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Top 10+ Social Media Marketing Agencies & The Definitive Guide to Selecting One for Your Business

The top social media marketing agencies in the US are:

LYFE Marketing

Disruptive Advertising

Boostability

SociallyIn

Bad Rhino

Social Vantage

Thrive Marketing Agency

Viral In Nature

MaxAudience

Firebelly Marketing

eBoost Consulting

Social Media 55

Media Bounty

Rocket Marketing

Ruckus Marketing

This is according to third-party websites, such as The Manifest, UpCity, Google, and Clutch.

You might be thinking right now, “why would I consider getting the services of a social media marketing agency”?

Good question.

And here are some quick answers to help you decide:

Agencies know what they’re doing. They know what will work best for your campaigns.

They will perform social media audits to be able to create a strategy specifically for your brand.

Your budget will be well spent since they know how to create campaigns that will target the right audience.

They will “spy” on your competitors for you and evaluate how you can stand out to gain more profit.

And lastly, you’ll get a team of experts to help you grow your brand.

So now, if you’ve decided to search for social media marketing services for your business, stop and read this first.

Selecting the best social media marketing agencies is a major challenge for businesses.

There are over 50 million social media marketing companies, agencies, and freelancers across the globe.

Navigating through the top social media solutions to partner with is like finding a needle in a haystack. And unfortunately for many, it is a needle that stings when you choose the wrong partner to manage your social media accounts.

By not carefully evaluating social media marketing companies, you may risk:

Missed opportunities to increase revenue, leads, and awareness

Wasting hundreds, thousands, or millions of dollars

Business failure and going out-of-business

The Definitive Guide to Evaluating the Best Social Media Marketing Agencies for Your Business

Use this guide to eliminate social media marketing agencies from your list and select the best partner for your business. Below you can click directly to the topic that interests you most.

Finding a solution to your core problem

Understanding agency pricing models & avoiding hidden fees

Evaluating agency talent

Determining the agency’s experience

Anticipating your client experience

Finding a long-term agency partner

The average contract length of most agencies

Agency thought leadership in the industry

The Final Straw – Do They Practice What They Preach?

1. Top agencies should provide a clear solution to your problem

The main reason you are seeking a social media marketing agency is because you have a problem.

A very urgent problem.

The problem is that you are not maximizing your social media presence to grow your awareness, website traffic, and revenue.

And the cause is very simple.

You do not have the expertise to grow your social media presence. Or, you do not have the time to manage your social media marketing efforts.

Regardless of what side of the fence your problem falls on, if it is not resolved, you risk business growth and your competitors gaining a significant advantage.

When evaluating social media marketing agencies, make sure they are providing a clear solution to this problem.

It should be very clear how they intend to increase your awareness, website traffic, or website conversions.

How to evaluate solutions provided by social media marketing agencies

Ask yourself the following questions:

1. Did the agency make an effort to learn my objectives?

Poor social media marketing agencies will talk about themselves before taking the time to learn about their business. If an agency you speak with does this, politely get off the phone with them.

Providing a social media proposal without assessing your business objectives is like a Doctor prescribing medication to your illness without looking at the symptoms.

They will be taking a shot in the dark at producing legitimate results for your business, and could be hoping to lock you in a contract that you’ll regret.

When calling social media marketing companies, pay close attention to how they conduct the initial call. If the first thing they talk about is their social media marketing service, eliminate them from your list.

Top social media marketing companies will make it a priority to learn your business objectives, pain points, and overall business goals.

2. Does the proposal make sense?

After the social media marketing agency has learned your business objectives, the next step in the process is to receive a formal proposal.

When reviewing proposals by social media marketing companies, ask yourself one question.

Which of these social media marketing proposals makes the most sense?

The proposal should clearly communicate how the use of the companies’ services will increase your company’s awareness and traffic to influence sales.

Don’t pay too close attention to the price. Pay close attention to the details.

Many companies use the term “social media marketing” loosely, meaning that the services to be provided are vastly different from one another.

For example, company A may only provide social media content [that is often automated and irrelevant]. Meanwhile company B carefully creates unique content, includes graphic design, and develops a strategy specific to increasing your followers, traffic, and awareness.

If you look at price alone, you may end-up with poor service and no results to justify the pretty penny you’re spending.

Make sure you are comparing apples to apples. And, once you are, then consider the price point.

2. Make sure you understand the pricing models of social media marketing agencies

How much do social media marketing agencies cost?

Most social media marketing agencies charge between $500 – $15,000/month for social media services.

However, sometimes the price isn’t very clear, and hidden fees are charged without your knowledge (or consent).

To avoid being scammed into paying more fees, make sure that you fully understand the pricing models of top social media marketing agencies.

There are three main pricing models to be aware of:

The Percentage of Ad Spend Pricing Model

The Fixed-Fee Pricing Model

The Hybrid Pricing Model

The Percentage of Ad Spend Pricing Model

The “percentage of ad spend” pricing model charges clients based on their total ad spend budget. In this model, the agency charges you a flat percentage of your total ad spend for your campaign.

It is the most common agency pricing model, yet many businesses who hire agencies do not understand it.

The best way to understand this pricing model is by looking at an example.

Let’s say that you have $10,000 that you want to spend on a social media advertising campaign. To maximize your impact, you decide to hire an experienced social media advertising agency to manage your spend.

They agree to advertise your business for $10,000 and tell you that they estimate you will reach 100,000 people and drive over 1,000 hits to your website. It sounds good to you, so you pay them $10,000.

Now here’s the magic question – how much of the $10,000 did the agency charge you to manage your campaign and how much was actually spent in advertising?

What percentage do most social media marketing agencies charge?

