Articles are a great way to obtain a one way back link to your site. Have a look below for the article directories; Addme Webpronews Bpubs Articleworld.Org Articlebiz Allfreelancework Blogwidow Powerhomebiz Freesticky Wwwcoder Articlefinders Anyarticles Selfseo Webmasterslibrary Bharatbhasha Homebiztools Hotlib Jogena Organic-Rankings Workoninternet Tigrafix Virtual-Professionals Ebooksnbytes Articles.Pointshop Articleshaven Article-About Articlehub Articlesmagazine Freezinesite Linksnoop Exchangenet Httparticles Articlepros Articleshouse Awebhostingprovider Linkgrinder Articleplus Morganarticlearchive Ananga Smallbusinessoutpost Commonconnections Connectionteam Businessknowhow Clearviewpublications Eqqu Articlehub Pressarticle Articlebunch Everydayarticles Superarchives Article-Spot Fresh-Articles Article-Grinder Articlepoint Articlesbay Excellentguide Weeklytips Smallbizarticles Businesstoolchest Family-Content Michelledunn Freezine-Articles Ezinefinder Marketingtroll Articlejunction

Blog is way to publish your content on a daily basis. There are a lot of providers which allows users to create there blog for free and publish their content. The following are the top 5 blog service providers, Blogger (from Google) Wordpress MySpace TypePad

The LIVE Search has just updated their feature of the Live Search Maps . The Live Search Maps now features some great enhancements to the existing Live Search Maps. Live search features the following in their new update for the Live Search Maps. Live Search Map Features New Imagery Weather Integration Localized Maps Near-Matching Capabilities Landmark-Based Routing Rich Imagery For Mobile Users For more Information visit: Live Search Maps

Press Release are defined as newsworthy articles intended to be published in the media for the purpose of showcasing the company's activities to the public. The following top press release sites are worth noticing; PR Web Direct - allows users to maximize their online distribution through PRWeb by taking advantage of the expertise of the PRWeb staff in submitting, scheduling and optimizing distribution. Google PR - 6 Alexa Score - 68,419 Compete Rank - 43,732 PR Leap - PR Leap is a simple and affordable online press release distribution service. Google PR - 6 Alexa Score - 48,340 Compete Rank - 18,087 1888 Press Release - allows to distribute releases to search engines, newswires and websites to help increase awareness of your product, company, or self for free. Google PR - 5 Alexa Score - 58,520 Compete Rank - 21,724 ClickPress - Once news submitted to ClickPress has been approved it is available not only to visitors to our site, but also to major web and news search

The frequency in literal terms shows the number of times that particular thing is repeated, in simple words the amount of time you have done a particular task. When we talk about Blogs, and Blogging; the frequency of the posts matter a lot. Say for example a person is regular and is posting thrice a month, and on the other hand another person is also regular and is posting 15 times a month. Obviously the first person will have 36 posts at the end of the year, while the other will have 180. So now you only decide that if a visitor comes to your blog and finds the same information for about a month, where as if another visitor is visiting the later blog and finding it more fresh and more new content, so there are likely the chances for him to visit that blog in near future also. And thus making the blog a success (other factors taken into consideration like, the quality of the post etc).

Blogosphere is a collective term encompassing all blogs and their interconnections. It is the perception that blogs exist together as a connected community (or as a collection of connected communities) or as a social network. In simple terms it can be said as a, "World of Blogs"

Driving traffic towards your website is the major source of getting Online Business. Not only that you get lot more benefits and online marketing if the visitor comes and do some business online. You get a lot of publicity online, including the enhancement of your brand, via that traffic. But it looks weird if your website is new(in some cases) or even though it's old but you are not able to achieve the desired traffic and/or business. So from where the competitors are getting traffic, and how to analyze that traffic. The answer to this lies in the question being put below. How to know from where your Competitor's are getting the traffic? There are a lot of Online Traffic Estimators, which help in analyzing the, Traffic Estimate Compete QuantCast These Traffic Estimators, estimate the monthly traffic of a site (only U.S. traffic). Now try these traffic estimators and see what numbers you get. As the searchs shows the traffic estimates for US only, so you can take the following

Now here is the another search engine which comes into picture.

Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo the extremely informative Search Engine, is the major competitor/threat to Google. Yahoo provides extremely vast services and is the number one in many fields. Yahoo is the initiator/innovator in many services they offer. The post describes the services provided by Yahoo! from Internet Marketing to everything related to information required by the user.

Google, the BIG - G The major player in the internet marketing business. Google has changed the picture the web looks. It has enhanced the features and modified the web to match the user queries. As of today Google is the King. Every body just loves to Googles. GOOGLING and GOOGLING is every where. I have listed some of the most popular services Google features, and they are listed as under: GOOGLE WEBMASTERS TOOLS Google's Webmaster Tools, the heart of the website's optimization. The Webmaster tools are the major source of information about the performance of your website in GOOGLE Search Engine, and to know the website's performance in Google. Not only this, know how Google crawls and indexes your website, Know the specific problems the Google Bot encountered while crawling your website, Analyze and Classify the traffic, by keeping the track of the internal and external links to your site, Inform Google, more about the structure and the important pages of your site, by su

WEBSITE TRANSLATOR Now Microsoft again, and this time it's something very new and exciting and user friendly. Microsoft has launched the Web Page Translator service, by the Microsoft Translator technology which is available through Live Search, as well as IE8, the Windows Live Toolbar, and even a translation bot for Windows Live Messenger. Check it out The Windows Live Messenger can also translate your chat to the respective language. This is how they do that: Add the email mtbot @ hotmail . com (remove the spaces in between) to your contacts and start chatting away. Just enjoy the feature, and have the pleasure in chatting in different languages. Currently the following translations can be done from English to: Arabic Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional Dutch French German Italian Japanese Korean Portuguese Russian (Russian to English only) Spanish Chinese Simplified to/from Chinese Traditional What are you waiting for, get it checked yourself!

