Ontolo blogs

If You Want to Be a More Creative Marketer, Make Your "Nothing Time"

admin — Thu, 16 May 2013 22:50:20 +0000

In some way, shape, or form, I've studied "productivity" since reading The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People in middle school.

A couple years ago, I was drinking no less than 12 shots of espresso every day. It helped me get more work done. Faster. I could stay up later and I could get working immediately after waking up.

Get more done. Faster. The key to productivity. The key to success. The key to great accomplishments. The key to a great life...

However, as I began to pursue more creative endeavors (writing, programming, etc), I realized that "do more, faster" wasn't working.

I'd sit down to force myself to write, and it wouldn't work. When I couldn't think of anything to write, I'd get discouraged. Then I'd get frustrated. Then I'd give up on it.

NEW TOOL: 10,000 Prospects + Contacts in <20m? For $0.12?

admin — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:39:35 +0000

Yes. You can now run huge Instant Prospector reports for less than $0.12 per report on our highest level plan.

It's only $0.19 per report on our new service level at $47/mo.

We also upgraded free accounts to get 25 Instant Prospector reports. This can easily get you over 100,000 or 200,000 customized link prospects, prioritized, with contact information. For free.

Yep. It's all FancyPants McGee up in here 'n stuff.

Read on...

Major Instant Prospector Update

The biggest update is to the Instant Prospector, which now exports 37 data points per link prospect we find for you, including seven different bits of contact information (email addresses, Twitter accounts, etc). The Instant Prospector has been around for a bit, but with these upgrades, it's essentially a new link building (and content marketing) tool.

New Ontolo Feature: Exclude Low-Quality Domains from Link Prospecting & Searching

admin — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:19:51 +0000

One of the main features that has been requested recently is the ability to exclude domains from your link prospect database searches.

Taking it a couple steps further than your requests, we released the following features today.

Domain Exclusions for Campaigns

SEO & Link Building Experts List Updated! Plus, Suggest Your Favorite Expert!

admin — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:57:57 +0000

We've gone ahead and updated our SEO & Link Building Experts list, which now has 326 expert, their Twitter accounts, website, and RSS feeds all easily accessible.

We've also made it easy to let us know of changes or to suggest new experts, including yourself. Just fill out the form below to let us know of any suggestions and/or changes!

Ben & Andy

Want to be Interviewed on the Ontolo Blog? Here's How.

admin — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:42:46 +0000

As we wrapped up 2012 and have geared up for 2013, we've decided to commit to helping the SEO and link building community as much as possible. We look around the industry and see so many up-and-coming marketers, people moving from in-house to consulting, etc. And as we've shifted our focus at Ontolo away from agency services and toward building tools almost two years ago, we're better at building marketing tools than we are at marketing websites.

So this is where you come in and where we want to help. We'd love to help promote you and/or your business by interviewing you on the ontolo blog. We know that there are so many of you out there with great stories and tons to contribute that would be a benefit both to you and to our readers.

Want to Guest Post on the Ontolo Blog? Here's How.

admin — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:26:25 +0000

So this is where you come in and where we want to help. If you've got great ideas that you think others would benefit from and that would also allow you to communicate your industry expertise, we'd love to have you bring those ideas to the Ontolo audience.

The New Ontolo V5: Easier to Use, More Prospects & More Powerful

admin — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:15:07 +0000

Yesterday, we took a bit of a chance with you. We let you see some of the direct user feedback we had on the usability and interface of Ontolo V4.

It was embarrassing, painful and risky to be that open with you.

But the reality is, with 37% of users who canceled saying that the tools were difficult to use, we still didn't quite have the interface right.

On top of this, more than one out of five canceled users said that they wanted more prospects.

We had changes to make.

So we made them.

And they're big.

To the tune of more than 4.5 million prospects per month, big.

Before you get to the demo video and screenshots, you should know about the plan upgrades.

RIP Ontolo V4... Why?

admin — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:21:33 +0000

When people leave, we ask why.

These are some of the things they've said.

Verbatim.

"The UI is extremely annoying to use"

"The layout is crap"

"I found it clunky and difficult to use"

Rank Landscape Reports for Agencies, In-House SEOs & Sales

admin — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:30:27 +0000

Last night, I was outlining this post you're reading right now when I got a text message that someone had mentioned me in a tweet.

This is what it said:

From Dinosaurs to Ranking Factors: Discover How to Rank for Your Top Keywords

admin — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:38:53 +0000

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a paleontologist.

Like the data nerds in marketing nowadays, I was a dirt nerd. I'd go down to the creek and collect as much dirt as I could. Then, I'd get to my little bucket of rocks and painstakingly split open each one with one of my dad's chisels and a small hammer.

I was six years old.

...

By the time I was 15, I had gone on multi-week paleontological trips with the Oregon Museum of Science and Industries. My last trip was with the Denver Museum of Natural History. We spent 10 days in the Badlands of South Dakota, then spent three days in the hallowed back rooms cataloging our finds.

If my memory serves me correctly, we brought back more specimens that year than any year before in the same program. We also brought back the largest specimen (a tortoise) to date for the same program.