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How to Always Have Reference Info by Hand When Blogging

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Having some useful reference information by hand when writing a post or doing research online is an awesome way to both get more productive and also to create a thorough, deeper-researched copies. Therefore you may find the following two tips useful as well as easy to implement in your daily routine. 1. Access reference information while you write or read: take advantage of MS Word’s Lookup Feature I am using Microsoft Word Lookup feature which I find very useful. Unfortunately, too many people are absolutely unaware of it. So, when writing or reading the post in Word, just highlight any word, then right click and select “Look up”: A sidebar panel will open with the reference information for the selected word: You can configure the reference info sources by “Research options” right in the sidebar panel. In the dialog, you can select more sources, add your own or exclude those you don’t need: 2. Access reference information while you browse the web: take advantage of Lookitup Greasemonkey script There’s one handy Greasemonkey script that allows to quickly look up any word in a number of configured online reference sources. The script is LookItUp and it works as follows: Install the script (get the Greasemonkey for that); While reading online, select any word and click the reference source short key. Some of the default short keys include: w – look it up in Wikipedia d – look it up in Google definitions u – urban dictionary The sources and the short keys can all be configured (deleted, moved, added, etc) via the tool Options (accessed via FireFox Tools -> Greasemonkey -> User Script Commands -> LookItUp settings). Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . How to Always Have Reference Info by Hand When

3 Ways to Generate a Tag Cloud off Google SERPs

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Looking at the words that accompany your main search term in SERPs is a great help in keyword research: this way you are able to analyze your keyword neighboring terms and words that appear in the same context. Before playing with any of the below listed tools, set Google to show 100 results per page (for the tools to have more data to analyze): 1. Search

Track Keywords with Topikality

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Topikality is an email alert service (something like Google Alerts but with some essential differences. So it can be used as an additional email alert service not an alternative one) Best to use for: Keyword research for your main/base keyword (to see which contexts it is used in); Post and content ideas (to see what people write about in this niche). Limitations: The tool is currently impossible to use for reputation management because the database seems to small (so you won’t be able to spot every other brand mention). Step 1: Create your

How Do You Un-Clutter Your Twitter Stream?

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Let’s face it, the more people you follow, the more challenging it gets to notice all important updates on Twitter. To me, following fewer people is not an option because I think this is anti-social. I follow back every single Twitter profile that seems valid and is related to one of the topics I love (like search, social media, blogging, etc). This way, as of today, I am close to following 3300 people which makes it really hard to really “follow” what everyone says. The clutter is enormous. All of my Twitter friends (as well as myself) retweet each other multiple times which makes the clutter even heavier. So how do you make sure you are properly updated of news coming from your Twitter friends? I am aware of two tools that seem cool for that ( please add yours in the comments! ). Cadmus Cadmus is the web based tool that claims to group your friends’ Tweets to help you focus on what’s important. I do wish it had some desktop application but the online version works pretty well to make it worth having the site bookmarked and checking it a few times a day. Each unique entry has “Related” tweets section containing similar conversations (those containing similar keywords). So if you get interested in more details, you can click on “Related posts” link: Here’s my stats for example: Cadmus has analyzed 108,411 of your updates and grouped 32,892 related ones, around 30% of all your updates. Another great feature is “Personal trending topics” which are like the trending topics in Twitter but it is just from the people you follow. This seemed like a great way to find out what your friends are buzzing about. ReadTwit ReadTwit , the tool I previously covered , allows to subscribe to your friends’ updates using Google Reader. The best thing about the tool is that it: Filters repeated links in ReTweets; Allows to exclude any user or hashtag from your feed (I wish there were also an option to follow only selected users). So how do you manage to keep an eye on what your friends are tweeting about? Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . How Do You Un-Clutter Your Twitter

5 Tools to Upload and Share Your (SEO) Documents

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We exchange plenty of documents daily: we send reports to our clients, exchange ideas and information with our colleagues and team members. Email is the major method to exchange information. However most of us also use various tools that allow to upload documents for easier viewing and / or collaboration. This post looks at 5 of those tools. Hopefully they will make your SEO reporting and knowledge exchange easier: Service Best feature Registration required Docstoc Powerful social media integration Yes TwitDoc Quick and easy No Docstoc Powerful social media integration Yes Calameo Readership statistics Yes Google Docs We know it so well, that we can’t even tell why we love it No, unless you don’t have an account with Google Docstoc Docstoc gives you two options: to either make your doc public or private (which means only those will see it who you send the link). After uploading, the document can be given: Title; Category and tags; Description. You can also organize your docs by folder, specify licensing and protection, choose the template. More features that you may love: Give your AdSense ID to earn commissions on people’s clicks on your documents; Tweet, share on Facebook and email the documents right after uploading them; Enjoy powerful LinkedIn integration: TwitDoc TwitDoc is a simple Twitter-based tool for instant document uploading and sharing on Twitter. It needs no sign-up but naturally requires Twitter login. This is really a one-click process. The Tweeted document looks like this when opened: The document has a very basic hit counter which helps you see how popular your tweet was. Zoho