Professional SEO Blogger If you are a public SEO and your only gig is writing a blog about SEO and selling client services then it can be quite easy to share and not care. If you destroy a technique or someone else's business to earn a bit of attention who cares? You got the attention, and that can be converted into currency as herds of newbies flock to where the crowd and controversy are. This is why some of the sleaziest SEOs publicly promote SEO outing.

Anyone who writes a regular blog knows about writers block. But no matter how much time you spend staring at that blank page, the article just never writes itself. Pity. So how do you overcome writers block? Here are a few tips. Topic Selection It's not that there aren't plenty of topics to write about, the problem is we often feel we need to say something new. The reality is that not much is genuinely new. We all stand on the shoulders of giants. Instead,

Damon Hougland, senior director of the PayPal Platform here. Many of you have asked why we chose the name PayPal X for our new open global payments platform (announced on July 23rd) so I thought I'd give you a bit of background.   We knew we wanted the platform name to .

by Vera H-C Chan The hot days of August became days of mourning for political leaders (Cory Aquino, Kim Dae-Jung, Ted Kennedy). Health conversations took on an unhealthy tone, and reality TV dominated real-life crime headlines. Below, a look at searches and buzzy stories on Yahoo! this month. The Last Days of Camelot While June's celebrity departures seemed a turning point for Generation X, the loss of two political paladins marked an era's passing.

On Friday the Wall Street Journal broke the news that Apple signed a lucrative deal in China with China Unicom to sell (what I call) a censored version of the iPhone (it has WiFi removed for "security reasons"). The deal will herald an impressive increase in Apple's phone share but what should not be missed is that Android somehow flew under the radar despite signing a similar deal with China Mobile; a company with 3 times the subscribers of China Unicom!

July's latest global search market study has been released by comScore , and just like previous months' results, Google still leads the pack followed by Yahoo, Chinese search engine Baidu and Microsoft. Overall global search market also registered a big increase - 113 billion searches were conducted in July 2009 which is a 41% leap from the same month last year. Expectedly, Google Sites got the biggest global market share with 76.

Yahoo! is expanding the number of SearchMonkey features set to default-on in their search results. The update is the result of the completion of testing microformat templates. Now, sites that provide structured data according to Yahoo!'s specified formats will automatically get SearchMonkey default-on status, allowing an enhanced result to be displayed in the SERPs. Enhancements can include: Video Documents Games Products Local Businesses Event Discussions News items Yahoo!

Social Media's rise in popularity has created some very real problems for the Internet and its users. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter have seemingly opened the floodgates to security troubles, and over the past few weeks, this has been accentuated by a number of issues and studies. As WebProNews recently reported , based on a study from Russell Herder and Ethos Business Law, time on social networking sites has increased by 73% in the past year.

CBS Interactive and Sports Illustrated have entered into a content sharing agreement focused on high school sports, which will include print and online elements. CBS'high school sports site, MaxPreps.com will be featured on SI.com's high school section and it will also be integrated with Sports Illustrated Faces in the Crowd section in both print and online. In addition Sports Illustrated writers, including David Feherty and Seth Davis, will be syndicated on CBSSports.

by Mike Krumboltz She's long since moved out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but inquiring minds still want to know: "What's new with Chelsea Clinton ?" Searches on the former first daughter remain impressively high â?" Ms. Clinton consistently draws more lookups than Hollywood A-listers like Jennifer Garner and Tom Cruise, not to mention her dear ol' dad. This past weekend, as news hit that Jenna Bush would start corresponding for NBC's "Today Show,