Just to make sure you didn't miss any important news this week, here is a super-quick summary!

Google Trends get hourly updates

Finally, Google Trends are updated every hour. Before, it was updating on monthly basics. From now we can get pretty new data and spot fresh trends in affiliate/SEO market.

DMOZ Open Direcotry Lounched a Blog

DMOZ Open Directory (owned by Netscape) has lounched thier blog. They will share there information about news and changes on DMOZ, describe some of their categories etc. They also want to recruit new editors in this way and get feedback from community. http://blog.dmoz.org/

Google Founders In Top 5 Richest People in USA

Forbes have published the list of 400 richeast people in United States for 2007. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of Googe, are in top 5. Each of them owns $18.5 billion USD.

Rumor: Google going to buy Sirius Radio

There is a rumor around the net today (TechCrunch, Motley Fool) that Google is going to buy US Satellite Radio provider - Sirius. They propably want a radio station where they can sell their voice ads. What is more important (in my opinion) is that that Sirius owns three satelaties and if Google would buy them they actually would own those satelites!

Google 10th Birthsday

It's Google 10th birthsday and 9th birthsday of Google Corp. Google has some birthay logo today on thier main page.

Google Book Search get new design

Google Book Search get fresh look and this time I like it!

Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool is BACK!

One of my favorite keyword research tools is alive again. Overture Keyword Selector Tool is back on-line and working! Yahoo finally made a good move (Overture is aquired by Yahoo).

Flickr Photos inside Yahoo Image Search

Lately Yahoo has annoucned that from now photos from Flicker will be included to Yahoo Image Search. Yahoo Image Search algorithm will be check such things like title, tags and comments on Flickr. Photos signed as private will not show up on YIS.

Live.com Gets New Design and New Algorithm Is Coming Up

Few days ago main page of Microsoft search engine was redesigned and now we know that it's just a begining of the changes. There is coming a total change of Live algorithm. Search results will be presented in a completly new way, here are few screenshoots and more background on changes: http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2007/09/20/live-search-2-0-begins-rollout.aspx

MSN Video Search - new fres look and new features

MSN Video Search has got new look and new features. It supports Split screen, drag and drop features, it allows to watch video and still do searching. Pretty nice I must admit.

Facebook worth 10 billion US$?

Microsoft is willing to buy 5% of Facebook stocks for up to 500 million US$ which gives unbelivable high price of 10.000.000.000$ for whole Facebook!

Baidu stocks are HOT

I thought that Google stocks are really hot but it seems like there is yet another search engine with really hot stocks. It's Baidu.com, Google main competitor on Chinise market.

Blogs and Blogging are growing as a new fashion on internet. There has become a trend of blogging and it seems everyone is starting his or her own blog. Well, most do it for fun and some do it to showcase their talent while many wish to make money out of it. Blogs are an easy way to open your identity on internet. You don't have to be too web savvy to get a blog and run it. All you need is a simple signup on any free blog provider like wordpress.com or Blogger.com and you are of to start a blog.

Well, running a blog is something and making money out of it is something else. You need to have some extensive knowledge before you can make some decent money from your blogs. You will need a basic training on some technical parts like to maintain and update blogs code, customizing the data and on top of it hosting it one your own server. While you can choose free blog providers like bloggger.com to host your blog but its lot better to host it on your own server which will give you more flexibility to customize the blog.

Running a blog is easy but making money out of it is a bit hard. You have to be consistent with your blog to get some decent traffic which in turn will convert into clicks. There are many ways of monetization that you can implement on your blog and test which one works best for your blog. Following are few tips you should always try when you plan to make money out of blog.

Contextual and In-page Ads

This is the most common way to make money from blogs. You can use contextual ads from Exoclick.com to monetize your blog. If you are a famous blog and have a good amount of readership then your traffic will automatically turn into clicks which will bring in more money. But just inserting ads into blog does not complete the process. You have to use the ads according to your site and in the best way so it increases the Click through Rate. Your users have to click your ads in order for you to make any money. SO, it's very important that you mix-up your ads with the content to have more clicks. You can always have the professional help of ExoClick to monetize your blog through contextual advertisement.

Affiliate and referral links

Affiliate links have been one of the most interesting make monet online tool. There are people making 6 figure income only through affiliates and referrals. You can too use affiliate and referrals links of other products that you like and can promote it through your site. If your visitors like your product and buys it then you are going to have a good income through the commission. It is very easy to add affiliate links on your blog but it is hard to find people buying your product. Your product has to be very good which strikes the user and he buys it. So, when you decide on the product, think carefully on what you choose and whether it suits your blog theme or not.

Soliciting though blogs

In this process you won't be selling anything to your viewers, but rather will depend on their kindness and will seek their help. You can ask donations and contributions either in form of money or goods for a charity or things like that. If your viewers like what you write and what you are offering them then they are certainly going to help you. Though this does not seem a ethical way to make money but there are people who do it.

Blogging to market

Blogs make it easy to market your product or service. If you have a product or skill to do something like designing or programming then you can promote your service through your blog. Blogs are a great way to find new potential clients and if you can have decent promotional campaign then it wont be too late that you will have tons of projects flowing to your way.