The most common appears to be 20-30% of your advertising budget.

This means that if you spent $10,000 in advertising, the agency would charge you $2,000-$3,000 to manage your campaign. If you spent $100,000, you would pay the agency $20,000-$30,000

And unfortunately, it is true that many social media marketing agencies intentionally do not disclose this to their clients.

They may disguise it in their contracts, or use “proprietary software” to extract their management fees from your advertising budget.

The bottom line is that you provide your advertising budget to your social media marketing company, there is a good chance that they may dip their hands in your advertising budget to pay themselves.

Even worse, some of them will purposely not spend your advertising budget at all.

To avoid this, ask the following questions to social media marketing agencies who use this pricing model:

What are your management fees?

How does your management fees change based on my advertising spend? Why?

Are there any other fees associated with this campaign that I should be aware of?

While many agencies use this pricing model, our social media marketing company have found it to be more transparent [and fair] to charge people based off of the actual work to be performed.

Why? Because, there is not always more work involved with a client who spends more in advertising.

Sure, someone who spends $100,000 in advertising may be more demanding than a client spending $1,000 in ads, but we cannot justify charging a fixed percentage of advertising spend.

But at the end of the day, they’re creating the same Facebook ads, and spending the same amount of time optimizing your campaign as any other account.

For those looking for a more transparent, fair pricing structure, we recommend the fixed-fee pricing.

The Fixed Fee Pricing Model

The fixed-fee pricing model charges clients a fixed rate for services to be performed.

Typically, this fee is the same every month and only changes if you want more or less services.

We believe this to be the fairest pricing model, which offers the most transparency and understanding into the services you are paying for.

And, to eliminate all possibilities of “hidden fees”, we recommend that you only pay your agency their fees and not your advertising budget.

You should pay for your Facebook, Instagram, or other social media advertisements directly.

You can grant your agency access to ad accounts in a way that they can perform their work, and you are billed directly from the advertising platforms.

We’ve found this to be the most transparent way to work with our clients. There is no confusion on what you’re paying your social media marketing company, and you can see your actual advertising expenses.

For example, some social media marketing companies may charge $500 – $1,000 to manage your advertising campaign.

Regardless of if you spend $1,000, or $100,000 in advertisements, your agency fees do not change.

However, if your agencies charges you on a percentage-of-ad-spend model, you could pay up to $30,000 (30% of $100,000) in hidden fees.

Social media marketing agencies that adapt a fixed pricing model should be placed at the top of your list.

The Hybrid Pricing Model

Some social media marketing agencies adapt a hybrid pricing model.

This pricing model includes both, fixed and variable, pricing elements.

And sometimes, this can be tricky because agencies may disguise their service as a “fixed management fee”, but charge hidden variable fees.

For example, a social media marketing company may charge $300/month for Facebook ad management, and an additional 10% of any amount that exceeds $1,000/month.

While both, the fixed management fee and the percentage charged appears to be relatively low, it can be very expensive when added together.

Make sure you closely evaluate the total cost of all fees that social media marketing companies charge in order to make the best financial decision for your company.

3. Evaluating Agency Talent at Social Media Marketing Companies

If you evaluate on price alone, you may end-up with less than desirable deliverables and poor results.

This is why you should pay closer attention to the talent at social media marketing companies and their capabilities.

The structure of teams at most social media marketing companies will provide insight into their level of talent.

To evaluate the talent at top social media marketing companies, ask them one question.

Who is doing the work?

Answers will vary, but you will need to steer away from the following red flags:

The Jack of All Trades

Agencies that Outsource

The Jack of All Trades

You will know if your agency is using the “Jack of All Trades” structure to service clients if there is only one person working on your account.

This should not be confused with having one primary “account manager” for communication purposes. We are specifically talking about one person who does all of the work related to your campaign.

This person is generally responsible for everything – customer service, strategy, copywriting, graphic design, optimization, and reporting.

They may also be responsible for doing your social media marketing, SEO, email marketing, and other related services.

While this may sound ideal, it actually hints that there may be some weaknesses in their services.

What we’ve learned about digital marketing in our near decade of existence is that it is impossible to do everything, exceptionally well.

Every individual has skills and weaknesses.

And copywriting, graphic design, advertising, and SEO are very distinct skills. Some are visual skills, and some are very technical. And normally, individuals are better at one than the other.

For example, a graphic designer may not be a good writer.

A technical SEO specialist may be terrible analyzing data in advertising campaigns.

When you only have one person who is working on your account, you are exposing your business to significant risk.

Instead, look for agencies who specialize.

Top social media marketing companies hire talent that specialize in specific tasks to deliver the high value to their customers.

For example, they hire advertising specialists to do advertising for their clients. They hire social media specialists to create posts and grow their clients followers. They hire graphic designers to create engaging graphics. And so on.

The Outsourcing Structure

Some agencies will outsource all deliverables to other vendors in attempt to produce favorable outcomes to their clients.

While this may work in some situations, it is also very risky.

Agencies who outsource their social media marketing efforts to other vendors have less control over their product.

If vendor partnerships go sour, your business results are at risk.

And if you have questions about the services that are being provided, agencies who outsource are generally not very helpful.

This is because they have very little experience in providing the service you signed-up for.

To avoid businesses who outsource, ask them upfront – “do you outsource any of the work associated my account?”

Be aware that many social media marketing companies “white label” other services and make it appear that they are the company providing service.

Even if your agency uses a “jack of all trades” structure, it is still very possible that you they are outsourcing to other vendors.

You will want to know if the actual work is performed in-house. So be aware of these hints and do not be fooled by agency jargon they use to disguise their outsourced operations.

