What is a Good hyperlink?

A good text link needs to be surrounded by other keywords and to be clearly visible for the reader. From SEO point of view it is important to have a good anchor text pointing to somebody`s website. This is how a website gets a vote from you for a specific keyword phrase.

For eg. "For excellent examples of good photoshop tutorials hypertext look no further than teachtutorials.com, online photoshop tutorials resource"

Also, which URL do you think it is correct?

http://www.mysite.com
http://www.mysite.com/
http://www.mysite.com/index
http://www.mysite.com/index.html
http://mysite.com
http://mysite.com/
http://mysite.com/index
http://mysite.com/index.html

Let`s have a talk about it.

Top 20 social networking websites in 2008

1. Blogger (222 million)
2. Facebook (200 million)
3. MySpace (126 million)
4. Wordpress (114 million)
5. Windows Live Spaces (87 million)
6. Yahoo Geocities (69 million)
7. Flickr (64 million)
8. hi5 (58 million)
9. Orkut (46 million)
10. Six Apart (46 million)
11. Baidu Space (40 million)
12. Friendster (31 million)
13. 56.com (29 million)
14. Webs.com (24 million)
15. Bebo (24 million)
16. Scribd (23 million)
17. Lycos Tripod (23 million)
18. Tagged (22 million)
19. imeem (22 million)
20. Netlog (21 million)

[credits to Comscore]

Facebook beats Myspace
According to Comscore, Facebook pulled in 123.9 million unique visitors and 114.6 billion page views in May beating Myspace.com's 114.6 million unique visitors and 45.4 billion page views.

Free SEO Suggestion Tools

Hello readers and Happy New year!

Let`s talk a little bit about the power of keyword suggestions tool in your search engine optimization. Here are two powerful SEO tools: Google Suggest and Youtube suggestion.

I`ll give you some tips on how you should choose your keywords for your website, the most searched keywords for your chosen field of expertise.

Say you are offering 'photoshop tutorials' you can get this keyword expansion:

Google Suggest

































Youtube suggestion:

































what is next? use it in your webpage in your title, an h1 at the top of the page tag, inside an anchor text and also spread the keywords among your content.

Most popular google searches in 2008

At the end of year 2008 looking back we had many captivating and memorable events like: Beijing Olympics, US Presidential Elections and one of the most important Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.

Google most searched keywords in 2008 (Global) according to Google Zeitgeist:

1. sarah palin
2. beijing 2008
3. facebook login
4. tuenti
5. heath ledger
6. obama
7. nasza klasa
8. wer kennt wen
9. euro 2008
10. jonas brothers

Happy New Year everybody! See you in 2009!

Mobile Internet Search Providers

According to Nielsenmobile.com here is a Top 3 for Q1 2008 by Provider Share:

1. Google (61%)
2. Yahoo! (18%)
3. MSN (5%)

















- 65% of Google search users and 63% of Yahoo! searchers are male.
- 44% of Google users rate their satisfaction with mobile Internet search between 8 to 10 on a 10-point scale, compared to 40% of Yahoo! searchers.

(source: Nielsenmobile.com)