It’s true. Posting regularly, with links in and out, relevant metadata (like tagging your articles) and writing good headlines all contribute to SEO or search engine optimization. Want proof? I really don’t like to brag to anyone but my mother (hi mom!) but I watch my traffic logs to see where visitors come from, and most of them these days are coming in through plain old web search – not even blog search.

Check these out-
Google search for: good blogs
Google for: how to use tags
MSN search for: use of tags
MSN search for: Intro to RSS

I don’t see much in Yahoo right now. So all of the above search results can and will likely change – but when I visited them they looked pretty darned good. Count search engine optimization as one more reason why blogging is a good idea.

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It’s all the rage on Tech.Memeorandum today. Sphere.com. Pretty good. I wrote more about it early in the day at Social Software. Having used it some more and listened to star-maker Mike Arrington interview the founders – I feel even better about it at the end of the afternoon. You might want to check it out too, and if you have an hour you might want to listen to the podcast linked to over there on Social Software.

Here’s one for the history books: Clive Thompson published a ten page article on Google in China today on the New York Times site. Long but worth reading. Google’s China Problem (And China’s Google Problem)

Gary Price points to a nice search engine for citations in the Information Science field: CiteSeer. See, for example, this search for my most recent interviewee at Net Squared, Stuart Weibel. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to see all the features included. Nice.

I got to meet Stuart in Seattle after I made a blog post saying I’d be there last week. Thanks for making the connection Stuart!

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Things are nuts after some time on the road, but I want to post some links here for readers interested in helpful research tools I’ve covered elsewhere, primarily on the Social Software Weblog.

• Del.icio.us to add private bookmarks and more
• AJAXian meta search engine for tags

I’m writing 60 posts a month on that blog, so there’s always lots to read, but those are two of the most helpful in terms of research. See also over at NetSquared:

• Social Bookmarking and Vertical Search
• Community Blogs and Power Research: an interview with Lisa Williams

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As promised I’ve posted an interview with OPML blogger Lisa Williams, though we didn’t find much time to talk about OPML! Instead we talked about her community blog project, h2otown, which rocks. And her power use of search and RSS. It was super fun and informative. Hopefully we’ll get to catch up and do an interview about OPML soon, which is why I contacted her in the first place!

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Check out Monitor This, a fabulous service that builds an importable OPML file of RSS feeds for any search you input – in 22 search engines at once! It looks great. I’ve just subscribed to some searches this way and we’ll see how it goes.

I was told about this by Lisa Williams, with whom I began an interview this morning. (I love it when people are down for long IM interviews!) It’s a real good interview, too. Lisa is awesome. I love her approach to research – and not just because it reminds me of my own but with different tools. We haven’t really even begun to talk about OPML either – and that’s the reason I asked her for an interview.

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