Google just added a new and very important filter to their search home page for Blogs.

After the search results index for your key word, click more on the left column and select ‘Blogs’. At this point you can also select the option to be given the blog’s homepage rather than the particular post url.

If you’re involved in blogging, you probably know that it’s important to network with other bloggers within your niche. While Google’s filter won’t list them all, it’s a great tool use along with others to help identify the people you should be friends with.

Getting in contact with these blogs will present opportunities to increase the reach of your blog and the activity on your blog by getting more comments from another blogs writers and subscribers.

If your involved in seo, you probably know that blog commenting is a key aspect to creating quality back links. Using this blog filter is an effective way to locate blogs and individual posts that would be relevant to the content you’re writing.

This filter won’t tell you which sites are ‘do follow’ blogs, but again you can combine this filter with other browser plugging to find out if the blogs are do follow.

Can you use this simple filter as a helpful tool in your blogging and SEO?

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What stands between you and the top ranking position in Google?

Whom are you really competing against?

I think a lot of people automatically imagine that the sites that rank above them are some super SEOing geniuses that can’t be beat.

Disclaimer: There are some niches that are dominated by sites that have been around for a while and have a metric ton of inbound links ( i.e. the 800 lb. gorilla). But what about the niches that don’t have a competition killer?

The Naked SEO report by dotSEO revels that your competition may not be as stiff as you think it is.

Check this out, dotSEO surveyed 1000 small businesses and these are the answers they got.

Fact number 1: 60% of small business marketers surveyed do not currently invest in SEO

Fact number 2: Just 15% see SEO as an important or crucial part of their marketing strategy

Fact number 3: 23% are unsure what SEO is, or the benefits it can offer

Fact number 4: 30% have no plans for SEO in the next 12 months

Why am I telling you this?

If you’re of the 60% who don’t do SEO, or just someone who has done the bare minimum…Well, you’re could be moments away from taking a major leap away from that pack.

Think about it…somewhere around 60% of your competitors aren’t even using SEO. ONLY 15% see SEO as an important part of their marketing? And 23% are unsure what SEO even is!

If this is all true, how much would a solid SEO strategy help you get a top spot?

It’s all about being one step ahead of your competitors. In this case, it’s about being one ranking above the rest.  And based on the results from said report, getting one step of head of someone who isn’t taking any steps isn’t that hard!

Question: Is there any shame in taking advantage of the many sites that are ignorant about SEO by simply implementing an SEO strategy of your own? Comment Below!

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Facebook went after Google Adwords with Facebook Ads, and now they’re going after Google Search with their new Open Graph Search Engine.

Most people are excited about this because they love to see someone challenge Google’s empire.  But me, I’m excited for a different reason. I can smell a new avenue for some mega-effective SEO.

Before I go any further. I don’t think Facebook is going to be knocking out Google just yet. They’ve got a lot of work to do to compete with Google’s extremely advanced search engine, but you never know what else Facebook has up their sleeve.

So here’s how it’s going to work.

Facebook is giving webmasters 2 tools to use to index their page for Facebook Search. 1- “Like” button to install on their pages that Facebook users can click. 2- A set of tags that allows webmasters to tell Facebook what their site is all about.

The search results that Facebook gives will be based on how many ‘Likes’ the page has received and the information provided in the tags.  Essentially creating a search engine based on “likes” instead of “links”.

Here’s why you need to get your SEO skills warmed up and ready.

We’ve seen what Facebook did with Ads, so I think it’s fair to say their search engine has some strong potential to become a big time player, Especially since they have Bing powering it.

Since Facebook is giving us the opportunity to improve our search rankings with them by utilizing some pretty sweet tools, it should be worth getting in on.  And like most SEO campaigns, it’s a good chance to save dough and get continuous results without continuous work.

Do you think Facebook Search will succeed?  Let me know your thought, comment below!