Which are the best social media websites, tools and applications to use to improve your marketing?
Here’s our top 100+ to help you grow your business. Please use it, review it and let me know which, if any, should be added. Just leave a comment and include any additional social media marketing tools helpful to small business owners.
And let me know which of the following 100+ social media marketing tools are your favorites.
Social Media Marketing Tips & Guides
Mashable – Twitter Lists, Resources & How-Tos
http://mashable.com/2009/01/01/twitter-user-types/
How To Blog: A Beginner?s Blog Publishing Guide
http://www.masternewmedia.org/independent_publishing/blogging-how-to-blog/guide-to-publishing-first-blog-20071104.htm.htm
10 Things to Do Before Launching Your Blog
http://ow.ly/wZ3K
Writing for Bloggers – A Quick Guide on Style, Substance and Strategy
http://kendallcopywriting.co.uk/2009/01/06/writing-for-bloggers-in-blog-form/
Creating a web presence – why bother?
http://kendallcopywriting.co.uk/2009/01/14/creating-a-web-presence-why-bother/
Search engine optimization – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization
SEOmoz | 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/21-tactics-to-increase-blog-traffic
How to optimize website images from a SEO perspective
http://blog.avangate.com/optimize-website-images/
The Blogger?s Guide to SEO
http://www.seobook.com/bloggers
Methods of website linking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_website_linking
Linkbaiting for Fun & Profit
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/linkbaiting-for-fun-profit/2541/
Web analytics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_analytics
My list of tips for getting the most out of Twitter
http://www.joshrussell.com/2008/10/07/my-list-of-tips-for-getting-the-most-out-of-twitter/
Free Twitter backgound template download
http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/free-resources/download-free-l-twitter-background/
?Meme? explained on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
Know Your Meme
http://knowyourmeme.com
What Social Media Marketing Is and What Social Media Is Not
http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/01/what-social-media-is-andwhat-social.html
List of social networking websites on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
Google Social Search Launches, Gives Results From Your Trusted “Social Circle”
http://searchengineland.com/google-social-search-launchesgives-results-from-your-trusted-social-circle-28507
Boolean Searching on the Internet
http://www.internettutorials.net/boolean.asp
Social Media Marketing Tools & Analytics
Google Alerts
http://www.google.com/alerts
Technorati
http://technorati.com/
FeedBurner
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home
Google Analytics
http://www.google.com/analytics/
Woopra
http://www.woopra.com/
Social Mention
http://www.socialmention.com/
Trending Tools
About Ask.com: IQ
http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/iq/iq.shtml
Digg
http://digg.com/
Google Trends
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends
Popular Bookmarks on Delicious
http://delicious.com/popular
Twitter Search
http://search.twitter.com/
Yahoo! Buzz Index – Today?s Top 20 Overall Searches
http://buzzlog.buzz.yahoo.com/overall/
Tweetmeme
http://tweetmeme.com/
WordPress Plugins & Themes
WordPress › WordPress Plugins
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
WordPress › WordPress Themes
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
ShareThis
http://sharethis.com/
Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam « Akismet
http://akismet.com/
All In One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin
http://semperfiwebdesign.com/portfolio/wordpress/wordpressplugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
Audio Player WordPress plugin
http://wpaudioplayer.com/
Challenge
http://lordchaos.dominatus.net/wordpress-plugin-challenge
Favicon Manager
http://www.digitalramble.com/favicon-manager-wordpress-plugin/
FeedBurner
http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/05/feedburner_adopts_twoyearold_r.php
Google Analyticator
http://cavemonkey50.com/code/google-analyticator/
Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpressplugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/
PXS Mail Form
http://www.phrixus.co.uk/pxsmail
Simple Tags
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags/
SRG Clean Archives
http://www.idunzo.com/projects/clean-archives/
Wordbook Facebook
http://www.tsaiberspace.net/blog/2007/07/29/wordbook/
WordPress Automatic Upgrade
http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-12-release.html
WordPress Database Backup
http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup
Wptouch: WordPress on iPhone
http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch/
FaceBook Share
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-share-new/
Facebook Connect
http://www.sociable.es/facebook-connect/
TweetMeme
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetmeme/
Topsy
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/topsy/
The Social Media Web – Marketing Tools
Delicious
http://delicious.com/
Last.fm
http://www.last.fm/home
Facebook
http://www.facebook.com
Flickr!
