My website shows zero back links. How do I improve my site so that it gets more back links, and which techniques should I use?

I will tell you the truth how to get back links.

To create back links 1stly you must know what back links is. Back links is just a thing which connect client website (Your website and any 3rd party website). Back links mainly created by seo. Now if you ask other people what is seo they will tell you - do article, do PR, do bookmark etc? Let’s define seo then.

SEO is a world. There are no start and no end in seo. Most of the people think seo means the search engine optimization. And what is search engine optimization? They say it is link building - onsite - offsite. However, have you ask yourself, what are they? They will try to give you answers and still you will not be able to provide proper answers to them.

Then what seo is? SEO is not a code, no script, no cheat code, no process, no link building, no article, no blog, no PR, no email marketing, no newsletter. SEO means marketing. Let’s assume you have a car washing shop in Mumbai and how you reach your customers if I say only offline? There are lots of procedures. You will say I will apply any ethical way to reach to them. Yes, that’s right. Marketing, marketing and marketing. Do marketing the way you want. Reach to customers more and more.

Likewise in the case of seo and back links you require to reach traffic as much as you. The only way you can reach to traffic is just creating contents. More and more contents to the site. The content could textual content (Like, article, PR, blog etc). Or image content or video content or slide shares etc and more. There is no boundary how long you can do seo. There is no limit how many contents you require to create. There are no limit how many back links you create, there are no limit how many videos you posted online. The more contents you create to your site means more value to site and you are done with that. Just make sure only one thing - BE UNIQUE, NEVER DUPLICATE, NEVER, NEVER AND NEVER.

The more content you create online and then post it in your site or any other 3rd party sites no matter it is bookmark, directory, article or blog make sure you are increasing more value to your website. Let’s start creating contents.

From my opinion, following seo/ marketing techniques works effectively -

1. Write informative blogs. They should be long and must be informative, innovative or educative. You must make sure that the blog is being used for educational purposes not selling or promoting purposes. Just create only one back link in the blog body. Blog should be 1000 words average.
2. Create high quality directory submission. Must be long unique descriptions on each site.
3. Do video posting, create high quality videos and post them in video sharing site like - YouTube, Vimeo, daily motion etc.
4. Do social bookmarking with article , pr and blogging , video links with proper. Try to post description as much unique as you can.
5. Do some relevant blog commenting. Most of the time irrelevant blog commenting works will not be approved. So, make sure you made unique blog commenting.

Try to be unique and stay focused. You could be great.

How do I find a good SEO company in India?

SEO is a strange thing. If you ask 10 companies how you will do, the 10 companies will tell you 10 different things. The 10 companies will have 10 different strategies to counter seo. The term good means that could do seo well. How well? You probably don’t know the answer.

In seo, it is not any code or script so that you write it and install it to the site. SEO is no algorithm or any code which you write and done the job. SEO is an ongoing work requires ongoing effort and ongoing work.

SEO varies from search engine. Initially seo invented by yahoo. However that time seo was just a 1 month old baby. Google gave the seo a whole new looks. In the year 2017 seo all changed since 1999 Google days. I am working in the seo field since last 1 decade (10 years) and I have seen 365 * 10 = 3650 changes so far. SEO changes each day. It changes 500 times a year. Though there are major changes. When a major change occurs, your search results could change. You could lose rankings or you can gain rankings.

In this so fast ever changing seo world one must understand that results that you can achieve and the things that a company could provide you. You know different search engine have different kind of algorithms (Although they mostly follow Google) and Google occupies 95% of searches around the world (This includes through Smartphone, pc and all other connected devices) . You must look for a company that is doing its job correctly. You must be looking that a company maintaining Google seo guidelines. If a website is updating according to search engine and according to search engine ranking guidelines then it will be the best company.

