes.

If you’re looking for a professional facebook page to market your business, we can assist you with the design and implementation, at an affordable cost.

Link building can be tough at times, and garnering links on a weekly basis can take up a large amount of your  precious hours.  If you’re running your own link building campaign, you also need time to run your business and deal with those online queries.  If you’re mining [...]]]>

Link building can be tough at times, and garnering links on a weekly basis can take up a large amount of your  precious hours.  If you’re running your own link building campaign, you also need time to run your business and deal with those online queries.  If you’re mining for niche web sites and need a few gold nuggets to increase your link popularity, then here are a few search queries that can help save you time and target the most relevant sites.

Mining for Those Gold Nugget Back Links

In this example, we are search for link prospects and websites that are related and mention the keyword ’3d glasses’.  Simply type these in to google and the search results will show potential sites that you can approach for back links.  The list covers forums, communities, guest blog posting, profile pages etc.  Give them a try, just replace your keyword with the word ’3d glasses’. Happy hunting.

 Try this list for Size – It Really Does Work

“3d glasses forum list”
“sign up community 3d glasses”
“3d glasses messageboard”
“3d glasses twitter “list OR users”
“powered by mephisto comment”
“register community 3d glasses”
“3d glasses “on twitter”
“top 3d glasses forums”
“3d glasses community”
“3d glasses “dofollow”"
“3d glasses write reply”
“favorite 3d glasses forums”
“3d glasses Q&A”
“3d glasses groups”
“3d glasses forum”
“3d glasses write new comment”
“intitle:3d glasses “allowed html tags:”
“3d glasses add reply”
“3d glasses leave comment”
“favorite 3d glasses community”
“3d glasses “sign up OR register OR join”
“3d glasses twitter list”
“powered by subtext”
“3d glasses “allowed html tags:”
“3d glasses leave new comment”
“join community 3d glasses”
“3d glasses community list”
“3d glasses answers”
“3d glasses messageboard post”
“3d glasses leave reply”
“3d glasses “on facebook”
“create an account community 3d glasses”
“3d glasses add comment”
“3d glasses “ifollow.gif”
“3d glasses post comment”
“3d glasses add new comment”
“post comment 3d glasses”
“3d glasses twitter “to follow”
“3d glasses groups topic”
“intitle:3d glasses forum”
“3d glasses messageboard topic”
“3d glasses join”
“3d glasses groups post”
“3d glasses write comment”
“3d glasses captcha”
“3d glasses “your url will be displayed” “line breaks become”
“inurl:3d glasses forum”
“powered by s9y comment”
“add comment 3d glasses”
“3d glasses “notify me of follow-up comments?” “submit the word you see below:”
“3d glasses post reply”
“3d glasses post new comment”
“3d glasses social network”
“3d glasses inurl:links inurl:lib*”
“3d glasses inurl:resources site:.gov”
“3d glasses intitle:”round up”"
“3d glasses trade publications”
“list of 3d glasses sites”
“3d glasses inurl:links library site:.edu”
“3d glasses inurl:resources site:.edu”
“award winning 3d glasses”
“3d glasses blog”
“3d glasses inurl:resources inurl:lib*”
“recommended sites 3d glasses”
“3d glasses “list of * companies”"
“3d glasses inurl:links site:.gov”
“3d glasses inurl:links site:.edu”
“3d glasses inurl:weekly-roundup”
“3d glasses tips”
“favorite links 3d glasses”
“3d glasses “related sites”"
“favorite 3d glasses”
“favorite sites 3d glasses”
“3d glasses inurl:links”
“list * 3d glasses sites”
“3d glasses related urls”
“3d glasses links”
“3d glasses sites”
“3d glasses blog list”
“3d glasses with the best rating”
“3d glasses inurl:resources site:.org”
“3d glasses inurl:round-up”
“3d glasses “powered by elgg” -site:elgg.org -site:elgg.com”
“3d glasses weblog”
“3d glasses related sites”