http://www.flickr.com/
FriendFeed
http://friendfeed.com/
LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/
MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/
Twitter
http://twitter.com/home
Google Buzz
http://www.google.com/buzz
Digg
http://digg.com/
Seesmic
http://www.seesmic.com/
Stumbleupon
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
Ning – Create Your Own Social Network
http://www.ning.com/
Squidoo
http://www.Squidoo.com
Diigo – Social Bookmarking
http://www.diigo.com/
Social Media Marketing Tools & Apps
Brizzly – Twitter web app
http://brizzly.com
Where is your Username registered
http://usernamecheck.com/
KnowEm – Check your username
http://knowem.com/
Alltop, all the top stories
http://alltop.com/
Topsy
http://topsy.com/
Firefox web browser
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
j.mp – URL shortner with stats
http://j.mp/
TinyURL – URL shortner
http://tinyurl.com/
Listorious
http://listorious.com/
Yoono – Firefox Plugin to Monitor all Social Media Accounts
http://yoono.com/
Flock – Social Web Browser
http://flock.com/
The Conversation Prism – Monitor multiple Social Media channels
http://theconversationprism.com/
Twitter Tools
Our guide to Brand monitoring on Twitter – 5 top tools
http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/blog/twitter-brand-monitoring-tools/
Mr. Tweet – Your Personal Networking Assistant!
http://mrtweet.net/
Hootsuite
http://hootsuite.com/
Twitterfall – a way of viewing the latest ?tweets? of upcoming trends
http://twitterfall.com/
Seesmic – Twitter & FB app
http://seesmic.com/
Twitterrific – Mac & iPhone app
http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific
TweetDeck – Twitter, FB & MySpace app
http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/
Power Twitter – Firefox Add-on
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9591
Twuffer – schedule tweets for later!
http://twuffer.com/
TweetBeep
http://tweetbeep.com/
Jim Grygar’s list of 60 Twitter tools
http://jimgrygar.byethost12.com/60-twitter-tools-to-track-tweets/
Monitter
http://monitter.com
beRelevant
http://berelevant.com
CoTweet
http://cotweet.com/
March 23rd, 2010 at 5:11 am
Wow Charlie, being a total newbie I find the contents of this list to be like gold dust. Also because of me being so new to IM I find most of your advice a bit too advanced for me, but I knew there must be a good reason to follow you and you have just delivered. Will definately be purchasing from you in the near future.
Rob
Perth, Western Australia
March 23rd, 2010 at 7:23 am
Wow, Charlie –
This has got to be the definitive list. Question is: how does one put this all together in a coherent and effective plan that gets results as a marketing strategy?
I’m interested in your response as well as any of your followers.
Great stuff,
Henri Schauffler
March 23rd, 2010 at 9:06 am
Henri,
Good question! I had the same one myself, which is why I decided to ask the niche marketing experts. Over the last month I’ve persuaded 8 of the top social media marketing experts to explain the nitty gritty of making social media marketing work and I’ll be sharing these interviews for free in a few weeks.
– Charlie
March 23rd, 2010 at 9:24 am
Awesome is insufficient to describe the above listing.
For the “Newbie” or seasoned marketer – the information behind all those social media marketing links is worth a small fortune and used correctly can, I am sure, lead to the building of a sizable fortune.
Thanks Charlie I sincerely appreciate you and the information you pass on.
Richard
PS Henri, All of the steps to build and implement an effective plan are within the 5 books up on the right side of this blog and the details are all within the “categories”. After you have researched your “niche” I would start with “Marketing Plan” and “Marketing Strategy”. Then get some blogs up, start having fun and then dig into the rest of the info listed in this one post. You can’t go far wrong and you will not lose a fortune on getting the education.
Correct me if I am wrong Charlie.
March 23rd, 2010 at 9:55 am
Thanks Richard. And yes, you’re right, starting with a blog is my recommendation too.
– Charlie
March 23rd, 2010 at 4:40 pm
This is an awesome list Charlie. Once again you come through to prove to us the value of your information.
I have purchased some of Charlie’s materials and for those of you getting ready to make your first purchase, you won’t regret it.
The great thing about Social Networking/Marketing is that you can test things and if they don’t work, your investment is minimal enough that you can step back and change the component that is causing problems.
The fact that there is not a lot of “sunk” costs in the process makes you much more flexible and able to adapt.
March 24th, 2010 at 11:31 am
Hi Charlie,
http://www.trendhunter.com/ is a great site if you like keeping up on trends.
regards
Steve
March 25th, 2010 at 7:50 am
This is an impressive and high quality set of tools you have listed. I would strongly recommend http://www.Twellow.com for finding highly targeted followers.
Keep up the great work superstar! 🙂
Andres Garcia
September 29th, 2010 at 1:36 am
Awesome list. These are really good tools. I’ll surely recommend it to others. Go on friend.
September 29th, 2011 at 9:50 am
A really great list of things to keep one busy for years!!!
I didn’t see http://www.ping.fm this is a handy tool once you get it set up it allows you to post to dozens of pages at a time. Check it out!!
Thanks again,
Lorraine
September 29th, 2011 at 9:50 am
hi, you are simply GENIUS!, i must say that you have come a long way to make people wealthier and more successful.
KUDOS!
mahak
October 3rd, 2011 at 12:58 am
I should have been more specific….