I had the opportunity to check out a neat micro-blogging tracker site today called Dipity . It offers users a pretty cool way to keep track of what's being said about many topics, as well as what others are following via the Social Media space in a very nice visual layout. There are many ways to follow others in their system whether you use RSS, Twitter, Flickr, and a host of other ways to integrate mainstream Social Media platforms into their system.

As many of you may already know, Google has officially launched its keyword suggestion tool as of yesterday. The keyword phrase suggestion tool acts very similar to what people are accustomed to seeing for over 13 months at Yahoo! where as you type in phrases in the search box, down drops keyword phrase suggestions that allow you as a user to select a targeted phrase from the list as opposed to typing in all the phrases for the search. Pretty cool, right? Well,

I wanted to let everyone know how happy we are with a new addition to our staff. Angela Moore has joined us as Director of Link Development, a position that we built around her significant experience and skills. She'll be managing a team and will really broaden the scope of our link building services . We have already seen great things and expect that to continue. Here's the release . Angela is also a mod at SEW Forums and is already a veteran blogger ,

I talk a lot about crawling and indexing )to the point that we have a dedicated category (, but I think it's worthwhile to back up and describe some of what's going on. The terms crawling and indexing )and indexing's cousin, caching ( are frequently used together, but you should not consider them synonyms. Exact definitions probably differ from person to person,

Here at Intrapromote, we are constantly reading industry articles and books and discussing them as a team.

I may be late in seeing this, but I recently noticed Google is sporting a new Cache file look for sites.

Another cool tool ) Omgili ( to aid reputation management specialists in finding a plethora of sites that are potentially influencing their clients brands online. I took the site for a test drive today and found a good number of sites that represented one of my clients. You can now monitor a large number of discussion/review sites in one fail swoop and look like a champ to your clients. Omgili describes itself as "a way to find "subjective information".

Recently Google Adwords released automatic matching beta. This is a very brave approach to take with advertisers considering Google automatically opts your account into the program. Account holders will receive the message that their account has been opted into the program. Depending on Google to choose related keywords for your ad to display on related search terms removes optimal short term management control of your campaigns.

I've run across a few Javascript redirects lately, so I thought I would share a quick reminder with everyone. If you use a Javascript redirect vs. a 301 or 302 , don't forget that search engines generally cannot access Javascript, so it's likely that the search engine spider will not follow or index links within the Javascript. It's also very risky business according to Google. From Google Webmaster Help Center: "When a redirect link is embedded in Javascript,

In a post last night entitled " Improved Flash Indexing ," the Google Webmaster Tools blog reports that We've improved our ability to index textual content in SWF files of all kinds. This includes Flash "gadgets" such as buttons or menus, self-contained Flash websites, and everything in between. ... In addition to finding and indexing the textual content in Flash files, we're also discovering URLs that appear in Flash files,

Google's Prashanth Koppula wrote a ready-to-bookmark post over at the official Webmaster Tools blog, showing tons of different robots-exclusion protocol )REP( directives that can be implemented in various ways. Following is a listing of directives discussed and the methods of implementation: Directives for the robots.

On this Friday before the long Memorial Day weekend, I thought I would share something very smart that a client recently said to me and a group of his colleagues. In a nutshell, the discussion was about potentially rewriting dynamic URLs . He said: "One thing we can't forget is that URLs are marketing assets ....they matter ....they need to be friendly to both users and search engines." For a moment, I felt like I was at Progressive Field ,

Here's a quick case study in how social media sites )more important, the conversations going on at social media sites( are enabling companies to interact with and respond to their users. Here's the rough chronology. I may have missed some letters in the middle, but points A and Z are pretty accurate. Melissa Chang runs a blog on her own domain, using the Tumblr platform. )For the uninitiated, Tumblr is roughly similar to Blogger or Wordpress,

In a recent interview with Top SEOs , I was asked a question about the continuously changing SEO environment. I replied, "I believe there are some foundational things about Search Engine Optimization that have not changed much over the last 10 years. Staying true to some of these core, foundational concepts of best practices SEO has played a significant role in the success of Intrapromote." I encountered a very good example of this while reviewing one of our client campaigns.

Here I am on a beautiful Tuesday afternoon doing some searching on Yahoo! )this doesn't happen too often I might add( and what is this I see???? A WARNING from Yahoo! telling me the following in bolded red letters at the top of page three of the SERP's "1 potentially harmful website is marked on this page." Hmmm... I began scrolling down the page and find the following immersed in natural search results: This is the first I've seen of it's kind and have a feeling Yahoo!

Just when it seemed the twain might soon be making their way down the aisle, arm-in-arm, the mere spectre of Google is enough to call of the nuptials: Mashable has the goods, including Balmer's e-mail that is really more about Google than Yahoo: We regard with particular concern your apparent planning to respond to a "hostile" bid by pursuing a new arrangement that would involve or lead to the outsourcing to Google of key paid Internet search terms offered by Yahoo! today.

In 2005 )as reported by Search Engine Journal (, Google applied for a patent called " Results based personalization of advertisements in a search engine ." Part of the patent abstract reads as follows: The search results are personalized based on a user profile of the user providing the query. The user profile describes interests of the user, and can be derived from a variety of sources, including prior search queries , prior search results, expressed interests, demographic,

A little over a month ago, I wrote about Google showing robots-excluded URLs as Sitelinks . Here's a shot of what Google showed for the query [seo speedwagon] in mid-March: The ip login link was )and is( excluded via robots.txt. A month prior )in February(, a link to one of our monthly archives - a page with the robots "noindex" meta tag - appeared as a Sitelink also. Since then, the SERP has been cleaned up. I use the passive voice because I don't exactly know who to thank.

Below are the results from Day 1 of the 2008 NCAA Tournament. The Wagon scored 100% in 62% of the games! Stay tuned for Day 2 locks. • WRONG - 5 Notre Dame University LOSES TO 12 George Mason University based on pages. • RIGHT - 4 Washington State University BEATS 13 Winthrop University based on AD presence. • WRONG - 1 University of Kansas LOSES TO 16 Portland State University based on AD presence. • RIGHT - 8 University of Nevada,

Introducing brands today is much the same as it has always been: Advertisers give people what they want. People want to talk about their brand experiences, and share and compare their experiences with peers. This desire has given birth to myriad branded social networks, such as the new PepsiUniverse , the Toyota Hybrid Community and Adidas Teamsugar . Consumer generated brand buzz is an extension of what people do naturally: Tell stories to their friends.