Furl has become part of Diigo.com

Founded in the year 2003 by Mike Giles, Furl was acquired by Looksmart on 23rd of September 2004. Furl, a great social bookmarking website is now partnered with Diigo.com to serve the internet community.

As per the Furl website

Furl has become part of Diigo.com

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Washington Post quoted

Social-bookmarking service Diigo has acquired web-clipping service Furl for an undisclosed amount. Furl's parent company, Looksmart, received stock for the company, which it bought in 2004. With the deal, Diigo buys a company that offers services similar to its own?users can save and annotate portions of or entire web pages and share them with friends?allowing it to bolser its offerings without spending any cash. Furl never quite took off like its competitor Delicious (formerly known as del.icio.us); it attracts about 100,000 unique monthly visitors, according to Quantcast. Read Full new here

A List of 30 Popular Social Bookmarking Websites

Now a days the social media has become an integral part of getting visitors to any website. Now it has become very easy for anyone to store and share his/her favorite websites, news, stories among one's social community through popular social bookmarking websites. Here is what I this must be useful for all SEOs.

URL

PR

http://www.digg.com/

8

http://www.technorati.com/

8

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

8

http://del.icio.us/

8

http://www.connotea.org/

8

http://client.pluck.com/pwe/

8

http://www.sphere.com/

8

http://www.reddit.com/

8

http://www.rollyo.com/

7

http://www.blinklist.com/

7

http://de.lirio.us/

7

http://www.citeulike.org/

7

http://www.furl.net/

7

http://www.newsvine.com/

7

http://www.ning.com/

7

http://www.rojo.com/

7

http://www.icerocket.com/

7

http://www.plugim.com/

6

http://www.claimid.com/

6

http://www.rawsugar.com/

6

http://www.spurl.net/

6

http://www.blinkbits.com/

6

http://www.bibsonomy.org/

6

http://www.backflip.com/

6

http://www.clipmarks.com/

6

http://www.links2go.com/

6

http://www.linkagogo.com/

6

http://www.kaboodle.com/

6

http://www.netvouz.com/

6

http://www.shadows.com/

6

Benefits of Outsourcing SEO Services to India

SEO Outsourcing : Outsourcing SEO Services to India is not only time and cost saving, it also helps you to maintain your website for low costs. The main purpose of outsourcing in case of cost management through wage arbitrage as well as to remain focused on core competencies. Outsourcing allows you to focus on your strategic business and rely on you provider for SEO. It enables you to achieve top ranking goals and other fulfill your link building requirements. It saves time. SEO outsourcing is the practice of sub-contracting your SEO campaign to outside and especially foreign companies.

Benefits of Outsourcing SEO Services to India

Skilled Human Resource : Outsourcing to India provides successful, qualified and technically skilled young and energetic SEO and IT professionals.

Costs Saving : The major benefit of outsourcing to India is the significant cost saving. It helps to manage a structured growth. The comparable SEO staff is available at less than half the price than in US, Canada, UK or Australia. It is a tool for adding value to business, simultaneously enabling organizations to concentrate on their core line of business.

Technology Advantage : The qualified manpower available in India helps to properly manage the modern technological advancement and equally good exposure in search engine related activities for offshore clients. The experience and expertise ranges from providing solutions to a small vendor to a large MNC.

High Quality Standards : Indian SEO companies have worked hard to achieve the international standards of the likes of ISO & SEI-CMM. The trust of the clients on quality has increased in last couple of years due to the kind of results produced by India Companies.

Internet Technology & Infrastructure : Today each and every small town of India is connected via telephone and Internet broadband. India owns high quality satellite and submarine communication links that keep India connected to the world 24x7. This has enabled the outsourcing companies around the world experience seamless communication with their offshore partners irrespective of the location they are operating from.

Optimum resource utilization : By outsourcing some of the regular & outline work, you can drastically reduce your operating expenses. Undoubtedly, outsourcing is fast becoming a strategy for forward thinking IT managers.

Time management : SEO outsourcing helps to mange time periods properly. It also helps managers to re-engineer business processes and provide the necessary information to assist effective decision-making and ensure quality and cost control.

Impact of Web Design in Search Engine Optimization

Search engine optimization is more than just a trend nowadays. It is used and applied by almost all sites on the internet that aim to make money and reach online popularity. Among the many strategies of optimizing a web site, s engine friendly web design is one of the topmost priorities.

The impact of the design of the site on search engine robotic crawlers or spiders can help raise the ranking of the site. This is where search engine friendly web design comes in. There are many ways to make the web site more attractive to robotic visitors and human visitors alike. Actually, spiders and crawlers from search engines do not mind the overall aesthetic value of the site. All these robotic crawlers need is the information it can get from the site. The tricky part is how to put relevant information in the site in order for the crawlers to properly index the site due to its relevance.

There has to be consideration for ease of getting around the website, being appealing to a wide range of visitors and finding the right place for the website. Making a basic, visually appealing site is easy with the many technology advances available today, the problem with these advances are that they are sometimes quite tricky to use thus making your website difficult to navigate in. Search engine friendly web design should be easy to use and friendly to both human and robotic browsers.

Easy navigational access can be done by making the pages of the site easy to navigate to and having easy to understand and use button or labels to click on. The pictures and images on your search engine friendly web design should be just the right size and scale to enable users to see them promptly after clicking instead of taking a very long time to download . Waiting for images and other graphics to load can be off putting for most visitors and will eventually lead them to another site which is more optimized and easy to view. Even spiders and crawlers will give up on a site which is not easy to navigate and get into.

The overall appeal of the search engine friendly web design should not only be focused mainly on the niche that it is targeted on but also for Internet users who might have stumbled onto the site. Search engine friendly web design should have a universal appeal even for the most specialized type of sites on the Internet. Overall a Search engine friendly web page should return no error while validating in validator.w3.org

If we keep all this in our mind before designing a website or at the time of designing a web page we can achieve more with our search engine optimization campaign and could rank high in SERP.

Lijit - A Nice Blog Search Tool

Lijit - A social web search tool, which makes you able to search within your social network. It gives you capability of not only searching within your trusted network but also very easy to install on your blog. The results of lijit search is about 100% accurate. The widget is absolutely free too. So why are you waiting for go and get one for your blog and improve your blog's popularity. Site search or blog search is going to become one of the integral component of web 2.0, hence Lijit is making you able to enter the world of web 2.0.

New General Web Directory Launched

Today I have launched a new General web Directory kabonfootprint. This directory has almost all the categories that you may need. The Directory Software used for this directory is eSyndiCat Directory Software free Version. Till date I have not felt any problem with this software.

Kabonfootprint web directory is free, it does not require even a reciprocal link for your listing to be approved.

List of Classified Sites to Post your Ads Free

Classifieds also play an important role in the promotion of your website. It not only drive traffic but also sends some quality leads. A well known benefit of classified listing is increase in link popularity. Below are a List of Free Classified Sites that you can use to post your classified for free.
List is Updated on 10 December 2008
Hotfrog (Choose your country)
Craiglist (Choose your country)
Free Classified DIrectory List of Hundreds of Free Classified Directory
India Classified Classified Update
Click India AdtoAd
Classified Duniya MyCityClassified
SpaceClassifieds WorldCityClassified
Place Classified India Classified
HindustanLinks DXPNet
MCSList IVARTA
Classified Network ClassifiedClub
Classified Central USA Classified
FreeClassifiedMart Bobex
FreeBusinessAds Oodle (Choose your country)
Oregon Classified USFreeAds
USNetAds HotWebAds
AustraliaFreeAds Classifieds1000

List is being Updated Every 7th Day. Visit again for more

XML Sitemap

XML Sitemap is contains the list of all URLs to be crawled by Search Engine Spider ( Crawler ). By submitting Sitemaps to a search engine we only help that engine's crawlers to do a better job of crawling their site(s).