The benefits of hiring an agency who performs work in-house

Social media marketing agencies who do everything in-house typically has:

Better communication

Quality output

Greater control

All of which is critically important to the success of your campaign, and ultimately, your business.

4. Digging into the experience of social media marketing companies

While talent is great, experience speaks volumes.

There is nothing better than a talented social media marketing agency with direct or related experience in producing the results you are seeking to gain.

An agency with experience working with businesses like yours are more likely to:

Understand your target market

Create effective content

Use your advertising budget more effectively

Produce better overall results

To dig deep and figure out if the social media marketing companies you’re evaluating are best for you, ask them the following questions:

Do you case studies or examples of your work?

What type of companies does your company primarily work with?

Do you have experience working with businesses similar to mine?

Case Studies & Examples of Work

Top social media marketing agencies have clear and concise case studies of their work.

Case studies can help you understand the capabilities of the social media marketing agencies you’re looking at and their ability to produce results for your business.

They should have a “proof of concept” of the services they are attempting to sell you. Their prior work should instill confidence in you that they can meet their needs.

For example, LYFE Marketing has experience driving over 50,000 followers and thousands of dollars in sales through social media marketing.

Their Ideal Client

Ask your agencies what type of clients they prefer to work with. Then, see if your business fits that mold.

You’ll be surprised by the response.

Some will tell you that they prefer to work with Fortune 500 companies, and their prices will reflect what Fortune 500 companies pay for those type of services.

If you’re not a Fortune 500 company, perhaps you will not need those types of services.

Others may tell you that they work with primarily small businesses. Though, if you’re a midsize or large business, your needs may be more than what the agency can provide to you.

Take a look into your business size and choose an agency that complements it.

Industry Experience

When possible, it is always best to work with an agency with experience in your industry.

They will automatically understand the complexities and nature of your business, and will be easier to ramp-up then an agency who has no idea about the products and services your business offers.

However, depending on how niche your industry is, it may be unrealistic to find an agency with all of the traits in this blog to service your account.

In these situations, you should focus on working with companies that have experience in the “type of company” your business is.

For example, if you’re in eCommerce, an agency with a ton of experience in social media for eCommerce will likely be a good fit for your business.

Ask social media marketing agencies what industries and type of companies they service to find the best fit for you.

5. The Client Experience of Top Social Media Marketing Companies

The client experience of the social media marketing companies you’re evaluating is of great importance.

Sometimes great companies have terrible client experiences, and you would want avoid that nightmare at all costs.

Looking at client reviews online can be extremely helpful to gain insight into how satisfied agencies clients are.

However, many agencies today do not publish their reviews online at all. Because their client experience is so poor, many agencies default to removing their Facebook reviews, Google reviews, and other common review sites.

If you look for an agency’s reviews on common websites, and do not see any reviews, exercise extreme caution.

They are a social media marketing company, and they know the importance of online reputation. But instead of working towards a strong reputation, they’ve decided to hide it all together.

Or, they fabricate fake reviews on websites you’ve never heard of.

To avoid relying on reviews alone, ask them for client references and testimonials to validate their client experience.

And, you will want to gain an understanding of how the agency interfaces with clients on an ongoing basis.

Find out more about agencies processes for servicing clients. See if there are procedures in place to ensure your satisfaction.

Specifically, you’d want to know if:

The agency helps with the strategy

How communication works with the agency

How account/project management works with the agency

Strategy Development

Believe it or not, many social media marketing companies do not create a strategy before servicing your account.

As peculiar as it may sound, some will begin to work on your accounts as soon as they collect payment.

While you may want to start your campaign as soon as possible, rushing can do more harm than good.

Once you start seeing posts that you are unhappy with, and inaccurate information being posted to your social media accounts, you’re guaranteed to be frustrated.

Generally, these situations are avoided with proper planning, research, and strategy development. When interviewing social media marketing companies, ask them how they go about creating a custom strategy for your business.

For example, our social media marketing agency starts with a questionnaire. Once our clients complete the questionnaire, we have an onboarding call to discuss it with them. And then, we begin researching the client’s business and developing a social media strategy to hit their goals.

Communication

Communication is everything.

Too many businesses are working with social media marketing agencies who fail to communicate with them.

Many do not even receive reports of the service they are paying for.

Avoid this by asking agencies the following questions:

How often will we have phone calls?

How does email communication work?

How often will we receive reports?

Most of our clients feel most comfortable when they are able schedule calls on a schedule that they prefer, whether that is weekly or monthly.

When it comes to email responsiveness, ask the agencies what their average response times are. For example, we strive to respond to our clients emails the same day or within 24 hours.

And, make sure you’re receiving reports. We routinely send social media reports monthly, with the option to schedule a call at the client’s discretion.

Account & Project Management

How will your account be managed?

Will you be responsible for managing the team assigned to your account?

When you are considering social media marketing companies, find out what will be required from you during the engagement.

What You Don’t Want

Ultimately, you are hiring an agency because they will save you time.

If you have to spend large sums of time to manage your social media accounts, then hiring an agency is counterproductive.

You do not want to caught-up in managing every single element of your social media marketing. Additionally, you do not want to manage several staff members that the agency has on your account.

This can drain your time, and ultimately take you away from your business.

What You Do Want

To prevent spending too much time, make sure that your agency designates an account manager as your primary source of contact.

This way, you do not have to coordinate with 5-10 different people who are working on your campaign.

Your account manager, or Director, should oversee your campaign and make sure that your needs are being met at a high-level.

We’ve talked to over 1,000 small business owners, and most of report that this is their preferred way to work with their agency.

6. Long-term Compatibility of Social Media Marketing Companies

When you consider hiring social media marketing companies, you need to think long-term.

