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Forex trading beginners are often so attracted to all the benefits of this way of making money that they rarely think of all the costs involved with currency trading. But the costs of the Forex transactions often lead to trader’s failures. It is important to know these costs, adjust and limit them. If you do that, you will get a serious advantage over the rest of the traders. All professional traders try to reduce the costs that eat up the profits without us knowing about it.
The first cost is commission, which is not usually paid in Forex. But if you use services of certain brokers, who offer small spreads, they usually charge commission depending on the amount of standard lots you’ve traded.
The next cost is slippage. It is the difference between the currency price when you place your order and its price when the order got filled. The price you place the order at can be $1 but your broker tells you that the rate is not available anymore and now it is $1.10, so it means if you agree to buy at the new price, here is $0.10 of slippage. Limit orders and stop orders can be slippage proof, but not the market orders. You can buy or sell immediately with the market order at the currency rate you get at the moment, but sometimes the prices can fluctuate so fast that market orders will not be able to provide you with the exact price you expect. The trade execution is guaranteed but not the exact filled price.
There are also spreads, which is a difference between the ask price and the bid. Many brokers adjust their spreads depending on the liquidity of the market at a certain time. The night time spread is typically higher than the day time spread. The reason for that is that the largest banks are opened during the day and the banks are the major liquidity providers in Forex. That makes the spread smaller. Sometimes spreads can be very high. If you are trading several times a day and with a little take profit amount at 10 pips, which means from every $10 profit you give $5 to your broker. And unfortunately, in the long run, your broker can make more money than you. The truth is that traders cannot win nonstop. But no matter is you win or lose, your trader will always get spread from you. That is why it is important to adjust your trading system.
And the last Forex trading expense is your investments in various educational materials and trading programs. There are a lot of books and Forex trainings you can choose from and that are very important for every trader, because they provide very valuable information for successful Forex trading.
People who took the decision to participate in forex trading should start from learning the basics of currency exchange market to make sure you do not have problems with this industry.
There is another option - you can hire professional traders to do this job for you - read more about forex investment here. Also make sure to look for the info in a good forex book.
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Quality inbound links are an essential element of web site marketing and search engine optimization programs to increase traffic and online sales. The greater the number of relevant and authoritative links to a web page, the greater the potential for higher search engine rankings and qualified traffic.
A recent survey from SEOmoz illustrates just how important inbound links are to rankings. An impressive 4 of the top 5 ranking factors involve inbound links:
Keyword focused anchor text from external links: 73% very high importance
External link popularity: 71% very high importance
Diversity of link sources: 67% very high importance
Trustworthiness of the domain based on link distance from trusted domains: 66% very high importance
Conversely, the No. 2 negative ranking factor was link acquisition from known link brokers or sellers (56% high importance). Incidentally, TopRank has never engaged in link acquisitions in this manner, focusing instead on earning links through creative content promotions, social media and online public relations.
Tracking links to your web pages — and those of your competitors — is a major part of any SEO strategy. Fortunately, a host of free and paid tools exist to provide a comprehensive looks at where your web pages stand.
Since link building is so important, Lee and I have collected these 10 tools for tracking inbound links for you to test:
1. Majestic-SEO
Majestic-SEO allows users to track link information for any domain – their own sites or those of competitors. Illustrated in the image below, users can access the number of:
Sub domains
Pages
Links
Referring domains
Images
NoFollow links
Redirects
By verifying ownership of a domain, users can obtain a more detailed report that includes unique links and their anchor text. With registration, the service for your own site is free. Users can buy credits to obtain that same information about other web sites such as competitors. Downloadable data is given on top anchor text, top referring domains and top pages. Plus, the tool offers a “daily update” feature that provides a daily journal of new inbound links.
Majestic SEO
2. BuzzStream Link Building
BuzzStream Link Building focuses on providing tools that help automate redundant tasks in relationship building. It’s a CRM system for link building with applications for SEO as well as online PR.
Find Contact Info
Track Email & Twitter
Manage Link Prospects
Monitor Backlinks for anchor text, nofollows, outbound links, banned words
Track activities and conversion rate
Delegate contacts, split prospecting from outreach
BuzzStream Link Building tools are very robust for link detection, suggestions, relationship management and link management. The BuzzMarker bookmarklet allows easy addition of new link opportunities via the browser. Many other tools focus on link detection, acquisition and the technical site of management. The CRM aspect of BuzzStream and the conversion tracking reports make it unique.
There is a free trial for BuzzStream and monthly costs range from $29/mo to $249/mo. There are also options for Agencies and Enterprise use.
