Video Transcript

Hi Guys Matthew Woodward here and my Link Emperor review and tutorial is going to teach you how to use the much talked about link emperor link building service which you can use to build high quality links with minimal effort.

I’m going to take you through setting up and fine tuning your campaign along with the setup of a tiered link building campaign.

You will also uncover new keywords to rank for whilst improving on page SEO for more traffic.

So if you haven’t heard of link emperor before it is a full link building suite and SEO campaign management tool that can be used to create high quality links as well as tiered structures with ease.

Basically you get a certain number of credits for your money every month, here its $147 for 30,000 credits and you can use those credits to build links.

Now if you take a look at this table here you can tweak the allocations and see exactly how many links you’re going to get each month for your money.

This is the back end of link emperor and I’ve setup a test campaign already to show you how it all fits together but I’m going to take you through the creation of a campaign.

In here you can see the various URL’s that it automatically pulled up and it automatically picked up which keywords those URL’s are targeting, the search volume for those keywords, the current Google rank as well as the on page score.

So very easily you can see which pages have keyword opportunities and where there are rankings that you can possibly steal just by improving the on page SEO and setting up a link building campaign.

But let’s take you through setting up a new campaign from scratch. Creating your campaign is easy just come and click on new campaign and a campaign is a niche specific set of URLs or 1 URL you are trying to promote.

So I’m going to promote my how to start a blog post, we are going to target United States. We need to select a category which best matches what we are doing. If you can’t find an exact one just find the closest match that’ll be fine.

You can leave this at default, you can also leave this at default along with all of these other options you don’t need to change them.

If you want to give clients access to the campaign you can create a username and password along with what data they have available so this is perfect if you manage clients.

But once setup just click add campaign and that will add it for us. So now you can see that campaign here, that yellow dot means its paused oh if you tick these boxes you get some options by the way and also across here you can introduce other columns if you want to see them.

Next you should really add your Google Analytics account if you come to account, external linked accounts they support a few different services here but you should add your Google Analytics or your Clicky account if you’re using that for analytics here because it will actually go and connect to analytics and fetch additional data which helps you with your ranking decisions.

So add your analytics account and then come back to the campaign screen. Now we can go into the campaign for the first time and we need to come up to the sites tab, add sites and enter in a name to reference the site.

Along with the domain name of the site including HTTP www. if that is what your sites uses, not all sites uses www. so check that.

You can also select the analytics ID you want to use and it asks you if you want to automatically add target URL’s and keywords it finds in Analytics.

Now this is what I did in the sample campaign up here as you can see it added all sorts of URL’s at random that were getting traffic from Analytics so if you want to be more specific with the URL’s you want to rank, untick this box and in this example I am going to untick that box and then click on add site.

Next we need to add our targets so we can come across to targets, add targets and first we need to enter the URL, again the dollar value – let me explain the dollar value quickly.

The dollar value is used as a measurement to internally bid on campaigns. So if you had a campaign with a $1 value per visit and another campaign with a $2 value per visit the campaign with a $2 value would get twice as many links to it built over time as the one with $1 value.

So that is how you define what the dollar value is, I just leave it at blank but if you do want to prioritise certain campaigns in the future or certain targets, this is how you do it.

Then all you need to do is add some keywords in which I’ve already got here and it can also add additional keywords by searching the internet for keywords the URL already ranks for that you haven’t included here.

This is a really handy option to find new keywords that you might be ranking number 12, 9 or 8 for that you don’t realise and this will help find them and push them up further, so we can click add here and that will do it for us.

Then I’m just going to add another target which is the YouTube video for that tutorial, click add down here.

Now we can just come into one of our campaigns here and you can see all of the different keywords that we added in. It will in time go and fetch the current Google rankings for each of these keywords for this URL as well as how many visits this particular URL got last month directly out of Analytics.

Now you can see here a column called on page score and what this means it can either be a 0, a 1 or 2.5 and a 0 means the keyword is not found anywhere on the page. So this is not found anywhere.

A 1 means the keyword is found somewhere on the page and a 2.5 means it’s found the keyword in the title. So you can see here there are a lot of zeros where the keyword isn’t mentioned once and we could optimise for these terms a little bit just by adding the keyword a couple of times by editing this page and if you actually come up to SEO trouble spots here this will actually give you some recommendations and feedback of changes to make.

So what you could do is make all of the changes so you could include some of these keywords and then you can come back to your targets tab, click the URL you’ve made the changes to then click reinspected selected on page SEO and that takes about 10-15 minutes to complete but then you will see your on page scores updates.

Now while we are waiting for the additional data to come in we can actually go out and hunt some more keywords with the research tab up here and if you click on new report.

We can call this Make A Blog this is just a reference name, the target keyword and comparable URL’s. Now you can do a search for your target keywords and look at some results, just make a shortlist of relevant URLs. You wouldn’t use blogger.com because it’s to big but this howtostartablog.org and down here impossible HQ you can just come across, paste in some relevant URL’s and click create research report.

That will go out now and look up additional keywords we can use and build the report for us and you can see down here that is building. Ok that reports finishing so if you just come into it here, now you can see these different groups of keywords and the total amount of traffic available so you can just click on it and it expands out and you can see here the different keywords and their exact search volumes so you can just tick ones that you want to add.

And I’m just going to go with these 3, assign selected to target and I’m going to assign them to the YouTube video and let that run through quickly and once its added those keywords if we jump back to our campaign quickly you can see it’s got an extra keywords so some of those were dupes.

So now we need to add a couple of articles to use in the links we are going to build whether that’s posts on a private network or web 2.0s and you’ve got a few different choices when it comes to adding articles so I’m going to take you through a couple then show you what you should be doing.

Now the first option you’ve got is to generate an article and you can even use an articlebuilder.net account if you have a subscription to that service or you can search a database of prewritten PLR articles and this will automatically grab an article and automatically spin it for you.

This isn’t ideal it’s not going to very unique it’s not going to make much sense, it certainly won’t stand up to human moderation but let me just import one anyway and show you.

So if you come in here you can see the article it has pulled for us, the only problem is it’s not going to be unique enough for us.

So what you should be doing is you should actually manually add an article and you should be using the advanced spinning tutorial to produce a highly spun article that will pass human moderation every time and makes complete sense so please spend time preparing an article and pasting it into here.

All you need is the title and the body, you don’t need to include any images or videos so please add an article in here, hit save article and then we can move on.

In fact just before we move on auto generation settings, if you don’t have any articles here by default it will use the PLR articles and pull them automatically. To avoid that happening by mistake, select no here and hit save settings.

So if you forget to load an article you’re not going to be blasting your URL’s with PLR auto spun content so just take note of that setting there.

Next we are going to jump up to the link building tab now and I’m going to show you around how this works. Now the first thing you want to do is change campaign allocations and you want to blast each campaign separately and specify percentage allocations for each campaign.

Now what these 2 options does is if you combine all campaign when doing link building blasts, if you’ve got a campaign about blogging and a campaign about payday loans then it’s likely you will get links from 1 place to both sites and the content might not be relevant.

So you want to make sure you blast each campaign separately, blast payday loan campaign with payday loan content to the payday loan site and the how to start a blog campaign with the how to start a blog content to the how to start a blog links.

So blast each campaign separately, make sure that you check that and you can say how many of your credits you want to allocate to each campaign. Now I’ve only got 1 campaign setup so 100% of my credits are going to that campaign. Ok.

Next, anchor text randomisation settings. Now this is to help protect against Penguin so you don’t end up with lots of exact match anchors and a high % of them. If you move this slider around you can see down here based on the slider would be 36% to your keyword, 22% to the keyword with random prefixes and suffixes and 42% to something random so that’s terms like click here and your generic terms.

So this one’s exact match keyword, this is variances of the exact match keyword and this is generic phrases so you can just have a play with these and I would say somewhere around there, 16, 27, 57 so just hit save and that’s pretty cool because it helps to automatically protect you against tripping up the Penguin so to speak.

Now we can take a look at the link type priorities and the types of links that are going to get built. If you come to the campaign and the link building tab, click on customise link building settings. Now this slider I will come back to in a minute but here you can use these sliders to decide how many links of each type your campaign is going to build.

