Matt Cutts Video On Brands & Google Search

This video is of Matt Cutts explaining Google emphasis and the weight of brands and the new tweak to the algorithm.

Submit Edge Article Submission Service

Article directories are just a small part of my backlink strategy as it should be every one's. I used to do all of this myself in the earlier days, but needed more time to write my own on site content and also focus on other backlink processes. The last six months I have been using Submit Edge for article directory submissions. For 30 bucks, you just can not beat it. They also write the article and change out the footer bio and rotate out the backlinks you set as well. I am not too picky as far as the article goes as it is off site and not on mine, but they do a better than average job on the article itself. Filling out the form is simple. Just make sure to fill out the three Author Bio options with different backlinks and anchor text use as many relevant keywords in the keyword box as well. I truly do not think you will be disappointed with the results or the service.

EPN To Implement Consistent Payment Date

In case you missed the email from EPN... Starting in April 2009, the eBay Partner Network will process payments to publishers on the 25th of each month, unless it's a weekend, then you will be paid the next working day. For example, if you are eligible to receive payments from the eBay Partner Network, you will be paid for April activity on May 25, 2009. The conditions for payment eligibility are still the same. Remember that this begins in April.

Yahoo & Ask Gain Little Ground On Google

Hitwise has released the latest data on the percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine providers. although Yahoo and Ask have both increased, they pale in comparison to the 72.09 percent of all U.S. searches Google accounted for. The interesting note I found in this report is that the length of search queries has increased over the past year. This is good news as surfers are learning to be more specific for what they are searching for and good for webmasters in the fact that longer tail keyword phrases are easier to compete for.

For more up-to-date analysis of online search trends, you can visit the Hitwise blog at http://weblogs.hitwise.com and the Hitwise Data Center at http://www.hitwise.com/datacenter.

Free SEO Book Information From Aaron Wall

Cleaning out some of my bookmarks this afternoon, I cam across some free info put out by Aaron Wall from SEO Book. This info is not overly thorough, but will point some newer people in the right direction and provide an overall snapshot of search engine optimization.

http://www.work.com/learning-search-engine-optimization-1053/
http://knol.google.com/k/aaron-wall/seo-basics/38v8wakla8f98/2#

Edit Those Free Article Backlinks If Needed

After helping one of my blog readers with her site today, I noticed she had several backlinks on some free articles she had submitted that were not using effecting anchor text links in the bio footer. MOST of the major free article sites will let you edit both your article and article bio footer links should you need to. Merely log into your account and navigate to the proper article edit area for that article ezine and just edit the article. Your major directories like ezinearticles.com and goarticles.com make this a very easy process. ezinearticles.com will need to be re approved, but should only take a few days to be live again. So have a look at the ones you have submitted and are live and see if you can improve that backlink anchor text, to better reflect what indeed you are trying to rank for, for the linked to page.

Another Nice Looking Wordpress Site

As much time as I spend on my own sites, I also like looking at and analyzing other well built sites as well. I always have more to learn and try to look at any advantage I can learn. Came across another great site today, built with Wordpress. Very nicely SEOed with great content. Monetized with some CJ affiliates and Google adsense and ranks well on its target keywords. Backlinks mostly from the authors other sites and own blog, but seems to be getting the job done. I am sure this site does indeed earn money and is nice and simple and effective.

What do you like or dislike about this site?