Here is a list of official Google Blogs:

The Official Google Blog – Insights from Googlers into our products, technology and the Google culture.

AdWords Agency Blog – The latest from Adwords from you and your client.

AdWords Retail Tips – Adwords tips for the retailers

AdSense Blog – A look inside Google AdSense. With newbie, optimization, AdSense features, and more.

Adwords API Blog – The official source of information about the AdWords API from Google.

Adwords Blog – Google’s official blog for news, information, and tips on AdWords.

AJAX Search API Blog – At this Blog Google gives info about how to use the AJAX Search API.

Google Affiliate Network Blog – News, views and product information for Google affiliate network advertisers and publishers.

Analytics Blog – Here you can get the latest news, tips, and resources from the Google Analytics team.

Android Blog – Blog for developers working with Android, An Open Handset Alliance Project.

Base Blog – Get news, tips, and resources straight from the Google Base team.

Blogger Blog – The Official buzz from blogger.

Checkout Blog – The official Checkout Blog with news for sellers using Google Checkout.

Code Featured Projects – Blog about featured projects on Google Code.

Code Updates Blog – Read all about the latest Google Code updates at the Code Blog.

CPG Blog – News and notes from Google’s Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG).

Custom Search Blog – The latest news, updates and tips from the Custom Search Engine team.

Data APIs – Official Google Data APIs blog.

Desktop APIs – Your official source on the Google Desktop APIs.

Docs Blog – News and notes from the Google Docs team at the official Docs Blog.

Enterprise Blog – A blog about enterprise information, search, and the users that live there.

Feedburner Blog – The Official Feedburner blog of burning questions.

Finance Blog – News and views from the Google Finance team.

Gadgets API Blog – Intended for people who use the Google Gadgets API to write gadgets.

Gears API Blog – Keep up to date on Google Gear’s progress with Gears API Blog.

Gmail Blog – News, tips and tricks from Google’s Gmail team and friends.

Grants Blog – We started this Blog as a place to read about the latest Google Grants news and information

Let’s Take it Offline – The latest news form Google’s TV, Print and Audio Ads team

Lat Long Blog – News and notes by the Google Earth and Maps team

Are we missing any? If you know of more official Google Blogs leave a comment!

Yahoo! Inc might be pulling the plug on the “blogger” social networking service MyBlogLog.

ReadWriteWeb reports MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! in January 2010 (Next Month)
MyBlogLog is a social-network service for the bloggers that enables them to connect with other blog writers and readers visiting their sites. The website lists the profiles information of the writers as well as the blogs for the same.

MyBlogLog was a wildly innovative service that grew fast after launching in 2005. It was originally developed by Cloudspace, a Florida-based web applications development organization and was acquired in January 2007 by Yahoo! for around $10 million. There were over 45,000 blogs subscribed at the time.

Chris Yeh, Head of Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) says, “Frankly, it’s no secret within Yahoo! that we’re actively discussing the future of MyBlogLog. However, it’s also true that we have not made any final decisions at this point. Is a shutdown on the table? Sure, that’s an option. But there are other options as well. We know this creates some uncertainty for current MyBlogLog users. While we aren’t quite ready to share more details, we promise to keep you posted.”

Yahoo! has shut it’s a variety of products in the past year, with the objective to cut-costs and be more focused on its “core” services. If MyBlogLog shuts down, I see a lot of MyBlogLog users being very upset. There are a lot of paid users and avid users of MyBlogLog.

Our blog (SEOFRIENDLY.COM) is on MyBlogLog and we get a fair amount of traffic from our listing with them. In my opinion, Yahoo! Inc. should stick with this project or at least transfer ownership to another company that could keep the site alive.

Why Do You Like Twitter?

This post is basically a question to all twitter users. Why do you like Twitter? Why do you use Twitter?

A lot of people do not like twitter and refuse to use the site. It seems that some people think that Twitter and Micro-Blogging is a squander of time and serves no business purpose.

So if you have a moment and want to share your thoughts please post a comment and let everyone know:

• A. Why do you like Twitter?
• B. Why do you use Twitter?

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I ran across a great blog post (List) on TopRankBlog.com this morning when looking for some SEO blogs to read, and found something worth blogging about myself. If you are in the internet marketing, SEO, or web development industry you will love the BIGLIST of Search Engine Marketing Blogs. The list has over 400 blogs listed and this list includes some of the best blogs online. A few that I recognized included ShoeMoney.com, MarketingPilgrim.com, SEOMOZ, and many others.