So to your money site you probably don’t want any forum profiles, you can probably reduce the amount of Wiki’s down quite significantly. Video creation & submission lets wind that down a little bit. Private network posts you might want to increase, press release tend to be high quality and they are expensive.

Misc. platform submission we can reduce, blog comments we can reduce, article submission we can reduce and as well as social bookmarking and that gives us a fairly nice balance of links to play with there.

Down here we have some other options you can tell it not to build links on adult or objectionable sites and we can tell it to build my targets and keywords together. So it will use either the blog URL or the YouTube URL blasting together and you can also tell it to handle keyword priorities for you.

I will come back to how it handles priorities shortly but in general it takes a look at your current ranking, the amount of available traffic, the difficulty and you’re on page score to come up with a priority value. Basically the easier is to rank for and the more traffic it will give you the higher priority it works pretty well so I allow it to handle the priority for me.

Once you’ve done that you can click save link building design but if you want to introduce tiered link building you can bring this slider into the middle, you get a new set of sliders.

So you can see that this bar is split between the 2 and if we bring it over here the upper tier bar grows so it gets a higher percentage of the article links and so forth.

Now tiered link building relies on the fact that you have more tier links pointing to your first layer of links. So this number in blue should, the total number needs to add up to the total number of greens and if you bring the bar to around here – sort of around here you’ll be ok.

Now we want to use different types of links on our upper tier. Quite a lot of articles, quite a lot of blog comments, some forum profiles, some misc. platforms, public web 2 posts are fine, we can probably scatter some social bookmarks in and we don’t want to create web 2.0s or videos and that would give us a nice tiered structure there.

So if you want tiered link building, set it up like this. If you don’t bring this bar all the way to the left like that. Once you’re happy with that you can just scroll down here and click save link building design. Oh one other options that comes up with the tiered is you can tell it to use more tiered links, so create more here and blast each one less. Or create less of these and blast each one more – leaving it in the middle is a good choice to go.

So you can experiment with this if you want but leaving it in the middle is a safe bet and hit save link building design, ok.

So now we have everything setup and we are ready to start the campaign but let’s just do a quick spot check and recap things quickly. We have got our targets listed in here and within our target we have the keywords that we are trying to rank for.

We have loaded an article in, at least 1 article and you should have followed the advanced spinning tutorial for this don’t use the PLR. Not preparing properly spun content is the single biggest point of failure for most peoples SEO campaigns and its where a lot of new people go wrong.

Please spend time preparing the content and spinning it properly – see the advanced spinning tutorial, if you follow that every time with the links that you build your never going to run into a problem so please make sure you add a well spun article here.

We have setup our link building settings, we customised the types of links that we want and setup a tiered link structure here and we also in the link building section here we have setup our campaign allocations.

If you’ve got more than 1 campaign you can change the allocation. We also played with the anchor text randomisation to help us protect against Penguin.

So to start the campaign once you have everything setup all you need to do is tick this box here and click on run selected and that will start the campaign, links will begin to be built and you can come over here and look at the credits tab to how your credits are being spent and the links that are built and that is it.

That is how you setup Link Emperor you now have a fully automate link building campaign running all day every day for you and it is following this structure nicely here.

Every week your rankings will update so you can keep track of progress we haven’t actually had an update yet but it will update so you can see exactly what effect the links are having keeping tracking of this.

Also in your campaign here you get reports, PDF reports these include all of your top performing pages, keywords, traffic and everything like that, so that is Link Emperor.

And if you’re unsure about your campaign or want to make sure things are setup properly before you kick things off you can drop an email to support@linkemperor.com and one of the experts in the team will look into your account, have a look around making sure things are setup as they should be before you kick it off.

So if you are unsure and just want to make sure everything is setup right just drop an email to support@linkemperor.com and those guys will jump in and help you out.

So that wraps up my link emperor review and you can see how easy it is to build links!

You can get $50 worth of credits to play with for just $7 if you sign up now through my link at www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/linkemperor

Who doesn’t like cheap links huh? See ya!

Video Transcript

Hi guys Matthew Woodward here and I’m an award winning blogger, that makes a bunch of money with my blog nearly $60,000 so far. I setup the blog just 10 months ago in August 2012 which has enabled me to live a great lifestyle working and travelling anywhere in the world with complete freedom, you can even setup shop in Texas airport!

Today I’m going to show how to kick start your blogging career by taking you through the creation of your first blog step by step over my shoulder including the domain and WordPress installation. It will be mobile responsive, secure and automatically backed up every day as well as fully search engine optimised and ready to go with social integration.

You can even add an email subscription opt in form into the side bar if you want.

So before we get stuck in let’s just take a quick look at what we are going to make. Here is an example of the blog and the first post that I’ve written with social icons and we’ve got affiliate links and everything like that.

So to get started we need to setup our domain name and hosting and we are going to use Bluehost for this. They are an unlimited host they are pretty reliable, have a good reputation include a free domain and make everything really easy to setup.

So if you just click on sign up now and it asks you choose a domain name which I’m going to do and click next.

Next you just need to fill out all of these details so I’m just going to pause the video while I do that. Ok and now down here we’ve got some options you can choose your account plan, the 12 month one will be fine.

You do not need to pro package, you can also untick site backup pro and if you wish you can enable domain whois privacy and this will stop your name and address showing up in whois searches.

It doesn’t really matter some people like to have it and others don’t and last but not least just enter your payment details so again I’m going to pause the video.

And once you’ve done that you can just hit next and finally you just need to create a password and I’m just going to add in something there and hit create.

Next you need to login using your domain name and the password you have just setup and once your logged into the back end you can just come up to website here.

Use WordPress and then just select wordpress down here, install. Now you can leave this at default you want to untick the plugins and themes it recommends because we will sort that out, tick this down here and press complete.

When that’s complete we can just click on here to check out the blog and this is it, this is blogsanity with the default WordPress install and theme.

So make a note of this password here and login to the admin area. And that’s WordPress installed, now if you’ve not used the wordpress interface before it’s pretty simple.

All of your menu and navigations are over here but we are just going to change a few settings quickly.

We are going to call this blogsanity, Going Insane With Blogging – save changes there.

Then we want to come down to permalinks to put in a custom structure that looks like this /%category%/%postname%/ and hit save changes and then you need to download the pack of plugins from my blog and this the exclusive pack of plugins that I’m recommending to get up and running.

Once you have downloaded them all make sure they are all in one folder like this, all of the zip files and 1 at a time now we are going to install each of these.

So to do that we go on plugins here, add new or add new up here. Upload and we can choose a file and you just pick 1, click install now, activate plugin and then again add new, upload, choose file, and just repeat the process until you have installed every single plugin that is in that folder.

There are 9 in total, activate – I’m just going to show you 1 more quickly. Plugins, add new now we will configure all of these plugins in a moment let’s just get them all uploaded first. And if you just want to rinse and repeat that entire process for every plugin Im going to pause the video while I do that.

So once you have done that it should look something like this and now let’s move straight into configuring the different plugins.

First of all we are going to start with SEO here just click on that, close this. So first of all what we need to do is click on each of these links, sign up, get the verification meta values and enter them into these boxs and click save settings.

Next we can move to titles & metas and we want to tick that box there as well as these 4 here hit save settings. Here we need to set a meta description for the home page so where I share my insane love and passion for all things blogging 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Author highlighting this is for Google+ Authorship now you need to go and setup a Google+ profile you need to select your main user here and click on save settings. Once you have got your Google+ profile URL, you need to come to users, edit and enter it into this box here, this will make sure the Google+ authorship setup is set on the website side of things.

So let’s just jump back to WordPress SEO quickly and back to titles & metas and if you come across to taxonomies you can noindex tag pages, click save settings.

And jump to help here and we want to copy this %%excerpt%% and then paste that into here, in here and here, save settings. And also come to other, in here and here and save settings.

Next we are going to improve the security of the blog to stop it from getting hacked or anything like that so if you come to here and sometimes there’s an option to protect against basic attacks automatically but it’s not appeared here though.

