Did you know you can search for trends on Facebook? This is a very smart tool which was actually shown to me while back by my old work colleges at Shopzilla. I remember spotting some trends mainly across social activity based keywords (eg party, drinks etc). These were obviously used mainly before weekends and bank holidays, I used the tool for a while then bookmarked it pretty deep in my bookmarks folder along with my 1000’s of other sites, after a while I forgot all about. Recently when I was doing a combination of bookmark cleaning and work on some advanced keyword research I re discovered Lexicon.

Lexicon can be found at http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/. You’ll need to log into your Facebook account before being able to use the tool. Lexicon is a Facebook trends search tool that, when used correctly, can be a very powerful SEO tool indeed, you can view the social keyword trending of real conversations across Facebook. The tool scans over what people are writing about on their Facebook walls and displays it in graph format, much like Google Trends does for searches performed in Google.

It’s very interesting to search for buzz trends and breakout keywords. Think you’ve spotted a niche breakout in the market? Why not check it out on Lexicon to see if people are talking about it, if so, optimize for it! Currently you can compare up to five different words or two-word phrases. Either way this is another great tool for your SEO work. The only downside I’d say to watch out for is the time adjustment slider along the x axis of the graph, sometimes it’s a bit slow to respond in Firefox and can lock up, so rather than just zooming straight in to a specific week slowly adjust the bars.

Whether this SEO tool is for the Coolest Geek on the Net! (primarily me ), for all you SEO’s out there, or just folks who wanna see when most people on Facebook are getting lucky this is a very nice fun utility that can be used to supplement to your arsenal of keyword research tools.

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You Tube love the April fools jokes and this year was no exception. They didn’t run a global “rick rolling” session, however this time they made everything on the site appear as if it where upside down! It was pretty confusing at first considering I was watching Exorcist clips! The site seemed to revert after you’d watched a couple of videos.

My April fools post went down pretty well with my friends cause most of them know what a Twitter geek I am! I did get some red faces as the majority of people believed me, but it’s only once a year, so I should really nail something bigger next year.

I had another plan but unfortunately I didn’t have the time to create it. The idea was to mock up of a “Look into Twitter & their work place” the article would have basically like the one that did the rounds on Google, bragging about Googles amazing working environment. I was going to make Twitter out to be an even more amazing working environment with loads of freebies. I’m sure that would go viral!

Another great April fools I saw yesterday was a forum that had mocked up a 404 error page to be the front page. Classic Anyone else have a favorite?

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Some of you maybe glad to hear or possibly sad to hear that I AM NOT moving to America to work with Twitter – It’s an April fools! Haha Gotcha!

This said it’s a nice lesson in friends, expectations and belief that we can all take from.

It’s really made me smile throughout the day that many of my friends are not actually shocked to hear such great things! That’s a lesson for us all. It’s good to aim high and nothing is ever out of reach! Not for anyone, always bare that in mind and aim for your goals, anything is possible!

Thanks to all who wished me well, special shouts to Wio (email) and Charlotte (Facebook) who got it straight away! As I said I’m staying put to be the coolest geek on the net!… lol However if Twitter are reading this then I’m open to offers! Although it’d have to be a good one to beat the deal I’ve got at the moment! lol

As for the Playboy Mansion party?!… Ahhhh if only, but trust me on this one! The next post I write on the Playboy Mansion WILL be about me attending! And that’s not a wind up! Believe me, watch this space…

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I’ve been a bit cold on the blogging scene recently but I’ve been very busy, nevertheless I though I’d keep you all up to date as to why I’ve been keeping a bit quiet busy… I’ve landed yet another job! Climbing this work ladder is easier than I thought! lol

This time a pretty huge relocation is in order! I’m off to the land of the free and home of the…. fast food! Yes that’s right folks! I’m off to the good old US of A! I landed a job with everyone’s favorite little hyped up dickey bird micro blogging platform – Twitter! I’ll be relocating to the United States in the next few weeks! I really loved my time in London, short and tweet sweet, but times change, things move on and of course, I’m really looking forward to this huge upheaval!

I’ll be joining the marketing team @Twitter, and I’ll looking at ways forward for Twitter as a business to develop, I will be helping develop the site along side the marketing plan and business model! Sure, there’s a long road ahead but I know it’s the right path. Have no fear, I will remain the Coolest Geek on the Net! And I will maintain this blog tracking my move over to the United States! After chatting to the guys, I’m especially looking forward to the Twitter staff party, as rumor has it we’re all heading to the Playboy Mansion for a champagne pool party! Suits me!

Don’t wanna miss that one! Don’t worry! I’ll be taking my camera! You won’t wanna miss that blog post trust me!!! Follow my journey into Tweety land! – @Swimace and wish me luck!

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