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How Alltop Powers Bloggers

Submitted by Michaelfidler from Google Reader

Nov 30, 2008

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Guy Kawasaki isn’t just the author of Reality Check, his latest nifty book about kicking your competition’s butt. He’s a tinkerer and entrepreneur. I’ve been in love with his Alltop since it first came out ( I first talked about Alltop here). As time goes on, I think of more ways to use the service.

Tonight, for instance, I got curious about search engine optimization (SEO). I thought about googling the term, but realized that would dump me into lots of commercial products, software, and worse. So, I thought about Alltop. I typed in http://seo.alltop.com, and it popped up all the various search blogs out there. Instantly, I had what I needed.

I spoke with Guy about this recently, just how much it’s changed the way I blog, and the way I research. We thought about how else it might empower bloggers, and here’s what we came up with:

Top 10 Ways Alltop Powers Bloggers

Keep track of what your competitors are writing about. Alltop displays the last five stories of over one-hundred sites and blogs for topics ranging from adoption to zoology with 400 topics in between

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Comments (1)

Michaelfidler,

Dec 02, 2008

I just rediscover Alltop last week, and they have added so much new content since my last visit, that it has become quite useful