New infographic showing the top 12 countries worldwide

We all know the importance of Facebook to our own lives and in our country, but what about international usage? We found there were some surprises in this data that Michele Caivano, the creator of this infographic, alerted us to. Did you realise the importance of Facebook in Indonesia and Latin America or how the male/female popularity varies?

Source: http://www.fortunecat.it using Facebook Advertising figures…

A survey of the most popular SEO tools

I found this infographic really interesting since it shows the range of tools available for SEO. It also shows how other people approach managing SEO and the kind of reasons they choose to use software to help. I think software that helps review and improves SEO is great, as long as it is not trying to help cut corners, such as automated link building! I have used a majority of the software mentioned in the infographic below and we have paid subscriptions for Majestic SEO (Backlink analysis) and Screaming Frog (Managing internal links).

Our reviews of SEO services:

Over the last eighteen months we've introduced the main types of SEO tools for marketers - here are the options: Rank checking Google Webmaster Tools Keyword research and specifying target keyphrases to monitor Monitoring competitor activity Backlink analysis Link-checking tools Here's the infographic from Search Engine Journal: …

Helping inform the app vs browser mobile decision

Value/Importance: [rating=4] Recommended link: Yahoo mobile modes research

Our commentary on research

I found this research interesting since it set out to understand how users interact with devices on their mobile. We all know from our personal use of mobiles that, if we have a smartphone, we’ll prefer apps for some tasks and browsers for others. This research gives a nice clear statement on what these mobile tasks are: (more…)…

It seems infographics are popular, but they have a flaw - they're instantly out-of-date. Well not any more. Thanks to HTML5, if your data sources are updated, the infographic can stay up-to-date too! This is a great initiative by Online Schools which also uses HTML5 to add interactivity - check it out - it's one of the best examples of the power of HTML5 we've seen:

Created by: OnlineSchools.org (link removed by request)

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Before we get to the infographic, I recommend checking out the SearchEngineJournal blog post  which originally shared this infographic in contains much more information than the graphic displays, you can check out the post here.

When it comes to auditing SEO this infographic helps remind us of how complex the SEO channel can be, but at the same time it can be actioned as a list of things to do.

When proactively trying to grow your reach through SEO I think it is much easier to simplify the channel. I am surprised tools such as Google Webmaster tools, Xenu / Screaming frog didn't appear more as ways to easily complete / check significant parts of the audit but other than that, this is a well written guide you should definitely checkout.

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