Social and SEO Trends

SEO Number One Tip - Back links

The major determining factor in Google's pagerank is back links. These are incoming links from one site to your site. What these links tell Google is that your site must have good content on it, or else other sites would not be linking to it.  Google has become very smart and accurate with pagerank, and so they can tell bad links (i.e. Links from link farms, irrelevant sites etc.) from the good links (links in articles, links from relevant sites etc.). The most effective technique in increasing pagerank is to gather good back links.
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Online Trends

Alltop - Geolocation Data Aggregation

Apple Sitting on a mountain of money

Babel Fish - Translating Tool for foreign languages

Blogger New look for 2012

Cubestat - How much is your website worth?

Disrupt (Techcrunch) Do you own a startup? then submit you entry to win US$50,000

Facebook - some tips to keep yourself safe on the Social Networking site

Facebook Scammers - Its the holiday season and scammers are using 'vouchers' to trick users

Facebook Worm - Thousands get hacked on Facebook site.

GameCity - The 6th annual Video game festival returned to Nottingham but what title one?

Gigablast - an environmentally aware Search portal.

Google - Google launches A Google A Day

Google Panda - How does their algorithm change affect your site? 

Google Translate - Need help translating? Excellent Tool

Infographics - Why Infographics are so powerful

Link Building - The best article on Link Building

LinkedIn - New plugin 'Apply With LinkedIn' now available

LinkedIn Privacy - How to protect your privacy on LinkedIn

no follow - no follow and seo - Guest Post

reddit - Data explosion chance for an exit? 

Sick of Google's Invasive Nature? - then switch to an alternative like Blekko

Timeline Startups - Has Facebook killed off this niche?

Twitter - SpongeBob and the Micro Blogging experiment

Zapaday - Dutch Alpha site that will utilise datamining to help bloggers and reporters

Online Tools
Crawl URL form  "Add your URL to Google" form is now the Crawl URL form.  You can submit any URLs that you want crawled and indexed.

Helium - Get your Freelance articles published
 
Keyword search tool - Geolocation device for those keywords

Page Rank Checker - Page Rank Checker

She Told Me - is a Digg-like with a 100% AdSense Revenue Sharing program

Xomba - List your favorite monster movies, critique the latest free-to-play MMO or dish out the secrets of your finest culinary triumph. If you love it, share it. 

SEO Tip  | Auto Ping  Don't make constant minor changes to content (AVOID)
While you want search engines to see that you update your content, making minor changes (like correcting spelling errors, or changing 10 or 20 characters) implies that you're just trying to get the updated date changed. This looks like you're trying to fool the search engines into thinking that you update your pages more than you actually do. Do spend time updating your pages, but make the updates substantive.

SEO Tip Write short pages | just below 30KB is a good size
The shorter your page is, the fewer times you need to repeat your keyword phrase and keep the density just right. Plus, short pages load more quickly, and so your readers will appreciate it. Keep pages under 30KB in size. Split long pages into multiple pages and optimize each page.


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SEO Tips , Online Tips , Search Engine Optimisation , Online Trends , Online Tools - updated 7th Feb 2012