Traffic Flow SEO

Larry Kim over at WordStream let me know about his other FREE SEO/SEM Tool to help find profitable keywords. Below is the actual description from the website:

Targeting keyword niches is essential to running profitable PPC campaigns and will identify the best SEO content to add to your site. Just enter your keywords below and The Free Keyword Niche Finder will suggest the most profitable verticals to explore for PPC and SEO.

Check it out now for FREE - Keyword Niche Finder

Thanks again WordStream!

Just strolling around the web and stumbled into this great, free new keyword tool from WordStream. Here is all the information from the actual site:

Narrow keyword groups are essential to a good PPC account structure and will help you develop an SEO-friendly information architecture. Just drop in a list of keywords and The Free Keyword Grouper will show you the most effective way to group them for more profitable PPC campaign structures and effective SEO information architecture.

Check it out for free here - WordStream Keyword Grouper Tool

Thanks WordStream!

Want to have some fun with the search engines? Check out these interesting, entertaining and educational hidden Easter eggs within the search engines:

1. Google Countdown Clock
- Go to Google search homepage, do not type anything in the search box and click the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button. Up will appear a countdown timer counting down to the end of the year.

2. Yahoo! Yodel
- Go to the Yahoo! homepage and click on the period in the Yahoo! exclamation mark (within the graphic logo) at the top of the screen (to the left of the search box). What you will hear is the ever fun Yahoo! trademark yodel and a bit of laughing at the end.

3. Obscure Google Language Interfaces
- Ever wanted to have a Google search interface in Klingon, Pig Latin, Hacker or even Elmer Fudd? If, so here they are for your enjoyment:
* Google Klingon
* Google Pig Latin
* Google Hacker
* Google Elmer Fudd


4. Google Easter Bunny Game
- Go to Google search homepage, type in, 'google easter eggs' into the search box and click on the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button and you will be treated to an interesting Easter bunny game on the homepage of Google.

The online ad network Chitika just released there newest research reporting that AOL Search, Ask and Bing perform very well against Yahoo and Google when it comes to the willingness of their users to click on ads. Below are the details around the study from the Chitika press release:

Back in July, we looked at how often Bing users clicked on ads when compared to Google and Yahoo! users. Bing users showed a 50% higher ad click rate than Googlers, so at the time our preliminary conclusion was that Bing’s success was being driven in a big part by Microsoft’s huge, expensive advertising blitz.

Now that December is upon us, and Bing keeps showing its ability to push Google from a technology standpoint, we decided to revisit and see how the numbers were looking. As it turns out, Bing users are still clicking on ads at a prodigious rate – in fact, the CTR of users who come to the Chitika network via Bing is over 75% higher than those who come from Google.

Now, it must be mentioned that Bing is still a distant third place in terms of traffic sent – Google dominates with 84% of search traffic, followed by Yahoo! at 7.40%, and Bing holding at 5.75% (AOL and Ask both have just over 1% of search traffic coming into the Chitika network). However, all things being considered the same, driving one Bing user (or AOL or Ask user) to your site can be more valuable than driving one Google user.

Just another reminder that there is more to the search world then Google....

Keyword research is always a daunting task. Many people use one or more keyword research tools (free or paid) to help. What I thought might be helpful is to provide a list of the top 10 best free keyword research tools for your enjoyment.

7 search Keyword Research Tool (free)
Good Keywords (free download)
Google AdWords Keyword Tool (free)
KeywordIndex (free)
Keyword Country (free online version)
Keyword Discovery (free online version)
Spacky (free)
Wordpot (free online version)
Word Stream (free online version)
Word Tracker (free online version)

Good luck!

Everybody is doing it, but Yahoo gets caught. Just saw an article on Download Squad Blog about Yahoo selling subscriber information here - Yahoo's price list for spying on its users leaks. As they point out in the article, Yahoo! even offers discounts for the more you buy, so make sure to stock up and save money (kinda like the Costco/Sam's Club of personal data)...:-)

As all search engines probably sell this type of data to the law enforcement agencies, two things come to mind.

1. Why do they sell it and not offer it free as it is our tax dollars paying for this data, correct?

2. How much money is made by selling this type of data? Is it it's own profit center? I would be very curious to see.

Between Bing going down for 45 mins the other day and someone leaking this embarrassing Yahoo information it only makes Google look better (do I smell a conspiracy?)......

Just found an offer for $75 in FREE advertising for NEW (only new) Google advertisers. It is hard to beat free.....below is the link:

Link - $75 Free Google Advertising Trial