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Houston Search Engine Marketing and Optimization Services " If you read Internet marketing and SEO blogs on a regular basis, you undoubtedly come across posts about free SEO tools quite often. While there are a lot of great free tools on the Internet for SEOs, I have recently noticed that almost all of these posts profile the same core set of free tools (such as SEO for Firefox). Since you most likely already use the most popular free SEO tools, I want to look at five SEO tools today that are very useful, but simply don’t get as much attention as they deserve: Google Insights Bookmarklet: While Google Insights can provide very valuable keyword information, you can waste a lot of time switching from one window to another window in order to use Google Insights.
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Startup of the Day - 4delite - BizSpark Startup of the Day The BizSpark startup of the day is o Clever Sense, based in the US. Below you will find an interview with o Babak Pahlavan, Co-founder and CEO of Clever Sense. All the best to them and congratulations for being the startup of the day! Website: Marketing in the semantic web What should be the role of marketing in the semantic web? Should there be any? According to the W3C, the semantic web is about common data formats that make it easy to integrate and combine data from diverse sources.