At our company, Search Marketing Pro, we provide highest quality of seo services to all of our clients. Our customers based in usa , uk , Canada , India , Australia , Thailand , Germany and more. We create very high quality contents to support the seo. We are really different than others. We have completed 50k elance hours and 11k upwork hours so far.Our seo work mainly on creating quality contents for your website. Each and every piece of content will be unique. Each and every post will be unique. The more unique contents to your site, there will be more value to your website after all.

If you are looking for great seo, call me at +919903455551 or email me at nirbanjyoti1990@gmail.com

How do I get traffic on my new social site?

This type of questions are very basic question and if you ask me to answer this types of questions in details then there will be a book to say or I can give you just 10 words how you will get traffic to your site.

To get traffic you need to do marketing for the site. To do marketing you need to do various marketing techniques for your site. They are following -

1. Search engine optimization - It is the process to create back links for your site to get organic rankings for the keywords that you are optimizing for your site. The seo must be done absolutely manually, free of cost, organic and white hat techniques. The seo today solely depends on contents. The more high quality contents to your site meaning more value to the site. Try to build quality links form the sites they are already indexed by Google, have good domain authority and page authority. Write article, PR and blogs as much as you can.
2. Social Media marketing - Social media marketing is a great process to get traffic for your website. Let’s work on face book , twitter , linkedIN , Pinterest , word press , tumblr , pen , soup , jigsy , blogger. Create contents for social media accounts. You can run ppc and paid ads. Create images, videos and many more.
3. Adwords and PPC - You can find the most suitable and less costly keywords. This will help you to get more traffic. Find 3rd party sites and put the sites there to run ads. With the help of ad words and ppc, you can attract a good quality of traffic with this.
4. Apart than this, you can also work on email marketing, news letter marketing, PR, local search marketing, Content marketing and management, Reputation Management etc.

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Let me know if you have any questions. You can call me at +919903455551 or email me at nirbanjyoti1990@gmail.com regarding the web marketing.

Describe the techniques for link building

The link building techniques are the most of important part of seo. With the help of proper link building techniques, one can have rankings on highly competitive keywords. If your link building techniques is poor or outdated or backdated you would not even rank with low competitive keywords. That’s why we really value the updated, advanced techniques for link building. We do link building not just to create back link but also to get rankings. Our link building will attract traffic and views to your site. Let’s see, how we will do link building for our client sites. We are here going to tell you our link building techniques, the types of link we will provide for your site.

