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HitTail is a freemium service to all small to medium size websites to get more traffic to your website for less money. For a free pre-packaged service that makes keyword writing suggestions for you without you having to waste time in the research... this service is a no brainer. It's a must for anyone serious about SEO.
BusinessWeek Best Ideas of 2006
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. BusinessWeek covers HitTail
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. 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
More business using Web search engines "...an important part of launching a new site is driving traffic to it. He found a product called HitTail, which gives Web site owners, whether casual bloggers or large businesses, a piece of code that tracks how people find their Web site.
It uses that information what keywords people used in which search engines to create a report for the site operator. That allows a business to incorporate the search terms into its Web site content so people using similar keyword searches in the future can find the company more easily.
It uses that information what keywords people used in which search engines to create a report for the site operator. That allows a business to incorporate the search terms into its Web site content so people using similar keyword searches in the future can find the company more easily.
John Battelle covers HitTail
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
Hitting the Long Tail Keywords For the past few days, I've been testing a really neat service call HitTail. In a nutshell, HitTail helps increase your site's search engine traffic by telling you what long tail keywords to use in your articles. A small piece of code is installed on your site to track search engine traffic and the keywords used to find you. HitTail then uses sophisticated algorithms to pull out underperforming terms as suggestions.
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Free Shirt Friday
Free Shirt Friday HitTail - Ranked by PcWorld Magazine as one of the 15 Best Free Services and Software for Business sent me this shirt for free shirt friday! HitTail provides free and premium services for researching long tail keywords. Also on the site they have a very active forum and blog. Thanks for the shirt!
Learn Why HitTail Works
HitTail - A Practical Alternative To Paying For Search Hits
Learn how to free yourself from your expensive PPC keyword addiction by learning how to write for the long tail of search. The idea plays off of the popular notion from Wired Mazazine Editor Chris Anderson.
Learn about HitTail from its creators
Drive More Traffic to your Website with HitTail
Learn how to drive more traffic to your site at a lower cost. Interview with Mike Levin and Connie Connors, creators of HitTail.
Mike Levin demos HitTail at NYC Tech Meetup
Del.icio.us! Bookmarks
Whenever we notice a new link to HitTail, we use del.icio.us as a way to record and pass around bookmarks. Thanks to Squidoo, it's easy to share them with you. This is usually the newest and best list of HitTail links.
HitTail Blog
Here are the most recent posts from the HitTail site. We blog about HitTail, but often we address broader online marketing topics.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byMost Noteworthy HitTail Links
These are the links about the rise of HitTail and the practice of HitTailing. If you're a journalist, it's a great resource for the different angles of the story.
- We teach you long tail thinking
- Markus Merz of Performancing.com says "If you are willing to follow a fast speaking guy (Mike?) who presents HitTail in a nice presentation then the HitTail demo is right for you." Dr. Patsi of BuildABetterBlog.com says "I'd like to encourage you all to go the site and click on "Demo" and watch the informative quick video tutorial. It will help you understand long tail thinking..."
- Holy grail of marketing
- Is the Long Tail the holy grail of search marketing? Here's a thread that implies it may be... and a discussion I'm not directly involved in!
- HitTailing: Good or Bad?
- Controversy raised of whether HitTailing is good or bad born at service's birth.
- Mom would pay for HitTail
- Mom working at home would pay for HitTail, surprised she doesn't have to.
- GaryTheScubaGuy really likes HitTail
- Fans of HitTail so vocal, that they are misidentified as working for the company. This particular fan happens to manage a million dollars worth of AdWords campaigns.
- Editor of the Corante Web Hub
- Jaded tech pundits are betting that HitTail will be a real hit.
- HitTail is not analytics
- Yet, HitTail is increasingly being used in the same breath as Google Analytics.
- Complementary to Google Analytics... again.
- HitTail mentioned side-by-side with Google Analytics again.
- ClickFraud Plauges Natural Search -- NOT
- HitTail offered up by experts as a way to manage click fraud risk.
