Launching an online community it’s quite easy.

The options to launch an online community are endless: you can [...]]]>

If you received a dollar for every online community idea that has been tried on the Internet for the last decade, you’d probably be a very rich person by now.

Launching an online community it’s quite easy.

The options to launch an online community are endless: you can create a Ning community, launch a Facebook Page or Group, use a simple online forum, create a Myspace page, etc.

However, the hard part comes when it’s time to keep your community members engaged and interested enough to let others know about how cool your community is.

On this post you’ll learn from the experiences in running an online community by Photojojo’s Founder, Amit Gupta.

Why Photojojo?

Because they are able to attract over 158,000 unique visitors in March 2010, have almost 22,000 readers via Feedburner, over 10,000 fans on Facebook, almost 32,000 followers on Twitter, and this is all before talking about the tens of thousands of people subscribed to their photo-tastic e-mail newsletter.

So, yes you can learn a thing or 2 from Amit Gupta. Amit is an entrepreneur that lives in San Francisco. He takes photos, twitter, and sometimes blogs. He runs Photojojo, it’s about photography + awesomeness. Here is an interview that I ran when I was the head editor of Bacon Lettuce Photo. [Thanks to the incredible Joe Philipson for interviewing Amit.]

Tell me about the beginnings of Photojojo.

Photojojo started as a fun side project, I felt like there’s some interesting stuff to do with photography and crafting and I figured let’s launch it and see what happens.

Do you have a personal interest in Photography?

Yeah! I did a lot of photography in High School I actually got into video photography. I’ve been shooting for 14 years and I guess to me I like to take photos casually and I’m an amateur. When I got to New York I got my first Digital SLR because NY is incredible it’s hard not to be really excited about photography when in NY.

Where did you get the idea for Photojojo?

I saw a lot of interesting stuff going on in digital photography, a lot of my friends were taking lots and lots of photos when they got their digital cameras, usually hundreds and thousands of photos a year. The photos would just pile up and get forgotten about on their computer. It’s kind of sad that we’re generating and recording all these happy moments and never looking back because theirs just too many photos to keep track up. I also noticed a lot of people getting excited about DIY (Do it yourself) and crafts and customized products and making stuff come alive. Seemed like an interesting place to cross those two, digital photography and having people get more into making stuff again.

You guys seem to have a lot of great ideas, are those user submitted or do you come up with those on your own?

A little bit of both, some ideas we come up with originally and some we get on the web or our friends and readers submit things, we try to credit them when that happens. It’s a good mix.

How large is your staff at Photojojo?

We are 4.5, and the half is my mom who helps part time. Most of our photography and digital photography are shot with my Nikon D70 which definitely fits the bill for online stuff, works great for shooting with the web which is what we’re usually doing. A lot of our photographs for our book were shot on the same camera and a Canon Rebel XTI. All these cameras are not huge monster cameras, they’re the bottom when it comes to digital SLR’s. Yet I’m not a real big gear head when it comes to that, I’m all about what you can do with what stuff you can do with your photographs and not so much the gear used and lens comparisons. You could really take great photographs with just about anything, I use my iPhone’s camera more then any other camera and I get some good stuff out of it.

What do you think about photo communities like Flickr or Picasa? Have they reached their potential or do they have room to grown and where do you think Photojojo has a place in that?

I’d have to say there’s a lot of potential for these to grow, I think Flickr is great and is probably my favorite online photo community. I think Facebook’s got the most potential for doing something interesting just because they’ve got a larger space and a broad spectrum of users. It’s not just professionals but amateurs…Facebook hasn’t done much with photography but I’m hoping that they’ll look at that…when it comes to integrating a lot of social apps I think they have a lot of interesting things they can do.

If you could magically improve photo communities worldwide what would you do? Would you like to expand and grow the photo safaris you do now?

Yeah, like with anything else though, as a small company we have to be cautious about where we spend out time and resources but we definitely want to do more… we have to strike a balance between what we do with events, and the store, and the book that’s coming out. But definitely is a different experience when we bring people together that have a common interest in the real world instead of online it brings and and creates a much stronger relationship with people. We’d love to do that more. The ones that we have done so far are in New York and Las Vegas and we’ve really enjoyed them.