Come over to tweaks and in the tweaks area we want to tick all of the boxes. Select that and hit save changes and come back to the dashboard here and we want to take care of points 4, 5 and 6.

So click 4 and it wants to rename the admin username, change that and change the user ID and it asks us to log back in. Come back to the dashboard and finally point 6 here click here to rename it. Just like that ok so now that is security taken care of let’s move onto setting up all of our backups.

So if we come to backwpup and click on add new job, we want to change a couple of settings here change that to a zip. You can choose where the backup gets sent to I prefer getting it sent by email.

Then just hit save changes, next move onto the schedule we are going to use wordpress cron and you can set the scheduler here. I’m going to use it daily at 3 o’clock which is the default setting, save changes.

And then we need to go to files and tell it to also backup plugins and hit save changes.

And finally put the maximum file size to zero which is unlimited and hit save changes. So we now have an SEO optimised, secure, automatically backed up blog. So let’s work on improving some other features.

First we are going to configure our social sharing bar if you come to the global config with Digg Digg here and all you need to do is enter your twitter handle into these fields. If you haven’t created a twitter account go and create one because you will be using it, save changes there.

Now if we jump to normal display and we first of all want to enable it you can decide where it displays I’m just going to leave the defaults here and I’m also just going to disable all the different share types here.

And then you can pick which ones that you want to enable, so I’m going to add Twitter after the content. I’m also going to add Google +1 and Facebook Like after the content and like button count, perfect we can just hit save changes here and that is now done.

Next we can move onto Pretty Link, now pretty link is the thing we are going to use to mask all of our affiliate links. So if you come to add a pretty link here, ah actually first jump to options, link options change this to permanent 301 and tick this add no follow to link box, click update options.

Now we can add our first affiliate link and I’m going to use my HostGator affiliate and you can fill it out like this. So what this does now anytime we hit blogsanity.com/hostgator that will redirect you through to the affiliate link so let’s click create and I’m going to make a note of that affiliate link because we are going to use it in our first post.

Now we need to setup our Google Analytics tracking over in settings, Google Analytics and its asking us for a web property ID so if you come into Google Analytics here once you’ve setup your account you will see this, this is your web property ID and it just wants pasting in there and click save changes.

What this does is will enable all of the Google Analytics tracking for you so you can see how many visitors you’re getting, what the top content on the site is and everything like that so make sure you get that setup.

Next we want to setup our contact form, really easy come up to contact here, copy this. Go to pages, add new, contact me. Please feel free to drop me an email if you have any questions or comments. I will reply within 48 hours. Thank you.

And just paste that in like that and down here this is our SEO control box down here and we can set an SEO title and a meta description so we want to do that.

Ok and we can just click on publish and if we take a look at that, let’s look at how its looking and there we go there is the contact form. Now things aren’t looking that different yet but we are about to change things in a big way and let me just jump into here quickly you can see the social boxes, so let’s change things a little bit and install a theme.

And we can do that by coming to appearances and themes and then we are going to install themes. Now you can browse themes by looking at recently update here and you can see there are a whole bunch of themes to choose from or the newest uploaded ones here but I’m going to use a specific theme that I already like because I know that this is a responsive theme that is mobile compatible so its call montezuma and we can install that now.

That will take a second to do and then activate it. And if we come and have a look at the blog now you can see its completely changed and its looking a lot better, so now we can actually move onto writing our very first post.

So publishing your first post is really easy come to posts, add new. Enter a title, Hello There! Welcome to the blog and drop in some content which I’ve already prepared and then you can add an image nice and easily, I’m going to add a little image of myself and there’s a few options down here we are going to align it right, link to nothing and click insert into post and you can see it’s done that there.

Here it says in the mean time you can check out these lolcats so I’m going to add now an image gallery and you can select more than 1 image at a time and it will upload those for us just like that and you can see that these are ticked and we have 3 selected so you can say create gallery, create a new gallery, insert gallery which inserts there.

I’m just going to add a YouTube video down here and let’s take a look at what that looks like quickly.

Ok that’s not looking to bad so we can close that and I’m just going to show you this shortcode feature here it’s pretty quickly.

Let’s add a link to our hostgator affiliate, if we click on the this panel opens. Now this makes it really easy to add things like this into your posts. So you can have tabbed content or you can have info boxes like this, success boxes like this and all you need to do is edit that text there and click confirm and add shortcode.

But let’s add a button for our hostgator affiliate link and we can change the code here and just say link= copy our affiliate link, paste it in there and then change the text to visit hostgator now and then click confirm and add shortcode which adds it there, and if we preview that you can see it right there to click on.

Now give it a category I’m going to call it personal because it’s a personal post about me and we can set the SEO title so Hello There! Welcome to my blog and the meta description you always want to set these when writing a post by the way never leave them blank.

So the meta description will be Welcome to blogsanity where bloggers lose their minds on the internet 24 hours a day 7 days a week. So now we can just come and click publish and our post is now live so we can check that out, here it is.

Here’s our sharing icons, here’s our video, the sharing boxes down here and if you come and have a look at the home page now you can see our second post and it’s got a nice coloury black and white effect on the image automatically.

Now we have still got the default post here, the default page here and we’ve got no widgets setup so let’s take care of that quickly. If you come to all posts and this one here move that to the trash and then come across to pages, trash. Let’s take a look at the site now, so you can see the other page is gone and the other post so we can close that.

Now if you come to appearance and widgets you can decide what will display in the sidebar. So we can add a search box, we can list our most recent posts and we can choose how many to display, save. And we can display our categories and press save and if we come and look at the site again now we can see we have this content in the sidebar.

So that is your blog setup it is SEO optimised, it is responsive for mobile devices, it is secure, it will automatically backup, it has all of the social sharing features and you are pretty much ready to go now and start making your first profits online.

If you want to take it a step further though I would recommend setting up an email subscription newsletter so you can actually capture peoples data and that’s something that I do on my blog here, get my latest posts and I also have little sign up forms here.

Now driving email subscribers should be a key focus of your blog so I’m going to show you how to do that very quickly with this blog and we are going to setup an aweber account quickly.

This is Aweber or aweber and you can sign up to start your email list for just $1 so do that and I’m going to login quickly.

This is the admin back end and the first thing you’ll want to do is create and list then setup all the list options over here that are pretty self-explanatory and then you want to create a sign up form, click create a sign up form and there are various templates you can choose from here, I’m going with this one.

Different colour schemes now we’ve got a blue site so I’m just going to go with the red so it really stands out, load template. You will want to change the width to 320, there we go. And you can enter a bit of text here – subscribe to the blog now. I never send out spam emails, centre that, close. Then we can save the form and I’m actually going to remove this as well ok, save the form.

Go to step 2, give it a name so I’m going to call that blogsanity and go to step 3, save the form and that is the aweber side of the configuration done.

Adding the email subscription box is really easy just come to settings, aweber web form. It will ask us to connect our account like this, login in, grab that code, enter into here and make the connection.

Next we need to go to the widgets page and we can drag the aweber web form here and make it the very top one and select our list and also the name of the form, remember we called it blogsanity, click save and if we come and checkout what the blog looks like now.

There we there is your email subscription box so people can sign up and you can market to them. And that is it, that is how to setup a blog over my shoulder step by step that is SEO optimised, it is responsive and will work on mobile devices, you have social sharing buttons here and you also email subscription along with a contact form.

So hopefully this gives you the perfect platform to kick start your blogging career or you can use this as an affiliate site or whatever you want to use it for but you’ve got no excuse now to just get stuck in and start your first blog today.

So what are you waiting for? Start your blog today and follow my success!

Just go to http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/BlueHost and you’ll be able to have you blog up and running in minutes! See ya!

Video Transcript

Hi guys Matthew Woodward here and welcome to my SEOMoz review and tutorial.

Today you are going to learn how to setup SEOMoz properly and get a full tour of the backend over my shoulder as I work to improve my own blog.

You’re going to learn how to use the various tools to improve the rankings of your websites. How to automatically identify SEO problems and fix them easily.

How to monitor a range of factors including links, social signals and rankings in multiple search engines and how to build, schedule and automate awesome reports.

