SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more. SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and keyword phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog. Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs. Finally SEO Smart links allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window. It is a perfect solution to get your blog posts interlinked or add affiliate links to other sites. Everything happens completely transparent, and you can edit the options from the administration settings panel.

WordPress Plugin SEO Links Plugin

SEO Smart Links looks for keyword phrases that match the titles of your posts and pages by default (and you can enable categories and tags matching too). These phrases are then turned into the links. The matching is case insensitive and the original case is preserved. So If I mention Amazing Grace, which is my theme and also the title of one of my pages, it will be automatically converted into a link. Everything happens completely transparent, and you can edit the options from the administration settings panel.

SEO Smart Links allows you to interlink the content on your WordPress site automatically. For example if I mention my wordpress theme Amazing Grace, it will be automatically linked to the matching page on my blog. You can edit the option what you want to be parsed for possible links (posts, pages and comments) and what should the plugin target with keywords (posts, pages, categories and tags). Category Search allows you to add category names to your search results. For example if you have 200 categories and you wanted them to appear in search results, you couldn’t. Now you are able to include those categories as well.

Why use No-Follow Links

1. As long as search engines are concerned, on most blogs category pages will carry irrelevant information since category names are likely to be too general to rank for (like my categories WordPress, SEO etc.)
2. Category pages are source of duplicate content
3. No-follow links allow you to direct the flow of your link equity to the pages or websites that you want to share link value with.

In-site linking is extremely important as it tells search engines what pages have the highest level of importance to you. Its for this very reason that tags are very important for any blog.

You can find this SEO Link Wordpress Plugin at WordPress

How to use the WordPress plugin – SEO Smart Links

Just install activate it on your blog. Default options are enough to get you going. If you want to tweak it, you can always edit the options. Be sure to check “ignore” options where you can state what keywords and phrases not to link.

• = How do I enable SEO Smart Links cache?
• Make sure you have enabled WordPress cache by adding this line to your wp-config.php
• define(ENABLE_CACHE, true);
  Please be careful when editing this file and always make a backup!

SEO Smart Links Installation Instructions

Microsoft tags have started showing up in magazines and newspapers. Tags can also be placed on business cards, products, and even large outdoor signs.

“It’s the hyperlink in the physical world,” said Marja Koopmans, marketing leader for Microsoft’s start-up accelerator unit.

Tags can link to anything from a Web page to an online brochure or electronic business card (see video below). Golf Digest magazine, for example, uses tags to link directly to YouTube videos that can be viewed on an iPhone or other smartphone. That allows the magazine to, essentially, include not just how-to articles, but also instructional videos within its publication.

To be able to “read” tags with your phone, you need to download a piece of software; luckily enough, Microsoft has supported most modern smartphone operating systems, including several varieties of Symbian, the iPhone OS, Android, BlackBerry and others.

Check out CNET’s video about Tag below.

TechCrunch reported that Steve Jobs is talking about the new Apple Tablet as his pride and joy. We have never heard this kind of excitement come from Steve before, but it reminds me of Bill Gates when he said the same thing 7 years ago when talking about the PC tablet. It looks like this time everyone has finally caught up with the technology and is ready for the tablet technology. Back when Bill Gates was talking about his PC Tablet the iPhone was not even a concept.

With every major technology company talking about mobile being the way of the future it makes you wonder how integrated the Apple Tablet is going to be. If anyone has sneak peak – please let me know.

Bill Gates is finally online with his very own Verified Official Twitter Account

Bill Gates is a huge philanthropist and has helped people all over the world with his foundation that he and his wife started. His foundation had a donation from several billionaires to help his efforts with the needy. The Bill & Melinda Foundation is using social media to help the foundation and its efforts to help out. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF or the Gates Foundation) is the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. The foundation is “driven by the interests and passions of the Gates family”. The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and in America, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology. The foundation, based in Seattle, Washington, is controlled by its three trustees: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett. Other principal officers include Co-Chair William H. Gates, Sr. and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Raikes. It has an endowment of US$35.1 billion as of October 1, 2008. The scale of the foundation and the way it seeks to apply business techniques to giving makes it one of the leaders in the philanthrocapitalism revolution in global philanthropy, though the foundation itself notes that the philanthropic role has limitations. In 2007 its founders were ranked as the second most generous philanthropists in America.

Bill Gates Official Twitter Account

This question has finally been answered by Bing with the end of year 2009 search query top 10 search queries being published.