What is your favorite type of camera?

Small. Smaller is better. I honestly wish if I could just have a camera that was as good as a DSLR but could fit in my pocket I’d be just so jazzed about that. I think the best camera is the one that you have with you all the time. I’m actually in the market right now because I spilled some water on my camera at PMA and it stopped working and I’ve been looking around and I just wish there was something small and wonderful like on my phone so I wouldn’t have to have a second device to carry around. The camera on the iPhone is too crappy.

Conclusions + Takeaways

• Create a community about something you are 1000% passionate about. Running the community shouldn’t sound like work, it should sound like a whole bunch of fun.
• Don’t micromanage. Learn to delegate. Give a fair chance to those who you delegate to.
• Strive for user created content as much as possible.
• Do one thing and do it very well. Photojojo publishes an insanely great newsletter on photography.

Photobucket.

Facebook.

These are just some of the many options available these days for sharing photos online. I’ve always wondered what are the true drivers for one person to choose one option over the other, so that is why I started this online poll at LinkedIn.

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Flickr.

Photobucket.

Facebook.

These are just some of the many options available these days for sharing photos online. I’ve always wondered what are the true drivers for one person to choose one option over the other, so that is why I started this online poll at LinkedIn.

What drives you to choose a service to share photos online?

Ease of use is the king feature not only across genders but also across age groups.

A male search engine marketing specialist explains the reasoning behind the the preference of ease of use:

Ease of use for me. I do not want to spend hours figuring out on how to customize the features. Another factor for me would be the strength of privacy features.

What about price?

Surprisingly, price was not indicated as major influence in selecting a service to share photos online.  Only 6% of all respondents pointed out price as the major driver for selecting a service to share photos online.

A plausible explanation for this is provided by a male HR software developer:

I worry more about online services that never charge at any level. Its a good bet they will not be in business for a long time. I rather spend a small amount, get some hard copy pics my kid can hold, and have a service that will be around in the long term.

In general people don’t mind spending money on keeping their pictures safely stored, either online or at home. A female real state financial analyst reported spending spending $129 at Costo to purchase a 500GB hard drive and several respondents told me that they have no problem dishing out the close to $25 dollars/year for a Flickr Pro account.

Even though, people in general are willing to spend some money in keeping or sharing their photos online, they are easily turned off by hidden charges.

A female law student provides an example:

I will tell you what completely turned me off: Kodak Gallery recently started threatening to delete your account if you didn’t make any purchases from them within a certain time period. I ordered back-up discs of all pics I had on there and deleted my account myself!

What about other features?

Throughout the gathering of the answers, there was a constant demand for other answer options. Here are a couple ones.

I use Flickr because it has an open API, and as a result, there are millions of 3rd party applications and easy ways to embed in websites without having to use a flickr-branded widget. Flickr, Picasa, Kodak, Shutterfly, etc, are all pretty easy use, but Flickr is easy to use, tag and share. – Male sales engineer.

For me, “unlimited” is only one “acceptable” storage size. But, because I’m not a professional photographer, more than 5 GB is same as unlimited. - Male programmer.

I agree with the sharing a large amount of photos easily, and sharing those photos without making the people you are sending your photos to create an account to see them!!! - Female law student.

Conclusion

When developing an online photo sharing service, make your number one priority that it is easy to use. A second important feature is that it needs to be highly viral (“my friend are already there!”).  However, your service doesn’t necessary need to be the “talk of the town”. Users of online photo sharing services prefer user friendliness over “what’s hot now” any time.

If you build an easy-to-use product that is highly viral, your own users entitle you to charge a price. Just make sure that you’re very clear about that price.

