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Wordtracker have issued an excellent guide to the application of their Keyword analysis service to the effective promotion of web based businesses at www.wordtracker.com . Although I have been doing this for a while there is always more to learn.

Yesterday we reviewed some of the earlier work to see how it is panning out and to consider where next to focus our efforts. Today we are going to have another go with Wordtracker to explore some fresh angles - trying some of the ideas in their e-book.

One of the unintended outcomes of beefing up the content of the samples pages is that they are starting to appear in search results so there is probably more to do on that front to provide an effective entry to the rest of the site.

Now that it is clear that there are no regular readers of this blog I am abandoning the daily publication of streaming samples but I will use them on an occasional basis when prompted by the content.

Finally a big hello to the parkranger who has just started blogging @ juicyfruiter.blogspot.com and who was kind enough to say how she like what we are doing here.

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