Ann Smarty in Reach Smart Linkers: Top Mommy Blogger Networks provides a great list of blog networks composed primarily of women.  The point of the list is simple â?" effectively reaching out to bloggers can yield links and traffic.  Ann also points us to the post How to Pitch Mommy Bloggers .  That post starts with ' PR has long misused and misunderstood pitching to Bloggers, most specifically, mommy bloggers.

by Jennifer Laycock It's happened before and it will probably happen again. Nearly a year after local search gurus reported on a major hijacking problem with Google Local Business listings, reports are popping up all over again about a fresh crop of hijacked listings. Lisa Meyers made a post last week over at SEO Chicks sharing the problem they ran into when the local listings for one of their clients was hijacked. ...we get back from the Christmas holidays,

by Stoney deGeyter I'm not trying to coin a new phrase here, just looking at SEO from a different perspective. See, I never really liked the term Search Engine Optimization. That seems like the job of the math geeks behind the search engine algorithms. Its their job to optimize the search engine, not mine. To be more accurate, SEO should be called WO, or WSO: Website Optimization. That's what I do, I optimize the website in order to help it gain more exposure,

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today revealed that 45 U.K. media agencies, including business units of each of the five major agency holding companies, ran more than 275,000 comScore reports in 2009. This represents approximately 23,000 reports per month, or 500 reports per month per agency. The annual total represents a 45 percent increase over 2008 with December 2009 usage up 51 percent versus year ago.

People don't really understand that there are many different factors that fall into place when determining where a website ranks in the Google search engine results. Some things to keep in mind when you are wondering why your site doesn't rank well. It is not always just the obvious reasons that are holding it back. Over the past years by reading Google's Webmaster Guidelines , Google SEO Starter Guide ,

Posted by Danny Dover I believe that the hardest part of SEO is simply keeping up with the trends. Our industry moves extremely fast and as a result, my co-workers and I have spent countless hours searching through old blog posts, articles and e-mail threads while trying to find small tidbits of information. Each of us have separate lists of our favorite resources and up until now, we haven't had a convenient way to aggregate these. Luckily,

Google has threatened to withdraw from China after a cyber attack by hackers out of China who tried to break into the Gmail accounts of human rights activists. They also targeted twenty other companies. In a blog post Google said it experienced a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure, with the probes originating from China" beginning in mid-December, which it said resulted in "the theft of intellectual property,

The Google Maps team has been working hard with partner GeoEye to push out an updated imagery of Haiti. The update includes imagery taken at 10:27 am EST on Wednesday, January 13 - approximately 15 hours after the earthquake hit. You can download the KML file to view in Google Earth and the layer is available for viewing in Google Maps as well. The imagery is primarily for Port-Au-Prince. Google says they'll add more imagery, but you only need to download the file once.

Here we go, latest search market statistics released by Nielsen indicates that Google again rules the search market in December. Google gets 67.3% of all the 9.9  billion searches made last December. That's actually 6.7 billion shares conducted on Google's search engine. Following Google  far behind are of course Yahoo and Bing getting 14.4%  or more than 1.4 billion searches and 9.9% or 986 million searches, respectively. Other searches were made at Ask.com,

by Mike Krumboltz With Haiti still reeling from Tuesday's devastating earthquake, the Red Cross has stated that it has run out of medical supplies on the island nation. More supplies are on the way, but it is unknown when they will arrive. Meanwhile, on the Web, people eager to help are seeking out unique ways in which they can help. In the Search box, some of the biggest queries are for different ways to "text to help." For example,