MRN - Grow The Business
Cre8tive Flow — ... competitors may come up with new approaches or may react to actions we have taken.  You have to stay alert.  Changes in society or the marketplace may represent opportunities or threats.  This may even require you to rethink your strategy. Keep Your Radar On The Internet provides an ideal way of watching for unexpected happenings.  Here are some of the tools you may use. Google Alerts Google Blogsearch Twitter Search Google Reader or ...

Alltop.com is where you find blogs in your niche
Business Blogging - How to Build A Better Blog — ... On every teleseminar we present, with every client for whom we set up a blog, the first thing we tell people is that you need to be reading blogs in your niche. The next question usually is: how do I find blogs in my niche? There are many blog directories you can search, like Technorati which indexes over 100,000,000 blogs. Or Google's blog search feature.  And, there's Alltop.com. Alltop.com is the brain-child of Guy Kawasaki (author, speaker, humorist, venture capitalist). The site bills itself as an "online ...

Google Blog Search No Longer Indexes Feeds
Google Operating System — ... reports that Google's blog search engine changed the way it indexes blog posts. Until now, Google Blog Search only indexed feeds, so the results weren't very good for sites that offered partial feeds. The site started to offer a more comprehensive search by indexing the entire content of the page, including comments, navigation links and blogrolls. ...

Google Blogsearch indiziert keine Feeds mehr
GoogleWatchBlog — Google hat seine Blogsuche intern komplett umgestellt: Ab sofort bestehen die Suchergebnisse nicht mehr aus den Daten die der Google FeedFetcher einsammelt, sondern stammen direkt aus dem Web-Index. Da viele Blogs in ihren Feeds nur ein Auszug aus dem eigentlichen Posting anzeigen, ist man jetzt dazu übergegangen den kompletten Blog zu scannen und so auch komplette Artikel durchsuchen zu können - mit einigen Nebenwirkungen. Weiterlesen kommentieren | ...

Google Blog Search non indicizza più i feed
Motoricerca — Il motore di ricerca di Google dedicato ai blog ha modificato il metodo di indicizzazione non limitandosi più solo ai feed ma occupandosi di tutta la pagina, includendo quindi anche i commenti, i link nel blogroll e tutto il resto. In questo modo viene superato il problema di quei blog che offrono feed che riportano solo una parte del contenuto del post, permettendo quindi agli utenti del motore di ricerca di fruire di un’informazione completa. I tecnici di Google hanno inoltre spiegato che l’algoritmo di Google Blog ...

ComcastCares Social Media Interview with Frank Eliason
Online Marketing Blog — ... I think listening is imperative for all companies. I am sure many of the readers Google their name once in a while. Shouldn’t companies do the same? Listening is relatively easy and inexpensive. Just simply do a Google search. Or to be more timely, try a Google blogsearch. Many large companies have been doing this for years. After listening comes engagement, and this is where there is a little bit larger cost. I am asked about this and it really to me comes down to what is the cost for not being there. People will be talking about your brand, ...

Don't Rush Into Social Media
Search Engine Guide : Small Business Search Marketing — ... .  Poke (get it?) around on Facebook and see how the members use the site.  Use Google Blog Search to get an idea what bloggers are currently saying about your business, and industry. ...

Out With The Old Feeds - In With The New
SEO and Tech Daily — ... features (such as 'share with note') made it extremely easy for me to wander through my current feeds and make some 'tentative decisions'. Serious kudos to Edwin Khodabakchian for his continued and ongoing development of this (still free) product! It's staying loaded this time. Now ..... What am I missing?? Like many of you, I visit a number of so-called aggregators and tech sites each day. For me, it's TechMeMe, the newly re-launched Google Blog Search (Technology), and yes, my never-ending experimenting with Friendfeed ...