How will the needs of your business change as time progress? What additional needs will you have in the future?

You need to make sure that the company you select is compatible with this.

Specifically, in the event that your business expands and you need more services. Will your agency be to support you?

Here are the things you need to consider:

What is the capacity of the social media marketing companies you’re evaluating?

What services are social media marketing companies offering that you may need?

Capacity of Social Media Marketing Companies

If you’re planning for expansion, then the capacity of the social media marketing companies you’re evaluating is important.

If you have a need for more work in the future, you will want to make sure that the agency you are partnered with will be able to support you.

Generally, capacity is a challenge for smaller agencies. If you suddenly need more posts, advertising campaigns, or channels managed, it may stretch smaller companies too thin. This could result poor output and results.

It is possible to “outgrow” your agency. And, continuously rotating marketing partners can be a painful and ineffective process.

Ask social media marketing agencies how much work they can take on at a given time, and what will happen if you need more production in the future.

Services of Social Media Marketing Companies

You should also get a feel for all of the services offered by top social media marketing companies.

As you grow, you may have a need for services to complement your social media marketing campaign.

For example, you may want to start blogging to engage your followers on social media. Or perhaps you want to start email marketing to customers and leads you’ve received from social media advertising.

When you choose social media agencies who cannot support you in these areas, it may complicate your vendor relations in the future.

Instead of managing 1 agency that manages all areas of online marketing, you’ll have to manage 3-5 separate vendors to handle your needs.

Now all of the sudden, you’re a full-time project manager. Or, you’ll need to hire someone just to manage your marketing vendors.

This isn’t what you want.

Not when there are social media marketing companies who offer full-service digital marketing services to complement your social media efforts.

7. Average Contract Lengths of Social Media Marketing Agencies

The length of commitment to a social marketing marketing company is also an important consideration factor when choosing an agency.

Most agencies do not want to waste their time if a client isn’t serious about committing to a long-term strategy.

However, you should know where to draw the line between a reasonable contract and unreasonable contract term.

While the standard contract length used to be 12-24 months for most social media marketing agencies, the average contract length today ranges from 3-6 months.

For example, at LYFE Marketing, our contract terms are for a period of 3 months and then transpire into month-to-month terms.

The basis for contract terms generally boil down to providing agencies with enough time to produce the results you intended to gain from your campaign.

Though, many businesses in the modern age do not have the risk appetite to stomach a 12 month commitment. And you shouldn’t, due to some of the risks we’ve already mentioned in this post.

The last thing you want is to sign a 1-year commitment with a company with hidden fees, lack of transparency, or demonstrating very little results after a fair period of time.

8. Thought Leadership in the Industry

Want to know what separates great companies from the rest?

Thought leadership.

The best social media marketing agencies are actively involved in the digital marketing space. They are not only keeping up with the latest trends, but are leading the conversation in those trends.

Now, why should you care?

Because many top social media marketing companies are using outdated strategies.

Outdated strategies produce mediocre results, or none at all.

If you are stuck in between choosing two companies, take a look at their blog. See who’s pushing out content, educating their audience, and being thought leaders in their space.

Thought leadership not only shows that agencies are up-to-date, but it also shows a commitment to helping businesses grow.

Some businesses exist to make money, while others exist to solve problems and help others. Speaking at conferences, hosting webinars, and writing blogs demonstrate a passion towards this.

Google around and find out who’s a bigger thought leader in your space.

9. The Final Straw – Do They Practice What They Preach?

Do you want to know what’s funny?

Many social media marketing companies have terrible social media presences.

You may be considering agencies that are a living contradiction of everything they are selling to you.

Hiring a social media marketing agency with an ineffective social media presence is like hiring a chef that will not eat their own food. How can you trust it?

If you’re looking for social media marketing, examine how the agencies market themselves.

If their service is truly valuable, they would use it for their own business.

Take a look at their complete online presence. Look at their SEO rankings, subscribe to their email list, read their blog, and really form an opinion of the companies that you are considering.

LYFE Marketing

As a top social media marketing company, we are proud that we have been able to grow our business through our own services.

We understand our customers pain points and find solutions to their problems.

Our prices are fixed, affordable, and transparent.

Our staff is specialized by skill sets and experienced in running campaigns that drive results.

Our client experience is complemented with customized strategies, routine phone calls, and unlimited email communication.

We are a true partner with unlimited bandwidth, and a full kit of the most demanded online marketing services.

And lastly, we believe we are true leader in the social media marketing space that practices what we preach.

(Otherwise, you would have never found our website)

To learn more about LYFE Marketing and how we can help you meet your social media marketing needs, schedule a free consultation today.

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Go the Extra Mile to Help Your Business Stand Out with These Expert Tips

There are so many different ways you can market your business, from blog posts to search marketing. But if you just do what every other business does, you’re not going to stand out. Creating a noteworthy and memorable experience for customers requires going the extra mile in some areas. Learn how to do that with these tips from members of the online small business community.

Build a Binge Worthy Content Strategy

These days, people binge everything from TV shows to podcasts. But are they having a similar relationship with your company’s content? If not, read this TopRank Marketing post by Nick Nelson to gain some tips for B2B content marketers, many of which may also apply to other types of businesses.

Make Your Product Uniquely Memorable

If you want your offering to really stand out in the minds of your customers, you need something that is actually memorable. But how can you accomplish this? Martin Zwilling outlines some strategies in this Startup Professionals Musings post.

Wow Your Clients with Case Studies

Case studies can help you show customers exactly how you have helped others. But sometimes, this type of content doesn’t seem especially exciting. If you want to make yours really exciting and memorable, check out the tips in this Upcity post by Rose Morris.

