The big news for the social networks this week is Google's Social network platform. Details can be found at the links below.

Click Here

More info here -
http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/005832.html

Enjoy your day.

Hope you have a candy filled Halloween .... we had the candy fest in our small town last night and as usual my daughter racked up.

What about keyword specific domains -
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/071023-152759

Keyword research part 2 (make sure you grab part 1 as well)
http://www.clickz.com/3627413

Page rank updated - selling links is bad for your health.
http://searchengineland.com/071029-084449.php

Enjoy your day.

How to make your website more accessible -

http://diveintoaccessibility.org/

http://www.webaim.org/

http://www.accessify.com/

A couple of good articles about landing pages -

Click Here

And landing page testing -

http://searchengineland.com/071023-085807.php

Have a great Monday.

Couple of quick things this morning -

The worst way to ask for a link -
http://searchengineland.com/071022-115731.php

Marketing with video -

http://www.wilsonweb.com/newmedia/wilson-video-marketing1.htm

Hope you had a great weekend - our weekend was busy with a birthday party (my sister who also got engaged) and a retirement party (for my Dad).

Now some good info from the inbox -

SEM Hypochondria

A great survey on Design - Click Here

Some Hard Core SEO tips and we mean hard core.
http://seo-theory.com/wordpress/2007/10/16/20-hard-core-seo-tips/

Enjoy your day.

Excellent info about paid links and the debate can be found from The Associate Programs latest newsletter - Scroll down to part 2.

Click Here

A good illustration of search bumps.
http://searchengineland.com/071016-073958.php

Tomorrow we'll talk - for our social segment of the week - about paid links.

Some good info on Keyword research -
http://www.clickz.com/3627278

Using chat to help you close the sale -

http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/follansbee-livechat.htm

The 'right' way to use the no follow tag -
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/015004.html

Buying ads won't help with your rankings -
http://searchengineland.com/071011-174513.php

Generating leads - a case study - click here.

Socially Optimal -

http://www.clickz.com/3627249

Facebook Opportunities
http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/600/1/Facebook-huge-opportunity-for-affiliates

Enjoy your Thursday

Some ways that Google Analytics can help increase your web traffic.
http://www.wilsonweb.com/analytics/steif-increase-traffic.htm

Enjoy your day.

Paid link changes -

http://searchengineland.com/071007-173841.php

When link building is pointless -

http://searchengineland.com/071008-122545.php

I hope you enjoyed your weekend - not much this morning except an article about SEM Hypochondria...
http://www.clickz.com/3627184

I knew it was too good to last... the Kentucky wildcats lost... sniff.

Something I have started doing lately is listening to the radio play by play while I watch the game. I use the mp3 player that I got last Christmas. So far it has worked like a charm, the only problem is there is about a half second or so delay between the radio and the tv... I'm not sure why that is.

All is not lost however there are still some really great games this weekend. And speaking of this weekend I hope you take some time to enjoy yourself.

An excellent article if you're feeling overwhelmed. How to target the right social niches for your business.

http://searchengineland.com/071002-114659.php

Visual aid for targeting your geography.
http://searchengineland.com/071002-122024.php

Optimizing a paid search campaign
http://searchengineland.com/071002-115721.php

Getting a handle on your email - very useful -
Click here

How to write a good meta description -

http://searchengineland.com/071001-091703.php

Using keyword rich headings -

http://www.wilsonweb.com/seo/wilson-seo-headings.htm

Good info on Copyright law -
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3627142

Here is part 2 -
http://searchenginewatch.com/3627153

And it's getting closer to the holidays - what about PPC do you go all out or hunker down?
http://www.clickz.com/3627143

Enjoy your Monday... what's left of it :o)

How to optimize your pictures - both on the social sites and your website.

http://www.clickz.com/3627123

Microsoft is thinking about buying some of Facebook -
http://searchengineland.com/070924-161859.php

Part 4 of making sure your newsletter gets delivered.
http://www.wilsonweb.com/email/wilson-deliverability4.htm

Short and sweet today for the social section -

Digg gets an update and gets more social -
http://searchengineland.com/070919-145202.php

Is Google "Out to Get" Adwords advertisers?
http://www.wilsonweb.com/paid-search/goodman-google-advertisers.htm

Ten lessons from SES San Jose
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3627060

Six simple steps for Local optimization
http://searchengineland.com/070918-094758.php

Happy Tuesday. One note the rest of this weeks post may be a bit sporadic as we are having a festival in our humble town - Haley has a concert she'll be singing at, we have company coming etc.. so just a heads up.

