Surfing this interweb thing really draws me in sometimes, leaving me feeling a little lazy with less accomplished than I feel like I should have. Thankfully, that feeling is quickly squashed when the social web offers up some great links.
I guess that’s what the internet is, a huge time suck that is amazingly productive. Anyways, I want to share them with you.
3 Internet Marketing Tools that Rock and 1 Blog to Watch
Twitter Local Search – Want to see who’s tweeting about “beer” in Vancouver? This twitter search shows you who’s talking about a given search term. Marketers, this is super useful in finding out who you should be following. Want to start a FTW (For The Win) club? Start here.
Hit Tail- In any online campaign, the value of search marketing is immense. Hit tail extends your ability to target paid search and improve organic rankings. From Hit Tail:
HitTail reveals in real-time the least utilized, most promising keywords hidden in the Long Tail of your natural search results.
SpyFu - Another SEO strategy helper, SpyFu has a great search function that returns useful data on cost per click ranges, daily spend averages, competing advertisements and top organic search results. All that and it’s free. Cool. From the SpyFu site:
Now with SpyFu Kombat you can compare websites and spot crucial strategies too important to pass up. Add your own domain to the mix, and download the missing keywords that your rivals thought they had cornered.
Textually.org – Mobile is HERE and it looks like textually does a great job at covering it. There is no doubt that mobile is changing the way we connect and consume media. This is a must follow.
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