Focus on Yourself This Season

It’s normal for business owners to work nonstop during the holiday season. But if you really want your company to succeed over the long term, it’s important to take some time for yourself. Rachel Strella discusses some ways to do this in this Strella Social Media post. And the BizSugar community weighed in here.

Gain a Competitive Advantage with Value Chain Analysis

The most important thing to remember when trying to make your content and offerings stand out to consumers is to create something that provides value. If you’re not sure how effectively you’re doing this, you might consider employing value chain analysis. Oliver Peterson elaborates in this Process Street post.

Focus on the Future

As we head into the new year, it’s natural for entrepreneurs to look ahead. But instead of just creating general goals, there are some ways you can be intentional with your planning to avoid being reactive to every situation you encounter in 2020. Neil Patel shares additional thoughts in this post.

Get to Know Google’s SERP Features

If you want your content or web presence to really stand out in the minds of your customers, they first need to be able to find it. And Google can be an essential tool for accomplishing this goal. In this Bright Local post, Emily Hogarth goes over some of Google’s essential SERP features so you can get your company to show up on more results pages.

Follow Instagram’s New Rules for Branded Content

Instagram can be a very effective tool for helping businesses stand out and stay top of mind with consumers. But you need to follow the platform’s rules if you’re going to post branded content. This Search Engine Journal post by Matt Southern outlines some of the new rules that may impact your business.

Follow Simple Blogging Best Practices

If you’re going to blog for your business, you need to make sure that your posts are actually making an impact on your target customers. In this Mostly Blogging post, Peter Nyiri offers best practices you should follow for your business blog. And BizSugar members commented on the post here.

Use Data to Shorten the Ecommerce Sales Cycle

If you can successfully make your brand and your products stand out, you increase the likelihood of people actually completing purchases. But you also need to remove any roadblocks or delays that may be in their way. In this Target Marketing post, Rob Ristagno explores how companies can use data to shorten the sales cycle.

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The Top 12 SEO Tools of 2018

There's nothing quite like a sudden Google algorithm update to leave marketers feeling equal parts confused and concerned. It seems like they wait for you to get all of your ducks in a row and then unleash an update that makes your efforts instantly obsolete.

Sure, they're pretty open about that fact that they're doing this for everyone's own good -- each algorithm tweak brings us one step closer to more relevant search results, after all. However, there is still some secrecy behind exactly how Google evaluates a website and ultimately determines which sites to show for which search queries.

That said, there are a number of tools out there -- some free, some paid -- that help you to look at your own site the way that Google sees it.

These tools are critical to your organic search strategy because they allow you to focus on the elements of your site that Google deems important. In this post, we'll walk through 10 such tools that all help you run a site analysis like a marketer ... and a Google bot!

SEO Monitoring Tools

Google's Webmaster Tools

SEMrush

HubSpot's Website Grader

Check My Links

BuzzStream

Moz's Pro Tools

UpCity's SEO Report Card

Woorank

Screaming Frog's SEO Spider

Found's SEO Audit Tool

Remove'em

Varvy's SEO Overview Tool

12 SEO Monitoring and Keyword Tools for 2018

1. Google's Webmaster Tools

Cost: Free

Purpose: Site Analysis

Perhaps the best way to understand the way Google sees your site is to ask Google. Google's Webmaster Tools are novice-friendly resources that explain the fundamentals of Google search.

For example, Google's Fetch as Google tool allows you to see a particular URL as Google sees it, which is critical when troubleshooting for poor SEO performance. The information returned can help you modify the page in question for better results, and can even help you isolate problematic code when you believe your site's been hacked.

Another great feature of Google Webmaster Tools is PageSpeed Insights. This SEO tool measures the performance of both your desktop and mobile site in terms of speed. With mobile search queries surpassing desktop searches, page speed is becoming increasingly important to businesses that want to hold on to their visitors.

"PageSpeed Insights evaluates how well a page follows common performance best practices and computes a score from 1-100 that estimates its performance headroom," according to Google Developers. That score can be Good, as in 80 or above; Medium, as in 60 to 79; or Low, as in 0 to 59.

2. SEMrush

Cost: Free

Purpose: Keyword Research

SEMrush is a super elaborate dashboard that reports on the performance of domains as a whole and their specific pages. The website offers numerous toolkits, one of which is an SEO toolkit.

Below is one of the toolkit's flagship features, allowing you to plug in a website page to see for what keywords it's ranking, what the page's rank is for that keyword, the keyword's monthly search volume, and more.

The rest of the SEO toolkit allows you to compare your page performance to competition, analyze backlinks from other websites to your site (also known as link building), research appropriate keywords, and take advantage of similar on-page SEO opportunities.

3. HubSpot's Website Grader

Cost: Free

Purpose: Site Analysis

Back in 2007, HubSpot released a tool called Website Grader that helped businesses uncover search engine optimization opportunities. Because a lot has changed since then, the company has released a new and improved version of the tool.

Website Grader is an online tool that generates personalized reports based on the following key metrics:

Performance. The tool will analyze your site's page size, requests, speed, and similar key SEO metrics.

Mobile Readiness. The tool will see if your website is mobile-friendly in terms of responsiveness and viewport settings.

SEO. The tool will determine if your website is easy to find -- both by humans and bots. This determination will take factors like page titles and meta descriptions into consideration.

Security. The tool will look for things like an SSL certificate. This serves as a way to prove to visitors that your site is both authentic and safe for contact information submissions.

All you need is your website URL and an email address to get started. Simply plug in your information and you can expect a score (1-100) as well as a detailed report in a matter of seconds.

Aside from Website Grader, HubSpot also has a handful of paid SEO tools to help you better direct your efforts.