We all talk about Website Optimization, Internet Marketing and/or Search Engine Optimization. But it's always beneficial to start it from the very beginning when you are developing your website. They say, that the "Foundation to be strong, then the building will automatically be strong" - by Unknown. Proceeding in the similar fashion, I have listed 5 important things to be considered for Optimization of websites. 1) DOMAIN NAME: The first and the foremost thing to be considered for the optimization of the website is the domain name. The Domain name should highlight the name and the theme of the business. It's always good to have the business specific keywords in the domain. That is not necessary but from SEO point of view it's recommended. 2) KEYWORDS FINALIZATION: Choose business specific keywords. They should completely go in accordance with the business and should portray exact information about the business. The relevant keywords are the major source of info

PAGE RANK is the method, that Google assigns to a web page not only on the number of links pointing to a website, but the quality of websites providing links, including few other factors. Page rank gives a unique ranking to every page on the internet. The post depicts Page Rank Checking Tools. Page Rank Look Up From the website - Google Page Rank is a general representation of a website's popularity; it is primarily based on link popularity. Websites with a high Page Rank value will tend to have more traffic and higher positions in search engines (although many other factors are also taken into consideration). Remarks - The tool is good and provides accurate information about the website. But it's a bit cumbersome to provide the numerals in the box before getting to know about the page rank. The tool does provide the method to check at the max, of 100 URL's at the same time, but not above 100. Free Page Rank Checking Tool From the website - Page Rank is a grade that Goog

Directories are an easy way to obtain a backlink to your website. Directories provide a major way to market your website including the relevant traffic and hence business. If the website is submitted in an appropriate category, then there is a good chance of getting quality traffic with great business, for you. Here I am listing the top 10 Web Directories worth submitting for. DMOZ - Help build the most comprehensive human-reviewed directory of the web. Submit your website in DMOZ Cost - Free | Domain Age - 10 years | Page Rank - 8 | Alexa Score - 2,127 | Compete Score - 1,171 Backlinks from Google - 9,740 | Delicious Bookmarks for this Directory - 6,153 | DMOZ entires for this domain - 337 | Yahoo Directory links pointing to this website - 7 | BOTW entries pointing to this website - 10 | Wikipedia articles linking to this domain - 126 Indexed Pages Google - 5,300,000 | Indexed Pages Yahoo - 2,468,820 | Indexed Pages MSN - 922,000 Remarks - YAHOO! DIRECTORY - The firs

SEO Tools, forms the basis of any Search Engine Optimization and/or Website Optimization. The idea of this blog post is to combine various SEO tools, Internet Marketing Tools and Webmaster Tools in one place and help webmasters to build a successfull website. We are listing the top 10 Internet Marketing Tools from various online resources, to make to choose from the list. We hope that you will find the information beneficial to your website. Cloaking Tool Dead Link Tool Reciprocal Link Tool Domain Age Tool Page Rank Checker Tools Posted at: SEO Blog

Now it's the turn of Google to launch something new. As predicted Google this time also entered into a new field. This time we have a GOOGLE Browser, called Google Chrome . Download your copy and get started today. The Google's browser Chrome is fast, shiny, and requires users to sign their very lives over to Google before they can use it. But there are some clauses attached with Google's Chrome. I thought of writing it, but found a good article on the internet saying the Google's Chrome EULA. That's really informative. Google on Chrome EULA Controversy : our bad we'll change it . Posted at: SEO Blog

The Top-3 Search Engines are undergoing major changes these days. It may be in terms of functionality, like Yahoo did for Breaking Search Results , Google launched Knols or in terms of graphical interface, where Yahoo came up with the New Yahoo Site Explorer , check out for more updates here . Every one wants to be the number one here. Now MSN came up with the new interface for Live Search . It looks like below. The Live Search will show a background image that will change frequently, including "hotspots." They have invented something called as "HOTSPOTS" which are the interactive areas highlighting the parts of the image and help in exploring search results related to the highlighted area. In this home page, which is currently available in US (with Hotspots) the background home page images will change regularly. Hotspots appear as the page loads and then fades into the image, which appears again by moving mouse over them, revealing details about the image and a li

Cloaking is the process of the website URL, showing one page to a search engine spider and a different page to a human visitor. It is primarily used to show an optimized page to the search engine spider. This is an unethical SEO Technique and Search Engine penalizes the website, if they find cloaking in a website. Top 10 Cloaking Tools 1) Simple Cloak Check This is a pretty simple tool to look for cloaking in a website. The Tool Features: This cloak checker tool shows the document lenght to Google Bot to Browser, and this is what they say about their tool; If the document length for each user-agent type is different, then that is a good indication that the page is checking for the user-agent and displaying different content. Cloaking does not always mean is site is trying to trick a search engine robot, sites may cloak their site for different browsers, depending on what technologies they support. Remarks: I like that and gives an overall view other than showing the code of the web