One of the many tools I use to track and analyze traffic on Diggz.org is a free service from Statcounter.com.  One key metric I look at on Statcounter is to determine what search terms web surfers use to find my blog.

A huge percentage of  these search terms are the same…so when I saw this, it kinda stood out:

While I don’t have first-hand knowledge, I’m fairly certain Amanda Palmer is all woman, and always has been.

Microsoft has reached collaboration agreements with Twitter and Facebook to get their members’ public status updates and messages indexed and presented in useful ways on the Bing search engine.

The partnership with Twitter has it working with Microsoft to optimize how Bing crawls and indexes “tweets.” Microsoft in turn will apply search algorithms to the Twitter messages, so that Bing users will not only be able to see a real-time feed of “tweets” but also rank them by how relevant they are to their query..

via Microsoft Strikes Search Deals With Twitter, Facebook – Business Center – PC World.

UPDATE:  24 hours later and I’m extremely pleased.  They did a great job with this app, and I’ve noticed an uptick in traffic.

I’m always on the lookout for ways to make my life easier.    No longer than 5 minutes had past after I posted about MySpace Twitter integration (including a note about how I use the RSS Facebook import feature to import my blog into Facebook Notes), did I see a post from one of my Facebook friends regarding NetworkedBlogs.

The last time I looked at bringing this blog into Facebook was about 6 months ago.  I looked at several 3rd party apps, WordPress plugins, Facebook Connect…but none of them did what I wanted.

So I settled on the RSS import function of Facebook’s Notes application.  Which did just fine.  It’s a little slow on the import (maybe once an hour at best), and it never brought in any embedded content correctly (so if I ever just posted a video without an accompanying link, the post would just look blank).

Enter NetworkedBlogs.   They claim they’ll promote my blog to 400,000 users and solve my Facebook connect problem at the same time.  I have installed it and this is the first post I’m trying.  Let me know what you think.

Oh, and here’s an embedded video, just for S&G:

Pattie Maes: Unveiling game-changing wearable tech.

This is some freaky geeky stuff…

I’ve been looking at Twitter for about 6 months now, and I’ve discovered a few things.   It’s an odd beast, and marketers can’t quite wrap their mind around it.

If you’re not getting Re-Tweets…and you’re not getting @Replies…then no one is listening.  And in the Twitterverse, no one listening is a bad thing. 

The problem with Twitter is that it actually takes a real person to keep it going.  It’s very hard to automate Tweets without it looking like you’re automating Tweets.  But marketers try, nonetheless.

If you have a business…how do you decide how to use Twitter?  My suggestion is to be a real person.  Treat Twitter like you would treat a phone call, an email or a visit to your website…don’t treat it like it’s a billboard.    Engage your customers with valuable information and personal service and you’ll find Twitter much more useful.

Top 10 Reasons Why People Don’t Care About Your Brand on Twitter ( | re-engineering antonio.

It is widely understood that companies tweak their websites to increase their ranking in search results on Google.  They call it Search Engine Optimization (or, SEO),  and it doesn’t take a brilliant businessman to recognize that if someone goes to Google and types “Orlando Florist”, the web sites that come up at the top of the list will  garner the most business.

But what if they’re not looking for flowers?  What if they’re a vulnerable, disaffected youth looking for answers and acceptance?

Anti-terrorist experts are now employing the same SEO techniques that drive your business to the flower shop to steer web-savvy potential terrorists  away from radical Islamic sites towards more moderate, “positive” sites that don’t promote violence and hatred.

Brits use SEO strategies to fight terrorism | Military Tech – CNET News.