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Tools And Resources for Content and Marketing
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This is an incomplete list of tools and resources for content creation and marketing. It will be updated periodically.
Content Marketing
50 Content Marketing Ideas For Your Website Or Blog
7 Ways to Find What Your Target Audience Wants and Create Epic Content
5 Ways to Come Up With Awesome Blog Post Ideas
Blogging
Template for a blog post – hubspot
Research questions/keywords people search on – answerthepublic.com
Keyword research
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org
http://www.soovle.com
Keyword generator – ubersuggest\
Idea research
https://app.buzzsumo.com/research/most-shared
Blog Title Generators
http://www.portent.com/tools/title-maker Title suggester fun!
SEO
Google Ranking Factors – backlinko.com
Keyword Discovery
Concatenate CSV Files on a Mac
On-page SEO
Speed Tools
Hostgator 7 ways to speed up your site article
WordPress speed plugins article
Image compression online imageresize.org
Audit Tools
Siteliner check for bad links and more
Google web page load speed checker
Citations
Citation Cheat Sheet – How to Manage the Big Citations
Choosing categories for various local directories – moz.com
Link Building
http://alltop.com – directory of top blogs in many categories, use to find quality link opportunities.
Schema JSON-LD
Google’s Structured Data Policies
A guide to JSON for beginners – good overview by Whitespark
Full list of Schema Categories
How to add “aggregator review” schema to website
Best JSON for local businesses
JSON Generator for local businesses
Generator by Craig – check Structure Data here
This is a nice generator bug it used a space in Jerry’s @type no space “InsuranceAgency”
Generator for multiple local businesses – used for Blicks
Photos & Graphics
https://tinypng.com – compresses images without reducing quality (good one)
https://pixabay.com – free
https://www.pexels.com – good concept photos, free photos
http://thestocks.im – royalty free stock photography
Design and Color Schemes
99 Designs Picking colors for your brand, website or logo
http://www.color-hex.com/ – all about colors, complementary, contrasting and tints
http://www.rapidtables.com/web/color/Gold_Color.htm – nice site for shades of colors
https://coolors.co – color pallette generator sweet!
Tools for palettes, backgrounds, CSS and lots more
Photographers COS
http://trustedcoloradophotographer.com/contact-us/ (from Craig)
Phil Barnett <[email protected]> (719) 963-0658 (from Karen)
View your reviews on linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/recs/received
Request a review on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/recs/give
Social Media
Check your brand name – in major social media sites.
Hosting
Check SSL cert
http://leafdns.com/index.cgi – check DNS issues
Domains
Domain name research – Generate huge list of domain name suggestions