Today I presented at a4uexpo London on 40 Social Media Tools and WordPress Plugins. This was split equally between the two sections and I’ve shared the slides and individual links, plus provided a very quick summary for each below.
a4uexpo – 40 Social Media Tools & WordPress Plugins
Top 20 Social Media Tools
- Hootsuite – manage your social media accounts online and link up with your traffic stats in Google Analytics.
- Untweeps – tidy-up your Twitter account by finding the accounts you’re following which have gone stale.
- Klout – find influencers based upon Klout score and find ways to improve the influence of your own account.
- Topsy – find the top influencers to connect with and help retweet your messages, based on a keyword query.
- Wikipedia Traffic Statistics – view how much traffic an individual Wikipedia webpage has generated.
- Flowtown – customer insight tool to find which social media sites your customers and contacts are using.
- Social Mention – online reputation management tool to show brand mentions and overview of topics.
- Scout Labs – view recent stats on brand mentions, plus all information from blogs, news, YouTube, Flickr and Twitter.
- KnowEm – protect your brand by claiming the social media profile handles to stop other people from registering them.
- Pitchengine – promote your press releases to social media channels.
- Journalisted – find top UK journalists based on a search query – recommend searching for industry name.
- SWix – comprensive tracking and reporting to pull together a range of social media profile stats into a single dashboard.
- Domain Superstar – find new domain name opportunties based on a keyword query.
- StumbleUpon advertising – give social media campaigns a boost with some extra paid visits.
- Skimlinks – quickly and easily convert external links to affiliate links, when there is a merchant available.
- ad.ly – advertise via Twitter and MySpace to promote your content by paying per tweet/message.
- oDesk – find freelancers online to hire for a wide-range of web-based tasks.
- Fiverr – build Facebook fan pages and Twitter followings, amongst many other small tasks.
- Omgili – search just for forums and find new discussions based on a keyword query.
- TubeMogul – distribute your videos to all of the top video sharing websites via a single upload.
Top 20 WordPress Plugins
- Sharebar – useful WordPress plugin to display all popular social media bookmarking buttons alongside blog posts.
- Blackbird Pie – easily share your favourite tweets by embedding them directly into blogs posts.
- su.pr – encourage StumbleUpon votes when using URL shorteners to send links out on Twitter.
- Backtype – pull together the latest discussion around a blog post from social media websites.
- Subscribe to comments – encourage the continuation of blog discussions, with email alert messages to commenters.
- All in One SEO – automatically optimise title tags, description and noindex/follow meta tags.
- Yet Another Related Posts – automatically build internal links to related content from each blog post.
- Google XML Sitemaps Generator – great way of automatically generating an XML sitemap to keep your blog up-to-date.
- Redirection – easily manage the redirection of a blog from one URL to a new version.
- SEO Smart Links – automatically create internal/external links when keywords are mentioned within content.
- Feedburner FeedSmith – automatically forwards any RSS URL’s to use a single Feedburner version.
- RSS Footer – add copyright, external links and promotions for subscribers and scraper sites using RSS feeds.
- WordPress Database Backup – make sure you have a backup of your site incase the worst happens.
- WP Super Cache – make sure your blog is running as quickly as possible, looking to keep users and search engines happy!
- A/B Theme Testing Plugin - split test two different WordPress designs or layouts alongside each other simultaneously.
- Zemanta – get inspiration to brighten up posts, with images and external links recommended to bloggers.
- WP Robot – automated plugin for important Amazon and eBay products into a blog automatically. Be careful with this one!
- WP125 – ad management tool to rotate ads and manage the expiry date for direct advertisers.
- Geolocation targeting – try targeting your ads specifically for your most popular audience locations.
- WP-e-commerce – convert your WordPress site into an e-commerce store so that you manage the buying process.
Also if you have any questions from the session, please ask – happy to answer either in the comments or via Twitter.
Kevin Gibbons is Founder/Director of Strategy at SEOptimise. Kevin is well known within the search industry as a blogger for sites such as Search Engine Land, Econsultancy and Search Engine Watch. Kevin is also a frequent SEO speaker at a number of conferences including Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Search Engine Strategies (SES), a4uexpo, SAScon and BrightonSEO.
What a big list of plugin, I know of about half of them..I will take a look at all of them..Thanks
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Awesome list Kev, will check some of these out later. Might see you at the a4uexpo.
This was one of the best and most thorough presentations of the day… and thanks for putting up the slides.
Nice job. Thanks for unearthing some new tools. I look forward to checking them out. Cheers!
I installed the Redirection plugin late last week and despite my tech savvy & familiarity w/ SEO & redirects, I’ve been unable to get the stupid thing to do ANYTHING at this point. If anyone has some pointers on how to get more value out of this I’d be more than happy to receive them!
Faithfully use 5+ of the others on the list though ;)
Awesome List. But for me, Toolbarplugin should belong to the top wordpress plugins. It is the best wordpress marketing plugin out there.
Outstanding presentation with awesome list you have made :) IMO, All in One SEO deserves to be be the top plugin in WordPress field
Thanks for posting this. I have lots of links to research later. I’m excited to find one that will help streamline my workflow.
This is a awesome list, I really liked the Plugin RSS footer & AB theme testing plugin.
This is a great list and I had found people posting directory list, article website, bookmarking websites but plugins and tools list first time.
Thanks for the useful Social Media Tools list. Another WordPress Plugin of benefit is http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-image/
Track all you social media profile metrics through this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-stats-dashboard/
Check it out, it should have been in the list :)
All in one SEO, redirection and Google sitemap generator are must have plugins for any worpress blogsite. Makes website.management a breeze.
Great list of WordPress plugins especially. Just found out about WP Robot glad to see you had it on your list.
Good job these tools have been listed. Will definitely check out some of them.