Posted by chenry Like any other person out there, I fall into habits, good and bad. Recently while working on a clients website, I created a Sitemap and submitted it to the search engines, like I always do. I started to think if this really helps the site out and whats the effect when I submit a Sitemap on the site. I approached one of my clients who has a semi popular blog and uses WordPress and the Google XML Sitemaps Generator plugin for WordPress.

I think Google Friend Connect kills the old argument between SEO and social media. You know, the one about whether one is more powerful than the other, more necessary. SEOs have argued that SEO is like free advertising and that no one should ignore it. Social media marketers have argued that the Web, by nature, is social and therefore social media interaction is natural and normal. Both, of course, are right. Google Friend Connect, however,

by Diana Adams We regularly get email something similar to this: I'm just one guy running my business. I want a great PPC program and I heard you can cater to someone like me. Can you help me? I typically respond to questions like this very carefully because there isn't a simple yes/no answer. I don't want to provide false hope because yes, I do create great PPC programs, but much of the success is going to depend heavily on the website.

by Jennifer Laycock There's just something about the anonymity of sitting behind a computer screen that makes people do stupid things. Few but the boldest sales person would walk into a class reunion and try to close a sale with the alumni at their table, even fewer would walk up to a stranger's table at a restaurant to start shilling their offerings. Nonetheless this very thing happens every single day in the realm of social media.

The diversity of social media communities has brought one huge Internet marketing problem: online identity theft . If you are lucky enough to own a fairly popular unique brand name and smart enough to use it for social networking, you might have already fallen prey to this abuse (though you might be unaware of that).

Isn't it great how Google makes millions of photos available to the world in their LIFE photo archive ? Well - with one exception: they disallow other search engines to access these photos. The same access rights that make Google Image search crawl other photo collections are not given by Google to competing image search engines for their photo hosting. Here's the respective part in Google's robots.

Returning visitors are an important part of a successful web site. And if you give them something special, some boon that your competitors don't offer, chances are your visitors will come back. Building your blog or web site and researching your topic you have most likely gained knowledge that your users could benefit from. Why not offer them a customized search engine that draws on that knowledge?

Google-acquired Gapminder published a different kind of world map in November last year. While there's a compass and a sea monster on the map, the directions are not North and South, but Healthy and Sick , and not West and East, but Rich and Poor . The data the visualization is based on is from 2006. You can access the PDF of the full image from Gapminder's download page , and I've copied it here as PNG image . [Image Creative Commons licensed by Gapminder.

by Stoney deGeyter Choosing a SEO to manage your website marketing has never been easy, but during these tough economic times it's more important than ever to choose wisely. No one wants to be the guy at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, who chose the wrong chalice. You're site will be nothing but a shell of it's old self with the Knights of SEO standing over you saying, "He chose... poorly." Uh, yeah... "Information that would have been helpful yesterday!

Wouldn't it be cool if we could peer inside our target audiences' brains and figure out exactly what they're thinking? Guess what'that day is damn near here.? Enter neuromarketing - a combination of brain science and good, old-fashioned marketing. Neuromarketing goes beyond whether people prefer Coke versus Pepsi, or whether sex sells. It delves into what sections of the brain light up like Christmas trees when we're exposed to a brand, message or concept. Scary,