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Weird week of Stumbling. Almost every worthwhile stop had to do with Search Engine Optimization and Social Bookmarking. If that’s what’s hot, then that’s what we need to know about, right?.

Enjoy!

1. Social bookmarking continues to be a huge opportunity for marketing and PR professionals. Figuring out how to make the best use of these tools can be quite a challenge. With more than 50 sites to choose from, where should you concentrate your efforts? Buzz Gain offers its choice of the top 10 Social Bookmarking sites to focus on. WorkConnexions answers key questions about social and business media while you can figure out how to convince your old fogey boss that social media is the way to go at ReadWriteWeb.
2. Making sure your website or blog is optimized for search engines is an ongoing process. At “Thou Shalt Blog,” check out 15 SEO Tools for Beginners that will help you stay on top. The Big Oak blog offers a way to check a webpage’s SEO quality.
3. We’ve all been faced with the frustration of trying to email large files. Even Gmail’s generous 20MB attachment limit is sometimes not big enough. Life Hack Magazine analyzes seven ways to send huge files. All are free; some have paid premium services that eliminate ads or increase upload speeds.
4. Nothing subtle about this one. Derek Halpern, author of Prevential, a blog about “Success, Money and Business,” offers 15 tips on how to become incredible. I especially like no. 9 on his list: Use Fear Constructively. Do you know what drives me to wake up everyday and improve myself? I fear mediocrity. I fear being average and I do everything in my power to avoid it. Incredible people will not settle for less than incredible.
5. Finally, just for fun, here’s a site that tracks the history of truth in cigarette advertising. Amazing what they got away with back in the day.

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I’m still learning when it comes to Search Engine Optimization. I’m smart enough to know it’s an important function for sales and marketing but not so smart that I know the difference between backlinks and cufflinks. Give me time.

Anyway, I’m searching the web the other day and I came across SEONoobs.com. I thought it said Boobs, which sounded perfect for me, so I clicked on it. No, I wasn’t searching for porn.

Ryan, the site’s founder, has built a tremendous following in just a month. He has more than 360 RSS subscribers and more than 40,000 unique visitors in his FIRST MONTH! The secret seems to be his ability to explain dense, complex topics in easy-to-understand concepts.

Take his piece on getting better rankings in Google: 5 Ways To Get a New Site Indexed In Google In 48 Hours Or Less. Four of his suggestions were pretty technical, so for now I’ll leave them for my SEO guru son to figure out. For me, the important idea was this: to get a higher ranking in Google searches, post good comments (emphasis on good) on popular blogs and include your website in the URL box. Concentrate on “DoFollow” blogs for maximum link popularity benefit.

Yeah, even a guy who thinks SERP is something you put on pancakes can do that!

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