I just got a great presentation from Larry Kim, CEO of Wordstream. on their new addition: Keyword tool plugin for firefox. It is great.

Here are the benefits:

- Free!
- Find topics rather than keywords
- Easy to use
- Fully integrated with most popular CMS (Drupal, Wordpress etc.)
- Highlight keywords for keyword density purposes
- Content creation ideas and automatic inclusion of selected terms
- Find secondary keywords or alternate keywords related to selected terms within the long tail

For blogging, it does not get any better to find content ideas located in the long tail of search queries. Try it! 

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SES Toronto, THE search marketing show in Canada, is approaching fast and this year, it will be on June 9-11 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Please take a minute and look at the impressive list of speakers at Search Engine Strategies (SES) Toronto on June 09-11, 2010

I have been told that there are a number of brand new panels being presented for the first time at SES Toronto, including:

Eye-Tracking Research Update,
Search, PR & the Social Butterfly,
Meaningful SEO Metrics,
Video: The Next Marketing Frontier,
21 Secrets of Top Converting Websites

You can save up to $200 on their conference pass if you register between April 3 and May 21.

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A few days ago, I post a job on the job blog about this company called Web On Media. Yesterday I got 2 messages about this company and people were asking me to remove the post because of the fraudulent nature of the job positing and the underlying relationships. Because I want to make sure everyone knows about this company, I added some info to the job post, which does not seem to be enough. I am posting today new and more exhaustive information about this company and their so-called Internship position which has been posted in Vancouver recently. If you have been victim, please send more info to or simply comment on this post. Here is all the info below. Thanks!

Hello, I live in Minnesota, I too have been scammed by this Web on Media “company.” Fortunately, I’ve been in the game long enough to know a scam when it comes my way so I was able to steer clear of this scam with my time being my only loss. I saw an Ad on Craigslist that they had put for a “summer internship” position in web design for $20/hour. I checked out their website and it looked legit so I sent them a few paragraphs detailing my background and attached my resume. 2 days later I received an e-mail from them saying that I had passed the initial pre-selection and had moved on to the 2nd and final stage of the recruitment process.

Turns out that the final stage of the process entails signing up for the Intuit web design program to build a sample website and send it to them(which right there threw up red flags for me since what company would ask you to pay for software in order to fulfill their recruitment process, that and any monkey can build a website with Intuit, it’s designed to allow people that know nothing about web design to make websites).

On top of that they also wanted me to sign up for a telephone forwarding service and justified it by saying “as part of your internship you will have to make phone calls with clients and you will need a business phone.”

At this point I already knew it was a scam but I decided to respond to their e-mail anyway telling them that I was not interested in spending any money or signing up for any “free trials” in order to move forward with the recruitment process. That was 5 days ago, haven’t heard back from them since.

I hope this information is of help to you. Thanks! Jared

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