Social Media Keyword Research: Twist

Posted by Martin Jamieson | April 24, 2008 .

I’m spending a lot of time on Twitter lately, I don’t think there is any better way to keep up with breaking topics and to see what types of things everyone else is currently talking about. If you want to be part of active conversations on the web, and make sure you blog posts are […]

Marketing and SEO Tips for Bloggers

Posted by Martin Jamieson | April 16, 2008 .

Just a quick post to let you know about a new blog I started about a week ago.
Marketing-SEO.com is about Marketing and SEO tips for Bloggers - essentially it is an outlet for my thoughts and ideas on marketing and promiting a blog. While KeywordSEM.com will continue to focus on Keyword Analysis principles, Marketing-SEO.com will […]

Keyword Intent - Web Search Classification Study

Posted by Martin Jamieson | April 11, 2008 .

Penn State University have just released a paper that studies the keyword intent of web searches over a sample of 1.5 million searches.
You can read the entire research paper “Determining the informational, navigational and transactional intent of Web queries” (PDF), but here’s a quick summary:

Queries were divided (programmatically) into three categories: Informational, Navigational, Transactional.
The study […]

Keyword Resarch Tool Review: Keyword Discovery

Posted by Martin Jamieson | April 8, 2008 .

Keyword Discovery is probably the most comprehensive keyword research tool available on the market today, so I thought I’d put together a review and show you my thoughts on where I think it shines or struggles against other keyword analysis tools that are on the market.
1. The Interface

Keyword Discovery’s interface is clean and simple, some menu choices […]

Keyword Research Update and Ramblings

Posted by Martin Jamieson | April 5, 2008 .

The KeywordSEM.com blog has been live for about six weeks now, and I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank all the new subscribers that have climbed on board during that time - without a readership, a blog is nothing, your support is greatly appreciated.
This week saw the conclusion to my six part series […]

Another ProBlogger Twitter Link Fest

Posted by Martin Jamieson | April 2, 2008 .

Problogger Darren Rowse ran another little Twitter Experiment today, this time asking his network to send him a link to an article they posted during March 2008 that they considered to have the best title.
The article that I tweeted was 5 Keyword research tips to finding the questions your readers want answered - in all, […]