How Do You Decide If Social Media is Right For Your Business?
Search Engine Guide : Small Business Search Marketing — ... customers are saying NOW, and track WHERE they are saying it.  Launching a blog might seem like a great idea, but what if none of your customers are reading blogs?  That Facebook fan page might seem like a no-brainer, unless all your customers are instead on Twitter. But by doing some very simple monitoring, you can get a very good idea of what your customers are saying online, and where they are saying it.  Free tools like Technorati, Google Blog Search, and Twitter Search will let you track relevant business and industry terms ...

Google Sitemap Generator
Motoricerca — ... Google Sitemap Generator provvede anche ad inviare un ping a Google Blog Search per tutti gli URL nuovi o modificati ed è possibile inserire altri indirizzi da “pingare” all’interno del file robots.txt. ...

Grow Bigger Ears in 10 Minutes
chrisbrogan.com — ... Now, go to Google Blogsearch. Type in your query about your company, your organization, your competitors, and the like. We’ll use the results in the next step. - http://blogsearch.google.com. ...

"Borrowing" Content: How The Little Guy Can Fight Back
SEO Book.com — ... any case, they'll certainly think twice about taking your stuff in future. 5. Fire Fight Another approach is the cavalry charge. Contact the publisher, contact the people linking to them, have your friends write about the culprit. Do it each and every time someone steals your work. Do it on Twitter. Do it on their site. You could even hire an army of cheap Mechanical Turks to do the job for you. You can find links using Yahoo's Site Explorer , duplicate posts using Google Blog Search , and Technorati . 6. Become Big The problem with the above ...

Free Buzz monitoring Tools
Search Marketing for NonProfits — ... Yahoo Pipes Back Type - to follow and monitor comments Social Mention - searches across a variety of social media sources, including Google blog search, Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, Flickr, Digg, YouTube. You can also set up RSS feeds and email alerts. Serph - a search engine that searches across various sites.  The major social media sites that Serph uses are: Technorati, Digg, YouTube, Flickr, Google Blog Search, Bloglines, and Newsvine. BuzzFeed.com - ...

Build Useful Media
chrisbrogan.com — ... Once you have the idea for your project, you might look into the space around it. For instance, if you’re thinking you want to start a tech blog today and hope to live off it, good luck. Ditto general opinion blogs. Ditto general review blogs. At this point, you’ve really got to figure out a unique angle for pretty much any product. Some quick ideas for research: Search for terms that you’d use to find this new project’s URL using Google Blogsearch. Do the same on Technorati. Check out Alltop and see if ...

Blogging Tip : How to Find the Next Great Blog
ThemeLib — ... Google Blog Search is also ideal for finding recently published posts, including those of news stories, which might reveal a style of writing that you enjoy reading. ...

What I Learned About Google Blog Search at SMX West
Small Business Search Marketing — ... Google Blog Search has a “home” page at blogsearch.google.com, but it also contributes results to the main Google.com search results on occasion; i.e., it’s part of the so-called “universal” search results, just like Maps, Video, News, and other types of search results. I’ll be referring to both access points below. ...

Twitter Facebook Analogy
Beyond Search — ... First, the analogy was crafted by a Xoogler, and that tells me some folks close to Google understand that Twitter and Facebook have found traction where Googzilla has not. I have pointed out in this Web log that Google seems unable to act with the resolve it demonstrated in the 2004 to 2006 period. Now the company seems to be morphing into a Microsoft style outfit. I think the GOOG is falling behind in real time search. The splash page at http://blogsearch.google.com is stale compared to what I can find at ...

27 Things To Do Before a Conference
chrisbrogan.com — ... of the event. Mark off what you want to see. Get a sense of what you might ask for a pertinent question based on the session description, and/or decide what the business value of your interaction at any session might be. Check in at Twitter Search for anyone talking about the event you’re attending. You can then determine if you want to follow them and start conversations ahead of the event. This works amazingly well for people who might be a bit shy. Check via Google Blogsearch and Technorati for any references to the event. See whether any ...

