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If you want people to read your blog and actually enjoy it, then I highly suggest utilizing images and video. Look at the blogs that are successful. They all utilize this technique. This particular video takes a look at Mashable to see what they are doing and to provide an illustration for the point.

What’s happening today in the world of Internet Marketing?

Here’s the news for Tuesday, March 8th, 2011.

There is a good chance crawlers are looking for Twitter handles while they are out and about.  We already know the search engines utilize social information and signals in their index.  For example, you can see this information in Google’s “Realtime” vertical.  If you are interested in seeing a live example check out this realtime feed of #smx.

Of particular interest today, and the reason I write this blog post, I had Google actually suggest a URL to me today inside the Google Suggest portion of the Google Toolbar.  The URL that was suggested was one Google claimed was on the topic I was typing in the box and was a URL shared by one of the handles I am following on Twitter.

I tried to grab a screen shot of this Google Suggest feature in action, but I was too late.  It was removed before I got the chance.  Regardless, the social side of the web is blending rapidly with regular search.  Make sure you have your bases covered.  Utilize social with your SEO efforts.

And make sure you have your Twitter accounts available for the crawlers.  Even if it’s only the spam bots. 

Mine is @jasondbarrett and the company’s is @kansascityseo.

This is a quick video I put together to show how Google is optimizing videos they are producing.  As you will see from the footage, Google isn’t exactly too concerned with optimization.  In their case, they are lucky enough to be carried by their brand.

Here is a question we SEO professionals have to address all the time.  Is my site too Flash heavy?  Do I use too many images?  I put together this quick video to take a quick look at a website that is too Flash heavy.  I shot it with my cell phone, so there is no tripod being utilized.  Hang in there with it.  The content is good.