Google Has Digg on the Brain

Google Has Digg on the Brain
Chris Crum | Staff Writer - WebProNews

Google has released a gadget called What’s Popular for iGoogle. You
may draw some connections between it and a certain site called Digg,
and some are speculating that it is even an indication of a broader
plan from Google to creep into Digg territory. What would a
Google-owned version of Digg mean to you? Tell us.

Google says the What’s Popular gadget uses algorithms to find
interesting content from a combination of user submissions and trends
in aggregated user activity across a variety of Google services,
like YouTube and Google Reader.
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Optimize your press release as part of your link building strategy

Optimize Your Press Release As Part of Your Link Building Strategy

When most people think of press releases, they think media attention. Press releases can also be used to gain quality inbound links to your web site, though.

As part of your overall link building strategy, there are a few reasons why press release writing can be beneficial: get one way links from quality sites, earn links from sites that find you via a press release, and get placed on relevant directories that re-distribute press releases.

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Tags: Entireweb, keywords, link building, optimization, page rank, seo, traffic