So this is what the SEOMoz website looks like if you’ve not seen it before and it is a collection of SEO and social media tools.
It’s all web based so you don’t need to run or install any software and there is a completely free fully functional 30 day trial available so just click on the big yellow button to start your free trial and enter in your details and once I’ve done that I will resume the video.

So once you’ve signed up to the trial you can build your first campaign and if you enter your website URL here and a name for the campaign.

Up here you’ve got a couple of different options now subdomain will track purely www.matthewwoodward.co.uk but if I had a subdomains perhaps blog.matthewwoodward.co.uk I would want to choose root domain which would track all of the main domains and any subdomains.

But I just want to track www.matthewwoodward.co.uk which is what most people will want to do. So I can continue to the next step. We can select our target search engines.

In Google Analytics I know that most of my traffic comes from Google United States and Google UK, that makes up for about 85% of my traffic. Check your Google Analytics to see which ones you should be tracking, continue.

Now you can choose to track your competitors. Now I’m not going to track any but if you’re an ecommerce site perhaps you might want to see how your competitors are performing against you. You can add them here.

You can also connect your account to Google Analytics which pulls in more data and provides much more actionable reports. I recommend you do this so I’m just going to pause the video while I do that.

Ok I have now done that, continue. Now it allows you to add in a bunch of keywords as well as brand keywords. So you want to have a look in analytics and see which keywords are driving your top traffic and also to find any brand keywords that people might be using to search for you. So one moment while I do that.

Ok so I’ve added some keywords in here now you can add more you can actually track up to 300 keywords this is just to get you going. And I’ve defined my brand keywords as my URL, my last name and part of my first name because some people spell it like that, some people with Matthew and so on.

So let’s hit create my campaign, also SEOMoz review I don’t have a page for that yet – I’m making the tutorial for that right now so it will be interesting to see how that performs over time. So, create my campaign.

That will kick off the first crawl for your site, it can take a couple of days to complete. In the mean time you can see some other aspects of your campaign but really you need to wait for the first run of the starter crawl to complete and you’ll get an email when that’s ready.

So I will resume the tutorial when that’s done.

After the first scrape is complete this is what the dashboard will look like and here you can see the campaign we added before and you can actually add up to 5 campaigns here but let’s just drilldown into the campaign we setup earlier.

Now this brings us to the campaign overview screen and we’ll come back to this there is something you need to do quickly. If you come to the social area here you need to add your twitter and Facebook accounts because it takes a while for it to pull in that data.

I added my accounts here a few days ago and even still it hasn’t pulled in all of the data just yet. So come over and add your accounts here as soon as possible, when you come onto this tab for the first time it takes you through it step by step its really easy to do.

So let’s shoot back to the overview of the campaign quickly here. Now here are all of the different tools that you have got within the campaign and sometimes there are sub menus and other options but let’s just take a look at the overview quickly.

Now it has pulled in my data from Google Analytics here we can see the organic search visits have increased by 14% week on week which is pretty good and we can also see that my branded keywords which are the ones that include my name have increased 31% week on week.

Whereas the non-branded keywords only increased 13% so this shows me that my brand recognition is increasing quicker than the keyword growth for general terms which is a good thing.

Coming down we can see crawl diagnostics, now this goes through your entire site and checks it for a range of issues. As you can see here I’ve been a bit of a naughty boy with the missing meta description tag. I can take a guess that will be forum topics because I tried to integrate them, but couldn’t.

Keyword rankings here, now we only tracked 5 keywords in the initial setup. We can add more and I’m going to show you how to do that and you can see here it also tracks the ranking changes as well as traffic from the keywords your tracking in your campaign.

Competitive link analysis, this allows you to compare your link profile with your competitors directly. Now I didn’t add any competitors but later on in this tutorial I’m going to add a few to see how I stack up against some of the authorities in this niche and some of the people I’ve been following for many years.

So that is the campaign overview and let’s take a look first at adding keywords to our campaign so we can begin tracking all of those and which keywords that you should add as well.

Adding keywords to track is quite easy. Just come up to manage keywords and here you can just add the keywords you want to track in this box, click add keywords and it will begin to track them and you can track up to 300 in total.

Now finding which keywords you want to track, SEOMoz actually make this pretty easy for us. You can come to the find new keywords tab and this shows us the top 200 keywords currently sending you traffic from Google Analytics and you can see how many visits you’ve had in the last week, the last 4 weeks and where you currently rank for those keywords.

You can also filter for branded keywords like this or non-branded keywords, like this. And you can even analyse the keyword further to determine how difficult it is and what you could do to improve you rank.

So the last time it checked the rankings for SENuke XCR review I was rank number 3 and if we click here we can do a deeper analysis and we can see how difficult the keyword is as well as various signals here that look at how authorative each site is in the top 10.

Now you can actually see since it updated the ranks I have moved into the number 1 position for SENuke XCR review and just take a look at that. Have a look at how my page authority and domain authority stacks up against the rest.

It’s no way near the strongest but it’s not all about the links, that’s all I’m going to say.

So you can see here how easy it is to get a quick overview for keywords. You can also run more detailed reports if you want to look into it further and if we just come back to the keyword bit we can see a tickbox here and if you wanted to add that you can click on add keyword.

So you can just work through this list adding the keywords you want to track but you can also look in Google Analytics yourself for some additional keywords you might want to track.

So if you’re in analytics you can just hit traffic sources, search engine optimisation and queries. Now this interface is what used to be available via Google Webmaster Tools but its now available directly in Analytics. It’s always kind of a day or two behind but it does let you see a lot of data about keywords that you’re not currently seeing.

The problem is if you come to sources, search, organic and look at the keywords here we are getting a lot of this not provided data which is when people are searching with secure search enabled which is enabled by default now which is a problem because we don’t know much about all of these visits in this information.

But when you look at search engine optimisation & queries you can see here the terms, the popular terms are different and we can also see what sort of impressions we are getting and what your average position is.

So just Ahrefs on its own I’m getting average position of 4.4 – that’s probably a keyword worth tracking. It’s had a lot of impressions; I’ve had 35,000 impressions on that keyword in the last month. So have a look through here and see if there are any keywords you would like to add and track that aren’t available through the SEOMoz interface.

So I’m just going to compile my list of keywords now and add them to the keyword tracker.

I’ve added a total of 48 keywords to my campaign and you can see some of them down here. I didn’t go overboard just some of the ones I would like to keep an eye. And after doing that if you come across to campaign settings here you can change a few things up and you can also add tracking from other search engines here and countries if you want to as well as select which is the main one you want to track.

Don’t forget to add your Google Analytics profile and you can also add your competitors down here which I’m going to do now. Let’s see how I stack up against some of the people I’ve been following for many years.

Shoemoney the obvious one, let’s have a crack with John Chow see what he can do and Zac Johnson he is a pretty cool dude and save settings.

Now the rankings only update weekly, this is a good thing. I know a lot of people like to track rankings daily but there’s that much fluctuation and looking at things daily rarely gives you any actionable data it just makes things harder and more confusing for you.

Now for the keywords I have just added in its not going to fetch that data for us just yet but for the original 5 keywords we can see how we are performing here as well as any traffic increases those keywords have brought to us.

So this report will be much more handy once it’s gone out and pulled that data in for us. You can also do additional research on the keywords and look at history and ranking analysis and things like that.

As well as, you can actually export these reports into a variety of different formats but I’m going to explore the reports with you in much more detail because this is a really powerful part of SEOMoz.

So while it’s going to pull in all of those rankings let’s take a look at the crawl diagnostics. The crawl diagnostics summary is actually somewhere you should spend a lot of time. As you can see here I’ve got quite a lot of errors and warnings that I obviously need to go through and fix and you can see a breakdown of all of these errors and warnings as we scroll further down.

And if you want to dig into anything further you can just click on it, so title element to long we can click on that there and this graph will actually progress overtime and show you so if you fix all of these now the next time it crawls you should see this graph become a downward trend and you can see all of the URLs here.

How many characters they are and how many they are over by and you can work through and fix those for example. You can quickly navigate between the different errors here.