Sweet and Sour SEO -

http://www.clickz.com/3627020

Using "date parameters' to help Google find your pages.

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/070913-104339

More about paid links from SES San Jose
http://www.marketposition.com/blog/archives/2007/09/paidlinks_evilg.html

Is SEO an art or a science
http://www.marketposition.com/blog/archives/2007/09/seo_art_science.html

Have a wonderful day.

Overall it was a good weekend.

1. The Hannah Montana tickets didn't work out... they must have sold out in five minutes and I wasn't on the lucky list.

2. UK won against Louisville (happy dance) - we had a few friends over and all I can say is it is a good thing that we don't have any neighbors that live close.

Some good info on "universal search".
http://www.clickz.com/3626974

Today is fun Friday but it also comes with a lesson.

My daughter like millions of other tweens and teens loves Hannah Montana. She is going on a concert tour in the fall. I decided that I would surprise her and try to get tickets for a concert in Lexington on December the 12th. As I was doing my research I found that tickets weren't yet on sale for the concert there but you could buy pre-sale tickets if you were in her fan club. So I venture to her fan club and find out that to join you have to pay $30 for the year... of course I join but I find after I joined I find out that the pre-sale tickets are sold out. I wonder how many thousands / hundreds of thousands of folks have joined the 'club' because of the tickets.

I found out later from Haley that in her latest CD had been an offer for a free month in the club.

Some superb marketing if you ask me, and yes I'll be poised on the ticket master site on Sat. and hopefully I'll get a ticket (wish me luck).

Some notes of interest on Face book now making things 'searchable'.
http://searchengineland.com/070911-103851.php

Social Media and Behavior -
http://www.clickz.com/3626977

Tracking topics on Wikipedia -
http://searchengineland.com/070907-071741.php

How facebook can help your business -
http://ask.enquiro.com/2007/how-can-facebook-add-value-to-my-business/

Optimizing your landing pages -

Click Here

Using your competition to help with your SEO
http://www.wilsonweb.com/seo/dunn-competitor-analysis.htm

Hope you had a great weekend - no it's not Monday. We stayed behind most of the day yesterday....

Some simple steps if you're thinking of redesigning your site.
http://www.clickz.com/3626928

Top 5 Trendwatching tips - you may want to save this since content on this page changes often.
http://www.trendwatching.com/briefing/

Changes to the adwords formula part 2
http://www.clickz.com/3626912

Enjoy your day.

I love the fall.

First there is football. College football or pro it doesn't matter. I enjoy watching them all. I'm really glad I have a dvd recorder... otherwise I might miss some of the late night games. I'm no night owl and like to do most of my best work in the moring. That is kind of odd coming from someone that worked the nightshift (7pm to 7am) for five or so years.

The new tv lineup... finally the reruns are over. Although lately cable has been making the summer not so bad with some really good shows. Some I'm looking forward to are Heroes and The Bionic Woman. The Heroes DVD I got had a trailer for The Bionic Woman and it does look good. Hopefully 24 will be better this year than last.... when you can tell what is going to happen, before it happens it's time to mix things up.

From the forecast it looks like me may actually get some cooler weather as well, from highs in the mid 90's to the 70's.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Today is Social marketing day - short weeks drive me crazy ... is it Weds or Friday?

Some content that Diggers Digg -
http://searchengineland.com/070904-141215.php

Some basics - what is social media optimization.
Click Here

How to track local results - don't forget many times your customer can be your best source of information... ask them where they saw your ad - how they came to visit your store.
http://www.clickz.com/3626883

Some SEO mistakes that bloggers make.
http://searchengineland.com/070823-082758.php

Enjoy your day.

A look visually at the power of RSS feeds.
http://searchengineland.com/070904-141823.php

Some tools of the trade -
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3626857

Enjoy your day.

Hope you had a wonderful long weekend.

- Some good notes on media buying.

http://www.earlytorise.com/2007/09/01/muscle-media-buying.html

Some SEO Myths -
http://searchengineland.com/070830-074852.php

Google changes how Adwords are ranked some details are here -
http://www.clickz.com/3626891

Enjoy your Monday... emmm I mean Tuesday :o)

Well I am officially hooked on Heroes... I had watched an episode or two then for some reason had to skip a couple and tried to get back into and ... was lost. I got the DVD's this week and well I am hooked and will definitely remember to record it.

