If someone asked you today what your blog does for your site and your business, what would you say? MarketingSherpa asked almost 4000 people the same question (free access for a limited time). The number one response? The blog “improves our web presence through search/feeds.”

Other important benefits from blogs cited in the survey included access […]

AOL’s budget cuts across the board have been well reported, but the bloggers were the most vocal about it (as bloggers tend to be).
Many bloggers have reportedly left. The group behind TVSquad is doing something a little different, though. They haven’t left, but much of the team has launched a directly competing blog called CliqueClack. […]

Though a distant third place to Google, Microsoft thinks it can teach its rival a thing or two about searching the Internet.
A big part of Google’s rise to search engine leadership was an algorithm called PageRank that assesses a specific page’s importance by how many other Web pages link to it and by the importance […]

A top Digg user with a popular ratio of 34% has been getting paid well for promoting articles on Digg. His/her popularity has allowed numerous stories to reach the Digg Home Page, and when that happens he/she gets paid even more.
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Susan Hogg, co-founder and managing partner of the Richmond, Va.-based strategic branding and design firm Circle S Studio, recently spent three days at the Kingsmill Resort & Spa, where most guests golf, enjoy spa treatments and fish. Only she wasn’t relaxing–she was working.

Along with 80 other CEOs of small- to mid-size businesses, Hogg was […]

Google added a significant search feature (Matt Cutts mentioned it first to let us know). You can now type into Google, whois domain.com and get the whois information for that domain.
For example, whois souravsharma.com returns this result: 
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A Sphinn thread has discussion about a new AdWords experiment where Google flipped the URL location in the ad from the bottom of the ad to above the description line of the ad. The Get Elastic Blog has a screen shot and details about the same.
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To increase link popularity, you need solid link building techniques. Link building allows you to establish relevant inbound links to your website, which in turn increases search engine rankings and helps you get traffic.
If you aren’t familiar with the different methods people use to increase link popularity and get traffic, the first thing you need […]

There are many SEO myths we can find on the Internet. These misconceptions are often crazy and while some are based on partial reality, others have spread due to the lack of being proved wrong or correct knowledge.
Here is an example: Let’s assume you make a change to your website content. Maybe after a few […]

Anna Maria Virzi, has written a nice article on SEO Challenges.
Few of the main challenges for the SEO specialists include:

The Hippo Symptom
Attention Deficit Disorder
Competitive Disadvantage
The Great Divide
You Know, It Don’t Come Easy

Find the complete Article here…

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