Link Building is Faster with BuzzStream

April 29, 2009 by
Filed under: Link Building, Reviews 

This is a free review about BuzzStream written by Jeremy Bencken who is offering the first 50 people to sign up a free beta invite to his site.

If you’re in SEO for any length of time, you eventually have to build links. As tedious and painful as it is, acquiring quality one-way link building is essential for new sites to rank in a competitive category. But after you do a bit of link research and pitching, you realize it’s easy to lose track of your efforts and who to follow up with. So then you create spreadsheet to keep track, but that turns into a nightmare of data entry which you’ll probably give up, at which point the chaos returns. Enter BuzzStream, the Salesforce of link building. Beyond their core features as a link building CRM, BuzzSteam offers three innovative, time-savers:

  1. a bookmarklet (the BuzzMarker) that helps you bookmark link prospects, automate contact information research, and collects web metrics like PageRank and Compete traffic for you (no more copying and pasting!), and
  2. automated tracking of all your link pitch emails (when you send emails, you just BCC your special BuzzStream email address– the BuzzBox– and the app will add your email to the correct contact’s history), and
  3. link monitoring that alerts you when you gain or lose links (so you can contact site owners instantly when there’s a problem and get them fixed).

On top of that, it supports teams, so everyone can stay in sync with the status of their outreach efforts. They plan to add more reporting, but currently they provide you with a graph that displays your conversion funnel which helps you better understand your success over time. BuzzStream has been in private beta since February of this year, and will be available as a subscription service with pricing starting at $49/month for 2 users, 2 websites, and 500 link prospects. Want to give it a spin? We have invites to the private beta available to the first 50 people who sign up via this link: http://app.buzzstream.com/signUp/iid/5cbaa2f3-bbf4-4973-8207-40ccf3c12fb8/

Edit: The old invite link was expired, the new beta link is up (4/30/2009).

PS from Collin: I’d love to hear everyones feedback about their free BuzzStream invites. If you have any feedback to give, feel free to share them in the comments.

Comments

18 Comments on Link Building is Faster with BuzzStream

  1. Detroit SEO on Thu, 30th Apr 2009 6:31 am

    2. I guess I missed the boat on being one of the 50 free invites. Interesting software that I am eager to try out. I run LinkXL.com and have done “link-humping” as we call it for years now. We have our own internal system to track the progress of links but this looks like a great solution as well. Thanks for keeping us up to date.

  2. Matt@Sacramento Weddings on Thu, 30th Apr 2009 10:19 am

    3. I just got the feed this morning, and I’m the first person to comment — yet the Buzzstream site says I was “too late.”

    Hopefully, they will let me in the door….that’s really cheesy to close the gates before a single visitor from this site tried to get in!!!

  3. Jeremy @ BuzzStream on Thu, 30th Apr 2009 10:28 am

    4. Hi all, I gave Collin a link that expired too quickly, so everyone is having trouble using the link in the post.

    Here’s a new link that’s good for beta invites:

    http://app.buzzstream.com/sign.....cf3c12fb8/

    Thanks!
    Jeremy

  4. W.B. on Thu, 30th Apr 2009 1:15 pm

    5. How does this differ from UAW or AMA or MAN?

  5. Sweta on Fri, 1st May 2009 5:08 am

    6. Thanks for the beta invite link. I just joined.

  6. Jeremy @ BuzzStream on Tue, 5th May 2009 8:40 pm

    7. Hi W.B.,

    I think the difference between BuzzSream and UniqueArticleMarketing services is that they are syndication tools, whereas BuzzStream is a CRM (sort of like Salesforce for link building). Those services help you publish an article to their network of sites. BuzzStream helps you track your own link prospects.

    BuzzStream is handy if you’re trying to keep track of a lot of contacts and want to know where things stand with them. Some example uses: if you’re pitching a lot of bloggers to write about your site; asking university site admins to link to you; even trying to keep track of sites where you want to buy ads/links.

    My favorite part of the app is the BuzzMarker, our bookmarking tool, because it automates contact information collection and saves you from having to manually enter it. The other tool that saves time is the backlink checker that warns you if you lose links, the OBL’s on the link partner’s page spikes, your link partner nofollows your link, or they add forbidden words to the page.

    Thanks,
    Jeremy

  7. Professional SEO Services on Wed, 6th May 2009 6:53 am

    8. A really nice and interesting thing to know about available link building data tools.

  8. Nicolebobbin on Wed, 6th May 2009 3:45 pm

    9. Your blog is so great, I came across while googling link building.

  9. rohkat on Sat, 9th May 2009 1:05 am

    10. I’m going to join. Cool link.

  10. Jason Yee on Sat, 9th May 2009 10:22 pm

    11. This is interesting. I am going to try it out with my team.

  11. AmubsonSerg on Wed, 13th May 2009 2:14 am

    12. Thanks for the beta invite link. I am joining.

  12. Monday’s Marketing Mashup « Internet Marketing Strategy on Mon, 18th May 2009 9:27 am

    13. [...] Link Building is Faster with BuzzStream Colin LaHay takes a look into the new Link Building CRM software, BuzzStream, and shows us how to manage our backlink campaigns. [...]

  13. Video Marketing on Mon, 18th May 2009 9:46 am

    14. Thanks for presenting this software to us. I’m wondering though, the difference between this and the SEO Elite program that is not a subscription. I’ve used a ton of software and what I’ve found is that hiring a low cost individual to outsource to works the best. I do video marketing and submitting videos is another killer way to do link building. Thanks for your review of this product, I’ll go and check it out.
    Preston Rahn

  14. brainads linkbuilding on Tue, 19th May 2009 1:29 am

    15. i had an invite but the first thing i wasn’t pleased about is the contact information scraper. It really doesn’t work. And i do think the interface should be friendlier. But a nice tool to try though.
    greetz BrainAds

  15. Sjoerd on Fri, 12th Jun 2009 2:01 am

    16. it’s still some form of payed links, which Google will not like. It’s harder to track for Google, but in the end they will change something in their algoritme for it.

  16. Tom Winand on Fri, 31st Jul 2009 9:37 pm

    17. Thanks for the info I will look into link builder asn may use it.

    salt lake homes for sale

  17. Marker on Wed, 11th Nov 2009 8:29 am

    18. I’m searching for tools like this, i’m a little late, or is there still some free private beta available?

  18. Conway Fuhrman on Thu, 13th May 2010 12:46 pm

    19. I am not sure just what this process is doing. Is it a Blog? A Twitter? or just an opinion program. I am trying to introduce a new Blog of mine. Not certain of its benefits.

Tell me what you're thinking...
and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar!