New Bloggers (as well as many who have been blogging for a long time) find it difficult not only to attract new readers , but they often lose people who could easily have become long term readers .
Any time an internet surfer either does not come to your website from a search engine , or does not spend enough time on your blog pages to browse, you lose in more than one ways.
In this post we shall share 15 Easy Ways to Bring in Visitors from Search Engines & …

Page Rank is a number assigned to any web page by a search engine that indicates the web page’s authenticity, dependability & credibility of the information.
Usually reputed websites tend to have a higher Page Rank. Google assigns a page rank number from 0 to 10, with 10 being the maximum number.
Page Ranks vary from one data center to another. A web pages page rank could also vary with time. Generally, longer the web page is in existence, higher the rank.
And better the content & the web pages association …

Personal website & blog owners may not have the money to employ costly search marketing tools to build their website’s page rank .
Pro Media Blog shares a lot of ideas & information for new bloggers & small webmasters to help set up a profitable web presence on their own. In this article, we shall share in very simple layman’s terms what influences a page rank .
Website Page Ranks are not a one time rank. They keep changing over time. Though most of the time websites have a trend …

Even though there are millions & millions of blogs on the internet today, not all are successful . When I say "successful" I do not necessarily mean successful revenue generating blog alone.
To me, a successful blog is one which attracts a lot of readers & also blogs that have a lot of participation from readers . Thats Reader Engagement to Blogs .
In this article I will highlight the Top 5 Ways to Write Blog Posts that will keep your readers interested. They are time tested recommendations to make effective …

There are numerous articles, some quite repeating the basic concepts & expectations of building your website & blog’s value in the eyes of the search engines.
The caution always is to create a strong content oriented site that attracts continuous visitors from search engines.
However, the caution is not to create content just for search engines. There are also options to make money from widgets on blogs.

Comscore has released the data for the most widely used search engines . Quoting the release:
Google Sites led the U.S. core search engine market in July 2008 with 61.9 percent of the searches conducted, up from 61.5 percent in June, followed by Yahoo! Sites (20.5 percent), Microsoft Sites (8.9 percent), Ask Network (4.5 percent), and AOL LLC (4.2 percent).
Americans conducted 11.8 billion searches at the core search engines, representing a 2-percent gain versus June. Google Sites handled nearly 7.3 billion core searches (up 2 percent), followed by …

Flash files are often used by website designers for attractive presentations. But the flash files, being rich media, was not helpful in providing keywords for search engine robots. Search engine crawlers could neither tag them as images, nor as text.
Now that changes with Adobe & Google collaborating to share the flash file technology so that Google search engine crawlers could index meaningful information from the rich media flash files.
Adobe plans to provide Google and Yahoo with its Flash Player technology in an effort to get more of the content …

Yandex is the largest search engine database in Russia. Reports point that it could be the most popular search engine used in Russia with about 44% of the Russian search engine market share.
Much like Google has become a standard word in the English dictionary meaning "search", Russians are used to "Yandex" in a much similar matter.
In fact, comScore reports that Yandex is the Number 2 search engine in Europe. Adding to the competition to Google, Yandex will go for a Nasdaq listing in the fall of 2008.

I read an excellent article by Lisa Johnson of Minnesota Council on Foundations on an initiative to allow people browsing the Internet & using search engines, to donate to their charity.
When you use GoodSearch to look up information on the Internet, you could help donate 50% of the advertising money raised by search engines, to a charity of your choice. You do not need to sign up or spend a cent. 
GoodSearch is powered by Yahoo! and the technology allows the searches to track and direct these search-generated proceeds to charities.

Ever since the battles between the various top social media networks have given media ample food to talk & write about, the webmasters’ groups have joined the battle with their own Social Media Optimization buzz.
Now we have two highly popular jargons - Search Engine Optimization (or SEO) & Social Media Optimization (or SMO).
While Search Engine Optimization relates to the various theories, principles & practices that enable a web site or blog to be indexed favorably, Social Media Optimization focuses on how to leverage the various social media networks like MySpace, …