21 Ways to Advertise a Blog
SEO Blog | SEO Tips | Backlinks | SEO Tutorials — 21 Ways to Advertise a Blog The sixth edition of Bullet Proof Blogging brings me to talk about advertising strategies for your blog. Today, I am going to list 21 ways to promote and market your blog from birth. I hope you enjoy this weeks bullet proof blogging article and find it useful and effective for your blog. Submitting your blog to Blog Carnivals. Commenting on related blogs. (Google Blog Search) Search Engine Optimisation - Increase your rankings, increase visibility, increase ...

25 Must Read Social Media Marketing Tips
Online Marketing Blog — ... and implementing specific tactics? Two key factors: Searchability and Timeliness. We can not continually look at the same website to see if anything is being said, so we use a variety of search techniques. This brings me to the second key factor. Searching but not getting the results for days or weeks after something is posted is not going to be effective. So we use methods that are immediate. One of the reasons we like Twitter is the real time search at search.twitter.  Google blog search also allows you to sort blogs by 1 hour, 12 hours, 1 day, 1 ...

Authority FTW: Blog Posts in Google Universal Search
Small Business Search Marketing — ... Blog search is supposed to be about freshness and timeliness, at least to some degree. That’s why we have blog search engines like Technorati, and why Google has a separate blogs-only search engine. Blog content is supposed to be a little different, a little more focused on what’s going on now. ...

All of your blogging ideas are dried out?
Make Money Online — ... Google blog search: go to Google Blog Search and search with the keywords of niche there. You can create alerts or RSS Feed with the keywords you want to target on your blog with Google blog search. ...

Google Toolbelt Tells Which Of Your Pages Were Recently Indexed or Linked
Google Blogoscoped — ... Finding new links to your pages: To find backlinks, simply repeat the procedure as above but use link:example.com instead. After you clicked “Show options” and “Past 24 hours”, you’ll find other websites which linked to your site. This can help you uncover the discussion happening around your site. (Note another way to find backlinks is to enter your page’s full URL into Google Blog Search.) ...

How to Promote the Perfect Blog Post
Bill Hartzer — ... , Google’s blog search can even bring in some great traffic to your blog. And it’s a great source of links: many bloggers use it to find other blog posts to link to when they’re doing their research for a blog post. Did you know that Google recently ...

Search Insider: Building a Real-Time Social Search Engine: Why Google Should Buy Twitter
MediaPost | Online Media News — ... and/or search intention. The likely best answer is that the two would complement each other enough to provide a more complete real-time search innovation. How Twitter's network can enhance Google's real-time crawler-based search results Providing a historical answer (what is the "best" result over all network Web documents produced any time) is what Google and the other major crawler-based engines excel at, though of course it's not always perfect. While Google has produced its blog engine , and other results like ...

Google to Launch a Microblogging Search Engine
Google Operating System — ... Much like Google Blog Search, Google's microblogging search service will sort the results by relevancy and it also be integrated with Google's web search engine: the keywords that are frequently used in recent posts will trigger a MicroBlogsearch universal search group. ...

Google Launching a Microblogging Search Engine
Blippitt — ... Similar to Google Blog Search, Google’s new search service will sort the results by relevancy and it will also be integrated with Google’s core search engine.  The keywords that are often used in recent posts will trigger a MicroBlogsearch universal search group. ...

A Simple Presence Framework
chrisbrogan.com — ... Listening First It’s easier if you grow bigger ears. Use listening tools to find where people might be talking about you (by inputting search terms your prospective community might use in discussions that are pertinent to your interests. Start a spreadsheet or simple database to note where these conversations are happening, and to record info on who is out there in the space. Check out Alltop and Google Blogsearch to find existing blogs on the topic. Subscribe. Get ready to start ...

