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I am a very busy search marketer. Besides running a full service search marketing agency, I write for 7 blogs on a regular basis, manage 3 directories, follow a little over 100 blogs in my RSS reader, am very active on Twitter, am active discovering and bookmarking content on StumbleUpon, Reddit, Mixx, Sphinn and various other social news and bookmarking sites, respond to all RFPs and am still the liaison for all our clients (a full time job in and of itself). So how do I maintain this rigorous daily schedule while not losing my sanity in the process? Here are ...

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While I am one who firmly believes that tools can never replace human ingenuity, they can make the job a human does a whole lot easier. With that thought, I thought I share some of the tools we use for SEO/SEM projects followed by some cool plug-ins to compliment SEO efforts with Wordpress blogs. Note: I also shared these in a presentation entitled "Tool, Glorious Tools" at SMX West 2009.

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SponsoredReviews.com, a service that connects advertisers with bloggers willing to write honest reviews about their products and services, has added a new feature to their program - LinkSets. LinkSets allow you to create an unlimited number of URL/Link Text combinations inside of your opportunities. The LinkSets system will then automatically handle assigning those links to bloggers as you purchase reviews.

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GetListed.org is a fantastic new tool for small business owners that will help them learn more about the way their business is listed in local search engines. Their goal is "to help small businesses claim and enhance their listings at major search engines."

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SMX West is just around the corner. This premier search and social media marketing conference takes place February 10-12, 2009 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California and will feature three days of sessions, keynotes, networking activities, special educational presentations and meals for which SMX events are famous. I am privileged to be able to speak in two separate sessions - "Tools, Glorious Tools" and "Productivity Tips For The Busy Search Marketer." Both sessions take place on the final day of the conference.

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Time for a round up of the best posts put out via this blog in 2008. Posts were selected from a combination of those that received the highest number of backlinks as well as comments , those that went popular on Sphinn and this author’s personal favorites.

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Mixx is constantly evolving into one of the best social news sites on the planet. The continuous addition of new features and improvements not only adds to their 'awesomeness' and makes the service fun to experience on a day to day basis. December brings about a number of additions and improvements.

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Just wanted to highlight a post by Patrick Altoft at Blogstorm where he points out that in a recent survey from Forrester, search results are shown to be the 3rd most trusted online information source. This is good news for search marketers everywhere, especially those practicing SEO related techniques that help improve the visibility of web pages in the organic search results of engines such as Google, Yahoo and others.

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Twitter - a micro-blogging platform that few knew about a year ago has now gone mainstream with over 6 million users with numbers that growing daily. Even major news outlets such as Fox News, CNN and others are using Twitter on a daily basis to get viewer reaction and create discussion around breaking stories and issues. This leads me to question whether Twitter can be useful for business or is it simply an outlet to waste time and be counter-productive?

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Just a few short years ago, companies who had yet to launch web site were thought of as pre-historic or dinosaurs. The same in beginning to hold true for companies who have web sites but have yet to enter the world of blogging. The excuses are many, none of which are really valid. They essentially center around budget, lack of contributors and not feeling they have anything to say.