First of all, shame on me! I have been very busy and have not found time to write anything on my blog over the last couple of months.

However let’s get back on track and I’ll tell you about a very useful site I have been trying out called www.hittail.com.

In it’s own words:
“HitTail reveals in real-time the least utilized, most promising keywords hidden in the Long Tail of your natural search results. We present these terms to you as suggestions that when acted on will boost the natural search results of your site. It’s that simple.”

When they say act upon, what they mean is improve the page for the keyword it currently is found for. For example if you are at number 8 in Google for “magicians favourite tricks” by improving the quality of the content on the page and optimizing it better for the keyword you should move up the rankings and get more visits.

Most stats packages just tell you what keywords you are being found for but they don’t tell you what position in the search engines you were for it. Hit Tail scores your search engine position so you know where you are for that search term and on what engine.

My plan is to use this and when Hot Tail recommends I work on a keyword I will get one of my writers hired from www.elance.com to write on article on the keyword.
Hopefully this will result in more traffic for that keyword over time

Go see the video about it at: http://www.hittail.com/demo/  

If you have ever had to set up an Adwords campaign and get all your keywords ready, you’ll know that you will need to be bidding on exact match, phrase match and broad keywords. For Example:

pet products
“pet products”
[pet products]

If you have a list of keywords as long as your arm it will take you forever to put the quotes or brackets around each keyword.

This free tool will save you hours:

http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/cgi-bin/adwrapper.cgi 

I have had two tools to do the job up until now but they were both pay monthly software which is never nice!

This is a fantastic free tool that allows you to be emailed everytime a website or webpage changes. It’s called www.feedwhip.com and is a reletively new service but already proving to be very popular.

Just about any website makes a good candidate. People use Feedwhip to stay on top of their favorite band’s tour dates and friend’s blogs.

If you’re in business, Feedwhip can help you keep tabs on the competition. If your competitor changes their website, you’ll be one of the first to know.

If you’re shopping for deals, you can enter a search link for your favorite classified ads website (such as www.classifiedfreeads.co.uk). Enter your search terms into their website, and then paste the address of the resulting website into feedwhip. We’ll send you an email every time a new matching product is posted.