I hope you enjoy your long weekend. We'll resume posts on Tuesday.

Today is Social Thursday -

12 SEO mistakes most bloggers make.
http://searchengineland.com/070823-082758.php

Which Social sites should you target.
http://searchengineland.com/070828-095243.php

Enjoy your day.

Some simple steps for Image optimization.

http://searchengineland.com/070828-075125.php

I can't believe it is hump day already :o)

I really like articles that give you testing results - here's one on landing page conversions.

Click Here

And some info on Usability testing -
http://www.clickz.com/3626850

Hope you had a great weekend... the leaves are starting to fall here even though it is 90+ degrees. Maybe we'll have an early fall.

Some useful information you need to bookmark.
http://massa.techndu.com/

Yesterday we had a power outage... it wouldn't have been so bad but it was 100+ in the shade and I had work falling of my desk. So short and sweet today - next weekend plan to take some time off. If you don't have a 3 day weekend then why not make is so you can have 3 days off. You don't have to go anywhere just spend some time with your family and doing things that you've wanted to do for a while but have been putting off.

A DVD that I'm pretty excited about comes out next week too - I think I'll spend some time watching that with Lisa and Haley (the DVD is "Heroes").

Have some fun this weekend too - remember even God rested on the 7th day.

We've been pretty busy this week (busy is good) we'll try to get back on schedule with postings next week (we should also have our fun post tomorrow).

Hope your weekend was fun and stress free.

A 3 year old entrepreneur - it's never too young.
http://www.springwise.com/weekly/2007-08-15.htm#treasuredough

Google sued for Adwords Content - heads up if you use brand names in your ad.
http://searchengineland.com/070817-083933.php

A Couple of articles on getting your site ready for holidays. Something interesting. A third or so of folks have already started (I must admit that we're getting a jump on things this year as well).
http://www.clickz.com/3626720

http://searchengineland.com/070816-072543.php

And finally some "black-hat" info -

http://www.clickz.com/3626780

Where has the week gone.... I don't think I've mentioned yet but during the Summer we bought a Play Station 2. We debated between the play station 2 and 3 (this was before the playstation 3 price drop). We decided that since the 2 had more games we would go with that. Haley especially wanted to buy a "singing" game. She got it ( Singstar Pop) and I must say that it has been a lot of fun for the entire family. It includes songs that almost everyone would hear on the radio constantly and of course it has the words at the bottom of the screen as well as where the "pitch" for the note should be. If you have anyone who loves to sing along with the radio I would highly recommend it.

Some SEO tips for bloggers -
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/whitehat-seo-tips-for-bloggers/

Some good advice on working the social networks.
http://searchengineland.com/070814-072317.php

Some ideas for camouflage for your ppcs.
http://www.engineready.com/company/operation-camouflage1.html

A good illustration of black hat seo.
http://searchengineland.com/070814-093136.php

Some more comment on -- from Google
http://searchengineland.com/070810-085633.php

A look at some test results.
Click here

Hopefully you had a wonderful weekend.

Some info on sitemaps.
http://searchengineland.com/070809-091501.php

A page rank tool - it will help you to make sure you're squeezing the most out of your site.
http://searchengineland.com/070809-083140.php

And some discussion on the new Google adwords formula.
http://www.wolf-howl.com/google/new-google-adwords-formula-just-pay-us-more/

Another addition to the people space -
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3626678

Some tips on getting more traffic to your blog.
http://ask.enquiro.com/2007/what-should-i-do-if-my-blogs-traffic-has-plateaued/

Enjoy your Thursday.

It is hot here - like much of the country. I guess we should enjoy this weather because soon the snow will be flying.... well maybe not soon.

Some ways to make sure your email list thrives.
http://www.wilsonweb.com/email/wilson-list-fatigue.htm

That was a fast weekend - I also can't believe that school is getting ready to start.

Here are some tips on getting more pages within google.
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3626600

How to spend a few hours a week to improve your ad campaign.
http://searchengineland.com/070801-094520.php

Enjoy your Monday.