“3d glasses websites”
“3d glasses inurl:roundup”
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“3d glasses blogroll”
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“3d glasses magazines”
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“3d glasses “white paper”"
“3d glasses intitle:”white paper”"
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“3d glasses article intitle:submit”
“add 3d glasses intitle:”white papers”"
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“3d glasses tool directory”
“3d glasses “worksheet OR spreadsheet”"
“3d glasses tool list”
“3d glasses tools”
“intitle:list of free 3d glasses tools”
“3d glasses “submit * tool”"
“3d glasses “top tools”"
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“3d glasses “favorite tools”"
“3d glasses “free tools”"
“3d glasses “tool comparison”"
“3d glasses “recommended tools”"
“best 3d glasses tools”
“3d glasses tool award winning”
“3d glasses “top * tools”"
“intitle:3d glasses tools”
“3d glasses “free calculators”"
“3d glasses “best tools”"
“3d glasses “add * tool”"
“3d glasses tool review”
“intitle:free 3d glasses tools”
“3d glasses tool”
“3d glasses infographic award winning”
“best 3d glasses infographic*”
“3d glasses “top * infographic*”"
“3d glasses infographics”
“3d glasses infographic”
“3d glasses “submit * infographic”"
“3d glasses “add * infographic”"
“3d glasses Directory “add OR submit OR suggest OR post”"
“3d glasses intitle:”suggest site”
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“3d glasses intitle:”submit * website”
“inurl:directory “3d glasses”
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“directory * 3d glasses”
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“3d glasses intitle:”submit *site”
“3d glasses * directory”
“3d glasses ezine ads”
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“recommended 3d glasses podcast”
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“3d glasses intitle:”list of * podcasts”"
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“3d glasses News”
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“Top * 3d glasses Blogs”
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“3d glasses “read the full post”"
“submit 3d glasses video*”
“3d glasses “top * videos”"
“3d glasses video reviews”
“3d glasses “video list”"
“3d glasses videos intitle:”this week”"
“intitle:3d glasses video”
“suggest 3d glasses video*”
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“recommended 3d glasses video*”
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“3d glasses “favorite * videos”"
“add 3d glasses video*”
“intitle:3d glasses videos”
“3d glasses video”
“3d glasses intitle:”list of * videos”"
“top 3d glasses videos”
“3d glasses videos”
“favorite 3d glasses videos”
“3d glasses videos intitle:list”
“3d glasses widget”
“3d glasses widget comparison”
“3d glasses widgets”
“3d glasses “favorite widgets”"
“3d glasses “best widgets”"
“3d glasses “add * widget”"
“3d glasses “top * widgets”"
“3d glasses recommended widgets”
“3d glasses widget award winning”
“3d glasses widget reviews”
“3d glasses “submit * widget”"
“3d glasses “how do I”"
“3d glasses steps”
“3d glasses “help for”"
“3d glasses insights”
“3d glasses process”
“3d glasses “Top * Ways”"
“3d glasses “problems with”"
“3d glasses penalties”
“3d glasses words”
“3d glasses hints”
“3d glasses ideas”
“3d glasses tactics”
“3d glasses gossip”
“3d glasses rumors”
“3d glasses myths”
“3d glasses “list of lists”"
“3d glasses “don’t want you to know”"
“3d glasses controversy”
“3d glasses failures”
“3d glasses vocabulary”
“3d glasses problems”
“3d glasses “how to”"
“3d glasses slang”
“3d glasses “top * reasons”"
“3d glasses secrets”
“3d glasses lies”
“3d glasses intitle:”list of”"
“3d glasses terms”
“3d glasses terminology”
“3d glasses template”
“3d glasses lingo”
“3d glasses “top * list”"
“3d glasses poll”
“3d glasses “top * ways”"