This is by far the best list of useful blogs that I have ever found online. It is worth a look and a bookmark.

The list is maintained by TopRankBlog, a blog that has been online since 2003 and covers all aspects of SEO, Internet Marketing, Social Media, and more.

Tips On Making Money With Twitter

There are a lot of people online that sign-up for twitter in order to utilize twitter’s money making and marketing capability. I have personally made money because of my twitter account and not so much directly from my account. Some people post spammy affiliate links over and over and simply end up losing followers. Without a strong following of readers you are simply what I call a Sp-itter which is someone who just ads stuff to twitter and no one reads what you are posting, so what you are saying is worthless. If you have followers (a lot of them) then you will make money from and because of twitter.

How to Get More Twitter Followers:

Follow more people in your niche
Post at least 10 useful posts for every promotional tweet
Add Twitter to your blogs, forum accounts, and websites to get more followers
Use twitter Chains like FastFollowers.com to get followers faster (not the best way but works)
Promote your twitter account like you would your own website

How to make money with Twitter:

Join Ad.ly (www.ad.ly) If you have a lot of followers you get paid to tweet stuff (ads).
Post your blog updates to draw in more blog readers thus more money
Post affiliate links to programs you like and are successful with
Sell Sponsored Tweets (Charge A Fee To Post Announcements/Ads)
Create A Twitter Related Website or Service (Directory, ReTweet, Ad.ly)

There are a lot of ways to make money with Twitter. I do not think you will get super rich from using twitter but it can help you increase your revenue. It may be a building process but making “money” with Twitter is easy if you have the time and resources.

Today I checked my email at 6AM and Yahoo Mail was up and running, then it went down and has been down for over an hour. What is up yahoo? The fact that I still use Yahoo’s web based email service may make me a little behind on times. It seems that most people who use web mail have moved to Google or just use their own mail server.

Is it time to migrate over to Gmail? Or use some other solution. I like Yahoo Mail because I am familiar with it and I like the classic interface they offer. I have been using Yahoo mail for about 9 years or so. I must be afraid to switch over or something.

The fact that their mail service has had a lot of glitches (at least on my end) lately, is almost reason enough to abandon Yahoo.

Using a web based email service has a lot of benifits for someone like me. I can check my email from any PC without any major worry of security. Most people know what Yahoo is and can spell it so I don’t have to repeat myself over and over on how to spell a domain name. There are more benifts but I wont list them now.

My main concern is Yahoo! being down for over an hour. That is a long time in internet time. I mean an hour online is like 10 hours in the real world! Come on Yahoo!! Tighten up or sell-out already. Wonder if yahoo bothers to monitor their online reputation and will read and comment on this?

Have you experienced any problems with web based email providers like Yahoo? Post a comment and tell us!

SEO Plugins For Wordpress

WordPress has some powerful SEO functions built in to help you with SEO (Search Engine Optimization), however there are a few very importan

t and must have plugins to help you along the way.  Here is our most favorite SEO related WordPress plugins. These SEO WP Plugins will make a huge positive impact to your blogs SEO.

All in One SEO Pack – Allows you to optimize your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). You can set a specific META Tags for your WP Blog’s main page. You can also specify Title, Description, and Keywords for each post you create. This is by far on of my personal favorite seo plugins for wordpress.

Redirection – Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors without requiring knowledge.

Search Everything – Increases Wordpress’ default search functionality through an options panel.

• Search Every Page
• Search Every Tag
• Search Every Category
• Search non-password protected pages only
• Search Every Comment
• Search only approved comments
• Search Every Draft
• Search Every Excerpt
• Search Every Attachment
• Search Every Custom Field (metadata)
• Exclude Posts from search
• Exclude Categories from search

HeadSpace2 – Controls almost every aspect of your site’s meta-data, including advanced tagging, Analytics, and dozens of plugins. A great WP SEO Tool.

HeadSpace2 is an all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to fine-tune the SEO potential of your site.

You can configure meta-data for:

• Posts
• Pages
• Categories
• Home page
• Author pages
• Search pages
• 404 page

You can define:

• Tags/keywords, with suggested keywords
• Descriptions
• Page titles
• Custom ‘more text’
• Site name and site description
• Custom themes – change your theme on each page!
• Custom plugins – load a plugin only on specific pages
• Additional CSS and JavaScript files
• Noindex and nofollow meta tags
• Follow/follow on archive, category, page, tag, and comment links

Robots Meta – This plugin makes it easy to add the appropriate meta robots tags to your pages, disable unused archives, nofollow unnecessary links and more.