Google Blogsearch: Feeds, Hot Queries und neuste Postings
GoogleWatchBlog — Google hat die englische Version der Google Blogsuche mit drei neuen Features ausgestattet. Wann Hot Queries und neuste Postings auch in der deutschen Version zu finden sind, ist unbekannt. Lediglich Feeds wurden schon integriert. Mit dem Feed kann man jedes Topic und jede Story abonnieren. In diesen Feeds erscheinen dann Blogposts, die die Google Blogsuche findet. Hot Queries ist ein neuer Bereich der Sidebar. Hier findet man Suchbegriffe, die momentan sehr häufig gesucht werden. Darunter listet Google die neusten Postings auf. ...

Google Blog Search Ads Hot Queries & Latest Posts
Saad Kamal — ... I am a huge fan of Google Blog Search, its pretty much the first place I go to when I’m looking for latest blog posts of my favorite topics like technology, gadgets etc. ...

Google Blog Search Adds ATOM Feed, Latest Posts & Hot Queries
Search Engine Roundtable — ... the addition of a few features. The most noticeable changes are to the Google Blog Search home page, where Google now shows the top hot queries and the latest blog posts from popular blogs. Here is a picture showing those two new sections: ...

Increasing Your Exposure With Guest Blogging
Small Business Trends — ... Do Google Searches: Not every blog will be open to allowing guest posts so you want to do some research before you waste time going after bloggers who simply won’t be interested. To help narrow down your list and find those that are, perform quick Google or Google Blog searches for queries like [your industry +guest post] or [your industry + guestblogger] to find blogs that have a history of being open to guest bloggers. You don’t have to necessarily stay in your industry, either. You just have to find blogs that would be ...

Google Blog Search in Real Time (or close)
SEO and Tech Daily — ... If you go to Google Blog Search (this could be experimental?!) and look to the right you will now see Google Trends at the top (identical to our gadget at the right) and then, just below it ... the most recent reincarnation of this : ...

Day 26: Guest Star on Niche-Relevant Blogs to Boost Your Exposure
The Net Fool Dot Com — ... Since we are doing this in 30 minutes, I would recommend using your time to search around for contact information from bloggers you know and bloggers that are popular on the internet. A great way to find relevant bloggers is to do a keyword search in Google’s Blog Search Engine, a targeted source for the web’s popular websites. Once you have a list, start making some content! ...

What is an Authority and Why Social Media Can Help
SeoWorld — ... reinforcement.  Believing in yourself is key. Next – use social media to thrust yourself into the conversation, don’t over-analyze it – and contribute with helpful information, ask questions and make sure you think long term. Your authority building is not an over-night thing, and neither is getting rich, or growing plants. Start with Twitter, Facebook, and search for related blogs within your niche. Use Google’s Blogsearch. Tell me what I can do to get you started. P.S. (This is a ...

Your First 30 Days of Blogging
Quick Sprout — ... The majority of them will say no, but if one of them says yes, it will be worth the effort. If none of those 10 blogs say yes, consider creating a list of 10 more blogs that aren’t as popular. In addition to that you may want to adjust your approach when you reach out to these bloggers. Not only should you ask them to guest post, but tell them what you want to write on and how it would benefit their readers. Day 26: Keep on feeding the fire Through services like Google Blog Search and Technorati, you will be able to find out when someone mentions ...

Recommendations for webmaster friendly freehosts.
Google Webmaster Central Blog — ...  when not.  If you're hosting blogs, create RSS feeds that we can discover in Google Blog Search.  If your site is down or showing errors, please return 5xx response codes.  This helps us avoid indexing lots of "We'll be right back" pages by letting crawlers know that the content is temporarily unavailable. ...

Guest post by Kate Bladow: My Name Is Kate and I'm a Listener
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media — ... opportunity to observe and participate in conversations that don't, and won't, happen in my offline life. Laura Quinn, Michelle Murrain, and Holly Ross are not going to show up at my house and talk nptech. But they do talk online, and I can meet up with them there. Listening helps me figure out where those good conversations are happening. Do you listen online? If not, I challenge you to start listening today. Just follow these steps: Go to Google's Blog Search. Search for your name or your organization's name. Check ...

