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6 essential marketing tools for your strategy

In digital marketing, sometimes you feel like it’s like building a house when the blueprints change every single day. The algorithms get updated while old trends shift up the Overnight and strategies of competitors change constantly. Without the correct technology to maneuver in this world(sn): not only is it hard–efficiency is falling by the hour.

Success in contemporary marketing demands a solid technological foundation that includes understanding the behemoths behind search engines, appraising viral potential in factors, and segmenting your competition’s budget for advertising.

A close examination of the digital marketing domain turns up six heavyweights: Moz, Ahrefs, BuzzSumo, Adbeat, Alexa, and Powtoon. In the field of SEO, some are absolute ju-yao operations, while others provide fundamentally unique advantages in creation or analysis. Even if you are a solo entrepreneur or involved in an enterprise team, learning how to deploy these platforms could well be the difference between trying to guess your next move and carrying out a strategy backed by data.

Big-chested SEO: Moz and Ahrefs

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the underpinning of organic visibility. Two names that regularly appear in discussions on SEO software: Moz and Ahrefs. They have many same characteristics, but different customer needs.

Moz: The User-Friendly Authority

Moz is possibly one of the most well-known names in the industry. It owes this reputation largely to “Domain Authority,” a metric which has become standard for judging website strength.

Moz Pro boasts a comprehensive suite of SEO tools that are very suitable for marketers wanting clearness. But without overdoing how they operate. Its keyword explorer puts out intelligent suggestions and difficulty scores, allowing you to focus on words where there is a fighting chance you will make headway. Yet again, Moz turns out excellent resources and community, making it a perfect place for people honing their SEO skills.

Domain Authority (DA): A predictive score that predicts how a website will perform on the rankings

SERP’s (search engine result pages).

Localized citations on the web: Essential for brick-and-mortar businesses, who want to maintain accuracy in listing accurateNames.

Link Explorer: You can investigate to see who is giving you backlinks and what kind of quality they have.

Ahrefs: The Data Powerhouse

If Moz is the nice schoolteacher, Ahrefs is the high-powered educator.

Ahrefs was originally designed as a backlink analysis tool. But now it has become one-stop shopping for everything related to SEO and internet marketing. Many of the more technically oriented internet marketers swear by Ahrefs.

Ahrefs is famed for having the most active spider apart from Google itself. In other words, its data is very fresh. It is especially good at “content gap” analysis. That means it can show you the precise keywords for which your competitors in the SERPS (search engine result pages) are ranked but you are not. So for content planners, this facility alone is worth the entry price

Key features:

Site Audit: Crawls your website to find and fix technical SEO issues that might be hurting your rankings.

Content Explorer: Discover the most shared content on social media for any topic using backlinks and organic (search engine) exposure data.

Rank Tracker: By geography, time point(s) and other factors keeps a history of where individual keywords have been in SERP’s over time following implementation

BuzzSumo Content Intelligence

Making content is easy. Making content people will actually share, though, is hard. This is where BuzzSumo comes in. It uses data instead of hunches to show you what is actually resonating with audiences at the moment.

By entering a topic or a competitor’s URL into BuzzSumo, you can see which articles of theirs have been shared most heavily on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. This information lets you reverse-engineer popular posts. If “listicles about productivity” are drawing audiences in your niche, that is where to focus your writing efforts.

BuzzSumo is a leading product for influencer marketing.

It shows you the key influencers who share content in your industry. You may use this information to create a systematic list of people to outreach to.

Spying on Strategy with Adbeat

While SEO and content are high-fly, paid advertising kills in the present. Yet launch a campaign blindfolded and it will surely bellyflop. Adbeat takes out all risk by acting as a competitive intelligence tool for display advertising.

Adbeat crawls the web for competitor ads. It displays their creatives, landing pages, and the publishers it is purchasing traffic from so you can easily unmask a scam in progress. Even more important is that it reveals for how long they have put up particular ads. If a rival has been running the same ad creative for half a year, you can bet your last money that this ad is profitable.

This data can inform your media buying strategies, helping you exclude publishers with low quality traffic and, conversely, copy formats and publishers where the advertising proves high performing.

The Legacy of Alexa Internet

For decades, “Alexa Rank” was the measure of worldwide opinion on website popularity. Alexa Internet (an Amazon company) gave people web traffic data and analytics, so that they could compare their performance with competitors at home and abroad. A low Alexa Rank meant high traffic–this became a quick and dirty way to value a site.

Note: As of May 2022, Alexa.com has been retired by Amazon.

While the tool itself is not active anymore, its impact are still very important for marketers. The idea of comparing your traffic to a global standard remains vital even today. Since there’s no Alexa, marketers have started using services like Semrush and Similarweb to obtain numbers and demographic details about such traffic. If you read earlier case reports or analysis that reference “Alexa Rank,” remember: They mean this retired traffic metric, not Amazon-controlled voice assistant.

How to Engage Your Audience with Powtoon It Is Not The Data or Strategy That You Need, But Instead How They Will Be Executed A feed filled with only still images in the current age needs video most of all. Powtoon is a platform for visual communication that allows users to turn even the dullest of presentations and most pedestrian videos, all good enough to impress clients or students at very little cost. Without even a hint of animation skill required

While not cheap, Powtoon has a more leisurely interface based on dragging and dropping than many of its rivals. There’s a vast library linked into the platform, featuring animation characters, pre-built templates, and even background music.

For marketers, Powtoon is a shortcut to great content with high engagement. It is not very difficult for even newbies and non-video editors to make a social media ad video or a product demo using Powtoon.

Building Your Optimal Tech Stack

There isn’t one piece of software that can do everything for you in marketing. However, by choosing the right tools you can reduce the resistance between having an idea and implementing it dramatically.

For SEO: If you want the easiest to use and community support, then choose Moz; if you need deep data and the ability both of technical analysis, then choose Ahrefs.

For Content: Before you write a single word, validate your topic ideas with BuzzSumo.

For Advertising: Look into what’s working for your competitors so that you don’t waste your budget on testing useless ads–Adbeat

For The Creative Side: Use Power Toon instead of hiring an animation studio to create animated video

The wisest approach is simply to look around and see what is jamming up your workflow. If you’re having a hard time getting better ranks; if your ads aren’t turning leads; if it takes people too long to get through your stuff before they leave because they’re bored. Take a look at your needs first, then invest in a solution!

From SEO grandmasters like Ahrefs and Moz to creative masters such as Powtoon, EXCLUSIVE introduces the essentials for your tech stack of marketing tools.