Nice way of looking at keyword research

Rob Taylor runs an internet marketing video blog and has recently posted an interesting alternative to traditional keyword research tools.

He suggests using Amazon.com (not .co.uk) and their ’search inside’ feature. This, for any given book, provides you with a list of ‘Statistically Improbably Phrases‘ (SIP) - these are phrases which Amazon considers significant. It works by looking for phrase matches across all books (that have the ‘Search Inside’ feature) - and where a phrase appears in a large number of books, it is marked as a SIP.

Gathering keyword phrases like this and using them in optimised content could really pick up long-tail searches around particular topics.

View the whole video where he talks about it here.

Twittervision

Do you tweet? I'm not sure I'm into Twitter yet, but I think it might grab me soon. Like I've got time to keep that up too? As well as the four kids, the day job, this blog and the other side-lines...oh yeah, and have a life too? Hmmm...

But I love twittervision.com - nice mashup of Google maps and Twitter

openphoto.net

Wow. Just came across this great photo library resource with some fantastic images on it. Most of them (like the one above) are available for reproduction and sharing under the creative commons licence.