A recent announcement by Yahoo press center states that they have joined the OpenSocial Foundation. Open Social is a Google initiative that already includes MySpace and other social networks and is a nonprofit organization to promote a universal standard for applications on social-networking sites (OpenSocial.org).
Google also officially welcomed Yahoo to the foundation on their official [...]

ComScore recently released some nice data showing the international traffic trends for Facebook and MySpace. As you can see from the graph below, Facebook is growing at a very rapid rate and recently passed MySpace in total daily unique worldwide visitors. The graph below shows absolute worldwide visitors per day and Facebook passed MySpace already [...]

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Start a blog. Use a free service like WordPress or Blogger. This is an excellent way to attract targeted visitors to your domain. It is a long term project, so be patient. Traffic [...]

This acquisition was not expected and came out of nowhere. You can read the full story over at NYTimes
Bebo has a reported 40 million worldwide users and AOL said in its press release earlier today:

“Together with its AIM and ICQ personal communications network, the acquisition will give AOL a premier position in the fast growing [...]

A case study:
You hear it and see it all the time in the domaining industry. A hyphen in a domain will decrease the value of that domain name and search engines often devalue hyphenated domains as these are often ‘copycat domains’ or 2nd grade content domains. Although I agree this is true in some cases, [...]

This is something I have been giving considerable thought to the past few months. I did not get around to sharing some of my 2008 SEO and online marketing predictions yet but since it is march already and there is about to be a big shift in the seo and online marketing industry this year [...]

This is a nice image created by LeMonde.fr, which nicely illustrates the popularity of the different social networking sites across the world in different countries. This is great data for geotargeting your social media content.

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Here are some of my observations based on the above data for you. Make sure you [...]

Link Baiting is in essence an advanced form of link building. Link Baiting is pretty much like baiting a hook: A fisherman would bait up a hook so that a fish would be more inclined to take a bite. It is the same with link baiting. You throw out a link somewhere, like on one [...]

Wikipedia did it 12 months ago and del.icio.us 6 months ago and now Flickr is also following suit. Nofollow tags have been placed on all external links (links pointing to other websites). This is in response to people (spammers included) using these sources as a form of link building playground to point links from these [...]