Understanding how Google lists your Site

There's a great video created by Matt Cutts that goes over how to understand a Google "snippet" that I had to share with folks. I only wish it talked a bit more about how to get Google to create those sublinks off your site.

How to Promote and Measure the Success of your Blog

I'm thrilled that Volunteer Centers are starting to blog, and so I've decided that it's time for me to share tips about how to promote and measure the success of your blog. Like websites, your blog will not be found without promotion.

So this will be the first in a series of posts about blog promotion.

First off all, there' s a great list of directories that you can submit your blog to.

Also, a great article on how to measure you're blog's success.

Link Building: Providing Volunteering Answers at Q & A Sites

Who knew there were so many sites out there related to getting answers to your questions? What a great way to get a link to your website!

This is an official call for assistance from our subject matter experts out there - can you answer these questions? (And when you answer, remember to put a link to your website in your response!)

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• Volunteer
• Volunteer Work
• Volunteering
• Volunteerism
• Volunteers

WikiAnswers
There are tons of unanswered questions here. Just put "volunteer" into the "Enter a Question here" box.

Yahoo Answers

All Experts
You can register as a "volunteer expert" in their Volunteer Work Category

WikiHow
Can you answer any of these questions?

1. Volunteer
2. Volunteer Overseas
3. Become a Volunteer Firefighter
4. Know when Not to Volunteer
5. Improve Your Volunteer Fire Department
6. Get Picked As a Volunteer at a Major Theme Park

Ehow
Tons of articles here about "how to volunteer" in various ways.

AnswerBag
Tons of questions here about volunteering that need answering.

So go forth and provide answers about volunteering! And remember to take credit for your answer with your name and a link to your website, or 1-800-Volunteer.org where appropriate!

Finally! Live.com Provides Webmaster Tools

Live.com has now launched a webmaster blog to keep all of us up to date about how to adjust our sites to rank well with their search engine.

They provide all these easy tools in one place:

• Add your website link
• Add your business to their local search
• and many other tools.

Check it out!

Keyword Research - In Pictures

I've decided that this blog doesn't have enough illustrations, so I decided that I would talk about keyword research again, but from a graphic perspective. The following are from the Search Illustrated column at Search Engine Land.
And here's the second part of the post:

Email Zombies - Reviving Your Dead Email Subscribers

In a Halloween related theme, I wanted to share this article about how to determine which email addresses are truly dead.

New Tool to Show Historical Trends for Seasonal Keywords

This tool is very neat - it will show you (for instance) that people start searching for "santa claus" starting in October. It's only in beta, but worth playing with.