For example, within the HubSpot Blogging App, users will find as-you-type SEO suggestions. This helpful inclusion serves as a checklist for content creators of all skill levels. HubSpot customers also have access to the Page Performance App, Sources Report, and the Keyword App. The HubSpot Marketing Platform will provide you with the tools you need to research keywords, monitor their performance, track organic search growth, and diagnose pages that may not be fully optimized.

4. Check My Links

Cost: Free

Purpose: Link Optimization

To ensure that your links on a webpage -- whether external or internal -- actually work, consider Check My Links.

This broken-link checker makes it easy for a publisher or editor to make corrections before a page is live. Think about a site like Wikipedia, for example. The Wikipedia page for the term "marketing" contains a whopping 711 links. Not only was Check My Links able to detect this number in a matter of seconds, but it also found (and highlighted) seven broken links.

The tool highlights all the good links in green, and those that are broken in red, making it easy to spot the ones that don't work or are no longer active.

5. BuzzStream

Cost: Free 14-day trial, then paid plans from $24/mo

Purpose: Link Building

BuzzStream might be the most inexpensive way to manage your outreach to the people who can provide inbound links to your website.

Although backlinks to your website are critical to ranking well on Google, the outreach you do while link building can feel a lot like cold calling. BuzzStream makes it easy to research the appropriate people, come up with effective email messages, and track who's accepted each link request. Your link building queue looks like this:

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BuzzStream helps you identify candidates for outreach based on their industry and how engaged they are across various social networks -- so you know who will be most receptive to your backlink request and boost your ranking on Google.

6. Moz's Pro Tools

Cost: Free 30-day trial, then paid plans from $99/mo

Purpose: Site Analysis

The Moz Pro subscription serves as an all-in-one tool for increasing your business' search ranking. Moz's collection of research tools provides subscribers with the resources they need to identify SEO opportunities, track growth, build reports, and optimize their overall efforts.

For example, the Crawl Test tool employs Moz's own web crawler, RogerBot, to analyze up to 3,000 links on a given URL. Once completed, users then receive an email report that details the data for each page the site links to.

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This is super helpful if you're looking to identify "crawlability" factors, such as duplicate content and redirects that could be influencing your SEO performance.

7. UpCity's SEO Report Card

Cost: Free

Purpose: Share of Voice

SEO Report Card by UpCity lets you analyze your website to determine how it stacks up against your competitors.

In exchange for a bit of your contact information, SEO Report Card will serve up a report that covers the following:

Rank Analysis. A snapshot of where your website ranks on Google, Yahoo!, and Bing. Your ranking is based on the main keyword you select when putting information in to build the report.

Link Building. A detailed account of the number of websites that link back to your site.

On-Site Analysis. A look at how successful you were in incorporating your main keyword throughout your site.

Website Accessibility. A section focused on your site's load time and ease of accessibility for crawlers.

Trust Metrics. An overview of your site's level of trust or authority.

Current Indexing. An indication of how many of your site pages have been indexed.

8. Woorank

Cost: Free 14-day trial, then $49/mo for a Pro Plan or $149/mo for a Premium Plan

Purpose: Site Analysis

Woorank's in-depth site analysis helps marketers reveal opportunities for optimization and improvement. This analysis takes into account the performance of existing SEO initiatives, social media, usability, and more.

Each report is divided into eight sections:

Marketing Checklist

SEO

Mobile

Usability

Technologies

Social

Local

Visitors

Spanning across 70+ metrics, it would be hard -- if not impossible -- to not uncover opportunities for improvement.

As a bonus, Woorank makes it easy for users to download their reviews as branded PDFs. This makes company-wide distribution and presentation more streamlined than ever.

9. Screaming Frog's SEO Spider

Cost: The LITE version is free (with limitations*), and the paid plan is $160/year

Purpose: Site Analysis

The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a search marketer's best friend.

Designed specifically for the SEO-minded, this program crawls the websites you specify, examining the URLs for common SEO issues. This program simplifies and expedites an otherwise time-consuming process -- especially for larger websites. It could take hours or days to manually evaluate the same URLs.

Take a closer look at how it works:

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The Java program is fairly intuitive, with easy-to-navigate tabs. Additionally, you can export any or all of the data into Excel for further analysis. So say you're using Optify, Moz, or RavenSEO to monitor your links or rankings for specific keywords -- you could simply create a .csv file from your spreadsheet, make a few adjustments for the proper formatting, and upload it to those tools.

*Pricing limitations include: You can only scan 500 URLs per website, and you don't have full access to configuration options and source code features. To remove these limitations, users can purchase a 12-month license for around $160/year.

10. Found's SEO Audit Tool

Cost: Free

Purpose: Site Analysis

Want to rise above your competitors on search engine results pages?

(Who doesn't?)

The SEO Audit Tool by Found is an easy-to-use tool for marketers looking to identify (and solve) common SEO errors on a website.

Simply enter your URL and receive an instant automated SEO audit of your site. Found's SEO Audit Tool is broken down into three main parts:

Technical issues. This reports on factors like domain canonicalization and XML sitemaps.

Content issues. This focuses on influential factors like keywords and meta data.

External link analysis. This aims to evaluate the quantity and quality of external links.

Similar to Woorank, once you run a report, the tool makes it easy for you to download the results as a PDF to be easily shared within your organization.

11. Remove'em

Cost: $249 per domain or a subscription option starting at $99/mo

Purpose: Link Building

Have you ever purchased links? Spammed the comments section on a string of blogs using the same message and link? If so, we'll forgive your bad judgment just this once ... but Google won't.