1. CONTENT – Content of the main fuel of link building. Make sure each link you made with unique content. Our contents will be used in various link building techniques. No matter it is a bookmark, news, articles, blogs, press releases is actually require contents. The contents you require is for each and every post will be unique. If you do that you will get visibility to Google. We will write long and informative, educative articles. We don’t write articles solely for marketing and promoting. We will maintain the keyword density in the content body. They must be posted into high quality sites. We focus on content writing, marketing, promotion and submissions. We then post articles in free high alexa ranked , high PR and high traffic 2.0 sites like – jimdo , pen.io , edublogs , wix , wordpress , tumblr , live journal , blogger , yola , medium , linkedIN pulse , face book notes , reddit , pinterest  , medium , flickr etc and more.
2. UPDATE YOUR SITE – Update your site if possible daily. We will help your site to add contents. We will write blogs, news and other body contents with unique and fresh contents so that Google will crawl your site daily and will start prioritize   your site other sites for same search terms (i.e. keywords).
3. GUEST BLOGGING – Guest blogging is the most important thing. It is extremely high quality link building technique. We will find niche blogs those who accept guest blogs and we will send articles to them. Once approved you could get millions of new traffic each year. If you have any friend sites which could permit your sites article, its better post their as well. This is one of the relevant, organic, and free and seo back links.
4. 4.IMAGES / VIDEOS – Graphics are the next big thing for marketing. Today, Internet is growing rapidly and over 90% of content among them are images and videos. 60% of global internet data volume is videos. So, we believe videos and images are the great pieces of marketing. You require providing us with the images and videos.  We will post your videos to YouTube, daily motion, vimeo and other video sharing sites and then we will pick up the links back to them as well. All the videos will have relevant descriptions and anchor texts as well. We will again do the analysis for the keywords and write contents as well. With the help of blogging techniques we will be able to built backlinks and ultimately links back to your site. Some famous video posting sites are – youtube , daily motion , vimeo . For images, we will post an image in flickr and links back to your site along with proper tags and descriptions. This is how we implement our image and video marketing techniques.
5. DIRECTORY LINKS – We will do directory link building. We will write unique articles for each directory site and then go ahead and post it. All the directory techniques will go to home page.
6. FORUM – There are lots of forums sites throughout the web. We will work on relevant forum sites. On that forum sites we will regularly post contents, posts, ask questions, share your views as well. If your business is a Jewelry site, we will work on jewelry related forum sites.
7. BLOG COMMENTING – We will do relevant blog commenting. We will comment blogs very uniquely. One can post relevant comment only after reading the blog and we will do that.
8. LOCAL LISTING / REVIEWS/ ADS – Local listing is a most important part of link building. We will register to the Google local. Here is the link which will take you to register Google local - https://maps.google.com/localguides  for yahoo do the same. We will also do the review submission in various review submission sites like – mouthshut . In this review submission site , we will register your business and engage your customers to review your site. The classified ads are the another things we work for.
9. SOCIAL BOOKMARKING – This is a less important link building techniques to us. We value the above link building techniques and we will work on social bookmarking techniques just after writing unique desertions for each bookmark sites. This will help to increase the importance of your site to Google.
10. BLOG MARKETING – Blogs are no different than sites. Since they are very similar to sites, we will be working on blogs and treat them equals to sites. As said before, our high quality articles will be posted high quality blogs like – blogspot , tumblr , wordpress etc. We will also create links which will ultimately back to those blogs. This will also help to get traffic to those blogs and ultimately revert back to the sites.

NOTE: Kindly note that all link building techniques don’t guarantee rankings. The search engine doesn’t actually reveal their true algorithm and that’s why it’s really very hard to guarantee regarding seo. The 2^nd thing is that, we will be doing seo primary for Google and that’s why we follow the seo algorithm provided by Google. The other search engine like – yahoo and bing mostly follow Google to rank their pages.  That’s why you can see a page ranked in Google is also ranked in yahoo. However, that’s would not be effective always.

Let me know of you have questions, we look forward to work with you . 

What it the best social media strategy for a fashion startup?

Social media strategy for a start up is really important. You will not win the game without a proper social media strategy. For a startup social media strategy is  too important. Social media strategy for startup is too important  . With the help of proper social media strategy a company will  become future of amazon. lets discuss the strategy.

So far I have given guidance and instructions to various fashion companies. They are lusty chic limited in uk , mensusa in USA , Ties n cuffs in Australia. For all of them I have seen that with a help of proper social media strategy you will win the goal. The goal must highly , extreme highly customer oriented , trend oriented and also along with lots of parameters. There should a very highly targeted goal for this. You need to make sure that you are targeting proper customers with proper age , gender and niche. You need to create strategy of what to post daily , what to post weekly and monthly basis. After all these strategy , you will need to create new contents as well. Besides social media posting and updating you may also require some idea and concept on basic link building.

Lets discuss the social media strategy for a fashion start up with some points - 

Focus on customers - Focus on customers. 1st of all you need to understand whether you are targeting local people or global people.  There are also lots of factors like whether you want to target gender basis( Male or female) . The last factor is age. You need to target your site with age basis. Make sure you are targeting the customers that need your fashion.

Content is the fuel - For a fashion site( If you are specially fashion start up) you require to create contents a lot of contents. For each product you could create content. This will help your site to boost rankings.  Not just the textual contents, you can also use to create graphic contents  , make video contents and lot of them. Try to create more and more contents and you are on your way to make your start up great.

