The internet can be a great to place to share information, whether it is for academic or professional use. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) can help spread this information around the web, placing the information in different places and including it in different search engines so that people around the web can find it easier. Although, this can be good for some content and not others…in this case, articles.

As the idea of SEO started to develop where people saw the popularity of having their websites included in different link directories and search engines, the idea arose where people thought “Along with submitting websites to different directories to gain popularity, will article content work the same way?” With this in mind, article directories started to emerge, and various submission sites started to include them within their services.

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With Twitter being a great service to let your friends, family, and coworkers know what you are doing, and what is on your mind within 140 characters, it can also be used as a source of TMI (too much information). Some users tweet what is on their mind without sometimes realizing the consequences that they create, especially when geotagging.

Geotagging is the process where users tweet or publish that they are at a certain place or event at a given time, giving everyone public knowledge of their whereabouts. As all of us know, sometimes the internet is not a safe place as we try to make it, and this practice can be a great method for letting people know exactly where you are.

Recently, there have been two well-known services that have emerged on Twitter to help you geotag your happenings, such as: Foursquare and GoWalla.

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There are many applications out there that help you update your social networking statuses all in one place (such as TweetDeck, etc.), but there are some disadvantages to updating your Twitter and Facebook simultaneously so that they mirror one another.

This trend has become common lately, because both Facebook AND Twitter have easily accessible APIs that can be manipulated into programs and scripts to update statuses in more than one place.

I have provided three reasons below why you should NOT sync your statuses together:

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With Google being such a large company, search engine, and name, it was only a matter of time before other users around the internet started to create their own variations of them, not really in a competitive sense, but moreover to present Google‘s content in ways that appeal to different people.

I have provided a list of three search engines below that display Google and its SERPs in other forms than the traditional look.

• Blackle
  
  

  This search engine was created as an energy-saving site that presents Google‘s search results in black, which helps save your monitor’s energy by making the majority your browser window dark and not using many colors to produce its results.

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If you have not been living under a rock, you will know that the large oil spill that is currently happening in the Gulf of Mexico is the most talked about topic, especially on the news and on Twitter as a trending topic. With this in mind, various internet technologies have emerged to calculate the size and a resolution.

Paul Rademacher, an Engineering Manager at Google, has created a way so that users can view the size and range of the current oil spill in relation to the area where they live. The tool was created with assistance of Google Maps and can be accessed as a part of Rademacher’s blog here.

I have provided some samples of this data below:

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A while back, I published a blog post of Popular SEO Applications For Your iPhone; however, with the Google Android Phone starting to become more and more mainstream, I thought it would be appropriate to introduce some SEO-related applications that can help you keep in touch with your search standings on the go.

I have provided some well-known SEO applications that can be utilized on the Android below:

• SEO Rank Pro
  
  
  
  This application from Sam Tilston will let you check various keyword positions for your website within Google SERPs with a nice, clean interface.
• SEO Stats
  
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As web design and SEO standards evolve, so does the HTML coding of their sites. With the vast amount of Web 2.0 designs around the web, web administrators are not using much of the HTML code that they used 10-20 years ago.

With this in mind, there are a few HTML tags that have become redundant and deemed taboo in the latest Web 2.0 designs, nor are they being taught as fundamentals of web design. Some of the most common and now-annoying HTML tags have been provided below. There are many more out there, but these are some of the HTML tags that can still be found in various web pages today.

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If you are a developer and are heavily involved in Google‘s web application development, I am fairly certain you are aware of the Google I/O convention that is happening this week. If not, this post’s intention is to inform you about the most massive developer event of the year.

Google I/O is a two-day developer conference that is held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from May 19th to May 20th. This conference will feature the various developer-related sessions and topics listed below:

• Android
• App Engine
• Geo
• GWT
• Wave

For more specific topics that will be discussed at these sessions, please view the conference schedule to see what topics may interest you and help influence the way that you develop on the web.

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