With the recent update to Raven’s social tools we introduced Quick Views, which allow you to set up filters for viewing results in your Social Stream. If you’re like us, you probably have several Social Monitor searches set up, which usually means a lot of checking and unchecking sources to minimize the number of results …

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If you have multiple users you’d like to provide varying access to the websites on your account, Raven’s User Manager has got you covered. You can assign sub-users and read-only users different permissions for different websites, as well as set default permissions for any new websites added. To add a new user to your account, …

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Raven’s Backlink Explorer is a powerful tool that taps into data from MajesticSEO to find backlinks from around the web to a URL that you specify. Taking it a step further, you get to choose which database you’re interested in: The Fresh Index or the Historic Index. The Fresh Index is a database that is …

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You’ve probably used Raven’s social media tools to post to Facebook and Twitter. But did you know how easy it is to track your campaigns right through Raven? Campaign variables allow you to tag all the links you send out via social media channels to keep track of how they’re doing in Google Analytics. It’s …

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Raven’s Link Manager is an excellent way to organize all of your link-building efforts, and the option to assign links to a user is especially helpful if you have a large team of link builders. You can easily assign links to sub-users on your account within Link Manager, but what happens if you want to …

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One of my favorite things about Research Central is how versatile it is. Each section within Research Central can be used in a multitude of ways. Recently I’ve found myself turning to the Backlinks and Keywords sections to discover new backlink opportunities that I wouldn’t have been able to find without Research Central. Let me …

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With the amount of data that you can analyze in Raven, tags are a huge organizational help. But if you haven’t been tagging consistently, don’t despair: You can bulk-tag your data to save time and effort. What can be tagged in Raven: Keywords (Site > Keywords) Competitors (Site > Competitors) Links (Links > Link Manager) …

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The Link Manager is one of Raven’s most popular features, and it’s also one of the most robust – which means there are a few things it can do that you might not be aware of. You probably know you can export and import links, but did you know that you can move links from …

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Frustrated with social media link building and directory submissions? It’s time to get dirty by digging in and prospecting local directories to find broken link building gold. There are a ton of great broken link building resources out there. I obviously didn’t invent it, but I have my own unique twist on this established technique …

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Earlier this month, Raven launched a free, new tool called Google Analytics Configurator, or GA Config for short. GA Config is for marketers who want to get the most from Google Analytics but don’t want to spend hours rooting around for the right code. VP of Product Marketing Taylor Pratt created the site after finding …

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