Artificial or unnatural links have the potential to seriously hurt your search ranking. To clean them up, check out Remove'em:

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This helpful tool scans your backlink profile and turns up a list of contact information for the links and domains you'll need to reach out to for removal. Alternatively, the tool also allows you to export the list if you wish to disavow them using Google's tool. (Essentially, this tool tells Google not to take these links into account when crawling your site.)

12. Varvy's SEO Overview Tool

Cost: Free

Purpose: Site Analysis

This SEO auditing tool provides users with information regarding their domain strength, links, image SEO, social counts and mentions, page/technical SEO, page speed, and more.

The comprehensive report is prepared in less than a minute, and dives deep into different aspects of your website's performance. You'll notice that the tool employs green checks, red Xs, and yellow exclamation points to denote the severity of the issue.

One the our favorite features is the detailed image overview:

This section of the report focuses on the strength of the images your website employs by analyzing the alt text. If you're using too many words, missing alt text, or the alt text appears weak, the tool will notify you so that you can make any necessary changes.

Getting Started

You'll never get a look behind the Google curtain to learn everything they know (or don't know) about your site. But by leveraging SEO best practices and getting the most out of tools like those listed here, you can greatly increase the chances that your website will show up in response to the right search queries.

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The Advantages of Call Attribution for SEO

The Value of a Phone Call

Does your business value phone calls? Not all businesses do — for example, some e-commerce companies do not enable customers to call them to ask questions or to place an order. But if the product or service that your company provides is something that is complex, expensive, infrequently purchased, or required immediately, your potential customers will likely want to talk with a knowledgeable representative to get answers, book appointments, or finalize a purchase. That’s why inbound phone calls are highly valued in verticals such as automotive, senior care, insurance, real estate, education, home services, and travel.

The rise of the smartphone has made phone calls even more important in the customer journey for these industries and to the marketers responsible for driving their growth. That’s because the smartphone combines three things — searching for information, exposure to advertising, and making a subsequent phone call — into one device. The oldest marketing channel in history — the human voice — has renewed force thanks to the smartphone.

The Importance of Search

Marketers today are confronted with a plethora of ways for businesses to connect with their potential consumers. In addition to the conventional channels such as radio, print, and television, the myriad of digital options has many permutations across search, display, video, dynamic creative, and social media. Multiply each of these by the available delivery techniques — audience targeting, contextual, re-marketing, local, and cross-device — and the choices for spending marketing dollars can become overwhelming.

At the nexus of all of this marketing activity is the search engine. No matter where the consumer sits in the customer journey, search plays a significant role. Search serves not only as the initial point of entry much of the time, it is also a common point of reentry as potential customers resume their research, particularly when considering large or complex purchases over time.

Search and Call Attribution

In the US alone, companies that value phone calls spend billions of dollars each year on paid search advertisements from Google and Bing. Over the last five years or so, the companies in these verticals have realized that phone calls are a distinct conversion type deserving special attention. Call attribution vendors have entered the market providing robust insight into call conversions for bid optimization. Thanks to call attribution, marketers can now make bidding decisions on the quality of the calls they are receiving, not just the raw count of calls.

But what about organic search? Can call attribution data inform SEO decisions? It’s been four years since Google began widespread encryption of consumer search query data. This means that there are no direct means for site owners to correlate specific Google organic searches with site traffic patterns. However, there are still several options for optimization.

For one thing, consumer searching behavior does not vary greatly between paid search and organic. Consumers use the same search terms to reach your website whether they click on paid listings or organic listings. So, your best-converting paid search keywords are likely the best ones for driving organic traffic.

Secondly, unlike Google, Bing does not encrypt consumer search query data, so the organic search results you capture in your analytics tool from Bing can be used as a reasonable proxy for Google optimization.

How Call Attribution Works

Call attribution, also known as call tracking, is a powerful marketing analytics technology that leverages dynamic number insertion (DNI). Using a DNI solution such as DialogTech, you obtain a snippet of Javascript code to place in your tag manager, or on each page of your website. DNI assigns a unique tracking phone number to each of your site’s visitors based upon the traffic source — for example, Facebook, paid search, organic search, display ads, and so on. A number is reserved for a period of time for each caller so that the session data (such as the web pages the consumer viewed, the caller ID, the location of the consumer) can be tied to the information captured on the call itself (the call duration, what was said on the call, how the call was routed, and who answered the phone). The consumer is seamlessly redirected to your business, even if he or she saves the phone number and calls later. The call attribution data can later be passed into analytics platforms such as Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics.

No Negative Impact on SEO

Make sure your DNI solution has no negative impact on your website’s search rankings. Most contemporary DNI solutions are built to comply with Google’s NAP (name, address, phone number) consistency requirements that are used to determine organic ranking. Google still sees your business’s phone number in the page code when they index your site, but visitors will see a trackable call attribution number. You get all the benefits of call tracking without losing SEO rank.

How Call Attribution Benefits SEO

Although call attribution vendors typically position DNI technology first and foremost as a powerful tool to optimize paid media, it offers clear benefits for optimizing organic traffic as well. Call attribution can tell you which are the best-converting pages on your site as far as the types of phone calls your website attracts. It’s more than just how many calls each page drives — if you are using IVR and call recordings and transcriptions, you can also assess the quality level of the calls that each page yields.

Call recordings and transcriptions are also valuable tools for keyword mining. For example, you may find out that a particular word or phrase comes up frequently in call recordings, but your company is not listed in the top 5 organic results for that phrase. At that point, you know you need to take action to boost those organic rankings — adjust the content of those pages, perform a site audit, or devise a backlinking strategy — leveraging Upcity’s expertise.