Blogging - Blogging is a great part of social media marketing. Starting posting contents in blogger , soup.io , linkedIN pulse , wix , jimdo , tumblr and more.  In blogging you can also able to post images , videos , graphics and more . With the help of blogging you will be able to create lots of high quality , useful back links as well.

paid ads - Focus on paid ads. with the help of paid as you will be able to increase your likes , you will be able to increase  number of followers in twitter as well. Then whatever you post will be visible to who likes you or follow you in twitter.

Focus on some basic link building - Link building is also require to do social media. while you are doing blogging or PR make sure that you are building links to proper anchor texts.

There are also could be other methods, you need to creative and innovative enough to stay ahead in competition in technology market. Study backlink.io , study seo journal , seo book etc.

You will be always ahead compared to your competitors.

How can I know random websites traffic?

well, there are lots of sites to check random websites traffic. But none of them are so accurate. Often people believe alexa , similar web , sem rush , ahrefs data.  But my question is "with out verifying or accessing  the internal traffic flow( which is basically done by installing a code in the header section of home page etc processes) how can a 3rd party site could know the traffic data of a site ?

Honestly , all these questions are bully questions . alexa , ahrefs  , similiar web all of them dont have full access to of your internal pages and they just do a bully algorithm to check the traffic. They cannot show you traffic data accurately. They have just a very basic algorithm to check the traffic data of a website and shows an average data on traffic.

Then how to check the website traffic ? The accurate traffic is being shown by google analytics code or google webmaster tools. Alexa also verifies your website , though it is paid .lets discuss them.

Google webmaster tools will be the great to check the seo traffic. And so far it is the best way to check the organic traffic. It checks the four factors - clicks , impressions , CTR and position. Google webmaster tools compare the traffic for 7 days and 28 days period. Not just the organic traffic data , google webmaster tools also  the links to your site( no. of organic back links ) , internal links. Google webmaster tools also reports if there are any errors to your site like - 301 error etc. Basically google webmaster tools is only tool to check a seo's performance.

Google analytics tools is also another tool to see seo traffic. How ever you need to have a detail knowledge on google analytics code. The google analytics actually traffic coming form all sources like - social media , search console , ppc & adwords traffic. So , you need to know the proper channel in order to rectify this.

There are other tools as well . However, I believe google webmaster tools and google analytics are the best.

Why the link exchange don't work these days anymore

In the recent Google algorithm changes , Google have taken massive changes in .search engine ranking algorithm. Google is  just trying to deliver more and more accurate and perfect result when users are typing a keyword to Google. Google is updating its algorithm much more frequently then its can , to deliver much more accurate results.

Google is more and more moving towards are very genuine  results as well, about a decade back it  thought  the much more back links means much more valuable to Google. Today , they are not valuing the much more back links method. It just want to check the quality of back links in this regard. One of the factor considering the quality of  back links is to check either the back links gained form trusted source or not. Is there any deal or not.That is why link exchange kind of links are not just working , Google started thinking  that  these link exchange links or links achieved form the same niche sites might have some kind of deal( or deal with money , you gave me and I will give you back) is no more good.That is why Google not more giving any value or priority to link exchange kind of links any more.

Depending on the situations some clients still asking for link exchange links, depending 

Top Best Tools From Facebook To Promote Your Business Online

Facebook is one of the many large social networks that have gone to great lengths to pay attention to small businesses. For this the site developed certain tools. With these tools, quality content and web design is all you need to upgrade your online capabilities.

Facebook is predicted to experience revenue growth from the ad revenue around the holidays. Skeptics are sure that there will be higher revenue growth in the upcoming quarter as well.

Make a Facebook Page

It’s simple really, your Facebook Page markets your business. On the surface there are 4 primary things that allow it to make this possible:

1)      It makes your brand name easy to search.

2)      Only one page is needed to reach a large number of people. In other words you can reach customers on a global scale with this.