]]> http://idaconcpts.com/2009/10/09/what-drives-you-to-choose-a-service-to-share-photos-online/feed/ 0 http://idaconcpts.com/2009/05/29/photo-sharing-websites/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photo-sharing-websites http://idaconcpts.com/2009/05/29/photo-sharing-websites/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 20:19:44 +0000 Damian Davila http://idaconcpts.com/?p=569 The top question that people ask me when people find out about my online marketing and web analytics blog, is how I came up with the name idaconcpts.  I really like words that are similarly written and understood in several languages, and ideas and concepts are two of them.  I played around [...]]]>

The top question that people ask me when people find out about my online marketing and web analytics blog, is how I came up with the name idaconcpts.  I really like words that are similarly written and understood in several languages, and ideas and concepts are two of them.  I played around with different variations of these words, until I realized that what my blog was truly about was putting ideas and concepts into e-commerce.  Therefore, putting these ideas and concepts would be put to work into commerce, or would put the “e” in e-commerce.  Hence, idaconcpts.

One of the best things of writing at idaconcpts.com is that I have a passion for analyzing photo sharing websites and my readers seem to share that passion with me.

Over 34% of the readership at idaconcpts follows the posts about the BIG 5 of photo sharing: Flickr, Photobucket, Snapfish, Shutterfly, and Slide.  Please note that I am limiting myself to websites (as opposed to desktop apps such as Picasa).  At the same time there will be debate about:

1. why I am not including Myspace and Facebook (which obviously have major photo sharing activity),
2. if I include photo printing services such as Shutterfly, why I don’t include major online photo printing services like Walmart and Costco, and
3. if I am not including Picasa Web Albums, why am I selecting Slide, which obviously is not a photo sharing website, but rather a widget generator like Sprout Builder.

And my answer is that they are all great questions that I will tackle on future posts to come!

In the meantime, let’s continue the analysis of the BIG 5, which started back in November 2008 with the post Flickr versus Snapish versus Photobucket versus Slide versus Shutterfly and continued with the follow-up post Revisiting Flickr versus Snapish versus Photobucket versus Slide versus Shutterfly. In this posts we analyzed the traffic to these photo sharing websites through Google Ad Planner and Google Trends.  Today we will take a look through another great web analytics called Compete.

Compete is an awesome cloud computing web analytics tool that allows you access website activity info from any website.  The first killer feature of Compete is that it allows you to compare 5 websites side by side.  Even though Google Trends and Google Ad Planner do offer this service, Google Trends‘ information is quite limited, and Google Ad Planner’s information is limited to a handful of websites.

Here a couple snapshots of Flickr, Photobucket, Snapfish, Shutterfly, and Slide using Compete:

The second killer feature of Compete is that it allows you to take a look into the subdomains (finally!) of entered websites.  Google Trends does not (as of 05/29/2009) allow that feature, it only allows you to take a look at the web analytics of the home page.

Remember point 2 above? With this tool I can finally tap into finding out how much traffic from walmart.com goes into photos.walmart.com:

Finally, Compete allows me to post these simple little graphs, which previously I had to take a snapshot using Skitch and upload to my blog.  I still love Skitch, but this saves time!

What about an updated analysis of Flickr, Photobucket, Snapfish, Shutterfly, and Slide using Compete?

Dear reader, you already have a start with the post Flickr versus Snapish versus Photobucket versus Slide versus Shutterfly and its follow-up post Revisiting Flickr versus Snapish versus Photobucket versus Slide versus Shutterfly. Now with Compete, you can slice and dice the data in no time!

Best of luck in your research!

The AARRR Model from Dave McClure (Master of 500 Hats)

I asked this same question to a class of MBA students here at the Shidler College of Business and [...]]]>

Take a look at the AARRR model from Dave McClure and tell me what you think is the hardest step?

The AARRR Model from Dave McClure (Master of 500 Hats)

I asked this same question to a class of MBA students here at the Shidler College of Business and the answer of choice was the last step:  Revenue.

Yes, conversion is very, very hard to do.  However, I think that what my MBA colleagues missed is that you cannot get to the Revenue step without Retention and Referral.  Even though viral marketing only appears under the Referral step, I have found from my personal experience that viral marketing involves both Referral and Retention.

The current state-of-the-art of Acquisition is so advanced that acquiring users (more than 30 seconds on your site and at leat 2-3 pageviews) is relatively easy.