“3d glasses “buying advice”"
“3d glasses opinion”
“3d glasses “top 10″”
“3d glasses survey”
“3d glasses jargon”
“3d glasses language”
“3d glasses debate”
“3d glasses checklist OR “check list”"
“3d glasses “common sense”"
“3d glasses fails”
“3d glasses controversies”
“3d glasses warnings”
“3d glasses tutorial”
“3d glasses intitle:”best OR top OR recommendations”"
“3d glasses discussion”
“3d glasses “what does * mean”"
“3d glasses argument”
“3d glasses “worst things”"
“3d glasses tricks”
“3d glasses intitle:list intitle:best”
“3d glasses “top * ideas”"
“3d glasses intitle:list intitle:”ways to”"
“3d glasses fines”
“3d glasses dangers”
“3d glasses “worst ways”"
“3d glasses fights”
“3d glasses “top 100″”
“3d glasses hidden”
“3d glasses questions”
“3d glasses “help with”"
“3d glasses translations”
“3d glasses considerations”
“3d glasses “ways to”"
“3d glasses glossary”
“3d glasses difficult*”
“3d glasses “top * tips”"
“3d glasses worksheet OR “work sheet”"
“3d glasses recommendations”
“3d glasses skills”
“3d glasses criticisms”
“3d glasses “guide to”"
“3d glasses “won’t tell you”"
“3d glasses hacks”
“3d glasses trouble”
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“3d glasses “approach to”"
“3d glasses definitions”
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“3d glasses “things to consider”"
“3d glasses lexicon”
“3d glasses solutions”
“3d glasses “top * best”"
“3d glasses vote”
“3d glasses confessions”
“3d glasses techniques”
“3d glasses pitfalls”
“3d glasses inurl:advertise”
“3d glasses intitle:advertise”
“3d glasses “advertise with”"
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“3d glasses radio”
“3d glasses “daily links”"
“3d glasses “weekly links”"
“3d glasses send us “your * news”"
“3d glasses send us “your * tips”"
“3d glasses send us “your ideas”"
“3d glasses send us “your media advisories”"
“3d glasses send us “your news”"
“3d glasses send us “your pitch”"
“3d glasses send us “your press release”"
“3d glasses send us “your product pitch”"
“3d glasses send us “your rumors”"
“3d glasses send us “your story”"
“3d glasses send us “your tips”"
“3d glasses submit “your * news”"
“3d glasses submit “your * tips”"
“3d glasses submit “your ideas”"
“3d glasses submit “your media advisories”"
“3d glasses submit “your news”"
“3d glasses submit “your pitch”"
“3d glasses submit “your press release”"
“3d glasses submit “your product pitch”"
“3d glasses submit “your rumors”"
“3d glasses submit “your story”"
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“3d glasses “email us” “your media advisories”"
“3d glasses “email us” “your news”"
“3d glasses “email us” “your pitch”"
“3d glasses “email us” “your press release”"
“3d glasses “email us” “your product pitch”"
“3d glasses “email us” “your rumors”"
“3d glasses “email us” “your story”"
“3d glasses “email us” “your tips”"
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“3d glasses “pitch us” “product information”"
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“3d glasses “pitch us” “your * tips”"
“3d glasses “pitch us” “your ideas”"
“3d glasses “pitch us” “your media advisories”"
“3d glasses “pitch us” “your news”"
“3d glasses “pitch us” “your press release”"
“3d glasses “pitch us” “your rumors”"
“3d glasses “pitch us” “your story”"
“3d glasses “pitch us” “your tips”"
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“3d glasses news inurl:submit”
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“3d glasses “news tips” inurl:submit”
“3d glasses “press release” inurl:send”
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“3d glasses “product pitch” inurl:send”
“3d glasses “product pitch” inurl:submit”
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“3d glasses “news tips” inurl:contact”
“3d glasses “press release” inurl:contact”
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“3d glasses “pitch us” inurl:about”

