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Blogs are a great way to get started authoring content and sharing your knowledge and insights with other people. Plus, mix work and play - and you can get rich doing this. You don't have to be an MBA-accredited author by any means. However, there are some rules to play by, and I'll break those out below. We will talk about the top blogs, practicalities around blogs and creative ways to get started, including how you could possibly ruin your good-standing ranking and having to change your Search Engine Optimization strategy. Blogs - Structure and Layout I work in the field of Search Engine Optimization. It has a wide range of options, from the technical to the more strategic. Tons of discussions are found on off-page and on-page factors, latent semantic analysis, content scope, quality, HTML/CSS development, site navigational structure, spamdexing, 301 redirects, plagiarism, link strategies, directories, blogs, search engine news, email marketing tips & online (internet) ma

More webwasters are now adapting the so called "open source softwares" and continue to adapt and advocate for a free participative content development. So, what is really an open source. As defined by its attached license in every software being distributed to the public for further development use, modify, and redistribute the software. Open Source is a certification mark owned by the Open Source Initiative . Developers of software that is intended to be freely shared and possibly improved and redistributed by others can use the Open Source trademark if their distribution terms conform to the OSI's Open Source Definition. To summarize, the Definition model of distribution terms require that: * Free Redistribution No restrictions are placed on parties from selling of giving away the software. * Source Code Availability The software must include source code and must also allow for binary distributions when there is a well-publicized means of obtaining the

AJAX is becoming the standard for Web 2.0 and lots of web developers are including myself had jump to its bandwagon. AJAX is very technical in nature and can only be performed by a technically skilled JAVA and XML developers. What is strange is, AJAX has been available to developers for over 5 years and it was only simplified the re-branding of this technology and it cause the rise in the popularity and become the current "buzzword" to all webmasters. One of the developers concern is its searchability on the web. This is an important area that we should consider in web development stage. This area is called Search Engine Optimization. So how well the Web 2.0 websites performs on search engines? Do we have to allow search engines to cope up with the fast pace of web development? We'll, we have to be aware of that. One of the advantage of using AJAX to the site is it removes the need to refresh a page in a browser. Without refreshing the page, the asynchronous JavaScri

Search Engine Optimization(SEO)process is a powerful strategy used by webmasters to maximize its potential in page ranking under the major search engines today such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. This effort was necessary for sites visibility to increase its marketing value in the end. But how really SEO and search algorithm works and how it manipulates the sites' popularity. Here's a bit of discussion from the pinoy SEO group. Different Search Engine Means Different Algorithm All search engines have their own algorithms to determine the value and, therefore, positioning of websites. While the majority of SEO work tends to concentrate on Google because of the sheer weight of searches they receive it would be foolish to discount or ignore the other major search engines. Yahoo is considered one of the big three along with Google and MSN and by concentrating a little more time and effort on Yahoo optimization it is quite possible to gain a good amount of traffic. With ultra competitive

This is not really a surprising headline for all of us. But in the Techworld, it's transparent that Google is taking the front seat for global net control. The Raw Story had detailed how Google had surpassed IBM as the third largest technology company in the world worth a whopping $145 billion. Compare that to IBM's $139.5 billion valuation and you can see that they have a good lead on them and are now biting at the heels of Cisco and Microsoft who still holds the #1 spot. Here's the breakdown figures found in that article (in billions). ExxonMobil - $416 General Electric - $367 Microsoft - $279 Wal-Mart - $214 Cisco - $147.5 Google - $145 IBM - $139.5 Intel - $123 Hewlett-Packard - $109 DaimlerChrysler - $54 eBay - $ 45 Yahoo - $32 Amazon - $14 General Motors - $20 Ford - $15 With the phenomenal growth of Google , an internet advertising giant who's search engine started in 1998, h

Marketing a site is another headache for a webmaster. Strategies should be studied and proposed within the respective organization and ask how they can benefit from it. Well, here the survey: Search engines, directories and online communities attract over 90 percent of the Web population or one out of every three Americans as indicated by Nielsen/NetRatings Internet Statistics. Other studies show that approximately 85% of initial web site visits originate from search engine referrals. This clearly indicates that search engine marketing is no longer a luxury but rather an absolute necessity for online success.