Comments on: Part 2 – Article Writing Research and Idea Tips – Going Beyond Wikipedia

By: SharonHH

SharonHH — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:58:07 +0000

One of my favorite jobs ever was at a bookshop, so I know what you mean.

By: Kathryn Pless

Kathryn Pless — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:45:34 +0000

I'll have to try Clusty, never heard of it. I use most of the tips you mentioned. Ahh, the smell of books and the feel of their weight in your hands....I used to work at a library and loved it. My recent post Great Article I Found About Freelancing

By: Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:54:48 +0000

I actually tried it for the first time today after reading your post, Ileane, and have bookmarked it. Thanks for the reminder about Clusty – it’s a tool I used to use regularly and it somehow dropped off the radar.

By: Ileane

Ileane — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:51:09 +0000

Hi Sharon,

I use Clusty for searches instead of Google and occasionally Bing.
If you try addictomatic.com you can get a great deal of the resouces you mentioned in the article all in one place. Have you ever tried it?

Topsy.com is also another great Twitter search tool because you get the added benefit of seeing who tweeted a link. So for example you can search by a link on your clients site to see if anyone has ever tweeted or retweeted it and exactly who they are. I think that is pretty cool because it will give you some insight to the demographics of those with interest in a site or link.

I heard about BackType.com as another means to monitor the feedback on a given brand, but I haven't tried it yet.

I hope you find some of these useful. See you in Twitterville!

Thanks for the post!
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By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:50:26 +0000

Hi Mitchell!
Yes, I do #1 and #2 now for keyword optimisation purposes but will have to check out #3.

Thanks,
Dana

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By: Mitchell Allen

Mitchell Allen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:24:35 +0000

I am happy to say that I do all these. Not so much with video, though, because there is way too much junk out there.

To really go beyond Google, try the latent semantic index.
Here is an example:
1. type the search term scrapbooking – look at the related searches at the very bottom. Rather generic, eh?

2. type the search term ~scrapbooking – look at the related searches at the very bottom. More Interesting…

3. Go to http://labs.google.com/sets?hl=en&q1=scrapbooking and see a very cool list of semantically significant list (to Google, anyway)

Cheers,

Mitch