A Meetup Invitation, a Connors Client Slot, and a Link-Back

Anyone who is in the New York area tonight is welcome to stop by they Prey bar for the SEO Superpowers Meetup, and say hello to the HitTail and Connors Communications crew.

A few other items I want to get out there in this post: Connors Communications, the company that created HitTail, and played a fundamental role in kick-starting the commercial Internet, has a few slots opening up in its SEO and PR schedule. Usually, engagements start at no less than $25K/mo. I thought I'd mention it on the HitTail blog, since this is where much of our audience currently resides. So if you know of someone with a large AdWords budget, looking to diversify and free themselves from the Google Tax Man, then drop us a line or corner me at Prey.

Also, for anyone who hasn't noticed yet, almost any reference you make to HitTail in your blog post will usually score you a mention and a link-back in our TypePad collection of quotes and testmonials. So, if you've been waiting to say a few nice words about us, now seems like a good time.

And finally, I'm really pushing to get people to sign up for at least the Plus service, just as a way of supporting us. It's only $99.95 per year, and think how much time we're saving you struggling with those other analytics packages that ask you to jump through hoops before you figure out what to do with your data. As our quote page shows, we're rapidly becoming an integral part of many peoples' day-to-day marketing activities, and the surest way to a long-term relationship is throwing a little support our way!

HitTail, MyBlogLog, Snap Previews and TypePad Explode in a Cacophony of Coolness

April has been a busy month for HitTail. We launched our premium service, built a TypePad Widget and a Blogger Widget, got into the SixApart's TypePad Widget gallery and newsletter, kept pace with exploding popularity, and recorded over 70 quotes and testimonials on your spanking new TypePad blog...

...all in this single month of April!

So, my challenge to you, the HitTailer, is to give us a quote. And you can do that merely by blogging about us.

We'll know.

It's a fairly sure bet that we're going to link back to you on that site. And while you're at it, check out how eerily cool HitTail, MyBlogLog and the Snap Website Previews work on a TypePad blog.

As it turns out, almost every HitTail quoter I'm linking to who published a positive HitTail comment online are themselves running HitTail. Therefore, whenever I construct a link to them, I am by definition alerting those HitTail-addicted folks of the fact that I linked to them.

Yes, as it turns out, you can view every single link or hit that comes into your site as an important event (as there are much fewer than almost everybody thinks).

And so, its mere moments between me linking to them, and them coming to see who just made a link to them.

This gives them a link, and an opportunity to review and comment upon their quote. Now, for the cool pictures.

People visiting the HitTail quote site get previews of the quoters' sites by merely mousing-over the links, thanks to Snap's cool website preview feature. And if they're a member of the cool MyBlogLog service, their picture appears on the website too as a recent visitor. Then I get to see their picture.

If this isn't an example of the cool undercurrents of the "online discussion" then I don't know what is.