Now one of the ways that I had a big problem with was meta description tag, that was by far the biggest problem. Like 600 and odd pages that don’t have the meta description tag set and we can quickly see here. Ok none of my category pages have a meta description, that’s pretty naughty. The contact me page that’s pretty basic error for me not to have that there.

The forums, now the BBPress plugin itself doesn’t actually generate the meta descriptions but look at how many different forum topics there are here that don’t have the meta description.

So we need to fix that no doubt about it, now I have found the quickest way to work through the crawl diagnostics summary is to export it to a csv which produces a spread sheet that looks like this and then if you come up to data, filter – this adds a quick filter to everywhere.

So this lists all of the different URL’s and the errors that they have and you can just work through these. So if we find the missing meta description tag we can just change this to true and that filters out all the URLs that have that problem.

Once you have fixed all of them you can select all, move onto the next error. So duplicate page content, we can click on true and it will tell us the URL that it believes has the duplicate page content over here.

So it makes it very easy to work through all the errors when you export it as a csv. Let’s quickly take a look at how we can very very quickly fix a lot of these errors.

So let’s take a look at fixing these issues quickly. The missing meta description tag is one of the main offenders and it was mostly forum topics, replies and category pages that contributed to that. If we look at the source code here of a forum post it even says for us here-

Admin only notice this page doesn’t show a meta description because it doesn’t have one. Write one specifically or setup a template so I’m using the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin and if you come to SEO title & metas here and come to post types you can actually define the meta description templates for the various aspects including forums, topics & replies if you have BBpress installed.

Now the reason my forum doesn’t have meta descriptions is when I first set it up I wasn’t using this plugin and I tried to code it in and hack the meta descriptions but it just broke everything and eventually I gave up.

But since using this plugin I’ve obviously not thought about that and its actually very easy to fix hundreds of errors here. You can also setup meta description templates for your category pages & tag pages. So let’s take a look at doing that.

First of all if you come to the help tab there are a number of placeholders that you can use to make sure that each meta description is unique. The one I’m going to use to fix the forums is this excerpt tag which will replace, will auto generate a meta tag for you.

So if we come to post types here and find all the ones to do with forums. That one, that one, that one and this one and this one and hit save settings.

And if we come across to our source code and refresh it. There we go we can now see the meta description is present. So all of the missing meta descriptions for forums is now fixed which is probably 500 or 550 or so of the errors and we just need to do the same for our category pages.

So I quite like that we could just insert an excerpt here that will auto generate as well. Not perfect, you should probably go in and if you come into post > categories you can actually setup a description for each category here and use that as the meta description. That’s the best way to do it but if you’re short on time you can just add the excerpt into there.

So you know if you do see a lot of errors when you first login don’t be worried. They are quite easy to fix. Title element too long let’s take a look at what’s causing that see how quickly we can fix that.

Ok so its tagging my name onto the end which is like 17 or 18 characters and you can see a lot of these are under that kind of level so we can fix a lot of these errors by actually removing my name from the end of the title and that is done if you come to post types, you can see here this site name placed holder that’s getting tagged onto the end of everything.

In fact we can remove all of that and just have the title we I actually set for posts and pages and that should remove a lot of the title length issues and again save settings and a lot of those are fixed. So let’s move on to the next part of SEOMoz.

The on page optimisation tool will provide optimisation advice for all of the keywords that you track. Now these get updated weekly and because I’ve only just added a lot of keywords there’s only 3 reports available right now but next week they’ll be available for every keyword.

If you click into them down here you can see all of the different points that it checks for here and it doesn’t think I’ve used keywords appropriately and it tells you why it doesn’t and what the recommendation is and it does this for all of the various points here that you can see.

You can also export these reports as PDF, but if you want an on page report right now that hasn’t been generated yet what you can do is select any of your tracked keywords here, import any URL that you want there and click grade my on page optimisation and that will go out and fetch a fresh report for you.

Moving onto the link analysis section remember before we added my competitors as Shoemoney, John Chow and Zac Johnson just to see how I stack up against some of the people I’ve been reading for a number of years and as you can see I’m pretty far behind in the metrics here.

Don’t even win 1 of them, not even close. So if you want to learn a bit more about these metrics you can mouse over and click on learn more. You can also delve down and see which are the most powerful links for each of your competitors.

You can see John Chow has got Technorati links as has Zac Johnson so perhaps I need to get some links from there. Shoemoney he’s also got Technorati links that I don’t. I would love a link from the SEOBook glossary, maybe one day I’ll earn one.

You can also drill down and look at the top pages of getting links as well as the anchor text phrases used most. You can see the trend here is our name or domain name between all of us so it’s interesting to see that has happened in line with my competitors and that’s what I should be expecting to see.

You can also drilldown into backlinks even further; let’s have a nosey at some of John Chows. See more in open site explorer so here you can actually look at all of the inbound links that SEOMoz has found. Just for reference though Ahrefs will find a lot more links than open site explorer does but this gives you a nice indication you can download it all as a CSV. You can really drill down into the anchor text and everything like that and what’s really driving things.

You can compare link metrics with any other URLs that you want and there are some advanced reports here and open site explorer is an entire tool in itself which you get with SEOMoz and they’ve just launched this just discovered links as they discover links they are trying to get them into the database as quickly as possible where as previously database updates were done in batches.

They are trying to get this to be nearly real time which will be really really impressive if they manage to do that.

So you can see that drilling down all of the links here the actual link analysis gives you lots of actionable data and reveals your competitors strongest link sources that you can go and steal so that’s a nice nice feature to have.

The organic traffic data, all of this is pulled in from Google Analytics and provides a nice overview of how many organic visits you’ve had and the changes which were on the overview screen before.

You get some nice little graphs here so you can see how organic traffic has changed week on week and you can see a little bit of a spike here after a little bit of a decline and it’s also broken down by search engine here, pages per visit, average time.

So you can actually see Bing only produced 11 visits but those visits actually clicked through considerably more pages than a Google visitor and spent more time on the site and had a much less bounce rate. That’s an interesting set of statistics, similar Yahoo traffic visited more pages and had a much lower bounce rate than Google.

Interesting, anyway you can also take a look at URLs receiving entrances via search so which are the most popular URL’s people are landing on when they search and you can see here interesting I only published that post a few days ago and already it is one of the most popular URLs getting traffic from search.

And you can also look at the various keywords that are driving that and you can see a lot of my keywords are branded with my name. So although you would probably use analytics to drilldown into this data in much more detail it does provide a really nice overview and you can flick it to a monthly view here to see month and month changes and well that’s a much better looking growth isn’t it month on month.

The social dashboard also provides you with some pretty actionable data as you can see here it’s still pulling in the data and this will work much better when it has data from a certain time period so it can actually track how many new Twitter and Facebook interactions you’ve had in the last 30 days but it’s not actually pulled that data in for my account yet.

Unfortunately there’s no Google+ tracking which is kind of weird because the SEOMoz team have done all sorts of coverage on why Google+ is so important but there not currently providing it in the dashboard. I do believe they are going to start providing it in the next couple of months but that is a lacking feature at the moment so hopefully that will come to us very soon. They do add new features and tools all the time.

If you come and have a look here you can see an example report of social activity and things once its pulled it in as well as your likes growth and retweets growth and everything like that.

You can drilldown into further reports using the submenu here so if we jump into the Twitter reports we can see a little bit more data like we’ve got some follower growth here 942 jumped up to 952 and there’s various different graphs you can get here and additional metrics and exactly the same kind of reports are available for Facebook which looks something like this.

Obviously this will be much more useful once you’ve got a bit of historic data in here and you can see how the growths and how that has affected traffic and everything like that for your site directly.

So the last thing we need to cover is the reports section for your campaign and this is really powerful stuff. First of all you need to add a new report and you get a number of choices here such as the title, a description, do you want it weekly, monthly or quarterly and who to email the report to when its ready and you can completely customise exactly what is included in your report.

So for example you might build a report for a client that shows them their ranking summary, improvements and declines. You can view examples all of these here and what the will actually produce in the report and here’s the ranking improvements and declines.

So providing a top level summary is really easy, you tick what you want to include. You can give it a title and a description and choose which search engine it pulls the data from.

