While it obviously was not the smartest way to get people to share information about Microsoft’s Japan disaster support page, the reaction actually shows what they were trying to achieve. Twitter needs some motivation to get a tweet to go viral or be passed around by a large number of users. Microsoft wanted to get as many people as possible sending out their support page information – a page dedicated to helping people seeking information about the earthquake and tsunami

Most of us know that while the search engines no longer consider the meta description in their ranking factors, this element of your page is still important in getting traffic to your site. How Meta Descriptions are used on Search Engines and Social Media

So you had your site running for some time now and ready for the next leap? That’s right you know what I mean – Opening a guest blogging opportunity for other bloggers to write guest posts on your site and take your blog to a whole new level with a third-person’s perspective and giving it a fresh feel to your regular readers I don’t further need to tell you the effectiveness of guest blogging let us get down to the most important thing that comes bundled with a guest blogging opportunity – your sites security! Yes! If you thought that a harmless looking ‘I want to submit a guest post in your site’ is the beginning of it, then I hate to tell you that it might even be the ending of it all unfortunately! > > > So Let Us Get Down To Evaluating What We Are Battling

Rumors swirled around the launching of Google’s social platform at SXSW last weekend, but ultimately the product now supposedly named ‘Google Circles’ was a no show and the launch is now possibly slated for May, the Next Web reported . The former ‘Google Me’ has been hotly awaited and the social interactive South By Southwest seemed like a great place to launch, but rumors were nixed by Google. As ReadWriteWeb posted : “We believe that Google will preview a major new social service called Google Circles at South by Southwest Interactive today

Search Engine Land has long been chronicling Google Doodles, the special logos the company produces to celebrate a wide variety of occasions. So, of course, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to hear the stories behind the Doodles, when Doodle team creative lead Ryan Germick, along with user…

StumbleUpon has just launched a new ad platform that it’s targeting toward brand advertisers.

Posted by willcritchlow Over the next two weeks, I’m speaking at our Advanced Link Building conference in London (18th March)

There’s lots of buzzing and posting this morning based on a couple of tweets from Tim O’Reilly and Steve Case. They state that “Google Circles” (which is “awesome”) is going to launch “possibly today.” ReadWriteWeb has a lengthy discussion of the…

Google has captured a bunch of new satellite imagery that shows the devastation of the 8.9 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. You can see those images in Picasa or on Google Earth with a KML file (Japan Earthquake and Tsunami)

Below is live coverage of the The Spam Police panel from the SMX West 2011 conference. This coverage is provided by Barry Schwartz of RustyBrick and Brian Ussery aka beussery. Disclaimer: The coverage is brought to you in real time..