I like these ‘cookbook’ style articles with tools and tricks. There is a decent discussion included with this article as well.

Note that I have not vetted this list of products, but howsociable.com has received most of the positive mention in this piece. Tools mentioned include:

• howsociable.com – Social visibility score
• knowem.com – Profile building tool
• Social Media for Firefox – Build social profile on social news & bookmarking sites
• semrush.com – Find competitor organic search rankings
• Google Insights – Keyword demand trends
• Page Inlink Analyzer – Analyze inbound links, Delicious bookmarks & keyword tags
• majesticseo.com – Historical back-link tracking
• trackur.com – Social media monitoring
• socialmention.com – Real-time social search & scoring, social keyword research
• bit.ly – Search friendly URL shortening with analytics
• analytics.postrank.com – Track social engagement with Google & social analytics
• pitchengine.com – Special mention of IQ PR social media platform
• Social Website Analyzer – Analyzes your site’s effectiveness w/social media

Please add any more tools you think are good and feel free to coment on any of the tools listed above. Cheers, Rick MyCMO – Director