3 Tools to Help You Add Expert Influencers to Your Content

Creating content that’s fresh, shareable and useful proves more difficult with each passing day. So how do you find a new way to create content that your audience will value and want to read? Add quality to your content by adding expert sources to back up your ideas. Trustworthy content is easier for readers to share, and the experts you cite for your content could also share it with their own audiences. Check out three tools that can help you find these expert influencers in your target market.
BuzzsumoBuzzSumo-logo
A relatively new service, Buzzsumo allows users to search the most shared topics in their industries. Not only do you get insight into what content is performing well among your niche audience, but you can also search top influencers in the space. The search results sort influencers based on followers, retweet ratio, reply ratio and the average number of retweets.
This tool gives you the ability to gauge how much influence these experts really do have on their audience. Working with someone who has a high retweet ratio may help you get better exposure, as long as the influencer is inclined to share the work they were included in with their followers.
HARO HARO-logo
HARO (Help a Reporter Out) is a useful tool for incorporating expert opinions into your writing. Reporters and writers can submit requests for quotes and interviews with industry specific experts. Their network consists of more than 200,000 expert sources looking to share their knowledge.
Depending on the subject of your query, you can expect immediate responses from experts as well as PR professionals representing their clients. HARO also offers the opportunity for you to gain expert opinions and gather future ideas for stories and pitches. Either way, your inbox will be filled with messages from people who understand your requests and are happy to help add some credibility to your story.
Keyhole keyhole-logo
Keyhole allows businesses to track conversations happening around their target market. You can track a hashtag, a keyword or a URL in real time. How could this tool help you find influencers to participate in your content?
Keyhole allows you to monitor top participants in your target space online. While this tool may seem similar to FollowerWonk, it taps into Instagram and Facebook hashtags as well. One way to use Keyhole to find top contributors is to track Twitter chat hashtags and find top participants. Keyhole breaks down users by most influential users and allows you to see their following and bios right on the page. This program is also beta testing an influencer identification tool that draws from real data to find the people leading the conversations in your target market.
Building influencer opinions into your work is becoming a highly valued aspect of quality content. Not only are you adding an extra level of expertise to your work, but you’re also adding another level of shareability to it. Finding these influencers in your industry to participate can seem like the most challenging part, but try starting off with one of these three tools to get your feet wet. What other tools are you using to identify influencers in your industry? Share in the comments below.

Google issue subtle warning to affiliates that have thin content

Before a few months ago, there was one update about “Thin content” for the affiliate, the update was about “avoid thin content for better Google ranking”.

And today, Google issue subtle warning to affiliates that have thin content. According to reports affiliates that make thin content and have little to no value add on their site may be penalized for going against google’s guidelines.
Site owners must be attentive about their Google webmaster Tools account that about thin content with little or no added value, site owners must be modified that before the site will have much success in Google’s search results.
Before anything is done, we have to know about “Thin Content”- Generally this refers to non-original content found on the website. For example, something product descriptions that are taken from a feed that can be found on many other sites, or can simply be a page that has a little content on it other than things like the navigation, such as doorway pages.
This warning was more direct and more effect to affiliate sites, especially in the “adult” space,  saying this has become more of an issue recently in that space. So, from the reports, they have seen this behavior on many video sites, particularly in the adult industry, but not elsewhere.
How do you know if your site is at risk? Google gives reviews it up very clearly:
If your site describes that content which are available elsewhere in google, that time a good question to ask is “does your site give important added benefits that would make a user want to visit you again and again in your site rather than the original source of the content? If the answer is “Yes”, so it is good for your site, but if the answer is “No”, the site may irritate searchers and violate our quality guidelines.
And in the last, google’s matt Cutts expect about this update, that the adult affiliate industry will seem some sort of widespread penalty pushed out in the next week. As we know that Google likes to break the spirits of search spammers.