Google Health To Lauch Soon

Google to Offer Health Records on the Web? What is next for search engine giant?

Yes, it's true, a company known for broadcasting information through its search engine has launched a new Web service called Google Health. Currently in its initial rollout phase, the service will store patients' personal health data and medical records and be viewed online by doctors and other medical personnel.

Read more about the implications this new Google project can have on your personal health information, from experts in the Health Insurance industry.

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Website Grader Gives Out Free SEO Tips

Every once in a while I come across a good tool that catches my eye. Well this particular tool is a Website Grader essentially. It will ask you a few questions and spider your site to access some key information related to how the site has been optimized for search engines and spits out a report fairly quickly to review. You will even get a competitive analysis! This is a great way to initiate any SEO project to get preliminary data on a website. The only thing it did not pick up was my blog which is odd because my blog has been up longer than Marketing is Essential.

Try it out, just type in your Website address, and watch it spit out a report detailing what you can do to boost your site’s SEO juice. Pay attention to your grade as you adjust your website to meet your goals this report should be updating your initial grade!!

Good luck!

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Catchy Linkbait Is Worthless Without Really Good Content

Recently I read an article that came from Search Engine Land regarding LinkBait. What is linkbait? The best definition I could find on linkbaiting was written in a blog by a man named Stuart Brown -- ahhh the love of blogs ** sigh ** Linkbaiting is essentially a piece of content placed on a web page - whether it's an article, blog post, picture, or any other section of cyberspace - that is designed for the specific intention of gathering links from as many different sources as possible. Does it work? It can if it is done the right way but it should not be considered as a sole source of long term traffic. Check out this post from Digg which basically says the best way to handle Linkbait is with really good quality content. Getting to the top spot on Social Network's doesn't mean you will automatically get the inbound links you really want....

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