MZaza in the forum started a wishlist for Gmail Buzz. I'd like to forward this here: What would you like to see added to Buzz (or changed, for that matter)? [Thanks MZaza!] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Your Gmail Buzz Wishlist?

If you truly understand your niche, you can better find relevant linking partners. If you don't, you're going to waste loads of time pursuing targets that don't work out, and you're going to end up with potential links that may give you better rankings, but don't do a thing for traffic. There are 10 key questions to consider when sussing out your niche. 1. What is my target demographic? If you trust it, Quantcast can help.

Google has been rigorously responding to user feedback about its recently launched Buzz social media product, and adjusting the service as it sees fit. There has been a lot of criticism about user privacy associated with Buzz, and after making a few adjustments late last week, over the weekend, Google announced some more. Google is switching to an "auto-suggest" feature as opposed to the "auto follow" feature, which has created much of the criticism.

Two most popular and widely discussed SEO plugins for Wordpress are All in One SEO Pack and Headspace2 . Both are smart, free and usable. For my own blogs I may use either; I haven't really thought much how different they are. However many of my clients and friends often ask which one I recommend and why. There's no article I was able to find which would clearly outline the difference between the two plugins,

We heard earlier this week from comScore and Hitwise, and today, still more evidence that Bing performed well in January arrived. Nielsen has released its monthly report regarding the U.S. search market, and according to the firm, Bing managed to increase its market share by exactly 1.0 percent. In December, Bing's market share was a slightly embarrassing 9.9 percent. But Nielsen indicated this afternoon that it's cracked the 10.0 mark, landing at 10.9 percent in January.

The Microsoft Advertising Community Team is over 4 years old and has been engaged in social media marketing since the launch of adCenter in 2006. We often get asked about how our team came about, how we have evolved and what our approach is to interacting with advertisers online and at industry events. Originally set up as a support mechanism, our scope has increased to include many synergies with PR, product and marketing teams across the business and all around the world.

Having a successful online search engine optimization campaign is a lot like trying to win an Olympic gold medal. Nobody wakes up one day and says that they want to join the Olympics and it happens by the end of the week. SEO works the same way in the sense that things take time to build and grow and patience and good hard work is what it takes to have a successful search engine optimization mindset and approach.

Posted by RobOusbey There are very few tactics which can guarantee success in linkbuilding. Executed correctly, giving something away is one that gets close to fulfilling that promise. This post covers competitions and giveaways; I'll share techniques and tactics you can use, and will include links to some interesting competitions seen online recently, and some that we've run for clients.

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