Benefits of XML Sitemap:

• Upto 500 URLs can be submitted to search engines with one sitemap.
• Help in crawling Flash files.
• Complement the Robots.txt file.
• Additional information about website can be submitted to search engines such as date of last modification, priority etc.
• You can monitor the website performance in a particular search engine by submitting a XML sitemap and verifying it in webmaster area of that search engine.
  

Forum Posting

Forums are a best place to gain some information about some particular topic. There are a number of forums available on internet of every subject, where you can discuss anything about that subject. Forums are also useful in getting any help from the industry experts.

Things to remember while Posting in Forum:

• Never post any junk post
• Don't go off-topic.
• Always honor others suggestions and comments.
• Use important keywords in your signature.
• Try to make your post descriptive and informative.
  

Manual Directory Submission

After completing the On Page optimization of the website here comes the need of Directory Submission. Since directories are the best place where all the major search engine spiders visit to find the webpages, as it is a list of a hundreds of websites which are reviewed manually. Since all the directories are human edited so search engine spiders do not suspect about the contents and meta of the websites directly picked from the Directories.

Now a days there are a number of software programs which guarantee the hundreds of Automated Directory Submission with a one click. Be careful and never try to hire that type of services. As you may know that every directory is having its different criteria for Submission. Different fields and different steps, also the varied number of Main and sub categories, and hence it is srtongly advised by a number of top SEO Consultants that you always opt for the Manual Directory Submission Services. During Directory Submission the most importent thing is the appropriate category and the anchor text that you are using for Submission.

Things to consider while doing Manual Directory Submission:

• Submit to the relevent Directory.
• Category should be relevent.
• Do Submission for Every or Most importent keywords.
• Use your importent keywords as anchor text.

Submit your internal pages as well.

Blog Creation

Blogs have become an integral part of any SEO Campaign. Blogs are used to publish your day by day information on the network. Blogs make you able to directly interact with your visitors. You can publish your services here and ask for some suggestions to your visitors in order to improve your services or products. Blogs can also be used to introduce your new products or services.

Things to remember while blogging:

• Provide as many information as possible.
• Provide references where required.
• Use image or Videos to provide a visual information, as an audio visual presentation can describe something much more effectively than a textual presentation.
• Always allow the comments from the visitors for direct interaction with the them
• Update the blogs regularly.
  

Article Submission

Now a days Articles are a useful source of getting the perfect information about anything. There are a number of Article Directories which comes in Niche Category and hence Submitting your articles to these directories can give your website some additional links along with some traffic as well. If the articles are appropriate enough to provide the visitors the exact information what they wanted may result in customer for your online marketing campaign.

Now a days everyone wants to be sure about the product or service and require complete information about that before he/she invest some money to hire or purchase that product or service. So be careful and think from the customers point of view and define your product or services as clearly as possible in order to satisfy the readers, afterall its not you its the visitors who have to decide that s/he has got some useful information or not. If the information are of there use then they may visit the references that you have placed in the resource box of the Articles.

Things to consider while doing Article Submission:

• Choose a Title which is Informative in itself.
• Not try to write more than 500 words. If you have a lot to describe then go for next article.
• Don't write something that may confuse the reader.
• Use your importent keywords as Anchor Text.

Link Building

Link Building is an integral part of any SEO Campaign. A good SEO Service will offer you the most relevent and accurate Link Back through his Link Building Services. Relevent Links works as a catalyst in getting the high ranking as well as the stability for your website which i think is the most importent and an integral part of your online marketing.

Things to consider while looking for a Link Exchange:

• Always Exchange Links with relevent site. The theme of the site should be same as of your's.
• Restrict not to Exchange Links 8 to 10 in a day in order to avoid Sandbox. At the end of the month you will be having enough backlinks to stand tall in SERPs.
• The site with whom you are exchanging links should be having a fair good position in SERPs.
• The page on which your link is supposed to be placed must be crowled in search engines.
• Use your most importent Keywords as anchor text in Link Building.

Build Links for internal pages as well.