A good blog from my colleague Dave Bancroft on the Reverse Delta blog on how the little company who had a good idea about search engines just blew out the candles on tyheir tenth birthday cake poised tyo dominate the online world… Happy Birthday Google

Writing keywords into websites is essential if you nee search engine traffic. We’ve uncovered a great couple of articles about how to do it without numbing the brains of your readers. In a brilliant article on the Wordtracker website, ‘Stop the Slaughter of Innocent Copy‘ gives some great examples for more advanced copy writers.

Aaron Wall gives a good guide on keeping things sounding natural on his SEOBook website, including some good links to further resources, and tips on using related phrases to avoid repetition.

When trying to get the best results in search engine rankings, it’s important to remember just where people are currently searching.

The Search Marketing Blog draws on some information in this article to say that Google accounts for 80% of all searches performed in the UK. They may not continue to keep that market share, though. Windows Vista’s rollout this month means that a great deal of default searches from new PCs will be at live.com – Windows’ own search site.

Howdowedo.com had an interesting and easy to read article on the latest view of the holy grail for web designers…. the big five factors, according to the article are:
Accessibility
Architecture
Inbound links
The right content
Keywords.

Read the article here