BuzzStream Link Building
3. SEOmoz Linkscape
This inbound link tracking tool offers both a free basic version and an advanced version with a subscription to SEOmoz PRO.
The basic search (illustrated in the image below) allows users to determine the number of inbound links to a page and the number of different domains linking to a page. The tool also gives a ranking of the page based on number and quality of inbound links, as well as a ranking of the domain overall.
In the full version, users can not only judge the quality and quantity of links to their own web pages, but to their competitors as well. Users can compare number of links, number of domains and domain ranking side-by-side against competitor sites.
Users can also determine the keywords competitor sites are targeting in their anchor text and identify competitors’ most powerful links.
SEOMoz Linkscape
4. Raven SEO Tools
Raven is a suite of SEO tools including a Links Manager that allows you to easily manage the link status, contacts and tasks related to each link.
Raven will automatically alert if any changes have occurred on an active link, if the nofollow attribute was added, the anchor text changed, the PageRank changed, or the link was removed. There is team link building management functionality as well as the ability to import, export in CSV format or generate reports online.
A standalone linking too is not available for purchase. The cost for the suite of Raven SEO Tools starts at $79 per month.
Raven SEO Link Builder
5. SoloSEO Link Building Tools
SoloSEO is a collection of SEO campaign management and implementation tools which includes “Links Manager” and “Link Build It!” modules for building and tracking inbound links to your web site.
The Links Manager module helps discover links, assess the strength and quality and track progress. It also includes ongoing link detection and automatic notification if a link is deleted. Link Build It! is a bookmarklet that shows backlink count, PageRank, and Alexa rank for the site, DMOZ listing, .edu or.gov links and the ability to easily add the URL of the page being viewed to the Links Manager.
There is a free trial and the cost for SoloSEO is $29 per month for 5 domains and $4 per domain after.
SoloSEO Links Manager
6. Yahoo! Site Explorer
Yahoo! Site Explorer is a popular, free tool for analyzing and tracking inbound links for users’ own and their competitors’ sites. Users can:
Determine the number pages within a domain indexed by SLURP, Yahoo’s search engine crawler
Explore each page to determine inbound links for each
Exclude inbound links from the domain
Exclude inbound links from the subdomain
Export results into a TSV file
Yahoo! Site Explorer
7. Page Inlink Analyzer
Page Inlink Analyzer is a tool created by Eric Miraglia that leverages the Yahoo Site Explorer tool mentioned above in a more useful interface that combines a left side column listing of indexed pages for the site being researched and the inbound links to the focus URL in the right column. This allows the user to quickly research the inbound links to each page of a particular site.
For each inbound link the page level and domain level inlink counts are reported as well as the number of Delicious bookmarks (with a link to view them) for each link and the associated keyword tags.
The Page Inlink Analyzer tool is free.
Page Inlink Analyzer
8. pluginSEO Beta Linking Tools
pluginSEO is a service in Beta that works to simplify SEO and linking tasks by having users input keywords and competitor URLs to generate advice including link building suggestions.
Link features include:
The Reactor:Links page makes suggestions
My Links shows inbound links to your own site
Competitor links documents inbound links to the competing sites entered
Link suggestions provides a visual listing of new linking opportunities displayed below
pluginSEO is in Beta and is now offering free trials.
pluginSEO
9. Sheer SEO Backlinks Watchdog
Sheer SEO is a set of SEO project management tools, one of which, monitors “guarded” inbound links. The Backlinks Watchdog tool monitors the following link characteristics:
Anchor text
Page rank
Number of outbound links in the referring page
Availability of the page
Presence of meta tags “nofollow” and “noindex”
Existance of the link to your site
Presense of “nofollow” attribute on the backlink (rel=”nofollow” causes the link not to pass rank)
There is a 90 day free trial for Sheer SEO with paid options ranging from $7 to $40 per month.
Backlink Watchdog
10. HubSpot Website Grader This free SEO tool provides an overall SEO score for websites based on inbound links, website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other factors. Users submit their website URL, along with competing site URLs, and are then emailed a detailed report that includes:
Google PageRank and number of Google indexed pages
Number of inbound links, with the option to analyze links through HubSpot
Competitive analysis with website grade, Google PageRank, number of inbound links and number of del.icio.us bookmarks
A sample report is shown below.
There are many other link building and tracking tools ranging from the SEOBook toolbar and Backlink Harvester to SEO Spyglass Link Assistant. These 10 should be a good start.
What web based or desktop software tools have you found to be useful for tracking inbound links?
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