Webmasters often ask us at conferences or in the Webmaster Help Group, "What are some simple ways that I can improve my website's performance in Google?" There are lots of possible answers to this question, and a wealth of search engine optimization information on the web, so much that it can be intimidating for newer webmasters or those unfamiliar with the topic. We thought it'd be useful to create a compact guide that lists some best practices that teams within Google and external webmasters alike can follow that could improve their sites' crawlability and indexing.

Ultimate Guide to use Digg for bloggers. Get insane amount of traffic, increase your readership, and get your blog a new reputation. Every blogger want to be successful, or as I like to say every blogger have a vision for success. Success is very subjective. For a blogger it can mean a lot of subscribers, tons of traffic, a lot of quality articles etc etc. To achieve any vision of success, bloggers give digg a try. Now whether they succeed or not is out of a question, but they give it a try. Now I talked to a few people, they didn't know how to function digg. A lot of people are clueless on how else you can use digg other than promoting your own article. So I will give you guys a brief overview of what is digg, and how a blogger can make use of it.

I'm making an effort to become less reliant on visiting websites for the data I need. Spending a majority of my time in Google Reader, I decided RSS could help me accomplish this task. I no longer have to visit Yahoo to read my horoscopes or sports scores. I now track my Ebay auctions from Google Reader. These are some of the ways I started to recently use and rediscover RSS. This post touches on 30 different ways RSS can be used.

In recent months it's become apparent that a lot of people find themselves overwhelmed by too much information. Subscribe to too many RSS feeds and follow too many people of Twitter and FriendFeed and suddenly you find yourself struggling to keep up with what is mostly irrelevant nonsense. Louis Gray wrote a commonsense post on his blog this weekend: "You Control Your Noise Velocity". Louis' straightforward point is that rather than complain about too much noise, you should just make sure you only subscribe to as much as you feel comfortable with.

Thomas Nelson CEO Michael Hyatt's musings on personal productivity, life balance, book publishing, WOW experiences, and inspirational leadership. On Saturday, I posted Four Surprising Conclusions About Author Websites. Yesterday, I posted on Why Every Author Needs a Powerful Online Presence. Today I want to address the how of building your author brand online.

Welcome to the thirteenth edition of email marketing tips on November 10, 2008. This week's edition comes to you two days early. Better than late,… What do you think? My favorite article this week has been written by Yaro Starak, who explains to us how he profited big time from better targeting the message to his readers. Improving the conversion rate of your email campaigns is almost like free money. It's amazing, but over time you can give yourself a great pay raise. One that your boss - if you still have a boss - could and would never give you.

It always amazes me how many bloggers insert unoptimized images in their posts. As a result thereof, their home page, which often contains a couple of posts, sometimes in full length, loads slow or not at all. I get many questions about the latter. Almost always the load time of a home page can be improved right away by optimizing the images. That requires some extra work though. And extra time. But at least your visitors don't click away because your page takes way too long to load. So, if you want to use an image in your posts, optimize it first.

"No one can become a master salesperson if they compromise false-hood. Even if no one ever catches them red-handed in expressing what they do not believe, their words will fail in the accomplishment of their purpose because a person cannot give their words "flesh" if they do not come from the heart, and if they are not mixed with genuine, unadulterated Enthusiasm." The Law of Success By Napoleon Hill~ Chapter on Enthusiasm

"This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands." Barack Obama

"When Failure is just not an option, what better motivation is there to succeed?" Donny Deutsch

"Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called failures are only temporary defeats" By Napoleon Hill

I stumbled across a debate going on about personal branding, started by Geoff Livingston of The Buzz Bin a few days ago with his blog post I Don't Care About Your Personal Brand.

Tabbloid is a free web based service designed to turn RSS feeds into a PDF newspaper. The web site requires no registration and the process is straight forward. Single or multiple RSS feeds can serve as the source for your PDF. You can opt to have the site compile the PDF immediately or delivery it by email at a future date based on hourly, daily or weekly frequency. In the dozen test feeds I threw at Tabbloid the service performed as advertised, however a few of the feeds generated a glitch that caused the articles to appear in duplicate within the PDF. For another method of converting RSS feeds to PDFs, check out RSS 2 PDF.

Whether you're attending an event or want to follow one from afar, one of the most useful tools is Twitter, the 140-characters-or-fewer messaging service.

Sometimes it seems like the social media world is divorced from the business world. Sure, there are small Web 2.0 companies that embrace everything, and there are companies like Oracle that present a social media face to us, but there still seems to be an invisible barrier between the social media world and the world of real work. So I was somewhat surprised to see this headline: Twitter Tools To Turbo Charge Your Microblogging The headline itself isn't what surprised me - it was the fact that the headline appeared in InformationWeek.

Flickrfolio creates professional looking portfolios using your images from flickr.com.

I know everyone is talking about commenting on other blogs as a marketing strategy, and I have to agree. Blog commenting would have to be one of the easiest ways to gain new and constant traffic to your blog.\n\nI personally have used it as my primary method of building traffic to this blog. But other than traffic what are the benefits of communication with other bloggers? Surely there must be more to networking with your fellow bloggers than just to see them visit your blog.

I visit a lot of blogs every day and am always coming across new ones with amazing designs. Which gave me the thought that, with blog design being such an important element of the blogging process, why don't I spend some time searching out some of the most creative blogs to provide some inspiration for those looking to design a new theme for their blog, or even those who just want to take a peak at whats on offer. There were so many wonderful designs and I could have quite easily made this a top 100 or even 200, but I only wanted to display what I saw as the most creative blog designs out at the moment. So here are 50 of the most creative blog designs around! (In no particular order)…

I've used Delicious for a long time to manage my Web bookmarks. It was easy to use, accessible from any browser, and worked well with Firefox. For all my needs, it was a great bookmarking service. Then I found Diigo, and suddenly Delicious didn't look so good anymore. Diigo is another social bookmarking service (and one we've covered before), offering all of Delicious' relevant features and much more. I left Delicious, and haven't ever looked back. There are a lot of things I love about Diigo, but there are seven features that sold me on using Diigo for all my bookmarking needs. These are all in addition to the features I deem non-negotiable for social bookmarking sites- tagging, Firefox extensions, looking at popular bookmarks, etc.

Small business blogging and internet marketing tips from a blogging expert.