By: Greg Sterling | Source: searchenginejournal.com

As is being widely reported, AOL plans to launch a comprehensive video entertainment destination later this week. Here’s the screenshot. Here’s the current AOL video portal. According to the press release:

New features on the AOL Video portal include: over 45 new video-on-demand content channels with thousands of hours of video programming from popular entertainment brands, organized and accessible via video search, browse or an interactive programming guide; free streaming content as well as the ability to purchase and download full-length content that can be viewed on multiple devices and PCs, online or offline; and access to millions of music videos, news clips, movie trailers, full length TV shows, and more.

AOL Video also includes AOL Video Search, which is based on industry leading video search technology from Truveo and Singingfish, and a video player that can go full screen without losing picture quality and that supports AOL’s exclusive Hi-Q video format to watch DVD-quality videos online.

In addition, the portal includes AOL’s new UnCut Video offering, which makes it easy to upload and share videos online by providing full device support, letting consumers upload and share videos directly from their camcorder, Webcam, video-enabled mobile phone, as well as their PC.

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By: Jennifer Laycock | Source: seo-news.com

Link Building

While there’s no argument about the value of building quality links to your web site in order to help increase both traffic and search engine rankings, there is often some confusion about the best way to go about doing that link building. Reciprocal or incoming? Buying links or earning them? Using software to manage the process or doing it by hand?

What would happen if small business owners started to think about link building in another way? What if they started to think like Carnegie and to apply his theories to their link building and baiting efforts. With that in mind, let’s take a few key points from Carnegie’s book and see how they might be applied to a link building campaign.

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By: Darren Rowse | Source: problogger.net

Thinking of starting a new blog but you don’t know what keywords to target? NicheBot might be a tool worth checking out. Its a very useful tool that helps you to identify keywords that:

1. are being searched for

2. don’t have too many other sites competing for the same keyword To use it simply enter in a keyword that you’re considering targeting – I’ll choose ‘MP3 Player’ for our example as its something I’m kind of interested in. After a short wait they’ll come back to you with a result page like this which has some very useful information (well it gets me going!) – the results are made up of the following pieces of information which they glean from Google and Word Tracker

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