Here Nick Stamoulis goes through the steps for adding your business into Google Local )Google Maps( and these tips to better your local search engine optimization efforts. Do not forget to subscribe to our Brick Marketing SEO YouTube Channel and check back each week for new tips and information.

Spend just a little bit of time in an Search Engine Optimization forum and you're bound to hear someone talking about link bait - what it is, how do you do it, why it's important, when it's necessary, etc. etc. Well, there is link bait hype and then there is link bait tripe. But either way, link bait doesn't have to be difficult. You don't have to spend countless hours coming up with new and creative ways to get the blog next door to link to you.

Jane Copeland wrote an interesting blog post about StumbleUpon traffic . I like what she has to say and I didn't know that StumbleUpon revisited a website more than once. That's good to know. While StumbleUpon doesn't give Search Engine Optimization link juice, it can increase your chances of getting link juice if you play it right. What you want is to encourage others to link to you, but how do you do that?

I just received an interesting notice in the mail from Domain Registry of America . It was real easy for me to identify these schmucks as scam artists, but the average consumer may not find it so easy. In the top right corner of the mailing are the words "Domain Name Expiration Notice." Then, below that, there is an 800 number and a web address )www.droa.com(. It's an official looking letter and arrives in an official looking envelope and a return envelope,

I like reading Kalena's Dumbass of the Week blog posts . They're always entertaining and usually feature a real dumbass - someone who is a dumbass and doesn't know it type of dumbass. In her latest post, however, Kalena's dumbass actually turns out to be a dumbass who finds out just how dumb he really is after being outed by the Dumbass Identifier Queen herself. I must admit, though,

It never dawned me until I read this , but Microsoft's interest in Yahoo! could be local. As far as local yellow page providers go, Yellowpages.com doesn't provide any more advantage to Microsoft than Superpages does. Greg Sterling is right about that. But take a look at his update: Update: Now that Ingenio is part of YellowPages.com, which I wasn't thinking about in writing the above, there may be another angle here. Ingenio actually could benefit MSN,

)Source( Here's what I mean " let's say that on your website's homepage, you have two links to your blog. The first link is in the top level navigation, and the anchor text is "blog." The second link is in the body of the homepage and reads "celebrity news blog.

After four years of photo sharing success, Flickr has finally decided to announce the debut of video sharing . Supposedly, this is to take place some time in April. That could be in as few as 16 days or it could be in as much as 46. Unless something comes up that pushes the date back. As pointed at by Paul Glazowski, Flickr has been talking about video sharing for a while now and we've just been waiting. Now it's here, or soon to be,

Back in the old days, when walking to school was uphill both ways, forums were a great source of inbound links for a website. You could visit several forums a day and leave several posts at each forum and be credited with an inbound link at every one. That seems to have gone by the wayside these days as most forums now nofollow all their links. But not all forums do, which is the point of my post for this morning.

When it comes to the Search Engine Optimization of photos, the content surrounding the photos is as important as the alt attribute in the img src tag. Yes, the alt tag is important, but it's not the only thing the search engines look at. They also look at the content on the page. There are really two ways to style a photo - three if you consider putting the photo in an enclosed table or iframe.

If you're wondering whether Google Analytics is a tool you can use for Search Engine Optimization, trust me, it is. And if you get half a chance then you should attend the Google Analytics training seminar. Analytics is not just about tracking PPC conversions. That's a part of it, to be sure. But analytics also allows you to track your visitors to see where they come from, where they go once they're on your site, how long they stay, which links the click, and so on.

Well, we all know there's a woman behind every successful man. But even more importantly, there's a woman behind, in front of, in the mind of, or somewhere around a fallen man. Just talk to Elliot Spitzer. He'll tell you. Ashley Alexandra Dupre may have charged too much for assisting a man to lose his prominent position, but look at the bright side - Monica didn't charge a dime and all she got was some stinky cigar. Poor Willy.

SEO Book , just this morning, mused about the fall in PageRank of a respected directory, JoeAnt . The directory evidently fell in PageRank, to a 3. It's not surprising, really. You have to pay to be listed in JoeAnt, which means your link is a paid link and we all know how Google feels about those. DMOZ, on the other hand, still gets a nod of respect from Google. Even though Google no longer needs data from DMOZ in order to index websites,

Stay in a search chat room or forum long enough and the conversation is sure to turn to TLDs. Does it matter which TLD you have? If you are a newbie and don't know what a TLD is, it stands for top level domain. Those are the .com, .net, .org, etc. There are hundreds of them and many are specific to certain countries. For instance, co.uk is for websites that operate in the UK, .ca stands for Canada, .au is Australia. Obviously, if you have a country-specific domain name,

Here is the second video of our weekly Search Engine Optimization video series. This is another starting video for those who are interested in indexing their website in the three major search engines. We will be covering various SEO techniques and tips in the upcoming weeks so subscribe to our YouTube channel today!

Most webmasters will inadvertently break one of the search engines' guidelines at some point. What should you do if you receive a notice that you have violated one of Google's webmaster guidelines ? First, you should know that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of the cure. Be familiar with the guidelines before you start building your website. You don't have to memorize them. That's why they're posted online for all to see. But as you are building your website,

It seems that one way to get links to your website or blog is to create a widget. This is the going thing now and a lot of people are doing it. But are we overdoing it? I mean, will we soon reach a point to where we are over-widgetized? That is, will the widget market be saturated? Will web surfers get tired of all these widgets and finally just decide not to use widgets at all? There is no shortage of places online where you can go to create your own widgets.

So you've decided that you need to start a blog. Everyone else has one. The competition has two. You think they're cool )now that you know what they are( and you'd like to start one. Is it good for SEO? The real answer is, Yes, blogging is good for SEO - if you do it right. If you don't do it right then it can water down your SEO. Here's what I mean. First, the two types of blogs for SEO: On Site and Off Site.

What is the most important thing for webmasters to focus on? It is Search Engine Optimization, social media marketing, blogging, article marketing, pay per clicking advertising, directory submissions? In my view, the most important thing to be doing is none of those. Rather, the most important thing for all webmasters serious about making money online is tracking. You really need to track your visitors, clicks, conversions, and other key data.

Rupert Murdoch isn't interested in Yahoo! To Screenwerk , that means Yahoo! is destined to become a part of Microsoft: This probably means that they couldn't make the numbers work. And it also means AOL is really all that's left for Yahoo! " and that's doubtful for several reasons. A Microsoft acquisition now has the feeling of inevitability. While I would say that this certainly makes the Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo! more likely,