When I surf the social media turf, I usually open a whole bunch of tabs, read the article, and comment on the social media site entry. That’s all fine and dandy with news sites, that give no option to comment, but what happens to blogs, in this process? Complete article on Are Social Networks Killing Blog Commenting?

It’s sometimes difficult to think of the right topics to write about with all blogs and niche markets, but it’s not as hard as you think. Simple analysis or quick browsing of other sites where authors have already posted popular articles or news can give you a good idea of what people want to read and what they are more interested in. All niche markets are different but it does come down to the quality and resourcefulness of a post which attracts visitors. Here’s a few tips on how to attract visitors to your blog or site: Complete article on How To Attract Visitors With The Right Blog Topics

If the buzz is to be believed, Sam’s Club is now a search engine optimization company that is targeting the local search market aggressively. The fact is, this isn’t something new; it’s just recently come to the forefront. Sam’s Club has partnered with a company called Innuity to offer a program that is primarily targeted at small businesses looking to get noticed in the local search results. Complete article on Sam’s Club Wants to Be Your Search Engine Optimization Company – Should You Let It?

The hype is still around with social media and it should be by this point, pretty hard to avoid for most major companies. Of course, its not as easy as it looks. It takes a lot more than just submitting a page or site to social sites and absolutely takes a lot more time to build up your reputation. However, it will be well worth your efforts. Gaining a recognizable reputation through your own avatar (usually a personal photo) and name, readers within your industry will gradually jump to opportunities to hear your thoughts, sending thousands of visitors to sites that you mention. Your face will quite literally become an “authority” avatar. Complete article on An Authority Avatar Is Almost As Good As An Authority Site

The search marketing Expo is back in Sydney again. I attended this last year and from what I saw this year should be even better with so much happening in the search engine marketing world. I’ll certainly be there for the 2 days and hopefully I’ll meet some of you there too.

It’ll be on the 10th - 11th April 2008. You can sign up on the search marketing expo official page. Some of the speakers include:

- Danny Sullivan, Editor in Chief - Searchengineland.com
- Frederick Valley, Adwords Evangelist, Google Inc.
- Gord Hotchkiss, President & CEO - Enquiro
- Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products & User Experience - Google Inc.
- Rand Fishkin, Director - SEOmoz

Should be great! See you there.

You have worked hard to optimize your website, picked a niche keyword to work on and have exhausted all SEO strategies you know. While your efforts may work initially, you soon realize that your site ranking seems to have hit a roof. As your ranking increases, it becomes harder and harder for you to move your search engine rankings. What could be wrong? Complete article on What Happens When Your Competitors Seem To Be Link Spamming?

A recent study from comscore’s global top 10 search engines has revealed a surprising result with Baidu.com, a major player in China, coming in at third ahead of MSN. Might not be that surprising for some since China does have 1 billion people. Google has been struggling to dominate the Chinese market and with Microsoft attempting to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion, search engine marketing could make another revolutionary change particularly in SEO and PPC. Complete article on Search Engine Rankings and Languages Used