Blogs have turned into a powerful tool for marketing world and it has got great potential to change the way companies do their business. Blogs have brought customers closer to the companies and have made direct conversation easier. So, never underestimate this power and start blogging now.

Well, what is your first option when you have to store a website's URL? You are certainly going to bookmark it in your browser and check them again whenever you want but what if you have a list of bookmarks stored in your home pc and you are away somewhere and suddenly you need to visit a site that you had bookmarked and forgot it's URL. Now you are stuck. You either have to get back to your home pc or do extensive search on Google to hopeful find the site.

But there's one more option and that's called social bookmarking. After the rise of Web 2.0 social bookmarking developed very quickly. Tons of websites flashed all around webs inviting users to add their favorite website's list into their database. Normally, Social bookmarking sites work on same principle of traditional bookmarking. You add a website and tag it with a keyword and it appears on your profile page. So, next time whenever you need to see your favorite website just open your profile page from your social bookmarking site and all of your links will be placed in front of you.

Social Bookmarking for online promotion.

Social bookmarking sites provide a good platform for online promotion. They give a place where you can add your links and show it up to millions of users of the sites. Moreover sites like del.icio.us, Stumbleupon and Digg.com have grown in such a tremendous speed on providing quality traffic that sometimes the amount of traffic from a social bookmarking website exceeds the amount of traffic coming from Google or Yahoo!. This has changed the way web marketers used to promote their website. Sites like Digg and Stumbleupon have a huge army of diggers and stumblers who are always proactively waiting to add the content into the sites and visit the sites that come up in results. There have been lots of stories where traffic coming from Digg or stumble have created Bandwidth Outage to many websites, so you can understand how powerful these sites have become and what potential they have to promote a site.

Expertise Social bookmarking

In recent days content syndication and sharing are growing like never before and that's all because of social bookmarking sites. According to a survey conducted by Pew Internet and American Life project almost 28% of internet user are using social bookmarking sites to tag or categorize there contents like photos, news and blog posts.

For companies that are big and have a good IT consultants will not have problem implementing social bookmarking into their system but how small and medium sized business are going to do it ? Well, its lot easier and cheaper to implement social bookmarking tools into your site. The increase in Web 2.0 sites have brought in many free tools that you can use to easily integrate the power of social media into your sites. These tools help your users to syndicate and share the content with social bookmarking sites helping you reach the front page of these social bookmakring sites. Most Web 2.0 sites and platform like blog hosting softwares come built in with these tools but it is responsibility to owners of traditional sites to implement these tools into their sites. Only blogposts are not the thing to be bookmarked. You should also add Press Releases, articles, updates and any content you publish into these social bookmarking sites.

Social bookmarking is a powerful tool and if used properly can give more return than even paid campaigns fail to provide. So, next time whenever you write a blogpost don't forget to digg it.

Well, choosing a domain name can be a serious business if you don't start right away. You have to register the domain even before you register your company. If you want your business to have a brand name in internet then you must need a top level domain of your brand in your name. Moreover for business that completely works online requires a good domain name for their business. You cannot just settle for a secondary tld or go for an uncommon name. You domain name must reflect your business name.

In early days it was easy to get a name whenever you require since there were not much domainers in those days but today finding a common English name is almost impossible since almost all dictionary words have been registered or are available only in secondary tld format like in .info or .biz. It is very important that you have a .com domain to have a potential value in internet.

Why registering a good name is so difficult?

First thing is that almost every common name is registered and second is that there are tons of other business doing business in same name as of yours so, it is highly possible that your business name is already taken by others. You either have to be a big Multi national company to spend huge dollars or have full copyrights of your business name to get the domain back else you will have no luck in getting the domain name for your business.

Now you have very little chance to get a good name. So what options you are left with. Either to go with the full name of your business, but that can be too long in some times can be daunting task to write the domain in the browser's Address bar. You need to focus on short and sweet domain name for your business. There are few steps though you can take care of to get some real good alternative domain name for your business.

4 easy steps to find a good domain name

1. Go with your business name. If you are lucky enough you will find your business name. If you do so then register it for almost 5-10 years. Moreover if you are planning to expand your business across countries than register the domain for all those countries that you want to expand to.

2. Try your own niche. These days there are lots of newer tld like .tv, .fm, .name, .biz, .jobs, .pro, .travel, etc. If your business falls in any of these category than you can choose the name with these tld too. Though it will be hard initially to promote this name but once you create a brand it will be lot easier to handle such tld.

3. Create a flagship product with a unique name and create brand around it. Make it so popular that your business name goes along with the brand. It can expensive in times but will work if you can create a potential brand name.

4. Go for combinations. Try adding synonyms or extra word to the name. Be careful not to use dashes in domain name. Alternative names too can be difficult to find but they are easier to get than a one word domain name.

Ultimately whenever you decide to register a domain name, do it with a good registration company. Make sure that they provide all the features to handle the domain name with their Control panel. Don't go for cheaper websites that may disappear after few years. So, keep these ideas in mind and register a good name for your business. You will surely find a great name to build your brand online.