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Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends

Adam Sherk

A tactic that some news and content sites employ is monitoring Google’s Hot Trends list in an effort to identify hot topics and then quickly produce matching content around them. Many search trends come and go quickly, so sites that cover a topic after its peak will likely miss out on the larger search engine visibility opportunity.

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What’s your Social Media diet?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I can say that life was a lot more chaotic before I found Google Reader (hat tip to Robert Scoble who turned me on to Google Reader). A typical day starts at 6am with answering the new email that came in over night and then some morning reading in my RSS reader (see photo of this mornings Google Reader).

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Micro Persuasion: Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google Reader

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Steve Rubel explores the impact of digital trends on business, culture, media and marketing. Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google Reader. I have been using various RSS readers for nearly five years now - Ive tried them all. However, none matches the power of Google Reader. Micro Persuasion.

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11 Common Mistakes That People Make With Their Personal Brands.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you are to represent your personal brand as one that is expert, you should at least take the time to stay up to date with news, trends, and opinion. Learn what the current issues and trends are in your field and share your thoughts and opinions with others. Nice article worth the read.

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Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Steve Rubel explores the impact of digital trends on business, culture, media and marketing. I scan 275 RSS feeds in Google Reader and I use dozens of bookmarklets and shortcuts to help me manage it all. In addition, if youre a Google Readers shared items (yes, you Scoble !) Micro Persuasion. Social Commerce.

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28 Resources from My Internet Marketing Toolbox

Viper Chill

I don’t use it so much for the figures that they give, but it gives far better phrases that I wouldn’t think of using or typing into the Google Keyword tool. Google Trends I rarely build new sites these days (I buy profitable ones, instead) but my most recent was in December, with my $1m case study.

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Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Moreover, if you follow the latest search engine algorithm trends, you know that Google and others are apparently beginning to factor any and all social mentions into their ranking methodologies, and it’s likely that these social signals will become even more influential over time.