There are plenty of techniques (refer to the orange square above) that are pretty effective of practicing interruption marketing (as Seth Godin calls it and he provides quite a sad example of it).  A highly effective of acquiring customers is through Facebook Advertising, if you want to find out more about it read this post on how to target your audience using Facebook Advertising.

Currently web marketers are masters of the Acquisition step and MBA students (future web marketers) are focusing on finding out how to excel at the Revenue step.  The best example of this sad business model is the thought that Twitter is a Cash Cow in the Making (derive a funny @name, horde tons of followers, and reap the CPC rewards).  In a nutshell, the thought is that Retention and Referral are going to happen automatically somehow in any startup model.  During the dot-com era, and some still today, Internet startups fail to understand that the most common source of failure for startups is a lack of customers and not a lack of product development.  Often startups are good at managing its product development, but terrible at managing its customer development.

The gold (a.k.a traction or conversion) is to develop effective, scalable, contagious, ADDICTIVE Retention and Referral steps.

Viral marketing is essential for the success of any business enterprise.  Word-of-mouth beats any marketing concoction any given day.

Really good examples of viral marketing are:

1. Photojojo’s Scavenger Hunt: This little forum post has created 504 responses from Photojojo’s readers.  It is a very, very simple idea, yet very, very, very A-D-D-I-C-T-I-V-E.

2. Sprout widgets: I am big fan of Sprout because it allows you to tell a story and then that story can be shared with others.  Here is my stab at creating a Sprout widget for iLovePhotos.  This little widget can be found in various places of Facebook and I have found that people see it as a little pin of support for a little startup from Hawaii.  You can found our widget at Bacon Lettuce Photo – The iLovePhotos Blog.

3. Blogs that instead of being e-mail are ME-mail: the perfect example is Flickr.  This should not be a surprise but it is still a very hard idea to push.  Instead of telling people how great your company and product are, you should be telling your users how awesome they are.  Build a tribe (another Seth Godin term) that is about making feel your users good.

Retention and Referral are hard to achieve and there is no magical sure-shot way to do it.  I hope that this post gets you thinking about their importance.

]]> http://idaconcpts.com/2009/01/30/viral-marketing/feed/ 2 http://idaconcpts.com/2008/12/16/exploring-flickr-communities/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=exploring-flickr-communities http://idaconcpts.com/2008/12/16/exploring-flickr-communities/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:50:20 +0000 Damian Davila http://idaconcpts.com/?p=422 For the last week, I have been quite busy exploring Flickr communities, in order to develop a better understanding of what drives people to organize and share their digital photos online.

Here’s my Flickr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/i-love-photos/

Through the search of full text (and tags) such as face detection [...]]]>

For the last week, I have been quite busy exploring Flickr communities, in order to develop a better understanding of what drives people to organize and share their digital photos online.

Here’s my Flickr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/i-love-photos/

Through the search of full text (and tags) such as face detection (face detection), face recognition (face recognition), and photo lover (photo lover); I am finding the most interesting people you can imagine.

Why face detection and face recognition? Because I believe that we can use face detection and face recognition to make organizing, sharing, and enjoying your photos better!

Why photo lover? Because that’s the term we use to describe the users of iLovePhotos.

I will keep on exploring Flickr communities the rest of this week and will write about my experiences later on next week.

Fun times at photofunia.com

has been great! Thank you very much for reading it. Here is a breakdown of the number of daily readers provided by WordPress BlogStats

I am really happy that my Spanish colleague, Gemma (who writes a great web analytics [...]]]>

The response to the post:

Flickr versus Snapfish versus Photobucket versus Slide versus Shutterfly

has been great! Thank you very much for reading it. Here is a breakdown of the number of daily readers provided by WordPress BlogStats

I am really happy that my Spanish colleague, Gemma (who writes a great web analytics blog in Spanish called ¿Dónde está Avinash cuando se le necesita?, a great tribute to Avinash Kaushik) found some inspiration to use Google Trends (one of my personal favorite tools!).

Another great tool for broad research is Google Ad Planner (currently in Beta, so you need an invitation, mine took about a week to arrive).

