Plenty of bloggers are talking about the inevitable intersection of social media marketing and search engine optimization. Heck, we’ve been blogging about SMO since 2006! Keyword optimized social content and channels of promotion provide abundant signals to search engines for improved visibility on standard, social and real-time search.

The changing nature of social media marketing and optimization create the need for tools whether for research, marketing and promotion or analytics. Here are 11 social media and SEO tools you might find useful:

* howsociable.com – Social visibility score
* knowem.com – Profile building tool
* Social Media for Firefox – Build a powerful social profile on social news & bookmarking sites
* semrush.com – Find competitor organic search rankings
* Google Insights – Keyword demand trends
* Page Inlink Analyzer – Analyze inbound links, their Delicious bookmarks & keyword tags
* majesticseo.com – Historical back-link tracking
* trackur.com – Social media monitoring
* socialmention.com – Real-time social search & scoring, social keyword research
* bit.ly – Search friendly URL shortening with analytics
* analytics.postrank.com – Track social engagement with combined Google & social analytics

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