When it comes to link building there are a lot of ideas floating around. Most of them you've probably heard of: Article marketing Directory submissions Link baiting Reciprocal linking Give away a blog theme Throw a contest You get the picture. They're all over the place. And these ideas have been rehashed over and over again.

So I've been using Microsoft's overhauled search engine Bing for a couple weeks now and this is what I conclude: Bing is great. Results leave me concluding Bing is every bit as good as Google right now, better in some results, and more eye catching. However, as I detail later in this post, I'm not leaving Google for Bing ( neither is TechCrunch's MG Siegler ). Sorry Microsoft. GigaOm's Jordan Golson was hardly moved to "Bing,

From this morning's noteworthy coverage around the Web: Original Video Ventures Going Dark (LA Times) Stage 9 Digital, 60Frames, and others are throwing in the towel on made-for-Web video entertainment as economics prove too tough a nut to crack. Twitter Helps Dell Rake in Sales (Reuters) PC giant claims $3 million in sales over the course of two years on Twitter click-throughs.

Firefox 3.6, otherwise known as Firefox.next, is about to be released pretty soon.   And one of its most interesting feature would be a self-profiling web tool that will allow user to see their browsing habits profile.  The new Firefox feature which is tentatively known as about:me, will give relevant user information such as most visited sites, time of the day and days users navigate the web most, as well as how users access the site.

You've had your domain for a long time and it has served you well.  Today, though, you're looking to expand your online business and the old domain just won't do the trick.  You need something new, fresh and exciting and perhaps you've already registered the ideal name. There's just one problem. Your old site has earned a good search engine ranking for your best keywords.

If you search the web for information on almost any subject, your search results on Yahoo and Google will be littered with shopping info. Start-up search engine Duck Duck Go now separates shopping sites from information sites in your search results. After entering a search, you click one of three new search buttons. These buttons produce normal results, mostly info sites, or mostly shopping sites respectively. This solves a common problem,

Copyblogger had a great post on when the right time is to kill your blog . It gave me a great idea. I'm not advocating murder here. I'm talking about your SEO campaigns. When should you put a bullet in their heads and just start over? Sometimes it isn't working and you know it isn't working. So what should you do? You know you should keep plugging away, but your current direction is all wrong. It's time to pull the plug. You just know it.

Microsoft's Bing isn't the only "decision engine" in town anymore, with today's launch of Hunch. Hunch is a new site that aims to connect people based on their answers to several questions, from "Where is your house located?" to "Do you like bumper cars?" As users answer questions, hunch learns more about them. The service then helps the user make decisions, such as where to go on vacation, or what kind of car to buy,

Niche sites exist, by their own definitions, to fill the gaps left behind by their larger, less focused competitors. However, have those gaps really been left behind because the larger site is inept, or because their focus was in a different place all along? Enter PageRank sculpting. For years, large sites have focused PageRank flow to broader, more easily monetized, landing pages. They've sacrificed much of their deeper content to do so. This deep content, as it turns out,

After talking up the reddit community for the last four years, we're going to let give employers the chance to tap into the best of the web. And frankly, most of the jobs boards we've seen over the years have been weaksauce . We wanted something dead simple - something that would attract the kind of jobseekers who spurn the PR BS (new acronym, anyone?). In the interest of minimizing said PR-BS, here's our new job board: http://redditJobs.