3)      You can interact in a one on one conversation with your followers. They can like, share and comment.

4)      Tools such as Facebook Analytics can give you deeper understanding of your customers and therefore help you plan your marketing stance.

When you set up your page you can even request a web address that will make it much easier to find your brand. You can include this address on your business card.

Optimize Your Search

When you choose to market your business through social media, specifically through Facebook you can expect to reach people who are really interested in your business. To make sure that you are reaching the right sort of people, in other words your target market, it is essential that you make an outline of what your ideal customer would be like. Think about what all your ideal customers are like.

Start building your audience by encouraging your existing followers to like and share your page. They are most likely the people who know others who have interest in your business.

You can do this with the Build Audience option. You can Invite your Friends, Share the page and invite the business contacts. Remember that in the end of the day it is not the number of likes that you get but the number of likes by the people who are genuinely interested in doing business with you.

Get Busy

You can make your business come alive on Facebook. As you post photos, updates and more make sure that you post what your followers will stop and look or read. After you create the page you can experiment with different posts and status updates. Your job is to first notice a pattern. Check which sort of posts and content get the most engagement. You can check this out on Page Insights. It shows you which posts are performing the best. You can follow these classic tips when you are posting updates:

1)      Be a hundred percent original. If you are genuinely excited about something that pertains to your industry then chances are that your customers are too.

2)      Respond when your followers comment on your posts. This way you are valuing your customers by showing them that you are a company which listens and cares. And you think you need time to respond, then let your customers know that you are working on it.

3)      The more often you post updates the higher are your chances to connect with people who will trust you and then base their decision on this by coming back to you again and again.

4)      You can also imitate your success on future posts on the page.

Once you have started connecting with the people you know on Facebook you will soon realize that there are a million others that you need to reach. The best way to do this is create and optimize your Facebook page ad.

Make An Ad

It is extremely easy to create an ad. Use the admin panel of your page and click on the Create Ad option. Your ad is the tool that will help you reach friends of people who have already Liked your page. You can be specific about the audiences for different ads. Start by creating sets of ads that will connect with various target audience. People are way more likely to respond to a message that is specifically designed for them.

Start by adding a private list of your current customers to Facebook by using custom audiences in the Ad Create Options. In the same way you can click on Interest Targeting to reach people who have a connection to all sorts of things that pertain to your product.

                    

In The End Measure and Analyze

Facebook has a lot of different tools that can help you measure and analyze how our business page is doing.

Begin by clicking on Page Insights and make sure that you look for trends. This way it will be more easier for you to make the best content i.e. content that your customers like. You can also use Insights to see who responds to your messages the most. When you are able to view this your job is to note down the gender, location and age of that person so that your business can keep on interacting with the target audience solely and execute successful promos.

When you are creating your ads makes sure that you try out experimenting with different images and captions to see what works best. If you do not experiment it will take much longer for Facebook to optimize the ad and because of that the budget that you have set for your social media campaign will be wasted.

If you want to make use of Facebooks tools to the fullest then make sure that you are asking how followers heard about you. You can do this with the help of a survey for instance. This will be used by Facebook’s tools to give you the data from.    

The 5 Best Review Sites to Have Your Business On

Does your business have online reviews about your products and services? They are both a good and a bad thing. As long as reviews are positive, they are going to do your business good, but when they are negative, they will bring down your sales.    

The problem with reviews or the benefits of reviews, is that they spread like fire. Depending on whether they are good or bad, they are going to have a positive or negative effect on your business.

The Significance Of Reviews

So why are reviews so important other than the drastic effects they can have? Because they are submitted by your customers whose opinion is trusted more than what you have to say about your products and services.  Thus, reviews will influence the decision of your potential clients.

According to a study, 72% people trust online reviews and regard them to be as significant as personal recommendations. 52% people also said that if the reviews are positive, they will more than likely do business with the company.

