For the typical search engine guru, its almost a routine reading online marketing tips all over the web. From SEO tips, blogging strategies, PPC profits to the big boys in play like Google, Facebook, and Yahoo. Then they move on to their own sites and start applying a few things they’ve read. It’s all great knowing how to market and promote your products, services or information, but throughout the process of learning, we forget that we are actually moving forward because of other people. Other people in the same field or in other words, we’re “socializing”. Complete article on One Area All Online Marketers Must Work On To Get Ahead

As search engine marketing evolves, so do the strategies applied by online marketers and by now we have all noticed the power of social network sites like Digg, reddit, StumbleUpon etc. But exactly how good is the quality of traffic from social sites compared to the traditional search engine? Complete article on Traffic Quality: Search Engines vs Social Networks

Its no surprise that Yahoo is developing a new site called Kickstart that will improve on what already exists and works in social network sites. Still in research and production processes, but once the site is launched it should create another buzz through the evolution of social networks. They are attempting to bridge the gap between facebook and linkedIn. School friends will be able to refer to each other for jobs making job hunting much easier while still staying connected on a personal level. Check the full story at webpronews.

With the rapid growth of social networking sites, its hard to avoid this course of traffic. To me, it is pretty much a third area of study next in line to SEO and PPC. People refer to social sites as the next generation of SEO but there are so many different aspects to this that even expert search engine marketers have to learn about these sites from square one. Really, the only way to understand their individual ways of operating is create an account with the social networks and be constantly active. Only then, you will start to see similarities between them. The following three social networks have created a huge presence online rapidly and will only grow further in the near future. Complete article on Top Three Social Network Sites with Significant Online Presence