If you’re looking for advice, SEO training or need to boost your keywords, get in touch and speak to one of our SEO gurus at Rankability.

Look out for part deux next week when we will reveal more link building tips for your SEO campaign.  Sign up for our SEO news and tips to receive regular updates >>

Although a  little late with my weekly news bulletin, thought I’d share my experience of LondonSEO’s event that I attended a couple of weeks ago. The turn out was a good one (although I’m a LondonSEO virgin had nothing to compare it to, but the bar was 2-3 deep [...]]]>

Although a  little late with my weekly news bulletin, thought I’d share my experience of LondonSEO’s event that I attended a couple of weeks ago. The turn out was a good one (although I’m a LondonSEO virgin had nothing to compare it to, but the bar was 2-3 deep at least) and for those that have a thirst for SEO  and digital marketing, is a great place to exchange ideas, network and speak to other experts in the field.

The venue was at the Grace Bar near Piccadilly, a modern place with fine decor, a luxurious bar and very friendly staff.  I spoke to a mix of people working in a number of industries; and exchanged  some ideas on affiliate marketing and link building. Amazingly I remembered most of the night, even after a few kegs of beer passed my lips. Seems asthough my brain, as well as my liver are accomplished at absorbing things.

There was also a raffle on the night, courtesy of  Search metrics, and A4UExpo who also sponsored the event. (A big thanks to them). The prize was an Amazon Kindle version 1, which was a great gift to take home for a nights drinking and merriment.  The winner was drawn, can’t remember who won it but I did hear someone shout out, “What’s an SEO techie need a Kindle for…?  They can’t read sentences. They can only read “META TAGS” – HA HA! ”

Thoroughly recommend to anyone in the SEO field to crow bar this event into your diary. Keep checking the LondonSeo website for the next event and latest news and sign up early.  I’m looking forward to the next one and drinking for the thirst to come!  Look forward to seeing you all there!

In todays ever changing marketing arena, mobile phone and SMS messaging is becoming a slick way of operating online in providing a seamless payments and billing process via a mobile phone – which is beneficial to the end user and online businesses.

With the apple iPad and Android dominating [...]]]>

In todays ever changing marketing arena, mobile phone and SMS messaging is becoming a slick way of operating online in providing a seamless payments and billing process via a mobile phone – which is beneficial to the end user and online businesses.

With the apple iPad and Android dominating the way consumers interact and engage online, from paying for business apps,  gaming, music and movies, mobile payment gateways and automated billing solutions enables the  monetizing software assets and to take payments easily and securely.

Junglepay from txtNation have developed an accomplished plug and play integration widget (it’s more than a software widget) that enables integration with your existing websites or mobile phone applications, that can get your environment ready to take payments using SMS, credit card or over the telephone. It’s powered by the ubiquitous txtNation platform and using their connectivity and carrier partnerships, enabling publishers to target global markets by premium SMS, landline phone and credit card. The widget is free to set up and more importantly they have designed it with usability in mind – using an simple to use setup wizard – even a monkey could work it out!

Michael Whelan from txtNation affirms that: ‘With JunglePay, it’s easier than ever to set up SMS billing with minimal effort and low overheads. Premium SMS is ideal for targeting services at young social networkers, the unbanked, and those without credit cards.’

With the increase  in use of social gaming and networking applications  JunglePay is aptly placed to provide businesses the right tools to give their customers what they want – convenience, ease of use and flexibility.

txtNation Profile

With a number of award winning and acclaimed solutions to their portfolio, txtNation is a major provider of mobile messaging services and are at the cutting edge in the mobile market in their chosen field.

You can follow progress at txtnation Twitter

If on page optimisation was an art form, then Bob Law would have been distinctly average at on page SEO copywriting.  (FYI: he is a turner Prize-winning artist who aroused strong opinions in the art world, and renown for his minimalist art work, who on most occasions was a [...]]]>

If on page optimisation was an art form, then Bob Law would have been distinctly average at on page SEO copywriting.  (FYI: he is a turner Prize-winning artist who aroused strong opinions in the art world, and renown for his minimalist art work, who on most occasions was a man of few brush strokes.).

Here’s the point! His work entitled ‘Nothing to be Afraid Of V 22.8.69′ is nothing but a blank canvas with a border drawn on, in ink pen.  ”ART” I here you  say vociferously.  It reminds me sometimes of when I analyse clients websites for on page SEO, and find that there is no relevant content on the pages, hence why they are not ranking anywhere in the universe for anything remotely distinguishing long tail keyword – “NO TRAFFIC!” I say.

Anyway, a blank canvas may fetch  a high sales figure at an auction (up to £50,000 estimated when auctioned at Bonhams next month), but for internet marketing is likely leave you with an disappointedly low count on your Google analytic’s page….

Here’s a few On Page Optimisation rules of thumb to take on board;

1)  Be conservative with the title tag – don’t over use keywords in here, but ensure you have the most important keyword phrases in there.

2)  Marry up your H1 and h2 headers with the title tag, but keep them natural

3)  Keep the content relevant, but don’t overuse the primary keywords.  Throw in a few synonyms as well for good measure.

4)  For god sake make it interesting and don’t be conservative with few too words. 350 words atleast on the page.

