An effective blog title captures the essence of the content in a nutshell, and makes readers eager to find out more about what the body of your post contains.

Matt Cutts on How Google Search Works

March 14, 2010

The life span of a Google query is less then 1/2 second, and involves quite a few steps before you see the most relevant results. Here’s how it all works.  read more…

YouTube and Google Tips from Matt Cutts

March 14, 2010

red star iconHave you noticed the stars? The stars sync with Google Bookmarks, so you can get access to them wherever you go. Once you star something, it shows up above the search results.  Stars make search more personal

If you want to link to a specific part of a video on YouTube, you can and Matt tells you how. Link to a specific part of a YouTube video.

Video captions  allow you to subtitle a video in the same language as the video, you can help people with low literacy improve their reading skills. Show and Translate YouTube Captions

Google has been working on some new algorithms and tools to tackle linkspam and is asking for linkspam reports from you. Calling for link spam reports

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WordPress.com Blogging: Changing Themes

March 13, 2010
by timethief

3 theme thumbshots New themes are being introduced at WordPress.com more frequently than ever before.  That’s probably because the “stylist/designer/theme wrangling” Staff members have grown in number and are continuing to grow.

“Today marks the first day of my employment as a Theme Wrangler with Automattic and it feels great. I’m more than excited to finally let you know what I’ve been up to for the last little bit.” — Ian Stewart joined Automattic

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Blogging Tips: Tag to Increase Traffic

March 10, 2010
by timethief

Blogs are all about posts. Every post ought to be assigned to relevant broad Categories and should have very specific Tags. Each Category and Tag is a one or two word key word descriptor of the content in your post.  Categories and Tags provide a means for your posts to be sorted and made available to visitors to your on site (clouds, widget displays, lists), and also make them available to those who have yet to visit. read more…