Now the default descriptions are pretty cool here it allows you to provide quite a professional and informative report really easily pretty much by ticking the boxes and using the default options here and you can see there’s all sorts of different metrics.

So the highest ranked keywords, you can provide this graph and show them which keywords are ranking highest. You might also include traffic in a report that you’re sending to a client. But to a developer for example you might choose to just send all of the crawl diagnostics and create a diagnostics report that only gets sent to members of the technical team so they are constantly informed of any issues that they need to fix.

You can see here all of these different types of reports or sections that you can include in the final reports. Creating that report, scheduling it out to send to whoever whenever you want. This makes it really easy to keep clients up to date with what’s going on, keep people up to date with changes that need to be made and so forth.

It’s one of the most powerful reporting tools I have come across. So that’s all of the different features and functions of the campaign section of SEOMoz and you can add campaigns for up to 5 websites in total. But they also have a bunch of other handy tools.

Now we’ve already touched on open site explorer and you can use this to get the backlinks for any competing URL that you want. Paste the URL in there, hit search and it will retrieve all of the backlinks pointing to it.

You also have free access to FollowerWonk Twitter analytics, this is actually a pretty cool tool let’s just jump into it quickly and I will show you what it does. So you can get an analysis on peoples followers, if I enter mine in here it will just quickly go and fetch all of this data so I can see that most of my followers reside in the UK and the east coast of the united states.

The social authority of the people that are following me. I have lots of people with not much authority and just a couple of people with a decent amount of authority. We can also see genders, follower counts of my followers, following counts, account ages, recencies of tweets, total tweets – all sorts of different statistics and you can get this.

Oh yes this is really cool as well, the most active hours for my followers so I can see at what time throughout the day that my follower base is the most active so I know when I will get the most reaction from my Tweets.

And there are a bunch of other little tools available throughout FollowerWonk but this is the one that I really quite liked having a look through.

We’ve also got the newly released fresh web mentions tool and this is an extension of open site explorers new sort of real-time attempt at adding links to the database so if enter my URL here let’s see where I have been mentioned recently and lets have a look across the last 4 weeks and we can see a few places I’ve been mentioned and I can jump in here and react to those people.

For example the forum post here, oh looking for an SEO tutorial thread containing 2+ hour long video tutorials well I know they are looking specifically for my tutorial so I could jump into that thread and point them in the right direction.

Now this is in beta it’s not returned that many results really, BuzzBundle would do a lot better for monitoring the web for terms. So I’m sure they’ll make a lot of improvements to this tool overtime it has only just been released as a beta so bear that in mind.

And then we just have some of the other tools we’ve already looked at. They have an SEO toolbar that you can install in your web browser, a web crawler to crawl any URL you want and check for issues and errors quickly and you also have access to the Q&A forum where there’s loads of people talking about various problems and there’s some fairly knowledgeable people in the forum here.

The community, YouMoz user blog, there’s various events and the learn SEO section is quite detailed there’s a huge amount of resources here to help, perfect really for anyone that is new and just getting into SEO. You can also read the beginners guide to SEO now you don’t need to be a member for this but it’s a really nice guide of the basics of SEO and how everything fits together.

As you can see it’s really nicely laid out and easy to follow and understand so if you are new to SEO be sure to check that out.

So that pretty much wraps up my SEOMoz review, I hope you have seen how handy it can be and it makes a lot of the reporting and tracking of issues quite easy to deal with for all of your campaigns.

Don’t forget there is a completely free fully functional 30 day trial available so make sure you sign up for that and add your site and see how it performs for you.

Video Transcript

Hi guys Matthew Woodward here and today I have the Licrone AIO review and tutorial. This has being requested by so many of you on the forum it is the most popular thread in the tutorial requests forum so here it is at last.

Today you’re going to learn how to use Licorne AIO properly, how to use it as part of the tiered link building process. I know a lot of you guys are looking for that.

How to import your own custom target sites to build links from. How to use some of the more advanced secret features that are tucked away within Licorne and of course access to a bunch of exclusive resources for you to download on my blog underneath the video.

One of the things I have being asked most is how to use Licorne AIO for tiered link building. So to use it as part of the series all you need to do is watch part 1, the theory first. Then prepare the content as shown in video 2.

You can click on the videos below to watch them right now and then follow along with this tutorial once you have the content prepared.

After this tutorial you will then move onto the tiered link building series part 4 to build out the tier 2 and 3 links.

So that’s how to use this tutorial as part of the tiered link building process.

So this is the main interface of Licorne AIO submitter. Now I’m going to take you through some of the basic options here and things we need to setup then I’m going to show you the project and task area by setting up a quick social bookmark campaign.

So first of all let’s just jump straight into the settings here now for the most part you can leave these at default and are very self-explanatory.

The only thing I do is increase the email activation time here up to around 45 minutes.

Here you can set up your captcha services. You can see I have DeathByCaptcha setup as the first priority and GSA Captcha Breaker as the second priority.

The reason for this is GSA Captcha Breaker doesn’t support recaptcha, neither does Captcha Sniper neither of them support decaptcha and a lot of the sites we are submitting to here will use decatphca so we have to use deathbycaptcha as the first priority to get the best success rate.

DeathByCaptcha is the one I chose here because it’s the cheapest and most reliable in my experience.

Then we can look at the spinning tab. My preferred service as you all know is The Best Spinner and I have my settings setup here and there are a bunch of other options here that you can leave at default but have a look through them.

If you have a Copyscape account you can add it, down here you can use Article Builder and Big Content accounts but have a look through the other options, really the spinning details, the captcha details and the email activation time are all you need to look at really.

Once you’ve updated them click save settings. The other thing I wanted to show you here are these tabs. Here’s a tab of the logs of everything that’s happened. This will have some more data in it once we’ve setup the test campaign.

Proxies, now this is very important you need to add your own private proxies here so you get the best success rates.

Personally I use semi dedicated proxies from BuyProxies they have being superb. I used to use the dedicateds from SquidProxies and they were terrible.

So to add your proxies all you need to do is go to add, paste them in here click, click add proxies and that adds them to your list.

You can also manage any email accounts that you use for account creation here so you know this is just a dummy one I setup as a test but once you setup a campaign if you want to do manual email activation you can just tick them and click start email activation.

This is a nice way to keep track of all the email accounts you’ve used and it’s all auto populated as well which is pretty cool.

And finally here we have a pinger so you can turn pinging services on or off, they have a few different pinging sources and you can integrate with lindexed, backlinksindexer and so forth.

So that is the general interface but let’s take a look at creating an actual campaign.

So I’m going to very quickly show you how to create a social bookmark project and the process that we go through. Then I’m going to take you through the diagram wizard along with some of the more advanced settings.

SO first of all if you click on new project, I’m going to call this Bookmarking, add project.

And then we need to come up to new task, account creation task. Now here you can see all of the different tasks you can create. You can create an article task, bookmarks, directories, profiles, wikis, web 2.0′s, rss & social networks.

But first of all we need to create some accounts so let’s open that. First its asking us for a task name, I’m just going to call it bookmark accounts and click next.

The first thing you want to do here is create a new profile. That opens up this windows, for the most part everything’s already filled out for you including username, first name, last name, address details and so forth.

The only thing you need to did is select an email address to use with this profile so if you go on Create New.

Now if you don’t already have the email address already created you need to go and create one at this point. You can use Hotmail or AOL for example, you can even go to Fiverr and buy 500 already created email accounts for $5 or you can use a disposable one here but you’ll find a lot of services block these from being used in the sign up process.

So I already have a Hotmail account I have already prepared so I can just fill out the details here. That will be pop3.live.com and test email.

You always want to make sure the email account is working properly because if you sign up to loads of places you are not going to be able to confirm your accounts.

So once that’s done hit OK, add email and make sure it’s the one that is select there and enter a profile name. I’m just going to call this bookmarks1 and create account profile.

And here you can see the account profile it is going to use. Now all we need to do is select the sites it’s going to register. So you can either select a certain category of sites or you can select by a certain platform, for example let’s have a look here but we are going to select the category of bookmark sites, select all category.

