Twitter, fast emerging as one of the most popular social networking platforms, has become the point of interest of many. Everyone on Twitter wants to take advantage of that. Well, acquiring huge followers and getting re-tweeted is not that easy as is using the Twitter. The secrets of effective tweets are as follows:

Local SEO is becoming important for small businesses with increasing need to be easily found by local customers. And with renewed features and Google Maps, Google Places has made local SEO much easier for local vendors.

Twitter users must be eagerly waiting for the new Twitter to roll out. The micro-blogging site comes loaded with new interesting features that are currently available to a small percentage of total number of users.

Bing-Yahoo merger, what was a rumor last year in 2009, is now a reality. As per the ‘Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance’ the deal encompasses “search (web, image and video), search advertising and contextual advertising”. Microsoft Bing will provide web search, video and image results to Yahoo while Yahoo will “continue to enhance the search results page”. And it is Microsoft Bing’s adCenter that is to be used for PPC advertising.