Let’s take a look at the BIG 5 (Flickr, Photobucket, Snapfish, Shutterfly, and Slide) of online digital photo sharing using this tool:

Flickr versus Snapfish versus Photobucket versus Slide versus Shutterfly: using Google Ad Planner

Google Ad Planner provides much more in-depth information on a monthly basis (the figures for unique visitors and pageviews are on a 30-day basis).  The reach is for the United States.  As discussed on the previous post, Photobucket appears to continue to have the upper-hand over Flickr.

What I found really interesting is that if I was to theoretically put ads on these 5 sites trying to reach everybody in the United States, I would reach 31 million or have a country reach of 13% or have 660 million pageviews.

Do you think that is a lot? Wrong! Take a look what would happen if I just select Facebook and Myspace:

That’s 90 million unique visitors or a country reach of 39% or 20 billion pageviews!

Does that mean that advertising on Facebook and Myspace is better than advertising on the top 5 of online digital photo sharing?

If your objective is to monetize on printing services, I would dare to say no.

Why?

Take a look at the age and income distribution of the audience at Myspace using Google Ad Planner:

Compare it with the demographics of the audience at Shutterfly:

Obviously Shutterfly has a more mature audience with more spendable income, so they would be more prone to spend on printing services than a younger audience with a tigther budget.

Of course, you could argue against this hypothesis.

Let me hear your thoughts.

Daily Unique Visitors of 5 key players in the online photo sharing industry.

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An important part of my job is to understand the trends in the online photo sharing industry and I wanted to provide a couple of insights to my readers using Google Trends.

Daily Unique Visitors of 5 key players in the online photo sharing industry.

For the period May 2007 – September 2008, Flickr and Photobucket compete for the highest number of daily unique visitors worldwide out of the five selected online photo sharing:  Flickr, Snapfish, Shutterfly, Photobucket and Slide.

Take a look at the latest performance of Photobucket and Flickr:

What caused that there were more daily unique visitors at Photobucket than at Flickr?

Photobucket is capturing more daily unique visitors than Flickr in the top photo sharing market: U.S.

However, Photobucket should not rest in its laurels, because Flickr is ahead in the second most important photo sharing market: India.

What about Slide?  Slide enjoyed an important spike in the last quarter of 2007, but its number of daily unique visitors is coming back to previous levels.   What caused this?

2 reasons: hi5 and England.

Worlwide, people who search for the the term “slide”, also search for:

As you can see, hi5 appears several times and it different languages!

This is relevant because hi5‘s daily unique visitors worldwide dwarfs that of the top 5 players in the photo sharing business (note: I drop Snapfish, because Google Trends only accepts 5 websites at a time).

Plus, Slide did pretty good during that period in England!

Finally, what about Snapfish and Shutterfly?

They depend on each other because:

People who search for “snapfish” also search for “shutterfly”.

And people who search for “shutterfly also search for “snapfish”.

In conclusion:

1. Markets outside of the United States DO matter!  Increased demand in important markets (e.g. Slide in England, Flickr in India) can generate a lot of views, which potentially means increased ad revenue.  Just ask Dave McClure, web analytics guru and blogger at Master of 500 Hats.
2. Despite all the hype about international markets, the leader must keep its focus on the top market, the U.S.
3. Keep a close eye on the SEO tactics of your rivals and copy what seems to work (Shutterfly and Snapfish).

What do you think?

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The response to the original post Web analytics of Flickr.com using Google Trends has been great!

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Not only is the most popular post at idaconcpts.com, a whooping 67.90% of total post views to date, but also got the attention of web analytics guru and Google Evangelist, Avinash Kaushik!

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Therefore, I would like to follow up on what has happened since the original post on 08/09/08.

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First, there has been a movement on the sites that are also visited by visitors of Flickr.com.

