Finding new ways to increase productivity is a must for getting on top of your workload. Think about the number of times you've changed your approach to organizing all of your commitments. I know I've changed the tools I use to manage my tasks several times-going to everything from Google Notebook to text files and specialized web applications like Remember the Milk to paper-based planners, and back again.

It's important to change the way in which you organize all of your life tasks-to constantly refine the things that can bring about more efficiency and clear the mind for higher order thinking.

For the past several months I've been using Toodledo as my primary task list manager. I'm continually amazed at all the new features I keep discovering. I'd like to share one of those features with you: email sync.

Setting up Email Sync in Toodledo

 The first thing you need to do is set up the email sync feature by selecting the "Import/Export/Sync" menu option of Toodledo.

Once enabled, you can send all of your tasks to a defined email address which Toodledo sets up for you. Add that email address to the address book of your favorite email client for easy access.

Have you ever written an article, posted it to your site, and felt that it was just sent into an online abyss never to be found again? If so, you're not the first person. Getting your voice heard in an online environment is no easy task. With a few tricks though, you'll soon be curbing those feelings of frustration and producing high demand content.

 To get your content recognized, one of the key concepts you'll need to understand is "findability." That is, the ease with which people can find your content is just as important as the content itself. Whether you're trying to monetize your site or you're just trying to get that brand out there, it is extremely important to write content that will get noticed by search engines. The best way of doing that is by way of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), which according to the Wikipedia, "...is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a website from search engines via 'natural' ('organic' or 'algorithmic') search results."

For this article, we'll be focusing on how to conduct keyword research for SEO. Keyword research, as you'll soon see, is useful for more reasons than just SEO.

Tools for Researching Keywords

Keyword research is the practice of finding and researching the terms and phrases people enter into search engines when searching on a particular topic. For beginners, this may seem a little intimidating, not to mention time consuming. Luckily, there are a number of tools out there to help with the process:

• Wordtracker
• Keyword Discovery
• SEO Book
• Microsoft Keyword Forecast
• Google AdWords Keyword Suggestion Tool 

Building a Website About Climbing

I recently helped a friend design a website dedicated to outdoor activities and climbing in particular.  To get a sense of what to include in the site, and what was important to users, I conducted a little keyword research.