So how does all of this affect you, the business owner? You must keep a close tab on your customer reviews so that you can get a deeper insight about how your business is being perceived. You can also use reviews to figure out areas where you need more improvement. Once you act on the feedback which your costumers have for you, you will enjoy higher customer satisfaction levels, and might even be able to retain them. 

Other than this, online reviews can also result in a higher rank on search engines such as Google. Even if you just have a few of them, your rank will get a boost.

Credible Review Sites To Be On

Which websites are regarded as the most reputed? Let’s take a look.

1.      Yelp

Yelp is probably the most popular of all review websites on the internet. The website allows you to add your business to their directory and monitor the reviews which customers leave about your company. Other than this, you can also reach out to your customers publicly and privately.

There are other great advantages of being on Yelp. The website provides a complete report of your business performance, and offers you tools to track the visitors on your page. You can even create deals in an attempt to entice more people.

2.      Google+

Being on Google+ is important not just for the sake of reviews, but for SEO as well. Ever since Google acquired Zagat, the user reviews on the site have been added to both the search results and the social platform. Now when customers search about your business, and view the review on Zagat, they are automatically transferred to Google+.

3.      Facebook

You sure will know about the News Feed section on Facebook. What you should also know is that customers use it for word-of-mouth advertising. Your Facebook page is another place where they can leave your feedback and reviews. You can monitor these along with likes, comments, and other posts your customers upload. Thus, Facebook not only allows you to connect to your customers but also contributes to your online visibility and brand awareness.

4.      Foursquare

Foursquare is a review site that lets customers share their feedback, opinions, and suggestions. You can monitor all of this when you establish your business on Foursquare. Just as with Yelp, you can interact with customers, keep them updated with the latest news, offer them attractive tools, and measure your success with a number of tools.

5.      BBB

BBB is not always the site where your customers will go and upload a positive review. Instead, they will go to the site to complain about your business. BBB does notify you of these, and then gives you an opportunity to cater to them and close them on a positive note. In turn, your BBB rating improves and if you ignore, it will fall down, making customers question your credibility.

Trying To Get More Reviews

Customer satisfaction, this is the simplest way in which we can put it. Once you satisfy your clients, you can request them to leave a review. If you serve their needs well, they will be happy to do so. Just make sure to make things easier for them. Give them details about the view sites and send them links. And if you can, go a step ahead and offer them an incentive of some sort. A discount is a really good idea to motivate customers to write an opinion about your business.

When you do get a couple of reviews, also upload them on your website in a dedicated Testimonials section or a review page.

Bit Make Sure You Are Not Doing Any Of The Following

Reviews are advantageous, but that is only so if you take care of a few things. Not biding by the tips we share in this section can cause your Google rank to fall down.

§  Never post a review about yourself on any website and make sure none of your employees are doing this. Google considers this a negative practice and if your customers find out, they are going to publicize your bins negatively.

§  Your reviews should never be uploaded by someone who shares your last name. Thus, your family members cannot help you with this.

§  Make sure that one person submits only one review. Google can figure out multiple reviews being submitted from the same computer, which again affects your rank.

§  Your reviews should appear consistently with time. Getting too many of them uploaded on the same day will not do you much good until they are spread out.

Does your business appear on any of the above websites? And more importantly, are the reviews positive? You are lucky if that is the case, and if it’s not, put in more efforts and increase your brand awareness. That will have more people talking about you, and eventually some of them might leave a review about your small business.

App-grading your Facebook page- top 20 Apps for Small Business Pages on Facebook

There are tons of reasons why you would want to use Facebook Apps. They help you efficiently communicate with your customers and make it easier for people to sign up for newsletters for one thing. In fact Facebook apps have been used as a way for business owners to build brand loyalty and foster trust in customers.

Here is the list for the top 20 Apps that are a lifesaver for small business pages.