5)  To keep your pages  fresh , add your blog snippets to your service pages and this will help regular indexing and improve internal linking.

6) Use an on page SEO tool and check competitor page strength an the associated word density.

7) Get your website xhtml/w3c validated to cover the major issues with coding, CSS etc

So there’s no point in being a minimalist when it comes down to on page SEO – don’t leave your pages thin and devoid of rich keyword content, otherwise some of your pages may just relegate themselves off the first page of Google, and out of reach of your potential customers.

Who ever ends up with the above master piece, if I was them I’d sure be tempted to do a doodle on it, maybe of a rare dinosaur!

Is there a link building software tool that can do it all? I decided to revisit the all encompassing question of  ’what is the best link building tool?’ for SEO companies and marketing analysts, and one of our SEO specialists decided to trial out a couple of link building management tools [...]]]>

Is there a link building software tool that can do it all? I decided to revisit the all encompassing question of  ’what is the best link building tool?’ for SEO companies and marketing analysts, and one of our SEO specialists decided to trial out a couple of link building management tools and put them under the microscope.

Over the years, many of you have probably used some of the usual suspects from Advanced Link Manager from Caphyon, Market Samurai, SEOMoz & BuzzStream to name a few, but after some digging around decided to take a closer look at at  Ontolo and LinkDex and what they have to offer.

Any SEO analyst worth his salt, has to rely on a myriad of tools, whether it be for link scouting, domain and keyword analysis, link management and for reporting. There’s no getting away from having to use multiple different tools for various tasks but have for a long time now been hoping for a tool which will perform the core SEO tasks such as, competitor analysis, on page analysis, keyword research, link management, task management & link prospecting / scouting.

Here’s a brief run down on Ontolo and LinkedEx and the benefits of each…

Ontolo Versus LinkDex: How they compare?

Ontolo

Ontolo is a comprehensive suite of link building tools enabling in house SEO teams to manage link building tasks efficiently; by automating research & reduce link research time, acquiring the best link opportunities,  analyzing metrics link metrics and attributes and automate contact collection.  There is a 2 week free trial for Ontolo compared to LinkDex’s 4 week trial.

Ontolo is impressive from an SEO technical point of view and easy to use, but does it do everything you want it to do for an SEO tool.  Well it comes pretty close.

Here’s a quick look at the management interface for Ontolo;

By simply punching in a few details, it is capable of  finding potential link prospects based on keywords, your competitor domains and the type of links you are trying to garner, from blog posts, articles to relevant web directories.

You can set a priority for the types of links your are focusing on. Save the campaign and Ontolo does all the hard work and a few hours later, sends you an email informing you that your campaign prospects are ready. Unlike ‘advanced link manager which’ is client based software that runs from your PC, Ontolo takes the performance hit, server side and doesn’t suffer the inherent problems with spidering and query building.

Ontolo then provides a search facility where you review, sort and garner the back links that you are most interested in.

So does it stop there? No, you can also manage your prospects and change the acquisition status.  If you’ve canvassed a particular site and sent an email off to the web master, this can be reflected in the link prospect details.  This is an essential part of any link building management software if you are working in a team – being able to track progress and link building time/resources is a must as an SEO manager.

You can also carry out a separate competitor backlink report. Ontolo gives you a choice of data source; SEOmoz, page rank, Google backlinks, mozrank etc.

To add to these existing bells and whistles Ontolo also include a suite of free tools including  a ‘phrase occurrence analysis’ tool.

The Linkbuilding Query  Generator Interface

If you are old school SEO and a google operator fan and don’t want to wait for Ontolo to spew out its link prospect data, they have also provided a link query generator tool (now on version 2).

This is a valuable tool as it saves time typing in the 100′s of operators to list potential link sources.  Simply add your keywords, asset types, opportunities and campaign types, and generate a whole list of google queries. Click on each one and it opens up a separate window of link propsects for you to research.

Pro’s 

Excellent

2 week free trial

Cons

Can be expensive for a small SEO company or an SEO consultant to use, as the subscription is based on the number of domain projects you require.

 Ontolo Summary

An excellent tool and probably the best on the market at the moment that is delivering a tool that can do practically everything you want it to in terms of link analysis and powerful  filtering.

