Have you ever been in your favorite forum and noticed people selling the signature links at the bottom of their posts? One of my favorite forums is Digital Point and I have seen many people sell one or more of their signatures links (Digital Point allows up to four) to make a little extra money. I guess I never realized that there was such an organized approach to selling signature links until I found the forum to end all signature link forums – Sig-Link. Check it out and see what your posts are worth….:-)

Apparently the ‘Rumor of the Day’ is that Microsoft wants to desperately get some additional traction in the Web world and is going to try and buy Facebook.com. Since most of their recent efforts have been less than stellar and more of a ‘me to’ catch-up approach, why not buy yourself some additional presence? They may want it, but it may not be for sale – read all about it at Internet Outsider.

Just noticed that iwebtool.com has added some cool new tools.

List Cleaner
&
IP Location

Have fun!

Search Engine Land has opened it’s new social network, Sphinn. At first glance it looks like a great place for the SEO/SEM community. I am getting ready to register and will provide an updated opinion in the coming weeks….:-)

Are you familiar with the Google of China? If not, it is called Baidu and it is very popular among China’s large population (1,321,851,888 estimate as of July 2007). I have noticed some of my English sites starting to get indexed and actually receiving traffic from Baidu.

I wanted to optimize my sites and recently came across a great blog post at China SEO Blog that has some great tips on getting and staying indexed within Baidu.

Baidu site submission

I wanted to share some of my favorite FREE Web marketing resources. Some of them are print and some are electronic – see list below:

Website Magazine – A great printed and electronic magazine covering all aspects of running a Web site from SEO to programming.

Revenue Magazine – A printed and electronic magazine that covers everything abotu making money with your Web site from Affiliate programs to AdSense advice.

Make Millions and Make Change – An electronic book broken into chapters that is an incredible resource that provides practical and useful Web business advice.

The Marketing Pilgrim Essays – An electronic collection of essays from leading industry individuals that contain advice and information on SEO and Web marketing advice.

SEO Fast Start – A great getting started in SEO electronic book.

Good luck and enjoy!

Another Monday, another bought company. This time it is Postini, a leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions. To learn more check out the links below:

Info and response – Search Engine Roundtable

Google Press Release

I get asked a lot about how to find free keyword research tools, so I decided to make a quick list of some of the more popular tools (Web-based and downloadable). They are not listed in any particular order:

Keyword Tracker (free edition)

Keyword Discovery (free tool)

Google’s Traffic Estimator

Yahoo’s Traffic Estimator (via a little outdated and slow Overture database)

SEO Book’s Traffic Estimator

Digital Point’s Keyword Tracker

wordpot.com

Good Keywords (download software)

Good luck on your keyword research!

Just got an email from Adrian who owns Directory Share and the upcoming dValuation.com and he shared with me that everything is hush, hush at dValuation.com and that as soon as he was ready to release this new service to directory owners we would be getting EXCLUSIVE information 24 hours prior to launch! Make sure to stayed tuned for more updates, this looks to be an exciting new addition to the Web directory community!

I was just poking my head around the Digital Point Forums and was reading some new posts by a guy who is incredible at making PHP Link Directory (PHPLD) mods and noticed a new link in his signature (by the way he also owns Directory Share – check it out). This link took me to a site that is running a pretty cool teaser track for an upcoming project that looks to help directory owners. If I can read a little into it, it may be a a new list of directories with a new twist. Check it out for yourself at dValuation.com.

P.S. I have requested more info to share and will post if and when I hear anything…:-)