Two new tools got to my attention this last week, from comments made by their creators in my posts, both with great potential.

Auto Social is a WordPress plugin that automatically saves every post you write to del.icio.us. While del.icio.us does have nofollow on the tags, the creator says that he will add more sites in time, so I’ll definitely keep an eye on this plugin. It’s true that Yahoo shows nofollow links, but they don’t carry any weight with them, so the plugin doesn’t help much right now. Really excited about the possibilities though.

GTrends Made Easy is a tool that automates a bit the work you do with the GTrends tool, that I’ve talked about here. It seems quite a bit done to complement WordZe and the initial message asking for an WordZe API gets annoying after a while, but the tool is great anyway. It’s free (though you do have to give your email message) and it allows you to paste a list of keywords and find out what their search volume is on GTrends without clicking that small icon for each one. A bit slow right now and it has no export functions for the results, but you can still paste them in an excel file.

Again, it’s got great potential and there are plenty more features that can be added to make it truly valuable and easy to use. I’d have no problem paying $50 for it instead of getting it for free if it had more features.

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