Find the Right Partners to Help

Phone calls and search optimization lie at the intersection of two highly-valuable communication channels. Whether you are launching a new campaign or optimizing your website for organic search, it’s important to work with knowledgeable partners and robust technology. Companies like DialogTech and UpCity have the capabilities and the expertise to put you on the path to success and help you exceed your marketing goals.

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The 5 Best Services to Outsource for Boutique Digital Agencies

In addition to guest posting on the UpCity blog, Kansas City Website Design is featured as one of the Top Web Designers in Kansas City. Check out their profile here.

At a boutique digital agency, you are handling a lot of important work for your clients, using many platforms. Your customers depend on you to create engaging content for their websites, mobile platforms, social networks, applications, and multimedia presentations like podcasts and videos. It’s a lot to do, and you have to do it well.

Outsourcing services enables you to offer the best of the best to your customers, while retaining overall control and direction of their campaigns. Your agency will be able to focus on positive momentum for your client, reputation building, and deepening your customer relationship, without getting bogged down in the little daily tasks.

If you outsource to experts in each of these fields, you can rest assured that your client will be getting the best service and resources, and you will be able to greatly expand your offerings.

Blog Writing

Regular blog posting is an excellent way to keep your clients’ websites up to date and bring in new traffic. However, keeping up with dozens of blogs is a significant time commitment. It can pull your digital agency staff away from other, more immediately pressing tasks.

By outsourcing blog writing services to professional writers, you will be getting regularly scheduled, high-quality blog content for your client, without having to write it yourself. Most blog content writing services are affordable. With experienced and knowledgeable authors penning the words, you will be receiving content that is polished and pleasing for your readers.

This is also an ideal solution for your clients who are just starting out with a blog. Outsourcing the content means that you’ll be able to start the feature very quickly. You can focus on marketing the blog and overseeing its design and functionality, while professional writers produce the articles for the launch.

Guest Blog Outreach

Writing a guest blog post is a good way to drive traffic back to a business site. It’s an effective SEO strategy that improves authority for businesses. While your clients would likely benefit from guest blogging, it can be challenging to find sites that are accepting guest posters. It’s time-consuming. And then you have to write the content.

Guest blog outreach services will find blogs that accept guest content, connect with the owners, find a writer if needed, and ensure that the guest post is published in a way that is beneficial to your client.

Podcast Guesting

Being a guest on a podcast is one of the newest and most effective ways to drum up business.

Having your client featured as a podcast guest gives them authority, and exposes them to a wider audience. Like guest blogging, however, it can be a time-consuming task to find podcasts that are accepting guests, let alone those that are looking for clients like yours, specifically.

Outsourcing to a podcast guesting service means that your clients can benefit from this source of exposure without the usual legwork to find opportunities. A good podcast guesting service will have the resources and industry-knowledge to expedite the process. They will make sure that your clients fit well with the hosts and the podcast subjects.

Cultivating great relationships between hosts and guests is their business. You can rely on a podcast guesting service, therefore, to handle this important marketing technique with skill. They will even help train and prepare your client for appearing on podcasts, giving them strategies for being an excellent guest ranging from what audio equipment to use, to funneling new leads through what they choose to say on-air.

Citation Management

Local citations ensure that your clients’ information is mentioned on the web, with all of the pertinent contact information that helps drive local search results. They also help with SERP stacking– a way to use other websites as a way to get more first page visibility for your agency and your clients.

You could do the work to build and manage all of these citations on your own, making sure that they are all complete, and present in all business listing directories and blogs, magazine sites, news sites, wikis, as well as other unstructured mentions around the web …

Or, you could outsource. A citation creation and management team will be well versed in creating these mentions with all of the relevant information and submitting them across the web.

Outsourced citation management means that your client appears on every site from Yelp to Facebook, without you, or them, having to track down every potentially applicable listing.

Citation management can make a big difference for your client. It’s labor-heavy though, and it’s easily outsourced.

Social Media Posting

Social media posting is the backbone of many digital marketing strategies. According to MarketingSherpa, 95 percent of online adults aged 18-34 follow a brand via social networks.

Your client needs to be working with the social media platforms relevant to its ideal demographic. And brands do best when they are regularly creating, curating, and sharing high-quality content on those platforms.

Social media management merits a full-time position. You should strongly consider outsourcing this service so that it can be done dynamically and consistently. A good social media management team is always ready to handle posts, crisis management, and customer outreach. It is a logical step to hire experts who can do this, 24/7.

Outsourcing social media posting ensures that there are always eyes on your clients’ social media pages without requiring anyone from your team to devote all of their time to this branch of the marketing strategy. Whether you hire freelancers to create social media posts, or you outsource fully to a social media management company, your client will certainly benefit every hour put into achieving social media objectives.

Freelancer Risks & Rewards

Many of the above tactics – if not all – could also be outsourced to experienced freelancers. As an agency owner, you will have to vet freelancers and test several before hiring one for client work. There are many freelancer crowd sourcing websites such as Freelancer.com and Upwork.com where you can post jobs and search for talent based on experience level, ratings and reviews. You can find freelancers with podcast booking and guest blogger outreach experience, as well as blog writing skills.

In most cases, outsourcing to niche service providers with reseller or white label programs will be the best way for your agency to outsource. Freelancers, however, can also be a great choice if you are willing to put the time and energy into testing and vetting the best talent.

Scale Your Efforts Without Sacrificing Quality

When you outsource services to small, focused, expert teams, your boutique agency can focus on what it does best — oversight and strategic planning for your clients, tailored to their needs.

Consider outsourcing these five key services so that your agency, and your clients, have the best experience and best results possible.

Source

https://upcity.com/blog/the-5-best-services-to-outsource-for-boutique-digital-agencies/

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