Facebook just keeps growing and growing and growing.... They've reached the milestone of 250 million members . That's a global number, but it's still very impressive - even more so considering it took just a year to double their numbers. I was thinking just yesterday about Google Connect versus Facebook Connect and how the latter probably makes more sense. A greater percentage of my friends use Facebook than either Google or Twitter (Google Connect supports Twitter).

by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Bernie Madoff (Searches increased by 401%). The crook is off to the clink . Liz Cheney (+290%). Daughter defends dad's actions on secret CIA ops . Eternal moonwalk (+280%). MJ gave us the moonwalk, and this viral video pays homage to the man's move. Robert de Niro (+259%). The actor fell victim to an art scam that sold works without his permission . Story behind "The Haunting in Connecticut" (+198%).

Welcome to the Blog Marketing Journal! Blog marketing is something that has become a very important area for any growing business. Businesses have been able to really leverage their online appearance by implementing a blog into their website. Building the blog is only half the battle. If you are already in a saturated industry you will have to stay focused and persistent with your blog so that you can find website visitors that want to read what you have to say.

After years of trial and error and months of writing, The New Community Rules ( Amazon link ) has been released, and I wanted to dive into some of the concepts I discuss in the book, many of which I hope to explore in depth in future blog posts. The New Community Rules talks about the important role social media has begun playing in our lives. Most importantly, however,

Facebook Pages make it easy to stay up-to-date with your favorite public figures and organizations. For example, after connecting with Lance Armstrong , I'll receive updates directly from him on my Facebook homepage about his life on the Tour de France, photos of his rides and much more. But when I'm not on Facebook it can be a challenge to keep up, which is why beginning today,

I have talked a lot about what to do to create and promote viral content. I wanted to give some tips that have helped me ensure that my future campaigns have equal success. First and this should be obvious before any viral launch you should have a set of metrics and goals you are looking to achieve and track. Whether that is sales, traffic, leads or links. What is it that you are looking to achieve as a result of a viral campaign?

How long does it take to achieve targeted rankings in Google? That's probably the most popular SEO question. And to an exoerienced SEO it may seem naive: really, is any other answer except "it depends" possible here? Well, generally, there are plenty of "it depends"-type of answers but some common consistent patterns can be singled out: So, how long would you give a new site to rank? There is a really good thread at WebmasterWorld forums discussing exactly that topic.

There is a new Twitter app that has a fresh approach to Twitter social networking. It is called Twitroduce . It has been described as a service that formalizes #FollowFriday, except for it makes sense every day of the week. You know #FollowFriday or #ff, the popular hash tag to use on Friday's where you recommend people to follow? Twitroduce takes this to a whole new level. I should know, I helped develop it! The idea was simple.

Images are a great way to make your content more engaging and interactive. Unfortunately, in an effort to make your pages more appealing, webmasters often forget about the size of the images and the page load time. Taking care of the image size, you: Increase your page crawl rate ; Make your pages load faster and thus decrease the bounce rate; Make your pages more accessible. Here are a couple of simple tips to optimize your images without (almost) any loss of quality: 1.