Up Close With Google Search Options
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing — ... . Blog Searching Blog filtering is supposed to be added sometime today. As it wasn’t live when I wrote this article, I couldn’t test it. I’d expect it to bring back results from Google Blog Search and for the Search Options panel to reflect some, but not all, of the filtering options at Google Blog Search’s advanced search ...

Web Content Writing: Tips & Resources
ClickNewz! Internet Marketing Blog — ... or Google Blog Search for specific topics, and scan through the comments for questions or comments that inspire new content ideas. ...

Web Content Writing: Tips & Inspiration
ClickNewz! Internet Marketing Blog — ... or Google Blog Search for specific topics, and scan through the comments for questions or comments that inspire new content ideas. ...

Social Media Time Management: Selecting Tools
Online Marketing Connect — ... the varying areas of focus are below. Listening and Monitoring If you’re bootstrapping and on the DIY track, look into tools like Yahoo Pipes to build yourself a nice little aggregation environment. Or, try putting together a dashboard using NetVibes, and pull in the RSS feeds for your searches from sites like: Twitter Search Technorati Google Blog Search Backtype.com BoardTracker and BoardReader ...

How To: Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization
NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network — ... Find blogs about your sector and subscribe in the same way, via RSS. A great way to find blogs relevant to your organization is to use Google Blog Search.  You can also follow one of the sector-specific blogs from ...

What IF We Redefined Influence? The New Influence Factor in Social Media
Online Marketing Connect — ... Knows No Bounds Whether a movement is ignited in its intention or deed, if a public statement or reaction is published and notable activity ensues, we are witnessing influence in action. Thus, in the new world of influence, we must take into account those who might not necessarily appear in our traditional media databases or CRM systems, but also those who frequently earn visibility in new media dashboards such as Collecta, Search.Twitter.com, Google Blog Search, Technorati, BackType, Radian6, Social Media Metrics, ...

HubSpot TV - Retweet Treats with Guest Dan Zarrella
HubSpot's Inbound Internet Marketing Blog — ... the click-through rate of what a typical ad would get, so that's good for advertisers." Marketing Takeaway: Content performs better than sales promotion, and content can help build brands. Forum Fodder Sheila Domingue What is the best way to find the top blogging sites for your area of interest? Technorati Google Blog Search BackType ...

Fresh Blogging
Search Engine People Blog — ... post I tackle this exploring process in the following way.  First I think of a tentative title of the blog post, which is likely to be one that could be highly visible in Google.  In all probability this will not be the final title but it is a hook for ideas.  I use the following tools in seeing what items are related to that potential title. Google Web Search  Google News Search  Google Blogsearch  Google Insights    Google ...

Fresh Blogging
Online Marketing Connect — ... post I tackle this exploring process in the following way.  First I think of a tentative title of the blog post, which is likely to be one that could be highly visible in Google.  In all probability this will not be the final title but it is a hook for ideas.  I use the following tools in seeing what items are related to that potential title. Google Web Search  Google News Search  Google Blogsearch  Google Insights    Google ...

DIY SEO: Create Your Own Keyword Tracking Master Feed
Search Engine Journal — ... the Sources For this experimental master feed, I am combining 4 sources (you can combine as many as you need). I will also be using my moniker for tracking – just because it has few results (as compared to a general key phrase), so it will be easier to demonstrate how things work (but likewise, you can create a master feed for any key term you are targeting or trend you are interested in): 1. Google Blog search feed: Go to Google blog search; Search for the key term; Grab the feed of the ...

DIY SEO: Create Your Own Keyword Tracking Master Feed
Online Marketing Connect — ... the Sources For this experimental master feed, I am combining 4 sources (you can combine as many as you need). I will also be using my moniker for tracking – just because it has few results (as compared to a general key phrase), so it will be easier to demonstrate how things work (but likewise, you can create a master feed for any key term you are targeting or trend you are interested in): 1. Google Blog search feed: Go to Google blog search; Search for the key term; Grab the feed of the search ...