Social bookmarking has become a major/minor strategy for some SEO optimizers.

Why do I need another bookmarking tool?!?

I already have IE & FireFox collectible all these things for me, plus URLs saved who knows where.

Del.icio.us has been around for ages (in internet terms), why create another password and such.
Once you get your head around it, it becomes a simple and easy to use tool that you can simply post from you browser.
Best of all for anyone getting creative with RSS feeds, tags can be created for groups of site and distributed who knows where ... potential here
Example:
Here are a few SEO links I have (more to come). Notice the RSS icon where one can feed out the entries to blog postings and such

Recent announcement from Joomla CMS (Jan 22/08) for Joomla 1.5.

Excellent templates for the 1.x version, but not much for ver 1.5 ... yet!

We'll see what examples come up in the DP Forums for Joomla 1.5 templates

Quick search in Google comes up with FREE templates from the following site:
http://www.siteground.com/joomla-hosting/joomla-templates.htm

Yahoo rejects Microsofts $44M bid - Yahoooo!

Yahoo's board is considering the radical move of outsourcing the company's search advertising business to Google

On to YABS (Yet another bookmarking service)

What if you could bookmark all your websites and provide an RSS feed for others to view? Potential here.
What if you could also 'TAG' the site with keyword related to the content - promising as well.
Various online social bookmarking service out there (we'll get to that later as well)
How about Yahoo MyWeb 2.0
- Save your bookmarks in one place
- Share and tag your bookmarks for others to see
- SEO potential?

A recent review from PCMagazine here ...
Technorati Profile

Tip - place your sitemap.xml file in your robots.txt file

All search crawlers recognize robots.txt, so it seemed like a good idea to use that mechanism to allow webmasters to share their Sitemaps. You agreed and encouraged us to allow robots.txt discovery of Sitemaps on our suggestion board. We took the idea to Google and Microsoft and are happy to announce today that you can now find your sitemaps in a uniform way across all participating engines. To do this, simply add the following line to your robots.txt file:

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

Learn more ...
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000437.html/

Scratching my head on XML sitemaps again. Yes I've written them before, but now am writing a little script to automate the process. (Remember ... it's all about automation & making your life easier)

What it is?

A Google sitemap is a file which contains URLs and some additional information for all public pages or documents of your website.

So here's a quick update, a so called 'cheat cheet' for Google sitemaps. These links should get you started in the right direction.

Make sure you have a Google Webmaster Tools account

Here's a recent FAQ post from Google Webmaster blog on sitemaps
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/01/sitemaps-faqs.html

Sitemap protocol
http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php

Validating your XML sitemap
http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv

Nice & simple class for creating xml sitemaps with PHP
http://www.idealog.us/2006/09/php_class_for_c.html

Gracias!

Wonder if Microsoft had Yahoo has an entry in their dynamic CRM system?

View presentation ...

More about dynamic CRM w/ Outlook

Simple rules for website developers building performance based websites.
Why build a shopping cart e-commerce website that takes forever to load?

Caching, bandwidth issues, HTTP requests, script execution & more ...

Why is my page slow?
YSlow

"At Yahoo, our users are #1"

Want to scratch my back for a buck?

How many of you out there with a blog or blogs out there?

Seen any money from AdSense?

Not much will be seen from personal blogs in this area unless your traffic is out of this world

Why not sell some links?

With Scratchback you can purchase links for as little as a $1 - interesting

Here are some simple examples:

Simple Webmaster Guide

Article Submit Service

Combine some XML with PHP, add some affiliate accounts, grab some caffeine and spice your website up with some affiliated code mashups.
There are some great scripts out there for putting various content from various places together online. A simple example would be from this simple Wireless router deals website. Grabbing some eBay, some YouTube, a bit of Amazon and more.

How about integrating your website content with FaceBook?
This is already possible and this will come later as I still figuring this out!

Questions to ask are:

why would you want to in the first place?
To market to your friends?
To source out new business clients?

An interesting item to point out is the RSS feed by FeedBurner on the AdJingo Classified Ad forums ....
Look at the bottom of the page any you'll see a little orange RSS chicklet ...
Clicking on the chicklet will bring us to a page generated by FeedBurner that displays ads posted on the newly created forum (the forum is very new BTW)
Listed within each ad are a few cool link additions by FeedBurner, such as 'Email this', 'Share on Facebook', 'Add to del.icio.us', 'Technorati Link', etc ...

'Share on FaceBook' ?!?

What a treat!
You mean to say, if I post an ad on AdJingo forums, I can actually share it with all my friends :)
Of course I'll share, because it's all about sharing on Facebook.
Your thoughts, your friends, your likes, your privacy and more.

Did you know FeedBurner is owned by Google?

News is a bit dated, but I thought I'd point it out anyways

With the great tools Google already has (Analytics, Webmaster Tools, etc), FeedBurner has been a great tool in my life ;)

100 Million Dollar Deal

True-gle

Back to exploring ...

In search for a CMS system, I was referred to Joomla today.

What a wonderful surprise to come across information about Joomla! Day in Rome, Italy - my former home.

http://www.joomladay.it/

http://www.joomla.org/content/view/4460/1/

The official program for JoomlaDay Italy:

8,45 Welcome and delivery of welcome pack.
9,30 Presentation and starting. - Andrea Marzilli
9,45 VirtueMart: e-commerce solution for Joomla. - Stefano Bagnatica e Alessandro Chessari
10,30 The importance of having a specific hosting for joomla.. - Marco Mangione, Carlo Granisso
11,00 Coffee Break

11,30 Migration from Joomla! 1.0 to Joomla! 1.5. - Gianmarco Odorizzi
12,15 Joomla become multilanguage with joomfish. - Luca Curatola
13,00 Lunch

14,30 Joomla FAP. - Alessandro Pasotti
15,15 Analysis of the template structure of joomla 1.5, what changes and how. - Franco Danese
16,15 The TV in Joomla! : WebTv and digital terrestrial. - Massimo Marchetto, Roberto Borghi, Stefano Ciammarughi e Isacco Occhiali
17,15 CMS's optimization and positioning. - Zaffi Alessandro
18,00 Conclusion

I'm a big believer in where your website traffic is coming from. You may be putting up a website about Buffalo routers or something similar, but what is people are visiting your website because they are typing in specific keywords like 'voip routers' or 'wireless routers' or something similar.

Are you listing model numbers on your website? example: WHR-HP-G54
Are you listing manufacturer names? Buffalo
What keywords are you specifically after?

Along the standard AWStats and other tools built directly in to your web host provider, a few tools any serious SEO marketer & web developer should be utilizing is Google Webmaster Tools, Analytics and Yahoo Site Explorer

Submit you xml file and watch your site get indexed quick! (There are other methods too) :)

I love automation, the simpler the better.
It's one of the things I used to talk about to programming students in the past, build once, duplicate and replicate.
Imagine your website on auto-pilot?
Automatic blog postings, content generation, revenue creation.
Recently have been exploring a few scripts to assist in simplifying things.
Back in the day, Corey Rudl was the master of this ... put your business on automation!
Now we are launching a new blog for cool eBay deals

Ubuntu update:

Up and running - what a sweet OS and alternative to the Windows environment.

BC update:

Rain, rain, one small sunny day and back to more rain!

Cheers & the best to your '08