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This is a very candid article of this person’s experience creating a blog that does extremely well on the engines. From my personal experience I can tell you that this is all very true.

If you get “right-sized”, don’t go work at Wal-mart. Make an American Idol blog and service up AdSense ads. Believe it or not, it’s almost that easy.
How To Be A Blogging Idol Instead Of An Idle Blogger

Well, Rocky is off to a great start overat ReveNews. Her most recent topic, Paid Search Management, has caused a bit of a buzz.

Way to go Rocky!
Rocky at ReveNews: Let’s Talk Paid Search Management

This is a really interesting overview of many key phrase research tools available. It’s a great resource:
Compare SEO & PPC Competitive Analysis & Keyword Research Tools: Keyword Intelligence vs WordTracker vs Keyword Discovery vs Oveture Search Term Suggestion vs Google Keyword Sandbox vs Google Suggest, etc : SEO Book.com

This is a really interesting overview of many key phrase research tools available. It’s a great resource:
Compare SEO & PPC Competitive Analysis & Keyword Research Tools: Keyword Intelligence vs WordTracker vs Keyword Discovery vs Oveture Search Term Suggestion vs Google Keyword Sandbox vs Google Suggest, etc : SEO Book.com

Our own Rocky Lewis has just become the lead search marketing expert at Revenews.com. She will be posting fresh blog information regularly here.
Rocky Lewis of Sagerock.com - New Resident Search Marketing Expert at RaveNews.com
You can check out her maiden voyage at Revenews.com here:
Don’t Call Me About Holiday Online Marketing In October

If you are continually refining your key phrase research (and you should be continually refining your key phrase research), you might take a look at this new entry level program from Hitwise:

Access to Keyword Intelligence starts at just under $90 a month, quite a bit more than Wordtracker, which runs less than $250 for an entire year. Add to the fact that the lowest level of service includes data for just three industries and you’re not looking at an affordable alternative to Wordtracker. That said, marketers looking to promote their site in a competitive industry, or small firms that specialize in a particular vertical may find the information well worth the investment.

Hitwise Offers Online Intelligence for the Small Business

Here are some interesting outtakes:

88% said they were researching specific topics?specifically, information about hobbies.
And women (61%) were more likely to search for health and medical information than men (35%).
Surprisingly few people researching specific topics are looking for job or career information (28%).

For Ask Jeeves and MSN users, searching for health information is the most popular reason for researching a specific topic.

Google users, by contrast, like to look for news and current event information. Google users also tend to use search for business or professional research more than other search engine users.

54% indicated they have searched online rather than using a phone book.

58% are looking up information on local businesses.

56% do not understand the difference between the types of listings(paid and organic). Among those that do know the difference, only about half (51%) prefer organic listings.

How Americans Search

I never can find this information easily. So, in case you are looking for how much NetTracker costs and also want a product comparison chart, here you go:
NetTracker Internet Usage Analysis - Product Comparison Chart
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