Link building is always going to involve  ’coal face’ tasks such as emailing webmasters, contacting web site/blog owners, and would possibly like to see the email management included at some time in the future for a seamless link management process.

LinkDex

Linkdex is an SEO tool enabling you to manage SEO link building tasks amongst your SEO team including keyword analysis & rank tracking,

A Snapshot of the LinkDex Dashboard

The Dashboard is well designed and  provides you with a  top level overview of the link building tasks, who they are assigned to, workflow and break down of link sources into category.

Pro’s 

The interface is clean and easy to use.

Link influence and relevance analysis for potential back links.

Use of link filters for anchor text, title etc

Very strong work flow and task assignment functions for multiple users.

Excellent  reporting options – can be used to transparently show your clients the link building effort carried out month to month.

Cons

No functionality to carry out link scouting –  currently you can only gain potential link sources from competitor sites/domains you add.

LinkDex Summary

LinkeDex is a relatively new SEO tool on the market, and has already won awards for its design and functionality.  I would recommend this software for SEO consultants, SEO companies and agencies.  The only feature I would like to see added in the future is the ability to be able to scout and source links from the many online sources and sites – it currently only looks at competitor sites that you add to the database.

The pricing structure is based on the number of competitor domains you add, so starting off on the one domain plan is really not a viable plan even for one campaign – you are going to want to look at more than one competitor for your SEO campaigns.  They do also have a premium tool for corporate accounts which has a few more added features up it’s sleeve.

Overall, an excellent SEO tool for analysis and task management and I look forward to the added features over the following months. Definitely, one to watch.

So Does the Ultimate Link Building Management Tool Exist Yet..?

In short no, not quite yet.  The requirement for to run an efficient SEO business and to manage link building resources effectively, remains a primary goal especially in these times of austerity.  Client reporting, accountability and transparency is increasingly becoming important for SEO companies to show how the money is being spent. The days of ‘black box’ SEO campaigns are now obsolete. Not forgetting social media and social search, there is much room for improvement here, although there are dedicated social media tools to manage campaigns for this.

Until all these aspects are merged together in to one tool, we are a few ‘Google algorithm updates’ away from the ultimate SEO tool.

Having got to grips with my iPad2 and managed to convince myself that they really can be used productively for business; editing office docs, presentations, keeping up to date with email whilst on the move, watching movies (although no flash capabilities) and brain games of course. (to keep the [...]]]>

Having got to grips with my iPad2 and managed to convince myself that they really can be used productively for business; editing office docs, presentations, keeping up to date with email whilst on the move, watching movies (although no flash capabilities) and brain games of course. (to keep the mind nimble)

Having lost the battle of trying to ‘crow bar’  into my iPad (I failed to jail break my iPad not because I’m incompetent but because I have Apple IOS ver 4.3.5) and install some decent apps,  I proceeded to take a look at a couple or SEO tools for the iPad but does anyone really need to do SEO on the move?

Well I can imagine taking an iPad to a client meeting, and although I would have completed the bulk of research and preparation and before hand, I can see it coming in handy for some situations, if the need arose.

Firstly I tried ‘Site Analyser’ from koozai that provides a full SEO analysis of your website.  A well presented and designed application with three main menu options; domain info, On Page SEO and Link Profile. You get a launch screen at start up with a single field for a website address. After entering a domain name and pressing ‘analyse website’, after just 7 seconds I was shown an analysis of my target domain as shown here…

Just the right information you want for a domain, location, domain age and the number of indexed pages. A nice little touch is that if you come out of the app (you need to do something else) and go back in, the domain info and results are saved from previously.

Select ‘On Page SEO’ from the top menu and no surprises here – you get what you’d expect from an SEO tool; page size, laod time, metsa data and header usage and image alt tags present or not. I’d like to see keyword density data here, just for the top 3 keywords if over a certain threshold - useful to pin point over optimised pages. Next is the ‘Link Profile’ tab which gives page rank, inbound links and Alexa ranking. Again I would like to possibly see some anchor text distribution here, and most definitely the number of domains linking back so you can ascertain link diversity.

This app has had a fair number of downloads at over 8000 and overall a very well designed app, that I’ll be keeping on my iPad for now.

It’s FREE, so give it a try!