Last weekend we had a good adventure ... as you probably know by now I enjoy adventures. The goal of our trip to Lexington was school shopping for Haley. I heard or read something that made me chuckle. Why do people go school shopping, do all of their clothes magically disappear when they go to school or do they all suddenly not fit. I guess it is a coup for the marketing folks that we think we need to buy new clothes every fall.

Anyway the trip was enjoyable. I got a bit of work done and the Mac is performing beautifully. I did get parallels desktop for Mac. It does work well, some of the programs actually seem to work faster than on my 'main' computer.

I will say that Saturday we shopped for clothes for about 8 hours. I really don't see how someone could look at the same styles over and over. It also amazes me how a shirt in one shop is $40 and in another it is $10, and in a 3rd it is $60 but half off. It would be fun to do a marketing test and find out which one someone would buy if they had all three choices in one spot.

The hotel we stayed in was the comfort suites. It was kind of weird but our door lock (you know the one's that you slide the card in) malfunctioned. I didn't know that those locks took batteries. The lock ended up being kaput so we got a night for free...

On Sunday we watched Harry Potter and I say it was a great movie - I still need to read the last two books. Hopefully your weekend will be enjoyable. We have a birthday party at the skating rink and besides that playing some catch up.

Seven things you want to stay away from when doing social media.
http://www.searchengineguide.com/searchbrief/senews/010200.html

A new 'place' to explore.
http://www.plazes.com/

Tomorrow is fun friday - enjoy your day.

Something interesting I got in my inbox this morning - free logos.
http://www.logoease.com

12 ways to build your email list-
http://www.wilsonweb.com/email/wilson-email-listbuilding.htm

A case study on using viral videos.
http://www.marketposition.com/blog/archives/2007/07/viral_videos_ho.html

Some changes regarding underscores -
http://www.marketposition.com/blog/archives/2007/07/google_undersco.html

Some good tips on what not to do for your link campaign.
http://searchengineland.com/070730-075615.php

Your PPC Campaign and Relavence.
[click here]

A good place to look if you're searching for something new.
http://www.springwise.com/

So why does wiki show up so much in the search results.
<click here>

Enjoy your day.

Some fun stuff to start your day - Google Dog food....
http://searchengineland.com/070727-132546.php

How to create an autoresponder series.
http://www.webreference.com/promotion/autoresp/

Some good information on keywords -

A few how-to's compliment todays post... one thing to remember is you don't have to do everything at once but the most important thing is to start... and today is the best day to do that.

Building an audience with myspace.
http://searchengineland.com/070703-135507.php

How to drive traffic to stumble upon.
http://searchengineland.com/070724-090005.php

Building a 3D Web.
http://searchengineland.com/070719-113635.php

Reputation management
http://ask.enquiro.com/2007/why-is-online-reputation-management-important/

Some good info today including some info from posts from before our vacation (we still have a pile).

A good idea for getting things done. [click]

A unique idea for linking -
http://searchengineland.com/070625-102429.php

A good look at your keywords -
http://searchengineland.com/070724-083438.php

A visual look at Googles crawlers.
http://searchengineland.com/070724-072605.php

How to make your business stand out -
http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/dwilson-differentiation.htm

Some social stuff tomorrow.
Enjoy your day.

A test on how incentives help (or hurt) a campaign.
Click Here

Some Good info on Duplicate content
http://searchengineland.com/070719-120605.php

A step by step guide on getting a #1 position in Google.
http://dfinitive.com/blog/seo/how-i-got-aerobed-to-number-1-in-google/

Enjoy your day - one note we'll be taking a long weekend this week so Thursday will be the final post this week .... can you believe it is almost time for the kiddies to go back to school... me either.

This week we were pretty swamped - no complaints though. The week seemed like it lasted about an hour. So my review on the Mac will need to wait till next week. We did do something fun for Haley this week though. We got her the Play Station 2 (after some debate on whether to get the 2 or 3... the 2 won out pretty handily because they have so many more games). She has always enjoyed singing and so we also got the game Sing Star with microphones. The game grades the singer on their pitch and how long they hold their notes. She has had a few late nights this week with friends and Lisa as they practice their singing skills, so it was definitely worth the cash and if you have any aspiring singers in your house, I would recommend it as well.

Enjoy your weekend.

