Matt Cutts has gotten the ball rolling on this “don’t vote” blog meme that asks you to tag five friends to register to vote.  With election day being just about a month away let’s help keep this moving.  So join the meme and register to vote within the next month.  Not sure how? Don’t worry. Ask Google where you register to vote.

Here’s my tags:

Todd Friesen – Because…oh wait…haha nevermind, I forgot he can’t.

Guy Kawasaki – Because he’s way more viral than that other guy.
Brent Csutoras – Because I finally learned how to spell his name.
Chris Winfield – Because … well just because.
Katja Presnal – Because she is the queen of WOMM.
Neil Patel – Because I’m his biggest fan.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Today is the start of breast cancer awareness month. During the month of October you are likely to see more information about breast cancer than you may have seen all year. The difference is that you can help spread the word by focusing on the topic for at least one month. It’s easy. All you have to do is stumble, delicious, digg, reddit, kirtsy whatever article you see related to increasing awareness.

Help increase the flow of the topic on the web and help save the tatas.

Oh and one more thing you can do.  Turn Twiiter Pink.  Do you remember Green Friday, the ode to @gregboser?

Just imagine it looking like this…

So step up and go pink!

It’s that time of the month again folks — time to pay your bills, flip a page on your calendar and refresh your linkbait ideas .  The month of October should be a big one for social media, and ideally you could use this to help aid in linkbait and content creation for your promotions.  By looking at some of the topics and finding a way to relate to your field, you can harness the momentum of that topic and hopefully get more traction.  Here’s what will be hot on social media this October!

• MLB
  It is playoff time!  Who’s in, who’s out?  How long has it been since teams have won a title?  Take a look at any of these angles as it is about the only time of the year that baseball gets hot.
• Halloween
  Get this type of linkbait going early, as the later in the month you go the more saturated the topic will be.
• 2016 Olymipcs
  The new venue is Rio De Janeiro  and there should be an easy week of analyzing the location and what could go right/wrong.
• Michael Moore & the Movie “Capitalism”
  Moore’s newest movie drops today and he is always loved in social media.  This movie might not be a blockbuster, but could bring up some good (and hot) topics for you to write about.
• Horror
  October is the month for lists of the scariest books, movies and more.  Putting together any list that will scare the pants off of readers is sure to do well in October!
• The Stock Market
  After seeing such a rebound in September, the market is sure to be a hot topic in October in whichever way it moves.  Goes up?  We are back to normal!  Goes down?  Another recession.  Any analysis should do well this month.
• Pumpkins
  This may sound silly, but any pumpkin cut-outs, recipes, or products are LOVED at this time of the year.  If you can work your piece around pumpkins (like carving a nerdy jack-o-lantern), you will have instant momentum due to the season
• Roman Polanski
  In case you have had your head in the sand, filmmaker Roman Polanski has been caught and could be extradited back to the US.  The court case was pretty clouded originally, so if you have any need for legal linkbait (tainted trials, extradition, fugitives, etc) use this for extra momentum.
• NHL
  The new hockey season has started so get your linkbait out there while people still care.  Hockey is usually a tough social sell, so try doing it while at least a few  people are talking about it.
• Protesting
  It seems that there is more protesting going on today than there has been in recent years. Whether you are having a tea party, protesting health care or are just mad at the world, protesting has been hot recently and will continue to be throughout October.

Now let the ideas flow and get creative (with the momentum on your side!).  Have a happy haunted month of linkbait!

Have any other hot topics for the month of October?  Feel free to share examples below!

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Okay, so it has been a little more than a week since Part I, but SES NY takes a long time to recover from.

There are a ton of keyword research tools and tool lists out there, but it is still incredibly important to have all of your tools in one place. There are a lot of familiar tools in here, but there should also be a some lesser known ones here as well.

Let’s start this off with an SEO snack provided to you by one of my newest friends, Gareth

Free Tools

SEObook�s ultimate keyword research tool is a great place to start. Another tool on the site, is the Google Scraper tool

We can�t forget everyone�s old favorites, the Adwords Keyword Tool or Overtures Keyword Selector (although it doesn�t always work)

Quintura shows keyword maps to help you to generate more keywords!

Track keyword trends with Blogpulse.

If anything, Kartoo is a lot of fun. It provides keyword maps of who is ranking for what terms. Results could be a little bette

Find your competitors Keyword!

Start off with figuring out how competitive a keyword is

Long tail keyword discovery shows you the 3, 4 and 5 term keywords for your (or a competitors) site.

SEO Digger is pretty awesome tool. Find out what keywords your site ranks in Google�s top 20 for, or use this to spy on the competition

Shoemoney review

Keyword Spy is great at finding what your competitors are bidding on and ranking for and you test it out for free right on their homepage. The free version only lets you see 10 results, but the paid version for $90/month lets you see a lot more.

Digitalpoints Keyword suggestion tool is another good free option. It also lets you specify what country you are looking for data for. They also have a free keyword position tracking tool.

Paid

Wordtracker has a 7 day free trial for their tool, otherwise, it is paid for at $329 a year. They also have very good free version of their keyword research tool.

Trellian�s keyword discovery is another fantastic tool. It draws info from over 180 search engines around the world and has keyword brainstorming tools as well as the ability to import import keyword lists and add descriptors. This is paid for with prices varying, but a 1 year standard subscription will run you about $600.

Keyword Discovery also won Best Keyword Research Tool in 2007 on www.toprankblog.com

Wordze has gotten a bit of a following with tools that let you perform keyword research, get historical keyword data, perform competitive research, and download top searches. They cost $45/month

Wordze also had a great deal of praise TopRank Blog

Wordze review on copyblogger.

AdGooroo, which also deserves a mention in Yoda�s Ultimate Competitive Research Tools Post is also a great keyword research tool. It allows you see what terms your competition is bidding on so you can make sure you don�t miss any opportunities. Prices range from $89/month to $399/month depending on what you need.

Spyfu also let�s you see what your competitors rank for as well as help you find new keywords to use fro your own site. They let you perform some research for free, but if you want to dig deep, it will cost you $308/year or $6.75 for 3 days

Miscellaneous

Shimon Sandler listed some keyword stemming tools on his site a while back that are very useful. Basically, they help you to take the stem of a word and build out additional keywords by adding in the variations of that term. Here are a few good ones:

http://www.usingenglish.com/resources/wordcheck/index.php?word=work

http://www.related-pages.com/adWordsKeywords.aspx

Other Great Keyword Research Lists

The other Loren (Baker that is) recently wrote a post at Search Engine Journal asking what keyword tools his readers liked � WordTracker, SEOBook, and Keyword Discovery seemed to make it out on top.

Mona Elesseily also put together a great list about spying on your competitors including Compete and Spyfu (mentioned above).

SEOBooks keyword research tool list is another great one.

Anne Smarty’s list on SEOMOZ is also very comprehensive

Originally Published on SEO-Chicks