With Google recently launching its own URL shortening website URL shortening has made it into the trending topic of discussion among SEO professionals. Today there are several URL shortening websites with bit.ly and tinyur being the most popular ones.

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.

The Facebook and Twitter traffic boom has led all the industry run after SMM so that they can get their fair share of the SMM Pie. Now these big corporations forget that the Social Media sites are “For People” and it not a “Place” for blatant marketing. To use the social media platform you need to understand that the Social Media forums are audience focused. The Participants come here to “Socialize” and not to buy soap or some stuff.

Location sharing is the latest trend that caught on with the social networking sites with Twitter and Facebook leading the race. But the question is, how much effective it is going to be?

In the consumer world managing you data is tough, think about it this way— Marketing, It, Operation and you will have to appoint Sub –Managers under it too. So your profitable business becomes one heck of a lot complicated stuff.Here comes your SEO provider to your rescue. The face of SEO is changing….now SEO is not only just giving your clients links, but this service now includes..Managing your client’s product data and often work at an intersection of IT and Marketing infrastructure