If you're a serious SEO, this is the post to show it in the 'Comments' below. The following example is a real world example, from a large site, and not for the faint of heart. Keep in mind that we're looking for tips that work in the real world, not Utopia. If you work on a large site, or plan to, you had better be pretty good at creating formulas that work across millions of pages. There will not be any one person writing millions of meta descriptions by hand for you.

Google Translator Toolkit is a new tool being launched today to help translators organize their work and benefit from shared translations, glossaries and translation memories, the Google China Blog reports ( English translation by Google ). Evidence that Google was working on a service like this originally surfaced in August 2008 when references to Google Translation Center appeared in Google's robots.txt file. At the time,

It is no surprise why Facebook has grown so much and is passing by MySpace to quickly become the leader in social networking, it is clean. From day one Facebook has been strict on how people use their social platform. Obvious self promotion is severely frowned upon and could quickly get you banned from their website. Facebook has very strict guidelines on how they want people to use their social networking tool and they will not hesitate to pull the plug on your profile.

Just two weeks after she criticized Twitter's founders for apparently ruling out a sale ("Never is a long time," she said), you wouldn't expect Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz to rule out any given deal for all eternity, would you? Well, you'd be wrong. "Yahoo-AOL would not happen anytime in the forever future," she said in an interview with Fox Business News yesterday. "Yahoo is a much stronger property in a different direction and there's no sense confusing all of that.

Google Analytics is tracking Bing , but it plans further integration of the new search engine soon. While you can currently see Bing as a source of traffic referrals, an upcoming update will include Bing in the default list of search engines. If you want to have the update sooner, you can manually add the following line to your Google Analytics tracking code: pageTracker._addOrganic("bing",

The Internet is a war zone. You build a site, do all the work you can on it and start promoting it. And as long as you are doing more than your competition, you will win, for a while. But only for a while. When you are on top, you are THE company every other competitor is gunning for. And eventually one of these companies will catch a break. I am a huge site builder. Or at least I used to. The bigger, the better. I'd throw everything I could up on one site,

by Mike Moran Image by Ian-S via Flickr I promised this week that I'd stop beating the dead horse of how many keywords to target per page, and I will keep that promise. But the divergence of opinion and the deeply-held beliefs that some of us have on this issue made me realize that I violated one of my own rules with this whole discussion. I gave you my opinion about something and then argued with people when their opinions differed.

Nowadays people search is as hot as never before - with so many social media networks people join to develop online connections and manage reputation it has become necessary to unite them all. I've seen and tested a few people search engines before - none of them seemed really impressive. However the one I am reviewing today is definitely worth a try.

Development of a content marketing strategy that speaks to the target audience plays a key role in successful execution of an overall online marketing program. Companies that embrace the social web as part of their marketing mix need to consider the content created within social media channels just as much as corporate web site content. Whether you communicate to your audience via a blog, Twitter or social networking sites like Facebook,

Yesterday I wrote a post on Econsultancy about why not selling online can damage your brand . This does sound very obvious, but it's surprising how many well-known UK brands and even high-street retailers do not manage to get this right online. One of the examples given in the comments (thanks Andon) was the Primark website, who not only fail to sell their products online, but they also have no product catalogue available either.