You can see here that has selected 146 sites for us and if you scroll down here you can see the various bookmark sites, then all we need to do is click on finish.

Task has been successfully added, ok so that is the account creation part successful. Now all we need to do is come down to start submitter and that will go out now, process this job and create all of the accounts.

You can have control over the number of threads here and because I’m using a lot of proxies and have a powerful machine I’m going to rack it up a little bit.

I’m going to pause the video while it goes out and completes these.

So now that has completed all we need to do is wait the predefined amount of time to confirm the emails or you can just force it now like I have done here.

You can click the tick box and then start email activation and that will go out and fetch all of the activation emails for you and activate them. You can just do that again here and you can see it go through the process there.

So I will pause the video while it completes that. So this is just a test I’m not going to wait for all the activation emails to come in.

Before if you remember in the settings we set the email activation time to be 45 minutes. I’ve left it like 2, so we are probably going to get quite a high fail rate when we submit the bookmark task itself purely because we haven’t waited for the emails to come in and activate the accounts.

So if we come to new task and select bookmark submission task it asks us for a task name. I’m just going to call it submit bookmarks, click on next.

It asks us for a list of URLs to bookmark so I’m just going to use mydomain.com as an example. Then we need to provide the bookmark title, description and tags.

Now you should watch the advanced spinning tutorial to learn how to spin this properly so it is readable and passes human moderation every time but I have already got my content prepared here and we can just add a few tags.

If you want to you can preview the title or preview the bookmark descriptions and once your happy with all of this just click on next. Now it asks us to select the account profile and remember before we created bookmarks1 account profile and here is a list of all of the sites it has registered to.

So we can hit select all and click on next. Now this will ask us to create the name of the list that it saves all of the live links to so as it creates a link it adds it to a list, and we can call this list a name to refer to later.

So just call that BM1, add output URL list.

Next the submission method you either chose instant submission where it goes out and submits them all right now. Or a drip feed submission where it will limit until, if you select 10 here it will create 10 new live bookmarking links per day until it reaches 87.

So you can play with that here and last you can schedule this task to start at a certain time or have it start after another task completes.

So you could have once you have created all of your accounts you could have the bookmarks submit, then the articles submit automatically afterwards. But I’m just going to choose instant submission here and have the task run straight away.

So if we click on finish, click on ok, hit the start submitter button we will see that go out now and start the bookmarks. So I’m just going to pause the video while it does that.

And that’s now completed and it was actually more successful that I expected because I didn’t do all of the activation emails.

So the next step is if you select the project here you can generate a report and this tells you how many were successful, how many failed along with all of the information here and the logins which are important as it’s something we might need in the future and a list of all of the live links that it created.

You can also get the live links report just by clicking this which creates a text file here.

If there are any failed tasks you can just click on retry failed submissions.

So that is the basics of how to setup a project and tasks within the project. If you wanted to create you know a web 2.0 task, you could do that you’ve just got to fill out the information here.

It’s pretty simple, create accounts, create submission project, enter your content and click on start submitter and that will create all of the links for you.

So next we are going to take a look at how to use the diagram wizard. So let me show you how to use the diagram wizard but also use Licorne all in one to build our first tier of links.

Now if you’ve watched the tiered link building tutorials you will see I have used Ultimate Demon in that tutorial, but if you don’t have Ultimate Demon you can actually use Licorne to achieve the same results.

That’s what we are going to do now, so this is how to build your tier 1 links using Licorne AIO instead of ultimate demon. And I also have a separate tutorial available that shows you how to do the same with SENuke XCR but here’s how to do it in Licorne.

So, new project and we are going to call this Tier 1 Links, add project. And then the first thing that we need to do is create all of the accounts we are going to use so that’s new account creation task – we are going to call that tier accounts, click next.

Account profile, we will create a new profile and again most of this information is already filled out for us all we need to do is add an email address. So click on create new, paste the email address there, the username, the password and the server and test the email.

You always want to make sure you test the email and its successfully logging in. Ok, add email and let’s just give it a name tier1, create account profile.

Now we need to tell it exactly which sites we want it to register, so we are going to select all of the article directories, all of the social bookmarks, all of the directories, all of the social networks, all of the web 2.0 properties and all of the Wikis.

As you can see here there are nearly 2 thousand sites selected just click finish and the task has being added.

Now all we need to do is let it run through and create all of these. As you can see now its running through so I’m going to pause the video while it completes that process.

Thats now finished so we can come up to the diagram wizard here and open it up, click on next.

Now this looks very similar to the SENuke XCR wizard but it actually works a lot better in my opinion. So we can actually create the tier 1 link profile that we used Ulitmate Demon to create in the tiered link building series but this is how you can do it using the diagram wizard.

If you drag out these different modules here and you can drag and connect them to the money site like that.

And with SENuke XCR at this point you would actually click next, but here you just double click on each element and setup the additional details that are required.

Now if you followed the advanced spinning tutorial you will already have the links to your money site and other contextual links embedded in your content. But if you just have spun articles that don’t have any links at the moment then Licorne can insert them for you.

You can just add a list of keywords and then a list of the relevant links or URL’s you want to create links to and it will automatically replace the words with links for you in the articles as it publishes them.

My advice is to follow the advanced spinning tutorial in which case you can leave these blank and click confirm. Ah you’ve got to have 1 keyword though and 1 URL. Ok and then confirm and now you can see this is no longer greyed out and has some colour to it so its setup properly.

Next social bookmarks, enter a task name, next. Now it automatically uses the URL’s that we have provided and here we can just paste in the title and description which I have already prepared along with some tags and hit next.

Now it asks us which accounts to use, so you can say tier 1, select all in category bookmarks and we have 93 sites selected click next. And you saw this screen as well before we are going to call this tier1links, add output URL list.

Again we can drip feed the submission and if we are going to be using this to create a set of tier 1 links is drip feed this so it lasts for about 2 weeks. Now that means we probably want the daily successful count for this around 7 then leave this options at default and click done.

As you can see the social bookmark module is now setup and now we just need to go through the rest of these and set them up as its asking us to.

Here we can just click next, add article now you’ve got lots of different options for importing articles. You can use stuff from Kontent Machine, I’m a big lover of Kontent Machine. But I like to add our own custom article that has being spun to the specification of the advanced spinning tutorial.

And we can just fill out the details here nice and easily. The title, the actual content of the article here and then you have to scroll across here and add the article summary. That’s possibly a bit too long, nah that will do.

And the resource box and some tags and click on add article, then next. In fact you can add more than one article here if you want and it will use them at random, but if you’ve got the content prepared correctly you don’t need to do that so you can hit next.

It asks you for your accounts again, select tier 1, select all in category article and next. And again we are going to go with tier1links as our live links, drip feed submission a couple a day, click finish.

Ooops task name, that was on the very first screen and there we go. Now we can move onto Wikis.

Let’s give it a task name and not make that mistake again, again we can just add an article a custom article. I actually have a different one prepared for this. Paste that in and the actual article content, paste that in and we don’t need a summary or resource for Wikis.

I forgot to mention here you can check the article with Copyscape if you want and you can also preview it but that will do for us, add article, next.

Which accounts do you want to use, select the tier 1 group, select all in category Wiki and then next.

And again drip feed submission, we’ve got 900 across 14 days so you probably want this around the 40 drip feed setting there. This isn’t a hard and fast rule just roughly so it goes across 2 weeks. Click finish, oops we forgot the output URL list which is tier1links, finish.

And last but not least are the web 2.0 properties, now with the web 2.0 content they usually accept images and videos so you can spin those within the article as well, all of this is covered in my spinning tutorial.

I’m just going to paste some sample content in here though quickly. And we have the tags to fill out here and hit add article, next.

Select tier 1, select all in category web 2.0 properties, select all, yes, next and select the output URL list. 49 drip feed submission we are going to do maybe 4 a day, finish.

And you can see now that all of those are completed so we can just click on finish and we can see there it has successfully added the tasks for us and you can see already its creating them for us.

You could strengthen your tier link profile as well, you might come to new task and decide to add some directory submissions into it and also some rss submssions so you can or even add a social network tasks and get some tweets and social signals to it.