Add to Any Share/Save/Bookmark Button – Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. The button comes with AddToAny’s customizable Smart Menu, which places the services visitors use at the top of the menu, based on each visitor’s browsing history.

SEO Smart Links – SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.

SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.

Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs. Finally SEO Smart links allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window.

Everything happens completely transparent, and you can edit the options from the administration settings panel.

SEO Title Tag – Search engine optimize your blog’s title tags. Mass edit the title tags of posts, pages, category pages, tag pages – indeed, any URL!

Optimal Title – Optimal Title mirrors the function of wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the ’separator’ to after the title rather than before.

SEO Friendly Images – SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes the tags w3c/xHTML.

Do you have a plug-in that you think should be on this list of Top WP SEO Plugins? Add it VIA commenting!

Free Blog Hosts and Blogging Platforms

Creating a search engine friendly blog has never been easier. I have noticed many free blog platform blogs that rank very high on search results. If you want to create a quick blog here is a list of some of the top free blogging platforms.

GreatestJournal.com – Based on the same software as LiveJournal, offers free voice posts, 1GB of photo hosting, and space for up to 2,000 user icons.

InsaneJournal.com – Another site based on the Danga software that runs LiveJournal, offers free and paid accounts, paid benefits are only enhancements.

JorunalFen.net – Runs on the Danga platform, very much directed towards various “fandoms” (i.e. Harry Potter, various Television shows) and is meant for users 18 and older.

LiveJournal.com – One of the most well known of the blogging hosts. Offers multiple account types such as ad-supported and paid. The center of a few controversies recently.

Blogetery.com – Offers multiple templates, anti-spam, free sub-domain and more.

BlogRox.com – Runs on WordPress and offers 50MB of free online space.

Blogsome.com – Based out of Ireland, this site uses the WordPress MU platform, large choice of themes.

Edublogs.com – WordPress powered blogging for educators.

WordPress.com – Not only can you install WordPress on your own sites, you can use the same software on their site and save yourself all of the technical work.

Blog.com – Offers free blog hosting with unlimited bandwidth for their free package, more benefits for paid members.

Blog Ladder.com – All blog entries show up on the main ladder as well as inside your own blog.

Blogger.com – A great starting site to get a taste of blogging, very easy to use.

Blogr.com – Allows you to blog, host photos & videos, and podcasts.

BlogSpirit.com – European based blogging site, offers 30-day trial and subscription thereafter, but offers quite a bit of storage.

Blogster.com – Offers free image hosting in addition to free blogs.

BlogYx.com – Blogging site with extras such as chat boxes so you can interact with your readers.

Bloki.com – Lets you build a blog site and even open it up for collaboration.

Bravenet.com – Free blog hosting with RSS feeds and more.

ClearBlogs.com – Free blog hosting and offers templates, friends only posts, IP-Banning and more.

Etribes.com – Based in Europe, allows you to create all sorts of websites including a blog.

Multiply.com – Mixes blogging and social networking, with photo galleries and more.

Netcipia.com – Free blog and wiki for private or public display with 2GB of storage.

Open Diary.com – Offers unlimited storage and posts, low cost subscription rates for advanced features.

ShoutPost.com – A platform for creating blogs with a focus on generating traffic.

SoulCast.com – Have something you want to talk about, but want to say it anonymously? This may be the blogging site for you.

Squarespace.com – Lets you build your blog with numerous themes, also allows you to add other site features.

Terapad.com – Offers blogs as well as features such as an integrated store.

Tooum.com – Fully integrated blog and forum which allows for seamless discussion between the two.

Tumblr.com – A blog platform with a focus on allowing media-rich posts.

Weebly.com – Allows you to create a site and blog, free hosting and change designs on the fly.

Windows Live Spaces – Free blogging with your MSN account, only drawback is readers have to have an account also.

Vox.com – Part of the SixApart family of blogging sites, very much geared towards the personal journal types of blogs.

Xanga.com – Part social network, part blogging, all free.

Yahoo 360 – Part of your Yahoo account and features easy publishing.

Zoomshare.com – Free blog hosting with 250MB of free storage.