Recently I've read one of those awfully misguided anti-SEO posts. It linked to another blog post called SEO FAQ . It wasn't an actual SEO FAQ though. It was just another awfully misguided blog post from a guy I have never heard of before and who only reveled in the attention he got from displaying his ignorance. People got angry as usual in such cases of blatant provocation and disregard.

Were T-4.5 days from the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics Games. Who are you excited to see flying down the mens downhill course or dancing across the ice? Will you be rooting for your homeland or just your favorite event? Do you know anyone crazy enough to get on one of those luge sleds? Making the trip to Canada or are you planning on enjoying the games from the comfort of your own home? With only a few days before the games begin, its time to get prepared.

Over the past weeks, I've come across a few highly valuable and inspiring articles on using Gmail filters as well Outlook rules for better productivity. This actually goes about organizing your email more effectively in order to do your job better and faster. This prompted me to optimize my SEO process using email filtering to a achieve higher productivity. Just an hour or so of playing resulted in quite a few cool tips I am thrilled to share on SEJ: 1.

Worldwide mobile data bandwidth usage increased by 72 percent in the second half of 2009, according to a new report by Allot Communications. Applications such as YouTube and Skype are driving this continued momentum in mobile broadband growth. APAC leads the growth with 86%; EMEA posted 70% growth and the Americas 59%. The report found video to be the single most influential factor driving the need for increased mobile network capacity.

A little less than a month ago, Google announced that it might shut down Google.cn and its offices in China. The search giant may not be giving up on the country entirely, however, as a new report has indicated that it's part of a group attempting to invest in a large Chinese media and advertising company. According to George Chen and Melanie Lee , Disney is leading a consortium that includes Google,

We're often asked, "How can I maximize the ROI from Content Network campaigns?" As part of our new Optimization University initiative, we've developed a Getting Started Guide and a series of 6 videos to help answer this question for you. The guide and videos provide a conceptual walk-through and demo of the major steps involved in executing a Content Network campaign.

This could be the year of the display ad. That's not to say that display ads aren't prevalent every year, but Google has only been involved with that for a little while, and if analysts' projections are accurate, this will be the year that Google's display ad business tops $1 billion in sales. Last summer, Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggested that display ads would be Google's next big billion-dollar business. According to BusinessWeek,

Bing recently announced an improvement to certain health queries, meaning users are seeing updated organic listings for searches on topics like health conditions (try obesity or dry skin ), medicines (try ibuprofen ), and diseases (try diabetes ). For health advertisers, now it's even more important to focus on keywords in the top of the search funnel. Unlike brand queries, people searching on general health terms are in research mode. With these new results pages,

You've lost your account'it's gone. You can't log in. All your activity has been erased. You didn't get an email, not even a warning. You've emailed the site a number of times, and nobody will tell you why you're now a blacklisted member of your favorite social media network. This is a common tale' all too common , in fact. Some social sites are better than others,

Note: This post is from Cliff Condon, Forrester's VP in charge of our social media efforts, and represents the company's official position on the topic of analyst blogging. Wow.  There are a lot of comments flying around about Forrester's yet-to-be released blog platform and associated policy â?" some accurate, some not.  The blog posts from Forrester analysts like Josh Bernoff   and Augie Ray have had the most accurate information to date.