Facebook's move to allow its members to sign up for vanity URLs just after midnight tonight is stirring up a frenzy. And it's potentially fueling a cottage industry for buying and selling accounts on social networks. A Google search for "Facebook vanity URLs" earlier today turned up a sponsored link for Assetize.com, a company that currently lists Twitter accounts for sale such as @amazonsavers (listed for $1,250) and @24hourfitness (best offer). See you at midnight!

Google Webmaster Tools has recently seen a few updates. Posted on the Google Webmaster Central blog yesterday, here is a summary of some of the changes. The vast majority of users will not be affected by this, but now you can submit up to 2.5 billion URL's with a single sitemap index using up to 50,000 child Sitemaps. (previously Google only supported 1,000 child Sitemaps.) This is rather interesting considering that back in 2000 Google had only 1 billion pages indexed.

You may have read our post last week where we talked about how Smart Motion Preview and SafeSearch work together. As we mentioned, Microsoft is never done when it comes to providing tools to help customers, whether they are large enterprises, local school districts or parents make sure they can provide a safe searching experience when using Bing. We made two changes that we think will help. First,

Far safer than in the physical world where one can be easily bludgeoned by an elbow or shoe, online sample sales have continued to grow in popularity over the past year. Despite the poor economy, shoppers are flocking to the websites of online sample sales like Gilt Groupe , Hautelook , and Rue La La to find designer bargains, creating an additional set of competitors to many apparel retailers.

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Last month, it seemed like everyone was talking about toolbars. Reddit, of course, has had a toolbar since 2005. (You might not have known that, however, since it's always been an opt-in feature.) The site has come a long way in the past four years, but this small piece of code has been more or less left alone even as the rest of the site changed all around it. We thought it was time for a little makeover. We knew we didn't want to make any major functional changes,

 Welcome to Number 26 in our continuing series profiling the men and women who put the extra coat of shellac on the woodworking class project that is Reprise Media . Today we have Sara Wiezorek who, like James T. Kirk is from Iowa. Sara was one of the first people I met at Reprise Media - in fact she rents me my desk and chair. While I feel that I've done my bit for healthy living by climbing up the subway stairs every day Sara climbs actual mountains.

by Claudine Zap Not every movie star has to compete with her costar for best hair. We hardly remember to look at " Twilight " actress Kristen Stewart when lush-locked Robert Pattinson is anywhere near. But this new Stewart 'do seems like a serious fashion don't. The kinder posts have likened the style to Joan Jett 's famously choppy cut, but it sure looks like a mullet to us. If you can't imagine the " New Moon " celeb walking into a hair salon and requesting the "Joan Jett,

This morning we talked about anchor text and how to choose the right keywords. But anchor text is more than just keywords in a link. Anchor text is also a call to action. You want the user to click the link, right? Don't assume that just because you put a link in your text that it will be clicked. Not all links are clicked. There are number of factors that into whether or not a link is clicked.

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