Hopefully you had a great weekend.... can you feel it - Summer Time is just around the corner.

Some good information with links about page rank.

http://searchengineland.com/070426-011828.php

Some commentary on the Doubleclick / Google buy.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625692

Here is a list of sites that bring some traffic -

http://tropicalseo.com/2007/top-17-niche-social-media-sites-that-actually-send-traffic/

Hope you had a wonderful weekend -

So if you're worried about some of your past link building activities - check out this article.
http://searchengineland.com/070416-113308.php

If you are interested in copyrighting then make sure to check out this article.
http://bencivengabullets.com/bullets.asp

Some good questions about an SEO campaign.
http://searchengineland.com/070419-071035.php

So why would Google buy double click - some good speculation can be found here.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625623

Just a quick Friday fun post....

I would highly recommend "The Lake House" a very well acted / well written story. If you have some extra time with your significant other this weekend rent it and watch it with them.

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We've talked about it before - here are some notes on traffic drops and figuring out what's up.

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625594

Google Buys Double Click -

http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625580

some link building basics -

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625554

And keeping to that theme - paid links are under scrutiny -
http://searchengineland.com/070416-092314.php

A couple of itmes regarding local search -

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625556

http://searchengineland.com/070409-053319.php

Someone is in a pickle - they've spent big bucks on Adwords and no conversions.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adwords/3304627.htm

Enjoy your Monday!

Part 2 of our social marketing ... so what are some reasons for doing this type of marketing after all.

Four returns you can expect -

http://searchengineland.com/070403-085230.php

And why all the fuss -

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3625530

Part two of a post we ran earlier about website analysis.

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625534

An excellent step by step guide for getting some great links. This takes a lot of work but is well worth it.

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/070405-104538

Hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend.

Here's some good advice if you're thinking about utilizing some maps on your site.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/map-making-so-easy-caveman-could-do-it.html

A good article on results and why they're hard to define.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625438

An excellent review of ranking the ranking - or what helps most when doing SEO on your site.
http://searchengineland.com/070403-145435.php

We did the first part earlier - here's the second part of figuring out why your traffic drops.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625472

Good advice on making your PPCs count.
http://searchengineland.com/070404-080341.php

Enjoy your day!!

This is the first lesson for Social optimization - the first thing we want to do is to create a google bookmark for each of your pages.

1) Go here - http://www.addthis.com

2) Click "Get your Free Button"

3) We want a bookmarking widget. - select the style you want and whether you want stats.

4) Then put that code on each page of your site.

We had some pretty bad storms here last night - we're ok but it's pretty awesome to see the power that the wind has. Tomorrow and every Thursday when we have the chance we'll be working on some Social marketing. Each week we'll give you some homework and although it isn't hard it does take some time and work.

Some more info on Local Search

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625389

Social Search information and writing headlines.

http://searchengineland.com/070330-102032.php

Have a great Monday.