As fate would have it, my 55 Quick SEO Tips Even Your Mother Would Love post )hint - read on for ten more bonus tips!( came out just in time for Mothers Day, so, in honor of dad and Fathers Day, here are a few tips that even dad could follow to boost the traffic on his golf or fishing blog! Again, maybe not my dad, but then, I'm nearly 53 myself )old enough to be a grandfather( and I'm writing this stuff! Don't assume that we old geezers won't get it!

While there were some reports floating around that parts of Android might not be as open source as original thought, Google has come out and made it clear: the core Android platform will be 100% open source. ZDNet confirmed with various Google employees that everything will be open r. Besides a couple exceptions, everything will use the Apache software license )ASLv2(. There are two exceptions,

Microsoft has just announced that it has reached an agreement with HP for the installation of a Live Search-enabled toolbar on all HP consumer PCs that will be launched starting 2009. Part of the said agreement involves setting the default search engine in the preloaded browser of the new HP PCs into Microsoft Live Search. Kevin Johnson,

The Wall Street Journal had a great piece on mobile marketing, " Advertisers to Consumer: We'll Text You ." Do you have any text messaging advertising plans for your business in the near future? Text messaging is a growing trend between users becoming more popular than actually calling a person, but more so interesting and great for marketers; people seem to be very receptive to text messaging. I think it is something psychologically gratifying, exciting,

I live in a private community. At every entrance of the community there is a sign which reads 'No Trespassing. No Soliciting. Private Community, Residents Only." The street in the community are private property, which means that if anyone who does not live in the community is using the streets for reasons besides visiting a resident or approved business for a resident; they are trespassing. The rules are harsh, but it keeps out the unwanted salespeople, beggars, riff raff,

Anchor text is a major ranking factor - it is hard to manipulate )at least it is getting harder now after Google started its anti-paid-links war and got really good at spotting link schemes(. Thus by exploring the anchor text of the site backlinks, you will: get an idea of the competitors' link building strategy ; understand what people think of your site; get help with your keyword research )webmasters usually focus on their most important keywords when building links(.

Nothing fancy here really. Just a little observation which I find rather amusing. While I was trying to Google the keywords - "myspace advertising", I clicked on the first search result which is a sponsored link with a heading "myspace advertising". I didn't notice the url first, so I was wondering how come the results brought me to the Facebook Advertising page? I checked again,

SMX Advanced kicks off in just two days! The conference is officially sold-out , but at Search Engine Journal Eric Lander and myself are bringing you in-depth coverage of the most important trends, topics, speakers and of course, priceless moments. As Eric previously mentioned, Search Engine Journal isn't live blogging because there are other far more attractive )no offense Loren( and talented individuals already knocking that out of the park. So, what are we doing?!

Feedburner is announcing that Adsense for feeds will finally be rolled out next week for a few selected publishers, before a full launch soon. For publishers with existing Feedburner Ad Network account, premium CPM ads will now appear alongside contextually targeted ads to fill up the rest of their ad inventory. That means you get the best of both worlds: a dedicated Google sales force that knows how and why to sell onto your content,

There's a craze sweeping the search engine marketing world, but thus far B2B marketers have been slow to catch on. In 2007, the leading general search engines )Google, Ask, Yahoo, MSN( introduced a new feature to their search engine results pages )SERPs(: blended results. Blended search )also known as universal search( presents a new opportunity for marketers, and optimizing your content to appear in blended search results is not as difficult as you may think.

Talking to many companies who are doing their search engine marketing in-house, I've noticed they are solely focused on paid search in the search engines. Sure, billions of people worldwide search the engines daily, but those people are being led to websites which many of them use content networks to monetize their sites which display relevant ads to their websites content. Let's take the Google content network for example. Thousands of sites, if not millions,

Twitter developer Alex Payne made a fairly transparent post about how Twitter is working to fix its performance issues and ongoing development work. If you love Twitter, read the entire post. Here's what stuck out the most to me : I'm constantly exploring new technologies, and I've also enjoyed working with Merb and Google App Engine for small projects recently. Hmmm' Google. Twitter. Twitter. Google. Salvation?

When Google makes a change, the entire world listens; even when its something as tiny as changing its favorite icon image . Instead of the big capital G, Google is now serving a smaller case blue g next to its URL in the navigation window of your browser : Why the switch? Possibly Google is trying a brand image change, and testing it with the favicon. You know, no longer are they the Microsoft style super BIG G, but still little google :( Do you like it?

After being in stealth mode for a year now, Yahoo suddenly offered the public a chance to take a "sneak peak" at its new software, Yahoo!BrowserPlus. From what we can gather, BrowserPlus is being touted as a tool for "extending the web" via a simple-to-execute web applications development processes. If released for public use and abuse,

Michael Dorausch has won the free pass to the SOLD OUT SMX Advanced in Seattle on June 3rd and 4th! Of the large number of people who Twittered about reasons to attend SMX Advanced, Michael's Twit was voted by 3 of 5 Search Engine Journal bloggers as their top favorites. This was a rather difficult decision by all of the people here at Search Engine Journal, as we were only given one free pass to distribute to readers,

The Obama campaign spent $3.47 million on online advertising over the course of its campaign to date, with 82% of that budget going to Google AdWords according to the FEC and statistics compiled by ClickZ . Google AdWords scored over 82 percent of money spent on online media buys for Obama's campaign this year through April. Over $2.8 million was paid to Google, according to Obama for America in its itemized FEC reports. The Obama camp spent $640,000 in January,

Recently I was contacted by a site owner who wanted to know why their site is not ranking highly on Google for certain terms, despite years of building relevant and valuable links, and wanted some tips on building better links. Excellent Backlinks, But Low Ranking I took a look at the backlinks of this site )sorry, can't mention the site to readers( and found over 400,000 backlinks from highly relevant portals, sites, blogs,

Google held its Google I/O developer conference yesterday, where it announced its Open App Engine to eager developers. As a take home, Google distributed Google IO t-shirts to those who attended the conference. The witty t-shirt was supposed to spell out Google IO in binary, but there seems to be a misprint on the shirt, spelling out Google KO.

Akamai has been around almost as long as the Internet itself, offering tracking and dynamic site solutions along with enterprise applications and streaming data. Celebrating Akamai's 10th anniversary, the company has released its State of the Internet report which outlines security flaws and hacking, DNOS attacks, offline events which influenced the flow of the Internet and broadband penetration by different countries and regions.

comScore, Inc. announced the at they are acquiring M:Metrics, Inc ., a pioneer in mobile measurement. The acquisition, according to comScore, will will make the company the " immediate leader in measuring the emerging and strategically important mobile Internet market and adds to comScore's leading position in measuring PC-based Internet usage. " The sale of M:Metrics includes a cash payment of $44.3 million and the issuance of approximately 50,