Some good stuff on Social marketing and Web 2.0

Info on personalized search -
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626440

Good tips for wikipedia -
http://searchengineland.com/070717-113550.php

Building an audience on MySpace
http://searchengineland.com/070703-135507.php

A good blog on trends - mobile particular but 2.0 stuff as well.
http://www.m-trends.org/

Enjoy your Thursday.

A good illustration of the multi-prongs of SEM -
http://searchengineland.com/070717-082712.php

What is Share of Voice (SOV)
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626413

Viral marketing for non-profits.
http://www.wilsonweb.com/art/tools/viral-nonprofits.htm

Some good advice on managing your email.
http://www.mycompanychronicle.com/controlling-email-sent-to-your-inbox

One additional tip - it doesn't hurt to check your email on the weekend - that makes the shock on Monday much less of a chore.

Some good info on Microsofts AdCenter -
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626425

Can images help with SEO?
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-07-11-n88.html

If you're thinking of switching domains then check here first.
http://www.wilsonweb.com/seo/dunn-domain-switch.htm

Enjoy your day.

I'm still exploring the mac - so I'll give you a better review of what I think next week. A couple of things I've noticed though...

1. It is fast - I got the 2.4 with 2 gigs of ram - then purchased a 4 gig set seperately and installed it. (that saved me hundreds of $$).
2. Everthing I've plugged into it so far has worked like a charm. Printers, mice, cameras, video recorders etc.

I did buy some new books to go along with it and hopefully get me up to speed.

Enjoy your weekend.

Some info on Social Link Manipulation
http://searchengineland.com/070611-073105.php

Some excellent info on using Social Media / Web 2.0
Click Here

I'm kind of excited today - I've just bought my first Mac (a notebook) and will be rearraning some things in the office so that it will 'fit'. We'll talk more about the Mac on Friday with my first impressions. Today hopefully you're doing something fun and exciting - we'll be talking about Social marketing tomorrow. Till then enjoy your day.

Some good stuff today so we'll get right to it -

A guide to submitting to directories.

Some resources on doing keyword research -
http://searchengineland.com/070709-082957.php


And finally a couple of good bits on linking -
Link Analysis
http://searchengineland.com/070709-125900.php
A penalty for linking
Click Here

Wow June flew by and July is already 1/3 of the way gone... I guess that time flys when you are having fun. This week we'll work on catching up with some good info that has been piling up in our inbox.

Today a review of our travels -

During the first part of June we traveled to Myrtle Beach and stayed in a condo we've rented for the past several years. The weather this year was wonderful - it only rained a day. At night it was actually chilly enough to wear a light jacket. I was talking to the condo rental folks and it seems like the market for condos is getting a bit full, so if you have some flexibility in your travel you may want call a week or two before you go and ask for specials or bargains. Another thing I've seen done is rent a cheap condo then when you get there ask them have there been any cancellations. Someone I know saved about $600 for the week.

Then we had vacation Bible school for a week - I taught the preschoolers and we had a blast.

Then we ventured north to Indiana for some work and a wedding. Again we had a wonderful time. At the wedding reception I talked Lisa and Haley into dancing with me and we all had a blast (and were a bit sore the next day).

Hopefully you are having a wonderful Summer.

12 Things you can measure on your site -

http://www.wdfm.com/measure-things.php

Some good info on using Microsoft AdCenter

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626169

How to test / improve your conversion rates -

http://searchengineland.com/070619-093736.php

That's got us caught up a bit - one note we'll be on another Summer adventure soon and we should be back in the early part of July. Till then we hope you are enjoying yourself as well.

10 tips for using google analytics -

http://www.wilsonweb.com/analytics/steif-google-analytics.htm

Could you get by without the major search engines.
http://www.searchengineguide.com/laycock/010160.html


How to find out if you have a google penalty
http://searchengineland.com/070612-094729.php

Some good info while we've been playing on the beach - we'll be trying to catch up over the next few days and then we're off on another adventure.

What happens when there are some beginning PPC folks in your niche.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626078

This is from the June issue of the BizWeb newsletter so if its not at this link it will be in the archives - here are ten things to do.
http://www.bizweb2000.com/

Some good info on Universal search and SEO
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626114

And Google changes the quality score yet again.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626140

Enjoy your day.

During most of the month of June we'll have some irregular postings as we go on vacation etc.

Ask has a new look - details are here.
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3626058

Some SEO myths and misconceptions.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626036

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.

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.