Like many people I’ve recently bought an iPhone 4S and as you probably know one of the features it has is the personal assistant Siri.

To be honest I’m a bit mixed about Siri because on one hand he (I’m using the British English version of Siri which is a man’s voice) on one hand works great for setting an alarm clock or calling a phone number then on the other hand he doesn’t really work very well when I’m trying to find information on the Internet.

I’m constantly been told by him that I can only use a function if I’m searching in US English looking for U.S.-based businesses and one thing that I can’t get it to work at all for is to remind me to do something when I arrive or leave a place and keeps telling me that he can do it but I can’t get it to work.

One thing that I’ve also found Siri’s good for is dictating notes. He seems to get the dictation pretty much spot on which is a good thing definitely. Recently though I had the idea of using, Siri or at least testing Siri, as a new workflow to create content.

The workflow goes something like this::

Create mind map
Dictate article to a text document
Save document to Dropbox
Edit article the following day on a computer
Submit article to Article Samurai

While that sounds like a pretty good workflow to test I’m not sure that Siri’s up to it. And I also had the idea that since I’ve got the WordPress app on my iPhone I would be able to dictate an article to Siri like I’m doing at the moment, and then edit the article before submitting or submitting the article in draft mode before the editing it later on the computer and that’s what I’m just testing at the moment.

I’m going to post both what Siri thinks I said as well as the edited article and you’ll be up to judge yourself at least in this first iteration of the process.

Be interesting to see how it turns out, I’ve got a feeling that it’s not hearing me, it’s not understanding.

And I’m not sure whether it understands my accent very well, I am not sure why.

Above: quick edit of text dictated to Siri. Normally I’d edit it more to create a better article, but this should give an idea of what I (think) I said. And below: what Siri THINKS I said.

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Dictate article to a text document
Save document to drumbox
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Submit article to article samurai

While that sounds like a pretty good workflow to test I’m not sure that series up to it. And I also had the idea that since I’ve got the WordPress app on my iPhoneI would be able to dictate an article is to Siri like I’m doing at the moment, and then edit the article before submitting or submitting the article in draft mode before the editing it later on the computer and that’s what I’m just testing at the moment.

I’m going to post both what Sirithings I said as well as the edit article and you’ll be up to judge yourself at least in this first iteration of the process.

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OK, I think the result isn’t bad, although I struggled to work out what I’d said in places and could have done with the audio to double check.I’ll be testing this during this week and see if I can improve on the results as I can rattle a 300+ word article in no time at all using this method.

Keyword Elite is a piece of software written by Brad Callen which looks at keyword supply and demand to help identify low-competition niches. I’ve been aware of Brad for quite a few years now, although my memory is slightly hazy as I always used to confuse him with Brad Fallon – I could never work out why emails from the 2 Brads never seemed to file themselves properly in Outlook as I thought they were one person, but that’s another story.

I bought Keyword Elite earlier this year when I was starting to look at Adsense arbitrage following the release of the ebook by Michael Plante. Before that I was using a combination of Overture results and hand checking competition for small keyword lists and the rather clunky keyword tools in Site Build It, which relied at the time on input from Overture as well as Wordtracker. BTW, don’t bother looking for Michael Plante’s book now because Google has effectively killed arbitrage and if you do try it anyway you’re likely to have your Adsense account terminated with no chance of being allowed back in. I still have my Adsense account because when I saw the way it was going I stopped arbitrage.

Keyword Elite is split into 5 different projects, although I use the first 2 almost exclusively. Project 1 builds a keyword list from sources such as Wordtracker, Google and Yahoo and you can choose which sources you wish to query and how many keywords you would like. Once you have your keyword list you can manipulate it and remove phrases with too many words, too few words or containing certain words – “free” for example – before moving on to Project 2.

Keyword Elite’s Project 2 queries Google (or your choice from 3 other search engines which I’ve never used) to compare the number of webpages competing for each keyword phrase. The resulting report lists the estimated number of times each keyword is typed into Google against the number of competing webpages and also includes data such as the number ofGoogle Adwords campaigns competing and how much they are paying for clicks for each position.

There are some more advanced features, although I haven’t really used them much. Project 4 looks at the top 10 results for a keyword, while Project 5 spies on Adwords competition. And as for Project 3, I can’t work out what it’s for as it seems to do the same as Project 1.

Anyway, despite these criticisms, it is a piece of software I use regularly when looking at new niches, although I do cross check the number of searches data with GTrends.

Keyword Elite in summary

• It is easy to use with various options to select depending on your requirements giving great flexibility
• The software is regularly updated – around once every fortnight
• As well as checking the competition for each keyword both with and without quotes, Keyword Elite allows you to check using intitle and inanchor instead, which many SEOers prefer
• Although it can report competition on phrases contained between quotes, it doesn’t provide the number of searches on the keyword in the report, you have to cross check with the phrase without quotes.
• It doesn’t crosscheck Wordtracker results using the GTrends technique developed in Immediate Edge and popularised in the 30 Day Challenge.

More info: Brad Callen’s Keyword Elite