“If search engines were never invented or they ceased to exist tomorrow, how would you build traffic to your website in a searchless world?”

Not a pleasant question but the answer to it might open up new ways of getting high quality traffic. Brian Provost has a great post about alternate modes of attracting traffic on the internet. It is a comprehensive list some of which are very general by now, however, there are a few others which are worth the read.

Loren Baker at Search engine journal has reported that Neil Patel & Cameron Olthuis Join Text Link Ads. Niel Patel and Cameron Olthuis are social media optimization and link building experts. Both of them made this announcement that they have been hired as Text link Ads experts with Text link Ads.

Neil Patel said on Pronet Advertising Blog:

Cameron Olthuis, a web strategy consultant announced this morning in an interview with Loren Baker that ACS is launching a new personalized social media search tool, Serph, which will enable the users  to know what other people are commenting over the web at the moment.

The sneak peek on Serph gives a brief on its features:

Microsoft felt that there were some mistakes in the technical articles of Wikipedia. Consequently, the company offered cash to a blogger Rick Jelliffe for editing the article. But  paying for Wikipedia copy is not allowed as the founder Jimmy Wales and his volunteer editors, moderators and writers do not allow public-relations firms, workers or anyone else from posting  slanting or fluff  entries which can lead to conflict of interests.

In the month of October Dave Pasternack wrote an article Troubled times for SEO firms where he critically pointed out that marketers are discovering that SEO isn't rocket science. Since this article critically backlashed so Dave has given another interview to DM News Is SEO “rocket science?”: A Q&A with Dave Pasternack.

SEOBlackHat wrote a captivating post on global warming. This post contains thorough research on various aspects of global warming. The research is backed by data and charts and other what nots. You must be wondering how is all this social upheaval related to linkbaiting? Well amusingly it is not the article that catches the eye of the reader. It is the last line that grabs the attention.

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Linkbaiting has been the flavor of the season lately. While Todd, Rand and Nick have written articles on the subject, Aaron Wall is inviting ideas for linkbaiting.

I'm guessing that most of these posts that make digg are the usual "appeal to male techies of a certain age" and focus on google, digg, LED projects, laptop modifications, politics?

MySpace has been beaten on the Alexa ranking front by the big video sharing website YouTube. Last year Google had acquired YouTube after which it has ended up getting more and more visitors. YouTube is ahead of MySpace on daily reach front also. But in terms of pageveiws, YouTube is lagging behind the social networking website. The statistics are from the August of 2006 to 9th January 2007. One reason behind YouTube getting more traffic might be that it uploads video very fast even on the internet speed of 256K.

Linda Zimmer has announced the launch of Second Life Business Communicators WiKi, which would be a resourceful material for the business communicators and marketers. It is under construction. As of now, the wiki features useful information like listing of companies and agencies together with teleport locations of their second life presences.