If you enjoy blogging and want to take it and your income to the next level, you should start a blog network. After establishing your first blog, you now have some experience, subscribers and visitors that keep your site humming from day to day. Branching out into a network is a lot of hard work, but at least you have some experience under your belt. Here are 10 tips for developing your own blog network that will help you progress smoothly and increase your prospects for success.

Local business listings give your business the opportunity, for free, to make coupons, offers, discounts, photos, videos and more available to local customers.  You can be as big as a Target and as small as a florist to take advantage of local business listings.  As long as your business is dependent upon the local economy for your revenue, local business listings is an important local business marketing tool.

Whether you own a small three page hobbyist website or a monster E-commerce store there are several things you can check to ensure you are not placing any barriers in the way of your search engine optimization campaign.

Yahoo has a different set of metrics and priorities when calculating your rank on the SERPs. Most of the times, they are similar to Google‘s metrics like the number of incoming links, title page content etc. For obvious reasons, duplicate content has been a bottle neck both for Google and Yahoo (others as well). And both the search engines are in the process of rolling out new tools everyday to beat the phenomenon of content duplication.

So, Google Caffeine update is now complete. It had started few months (years) ago, and had been silently updating since then. And not to mention all the speculations on what it is and how it affects the search engine results. Google have never given us full details on what it is, and how it worked, and even now when the whole thing is live, all we get is a simple diagram and some vague notes. But that’s the way its always been.

Bur from what we understand from the little details we have, is that Google probably is now giving more importance to “content freshness”. As they say that Caffeine now updates content more frequently with lesser latency, and considering the fact that page speed and frequency of updates, are considered important this probably is a huge factor. We don’t know how much yet, but still.

Google  delivers the best search results based on content relevancy and information freshness. Spiders are very busy as they regularly crawl our sites looking for information keep Google’s database full of fresh information.

It is common for people to focus on a core set of terms when performing SEO for their website or a client’s site. However I have seen many examples where people continue to beat their head against a wall trying to rank number 1 for a key phrase that is simply not worth the effort. As an SEO your ultimate goal has to be increasing traffic to the website, which in turn usually increase the money you or your client makes giving a positive ROI. With that in mind you will want to focus your efforts on the key phrases that have the most potential for improvement.

USA TODAY’s Jefferson Graham interviews Google engineer Matt Cutts on how to get your site to the top of Google with 5 basic, common sense SEO tips. Matt Cutts guests on the USA TODAY Talking Tech web video show.

404 Errors are probably one of the most commonly found error pages in any website and the typical reaction is that your visitors would bounce off the page as soon as they see the 404 error message. Now why do we let them go and give them alternative options?

SEO ultimately means driving traffic and making sales. What I like to call “Search Engine Placement Marketing” I will be implementing this in a few weeks for a new client that has a retail vitamin store and a website. He also has his own brand and this should get him some quick results.