- Merz Says HitTail Like SEO Mafia
- Other analytics packages leave the decisions in your hands. Marcus Merz of Performancing astutely points out that HitTail sort of leans on you and says you ought'a do this if you know what's good for ya.
- The Next Big Thing
- In addition to the holy grail of marketing, HitTail is more frequently being referred to as the next big thing.
- Build a better blog
- Denise has identified that you can get the benefit of SEO without having to understand a thing about it. Yep, that's the point. Great post!
- SEO for Small Businesses
- Mike Duz of SEO-Blog says: "If you do one thing to your website this year then follow up on the information in this post."
- A Must-Have SEO Tool
- Dazzling Donna is the very first person in the SEO community to recognize the HitTail tool for what it was and blog about it. Thanks, Donna!
- A Revolution in SEO
- We seem to be big in real estate. The Active Rain real estate network calls us a revolution in SEO. Thanks! Quote: [...] for a free pre-packaged service that makes the suggestions for you without you having to waste time in the research... this service is a no brainer. It's a must for anyone serious about SEO.
- Getting the Most From AdWords
- Another real estate site that likes HitTail and mentions it side-by-side with Google Analytics.
Connors Communication Links
Connors Communications is a strategic public relations firm that practices what it preaches. The Cobbler's children have shoes.
- Gordon Gould of ThisNext Says Impressive PR Outreach
- Who better than the guy who will tell you the next thing you'll love to mention HitTail? And he thinks our PR outreach is smart, too.
- PR Firm Accused of Comment Spam Turns It Around
- While some PR firms get "busted" for blog comment spam, here's one that proudly embraces what it did and gets Kudos from other bloggers.
- Promoting the Web 2.0 Way
- Jonathan of the Web 2.0 Blog Network identifies Connors as promoting HitTail the Web 2.0 way, and that's as noteworthy as the application itself.
- Connors recognized as Web 2.0 savvy
- I'm impressed, a very Web 2.0 way to say thanks for the link and it shows that his company is on the ball and really gets how the web works [this is even clearer when you actually start to use Hit Tail].
Google Blogsearch of HitTail
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Great HitTail quotes and testimonials are all over the links already provided, but here we collect only the best.
- Nathan Weinberg, Google Insider
- "I read a blurb about HitTail, which analyzes your search engine referrals and suggests keywords you should target, and decided to give it a shot. I am now a believer! [...] You can't ask for better results than that."
- Michael Duz, SEO-Blog.com
- "If you do one thing to your website this year then follow up on the information in this post. Routine content addition based on long tail mining is not yet mainstream but by starting now, before your competitors do, you will gain a significant advantage."
- Donna Gunter, Online Business Resource Queen
- "Hittail.com is a new service that turns traditional search engine optimization on its head."
- Anthony Power of Power Points
- It is elegant in its simplicity...
Chris Anderson's Long Tail Blog
The blog where Chris developed the long tail ideas and book.
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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. Connors Communications in New York City
HitTail was incubated by the popular public relations firm, Connors Communications, in NYC.
Mike Levin's News and SEO Feed
Where Mike Levin monitors Technology and Search Engine Optimization News
My current method for monitoring news and updating this list is using NetNewsWire on the iPhone connected to my NewsGator account. I read news on the New York Subway, and add it to my Clippings, which automatically updates it here, in my Facebook account, and elsewhere.
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Reader Feedback
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george08
A very good lens you have. You can try people search to find someone in the states. Posted September 10, 2008 |
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webnh
great to see HitTail here on Squidoo, I love the service, 5* and a blessing from a Squid Angel Posted August 31, 2008 |
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DailyCash2u
Great Lens! I found you from here: http://www.hittail.com/widget/blogger/ Posted July 26, 2008 |
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Amer-Shafi
hi nice lens. keepup the good work.admin of SEO Company Posted January 12, 2008 |
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Alban
Is it also for guys, that do have just a blog? Or do you actually have to have a website? Posted December 22, 2007 |