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The 09/19/08 updated list is:

1. bighugelabs.com (tools/widgets/applications to use in Flickr)
2. darkroastedblend.com (blog dedicated to complement your daily coffee ritual, nice!)
3. cracked.com (a blog to kill time, plenty of funny pics and captions)
4. smashingmagazine.com (delivers useful/innovative information for designers and web-developers)
5. xbcd.com (RPG game in Chinese, what’s the connection here?)
6. daylife.com (offers a new media alternative to blogs)
7. photo.net (everything for photographers: photos, equipment, articles, etc.)
8. tumblr.com (tumblelogs are a new way to express yourself, see #6)
9. consumerist.com (independent consumer report site, still unsure about connection)
10. reddit.com (according to Wikipedia – social news website on which users can post links to content)

Important movements from the previous list are:

• Gone: flickr.net, divinecaroline.com, photobasement.com, failblog.org, digital-photography-school.com
• New: darkroastedblend.com, smashingmagazine.com, xbcd.com, reddit.com

Please note that I have done the top 10 list as opposed to the previous top 8 list, because previously the top 3 websites were just name variations of flickr.com (e.g. flickr.net).

Some observations:

• Flickr continous to be searched mainly in the USA.  Second to the USA, India is still ahead of all other countries in looking/visiting Flickr.
• Inside of USA, California is by far the most active subregion with Flickr.
• Previously, according to Google Trends, consumerist.com and divinecaroline.com are the top other sites visited by Flickr visitors.  #3 is cracked.com.  Now, bighugelabs.com is #1, darkroastedblend.com is #2 and cracked.com remains #3.

This time I used “flickr” on Google Trends to find its search volume index.

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Search Volume Index of term, flickr, using Google Trends

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• The letters above indicate important news related to that point in time that the term “flickr” was searched.  Previously I concluded that “photo sharing is only exciting if it is better” and this conclusion appears to be true because of the following headlines:
• Yahoo buys Flicrk – ZDNet UK – Mar 21, 2005
• Flickr goes international with seven new languages – Zee News – May 4, 2007
• Photo Editing is now a Picnik for Flickr Members Worldwide – HispanicBusiness.com – Dec 12, 2007
• Flickr Lets Users Upload Video – ClickonSA.com – Apr 9 , 2008
• Flickr turns to Getty to sell amateur photos – WJLA – Jul 9, 2008
• Furthermore, bighugelabs.com is, at this point of time, the top site also visited by flickr.com visitors.

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New conclusions!

1. Photo sharing is only exciting if it is better…, can incorporate other forms of media, and can be embedded in blogs (or new forms of blogs!) with a fresh, new approach!
2. People that spend time looking at pictures also spend time looking at content-blogs for entertainment.
3. Still unsure about connection about consumerist.com and flickr.com, also unsure about connection between xbcd.com and flickr.com.

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This post will be short and sweet because I need to take a drive road test today because I am buying a brand new car!

Yesterday on my way home, I was reviewing a SEO whitepaper by Brian Clifton and Nikki Rae from Omega Digital Media tittled “How Search Engine Optimisation Works”.  This 20-page document explains how search engines work and how search engine optimisation (SEO) can help you achieve high search engine visibility.

According to Clifton and Rae, web sites appearance on search engine results depends on 5 key factors (p. 8):

1. Which Keywords the user entered
2. Your web page Keyword Density for these keywords
3. Your web page Keyword Prominence (page location) for these keywords
4. Your Link Popularity – the number of other sites that link to you
5. Your link and keyword Relevancy

As it becomes obvious the term that returned the most matches to idaconcpts is google analytics flickr.  This makes sense because as of right now, 08/21/2008, my post that has an analysis of Flickr using Google Analytics is the most viewed page of this blog (30 views).  The term flickr was included in 7 out of 20 of the search engine queries that matched idaconcpts.  The term google had the same outcome.

Therefore, the terms google and flickr are golden ones to consider for my personal Google AdWords campaign.  However, the important part is to be able to combine with appropriate terms (remember quality over quantity! I want my readers to remain in the blog, not leave right after they click on it!).  Possible keywords are google analytics and the different mispellings of analytics (e.g. analytic, analystics, analytis)!  Believe or not, including this misspelled words, inflates my search engine keyword result matching.  Cheating?  Clifton and Rae don’t believe so!

(p. 9) Don’t forgit misspelled keywhords!  (p. 10) The Google Trends tool is an excellent free resource for checking mispellings, relative keyword popularities (e.g. product X versus product Y) and regional variation (e.g. cell phones versus mobile phone).

What do you think?