Man, Google offers some great keyword research tools.  Why should I use WordStream?

I think you should use our free keyword tool for the same reason I’d suggest using any other keyword tools as an idea generator. The main differentiator between Google’s external tool and our free keyword tool is that ours is a Long Tail Keyword tool – we offer a deeper list of suggestions (up to 10,000 depending on the query you start with). We also tap a variety of different data sets (ISPs, toolbars, and search engines) so there’s a bit more query diversity than what Google has.

I thought that Tuesday’s Social Media SixPack presentation went pretty well, and someone e-mailed me asking me for my slides, so I decided to post a dry run of my presentation here.

I went a bit long here. at about 10 minutes, but it might be worth watching if you want to be more efficient.

SEO For Wordpress Session with Jordan Kasteler – Search & Social, Rick Turoczy – Silicon Florist, and David Wallace – SearchRank. Moderated by Scott Hendison. These blogging pros discuss different tools and plugins that can be used to optimize your blog for Search Engines, but also maintain a social media friendly blogging platform. The Q& A section discusses the scalability of WordPress for a web site’s blog.

Even though many experienced search marketers shun the use of tools, I guess I’m still a rookie because I really enjoy them. No matter how efficient I think I can be, there’s always a better way to do something when you introduce a certain level of automation.

Inside Google Webmaster tools there was apparently a recent addition back in February but I just noticed, and it’s really pretty slick.