1.      YouTube Tab is one that bridges the gap between your Youtube and Facebook pages. The best part is that it is designed to do so in a very graphic and interactive format which make the app more appealing.  You get to play with hashtag searches, a Youtube player that has HD playback and leave comments and likes for any video that you view.

2.      Statigram is a free Facebook app that helps the users to directly se your Instagram feed without leaving their account. If you are posting images as part of a powerful social media campaign then you can’t miss this tool.

3.      Static Html is also a free app and it is extremely easy to use. Plus it’s great for users who can write or copy HTML because it functions to build a custom Facebook page which gives you a competitive edge over others in your social media campaign. You have tons of options with this app and you can literally let your imagination run wild with it. For example you can make an About page that resembles the one in your website. And that is not the end of it; the Facebook app allows you to design an online retail store within the page so your customers can buy directly from Facebook.

4.      Short Stack is another great Facebook app, it has a free version and one where pages with over 2000 fans have to pay a minimum sum of $25 each month. Short stack helps you embed videos and send virtual gifts. The suite can help you do more than that as well. In fact if you are looking to design a cutting edge social media stance then Short Stack is an extra head working for the same cause. According to the company’s research the most effective way to encourage users to interact is by hosting contests and promotions. Short stack offers you various methods to do; this all you have to do is choose.

5.      North Social is a suite similar to Short Stack and though does appear to be more expensive but it is by far the easiest app to use. The app has video and image imbedding tools and they give your followers access to premium content. Document Display is a feature that lets you present white papers, menus etc. If you have coding or graphic designing experience then this Facebook suite is definitely for you.

6.      Ripe Social is again a Facebook app that you would want on your side once you enter the social media game. The Facebook app has ten apps that work to boost brand awareness, increase customer engagement, generate sales leads, drive website traffic and make sure that you follow a pattern for repeat business.

7.      Agora Plus is a platform that aids in managing your Facebook page and that is not all. Its tools include attracting fans, engaging them and offering exclusive content on the Facebook page.

8.      Heyo is a Facebook suite that helps you use promotions, deals to drive traffic, leads, sales etc. You can drag and drop widgets and make it simple to create a custom campaign from the start any way that you prefer without writing down any code. This is your chance to put your creative hat on and do absolutely anything you want with your Facebook page.

9.      FanAppz is very useful. It helps the page admin to check, learn and change the followers into customers and then turn existing customers into loyal ones.

10.  Tabfusion lets you add a custom Tab on your Facebook page. You can fill that tab with any sort of content that you prefer.

11.  Tabsite is another similar app that lets you make Facebook tabs for contests, reviews, sweepstakes and deals.

12.  Hootsuite is a lifesaver. It makes hosting and posting schedule updates easier. Teams that have this can work with complex campaigns.

13.  Post planner helps the page admin schedule posts and not just that but also search for ideas that would boost the page’s brand.

14.  Social Oomph is a simple yet effective app that allows the admin to conveniently update Facebook statuses, wall updates, image uploads etc.

15.  Status Shuffle is an innovation in the world of Facebook apps. If you are stuck for inspiration with your status update you can always look up Status Shuffle creative collection.

16.  Easy Contest like the name suggests aids in creating video contests, photo contests, buttons, custom banners, menu tabs and pop up reveal pages.

17.  SnapApp sets up custom branded Facebook competitions that aid in improving engagement.

18.  Antavo helps you to manage contests, sweepstakes and giveaways on Facebook.

19.  RSS Graffiti directly publishes your blog on your Facebook page as you update it.

20.  Networked Blogs is an app that was created to generate traffic. Like RSS Graffiti it automatically publishes your blog post to your Facebook page.   

You would understand as an owner of a small business, that time is a precious resource. With all the tools and apps available, it is never easy to tell which app is the one you should invest your time in. It is recommended that you set your priorities straight. Think about what you require, it could be incoming store traffic for sales, more engagement on a page, you might want people to share the content and promotional offers or it could be a blend of all of the above.