Some new social blogging sites are below - one note since the Summer is ramping up around here with vacations and trips - we'll work on bringing back the Social Thursday blog in August.

These are from the March 2007 Issue of Business 2.0.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

One use for that would be to download the toolbar and then "Stumble Upon" your own site(s).

http://www.slide.com/

http://www.bebo.com/
Similar to MySpace.

http://wwwl.meebo.com/
A way to sign into all of your IMs.

http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia
If your area of expertise doesn't have a Wiki then why not build one.

Some good comments on basic SEO - including a slide show.
http://www.sitelogicmarketing.com/blog/05-searchengineoptimization-basics

And some coold things you can do with the 'new' Google Analytics.
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-05-28-n59.html

Hope you enjoyed your holiday weekend. We worked a couple of days, but no worries because we are getting ready for a vacation...

Need to spruce up your submit buttons - check out this tutorial.

http://particletree.com/features/rediscovering-the-button-element/

Here's a list of the top 300 search engines.

Everyone has heard of Web 2.0 - a good definition of it is here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

The big deal is the social network (from my point of view anyway).

So how does it affect SEO - this article may help.

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625943

Next week we'll talk about some new / up and coming network sites.

Till then - no blogs till Tuesday and we hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend.

Google has a new "trend" page that is updated several times / day. You can also research things by changing dates.

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?sa=X

An excellent discussion (with graphics) on optimizing landing pages.
http://www.marketingexperiments.com/improving-website-conversion/landing-page-confusion.html

Enjoy your day.

Hope you enjoyed your weekend - we had a birthday party and a graduation so was a full weekend.

Google Analytics has changed things a bit.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625859

SEO 2.0 is here - some discussion below.
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=17794

Paid links Risk / Reward
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625901

A review of Crazy Egg - Analytics software -
http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/wilson-crazyegg.htm

Enjoy your day!!

Fun Friday is here - if you want to waste some time then check out this site.

http://www.quickcomic.com/

It lets you make comics.

Social Marketing Thursday -

Should you care about Wikipedia?

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3625890

Some Social Marketing Do's and Don'ts
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3625819

The top 25 Article sites
http://www.wilsonweb.com/linking/wilson-article-marketing-1.htm

Enjoy your Thursday.

What happens when Google gives your site a bump -

http://searchengineland.com/070514-114416.php

More on paid links from Cutts of Google -

http://searchengineland.com/070514-092646.php

More info on Google's supplemental index
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625842

Tomorrow we'll be helping at our daughter's field day - we hope you have a great day as well.

Hope you did something nice for your Mom yesterday - don't forget the price of stamps go up.

Part for of an Analysis series we've been following.

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625796

And the "Science" of local search

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625813

Some good info for your social marketing -

1) 25 Article sites you can submit your articles to:

http://www.wilsonweb.com/linking/wilson-article-marketing-1.htm

2) Some tips for getting the most out of Wikipedia.

http://searchengineland.com/070503-065513.php

3) Useful help for jump starting your campaign.

http://searchengineland.com/070424-105925.php

No posts tomorrow as we'll be on an adventure with our daughter ( wish us luck :o))

A look at keeping track of your links -

http://searchengineland.com/070507-071632.php

A nice illustration / notes on page rank.

http://searchengineland.com/070508-152900.php

Hope you enjoyed your weekend - our thoughts and prayers go out to those in Kansas.

Some thoughts on Google and the Online Economy -
http://www.seobook.com/archives/002113.shtml

Could Yahoo and Google Merge -
http://searchengineland.com/070504-082851.php

Evaluating your Business goals -
http://www.marketingforsuccess.com/pub/goals.html

Reputation Monitoring -
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625731

I enjoy traveling and hopefully you do as well - hopefully the links below will help you in your adventures - which I found in Inc Magazine.

Find out where your seat is and much more.
http://www.seatguru.com/

Get an A-pass on Southwest -
http://www.boardfirst.com

Get more from your frequent flyer miles.
http://www.webflyer.com/

Flight Stats and more
http://www.flightstats.com/go/Home/home.do

Some good information on tweaking your Adwords Campaign.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/paid-search/wilson-adwords-optimization.htm

Update on the Google / Viacom case -
http://searchengineland.com/070501-080817.php

Enjoy your day.