HitTail - A Practical Alternative to Paying For Search Hits

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Best Ideas of 2006 - Trend Mining

BusinessWeek Best Ideas of 2006 - Trend Minding There is even a Web analytics site called HitTail.com that analyzes blog traffic and search patterns to spit out future post suggestions for bloggers eager to stay ahead of emerging trends and spike their rankings. A few simple algorithms can discern not only what people are talking about now but what they will be talking about in the future. Who needs a gut anymore?

PC World covers HitTail

Best Free Services and Software for Business

PC World Best Free Services for Business - E-Commerce Analytics. If you're willing to invest some time analyzing your e-commerce site and its visitors, you can tweak your pages to improve their natural exposure in search engine results. How do you know your changes are working? Use a tool to see where your current Web site visitors come from, then monitor the results after you make changes to your pages.

Inc Magazine covers HitTail

Organic Chemistry - Inc Magazine on Natural Search

Organic Chemistry If organic search sounds like a lot of work, it is. And it may take time before it pays off. Mark Levit, managing partner of VisAcuity.com, which sells reading glasses, says he spends five to six hours a week studying his results to see how changes have helped, or hurt, his organic results. Levit uses Google Analytics, a service that shows how customers get to a website and which pages they visit. He also uses HitTail, another online analytics tool, to see which search queries generate organic traffic.

Wall Street Journal covers HitTail

For the Web, Choose Your Words Carefully

For the Web, Choose Your Words Carefully There's no denying it: How easily you're found on the Web these days can make or break your business. And one surefire way to be found is to land near the top of the results for common searches on popular Web-search engines like Google.com and Yahoo.com.

PC World covers HitTail

Tech at Work: Get More Web Visitors--Naturally

Attract more visitors to your Web site without paying for search engine advertising, by Richard Morochove. One of the easiest services to use and understand is the free HitTail, now in beta.

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Building A Better Mousetrap, by Jessi Hempel

Savvy bloggers sift through thousands of posts and newsfeeds every day to find the magic topics that will send search engines racing in their direction. But Mike Levin, the creator of hittail.com, thinks he's got a better way: To become a click magnet, he says, a blog should study how it got its past hits.

New York Times Gadgetwise covers HitTail

10 Ways to Build Traffic to Your Site

10 Ways to Build Traffic to Your Site Use keywords to describe what your Web site is about. Also make sure that your site's content matches your meta data and other tag phrases. HitTail is one service that helps you home in on key words.

WebProNews covers HitTail

Long Tail Keyword Research

Long Tail Keyword Research. One of our readers suggested trying HitTail, which is certainly not the same thing, but is very, very useful for anyone trying to learn something about a website's visitors. It is a long-tail keyword research tool.

Ventura County Star covers HitTail

More business using Web search engines

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HitTail: An Interesting Service, What do You Think?

Interesting news from a PR agency, Connors Communications. [...] The short of it: It promises to teach you the words that might get your site better ranked in organic search, so you can use those words on your site. Is this a good thing? Well, nothing bad about having more information. But...

TechCrunch covers HitTail

The Long Tail As Muse

Bloggers interested in building search traffic should check out New York based HitTail, a deceptively simple tool that makes suggestions for words to use in blog post titles or topics to write about based on the search terms that are already bringing people to your site.

CNET covers HitTail

HitTail helps you profit from the dregs of search, by Rafe Needleman

If you want to know what the top search terms are that land people on your site or blog, you want Web analytics software. There are some good and comprehensive tools out there, such as VisiStat. But there's another valuable way to use search engine results: the new HitTail service.

Rajesh Setty, The Blog Starter

Rajesh Setty runs Blogstarter, a popular Squidoo lens (LensRank #64) that teaches people how to start blogging. Within the registries and directories Rajesh says to take advantage of, he recommends leveraging the power of HitTail to get more traffic. For anyone getting started with blogging, it's a recommended read.

John Chow covers HitTail

Hitting the Long Tail Keywords

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GreaseMonkey statistics detector

HitTail included in a GreaseMonkey analytics code detection script

GreaseMonkey is a FireFox plugin to run scripts as you surf the net in order to "fix" things. There are unlimited uses, but this person in The Netherlands wrote a script to show you what tracking code a particular site you're visiting is running. And he considered HitTail right up there with AWStats, Google Analytics and Omniture as important enough to include. Cool.