All of these are extra tasks that you can do to boost the strength of your tier 1 link profile and don’t be scared to do some video submission tasks and really strengthen out your first tier link profile.

But really what you should do before any of this and I stress this in the tiered link building videos is you should go out and scrape your own target list of sites to build links form.

Now here I have just used the default list of sites that comes with Licorne AIO but if you move to the manage tab here there is actually a whole bunch of sites that are trained here and it supports lots of different platforms so you can go out and scrape your own list of sites and get links your competitors aren’t.

This is often what makes a campaign successful or not successful a lot of people skip over this step and want to you know use the list that comes with it.

But we have all of these different platforms here that we can go out and scrape for and get even more sites to post to. So if you refer to part 2 of the tiered link building tutorial it teaches you how to do that and I’m actually going to provide a list of sites that I have personally scraped for you guys that you can download underneath this video on my blog and you’ll be able to import that in and start straight away with more sites than most people will normally have access to.

But I seriously seriously recommend you go out and scrape your own list of sites, it’s very easy to do – it even tells you the footprint to search for in Google. You can say ok I want to find some more Dolphin sites so powered by dolphin is a footprint, you could scrape for that in Scrapebox and then come and import it into here.

So let’s take a little look at doing all of that a bit closer. So one way you can add sites is if you come to manage sites here and add sites you can just paste in a list of sites and it will add them to a list for you.

However the best way I have found to add sites is if you come up to tools, link related, link analyser and here you can paste in your list of links adjust the thread count, hit start analyzing and it will go through every single link identify exactly which platform it belongs to and whether it can post to it or not.

And at the end of this analysis you can just tick which sites that you want and add them directly to your database here or you can export them.

So what you should do is watch part 2 of the tiered link building tutorial, learn how to scrape, I’m going to make this final list available for you to download and import yourself and this is the process you should follow to do that.

And I’m also going to provide a list of footprints for you to use inside Scrapebox because the footprints you need for Licorne are different from the ones you need for Ulitmate Demon.

So I’m going to put all of this together for you in an exclusive resource pack that’s underneath the video for you to download on my blog.

So let this run through, it’s still got a lot of links left to analyse and we’ll resume the video when it’s done.

So now you can see it found 2791 new sites that we can post links to. To add them to the database, just click select all, add selected links to database and that will open up the import sites windows that you saw before.

You can add a listname here so I’m just going to call it Import1 and hit add links and that will go through now and process them and add them to the database.

So let me pause it while it does that for you. So that has now completed and we have added 294 new sites and 2456 already existed in the database and some it didn’t recognise.

So that’s not a bad run and you can download this list underneath the video on my blog.

Now one of the really cool things I like about Licorne is you can actually manage the platforms yourself. And this might be a little advanced for some of you but pay attention here and you’ll see why this is useful.

Normally if you go and scrape out a new list of sites to go and find we look for certain footprints across them all. So Pligg typically on Pligg sites will have the exact phrase powered by pligg in the footer so if you do a search for that you can return a big list of pligg sites to post to.

The problem is webmasters have got savvy to this and they try to remove a lot of the footprints so you can’t detect it’s a pligg site in the first place, which means you can’t register, submit to it and automate it.

But Licorne actually allows us to get round this pretty well because we can add different footprints and if you look here we can choose different footprint types which are explained down here and what the actual footprint is.

So I’m going to show you how to add a new recognition footprint that allows licorne to tell if a site is a pligg site or not and I’m going to just flick across to these sites.

So here we have 3 pligg sites that doesn’t have powered, oh actually this one does have powered by pligg but we’ll use this as an example. This one doesn’t have powered by pligg so typically it would not be able to recognise this site and this one also doesn’t have powered by pligg.

So what we can do is look for commonalities between the 3 sites and then add that as a new footprint to detect they are pligg sites. So if we have a look at the source code of each of these sites we can start having a looking for commonalities.

In fact an easier way to do this is if we have a look at the header here, right click, inspect element we can have a look at some of the code down here. If we do that for each of these and we can just start having a look through the code here for commonalities between them that mean they belong to the pligg platform.

Straight away here I can see that body dir=”ltr” is used there, its used on this site as well and its used on that site. So that’s a good indication that all of these belong to pligg.

So you can copy that and we can come straight back into Licorne here and we can add that as a footprint for recognition, if we click on add, footprint has been successfully added.

Now every time it goes through and looks for that footprint it will be able to identify it is a pligg site. Even if the webmasters trying to hide the fact it’s a pligg site to stop you trying to automate it.

So imagine being able to do that for each of the platforms here. Some of them only have 1 recognition footprint for article dashboard, I know there’s an awful lot more than that.

And you can really make this much more powerful than any other submission tool on the market because they just don’t have this function. This is a really handy function to have so make use of it, spend time going through each of these platforms here there’s only about 15 or 20 of them.

Open a few article beach sites up, look for commonalities like we just have and add your own footprints in here to help with the detection, submission process and even the links.

This really allows you to make Licorne a lot more powerful than it already is.

We are coming to the end of the tutorial now but there’s a few other things I wanted to show you. There’s some quite handy tools.

There’s a bunch of scrapers, there’s an article scraper to go out and scrape articles based on your keyword. Although I prefer using kontent machine for this type of activity.

You can also scrape Google Suggest for related keywords much like you can with Scrapebox but it’s all built into the tool here.

You can see the search engines and scrape the search engines for specific platforms and link types. You can also search for Tweets, image urls and video urls which is pretty handy especially these 2 functions right here will come in handy in the advanced spinning tutorial for sure.

And if you don’t have Scrapebox to scrape your own target list of sites you can use this scraper, its no way near as good as Scrapebox or as powerful but if you don’t have Scrapebox this is a worthwhile alternative to build your own target list of sites.

You also have some link management tools, the link analyser we took you through earlier for importing your target list of sites. There is a PR checker to bulk check the page rank of URLS.

We also have an EMD checker so you can check if EMDs are available. That’s exact match domains for a list of keywords and it will go out and check all of those for you.

And there is a live link checker so you can load a list of your backlinks and a list of the websites that you’ve built links to and it will go out and check they are live and the anchors that are being used, that’s another handy function to have.

There is also a built in bulk article spinner, really just use The Best Spinner here it’s a tool you need, it is a requirement to prepare the content for a link building campaign properly. So just use The Best Spinner when it comes to spinning your content.

And then we’ve got some keyword related things like a Rank Tracker. I’ve not tested how efficient this is at actually tracking your rankings personally I use Rank Tracker from Link Assistant because its well updated but feel free to give this a try.

And you also have a keyword analyzer to analyse the strength of competition in a niche.

Last but not last we have some various miscellaneous tools, extract links from emails sometimes handy, remove duplicates from URLS although Scrapebox actually have a free dupe remove tool that I find a lot of software lock up and fall over with a big list but dupe remove has never let me down in dealing with big lists.

We also have a bulk bit.ly shortener and a pigg upvotes now this is actually pretty cool. You can enter a list of pligg or social bookmark URLs and actually get other accounts to vote on them.

This helps you stands out from the crowd because most people that build social bookmark links don’t actually have any votes on their links. So if you can give each of your social bookmark links a few votes that kind of makes it look a bit more real and natural so this is a very handy tool for you to have.

And really that completes the Licorne All In One tutorial. I’ve taken you through how to setup a quick social bookmark campaign and this process is pretty much the same for any of the other tasks that you want to complete here.

And I’ll show you how to use the diagram designer to build a tier 1 set of links similar to those we used Ultimate Demon to create in the tiered link building series.

So that’s Licorne All In One, I hope that has answered all of the questions you had, I know a lot of you have requested this tutorial and you should now be able to use it like a pro.

One of the biggest benefits of it though is its actually cheaper than Ultimate Demon and SENuke XCR even though it offers similar features as well as some of those extra tools I showed you at the end which are pretty cool as well.

But if you want to check it out for yourself there is a fully functional trial available to download so make sure you go and grab that.

But first don’t forget to check out my spinning tutorial to prepare your content and then you can also check out part 4 of the tiered link building series to build tier 2 and 3 to these links and really power them up further.

So I hope that answered all of your questions, see ya!