Here is the list Bing came up with:

1. Michael Jackson
2. Twitter
3. Swine Flu
4. Stock Market
5. Farrah Fawcett
6. Patrick Swayze
7. Cash for Clunkers
8. Jon and Kate Gosselin
9. Billy Mays
10. Jaycee Dugard

I try to keep you informed as much as possible with the latest and greatest news in the Social Networking World, Search Engines, and with anything new and interesting with the Internet. The information posted at Twitter mostly points back to here.. Be sure and Bookmark this site.

http://twitter.com/james_st_john

Increase Your Following By Going Niche, How To Find Your Website Niche.

First of let me explain a few things about finding a targeted or niche industry to do business in. There are only a handful of companies who are able to be the all-in-one retailer online or off and can get away with it, and in many cases the places are still within a niche. For exmpale Wal-Mart; you may think that they do anything and everything from fixing your car to selling groceries. But in fact they are following a very specific goal and niche. The goal that wal-mart is trying to accomplish is to allow you to do all your general shopping from them within one stop. This is why they have hobbie related goods, electronics, recreational, groceries, and simple car maintenence services and goods. Lets not forget that they also have toys (which are conveniently on the opposite side of wal-mart as anything else a child may need like clothes.

Wal-Mart has the goal in mind to be able to sell you all you would ever need to get through the month and to do it at a discount price. They are not known for quality, they are only known for cheap products at cheap prices.

So you are probably asking what in the world this has to do with choosing a website niche to operate your online store, but in reality this concept has everything to do with your store. You must narrow down exactly what you goals are and what price ranges you want to sell within (if you are selling products or services. And you also must narrow down your products to be very niche. I recommend going as niche as possible to allow you to rank easier for those specific term or keyword phrases. For example: assuming that you would like to sell crafts for the house but your not sure what products to use, I would recommend finding the products that you are the most familiar with and enjoy selling. In this example we will choose candles. But in order to sell a niche product you will want to be more specific than just candles or crafts. You will want to sell scented candles, or fake candles, or multi-colored candles. Once you have narrowed the niche down to its core you can then break it down even further to get the most out of your website. For example you may want to then allow users to search by size, color, or scent.

All of this may seem to in-depth but trust me if you are going to start a website that sells products you are going to want to narrow your selection down to its core to find out what your niche is based on product, price, and how much you love are endorse the product that you are selling.

Its starting to become a regular occurance when Microsoft finds a great piece of software from another company, then steals it, re-brands it into their software, and sells it. Then the small company will sue Microsoft and without a doubt in anyone’s mind Microsoft it once again found guilty, and then they appeal it to a higher court wasting time that our judicial system could be using to make the world a better place.

Let me start by saying I have always been a fan of Microsoft, I use a lot of software that they make including Windows, but everytime I hear a story like this it makes me re-think my loyalty to the company. In fact it makes me want to switch to a Mac as my primary computer right away.

A federal appeals court ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling its Word program in January and pay a Canadian software company $290 million for violating a patent, upholding the judgment of a lower court.

But people looking to buy Word or Microsoft’s Office package in the U.S. won’t have to go without the software. Microsoft said Tuesday it expects that new versions of the product, with the computer code in question removed, will be ready for sale when the injunction begins on Jan. 11.

Toronto-based i4i Inc. sued Microsoft in 2007, saying it owned the technology behind a tool in the popular word processing program. The technology in question gives Word users an improved way to edit XML, or code that tells the program how to interpret and display a document’s contents.

A Texas jury found that Microsoft Word willfully infringed on the patent. Microsoft appealed that decision, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Tuesday upheld the lower court’s damage award and the injunction against future sales of infringing copies of Word.

Michel Vulpe, founder and co-inventor of i4i, said in a statement that the company is pleased with the decision, calling it “an important step in protecting the property rights of small inventors.”

Microsoft said it has been preparing for such a judgment since August. Copies of Word and Office sold before Jan. 11 aren’t affected by the court’s decision. And Microsoft said it has “put the wheels in motion to remove this little-used feature” from versions of Word 2007 and Office 2007 that would be sold after that date.

“Beta” or test versions of Word 2010 and Office 2010, expected to be finalized next year, do not contain the offending code, the software maker said.

Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft said it may appeal further, asking for either a rehearing in front of the appeals court’s full panel of judges or in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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By JESSICA MINTZ, AP Technology Writer Jessica Mintz, Ap Technology Writer – Associated Press Writer Devlin Barrett in Washington and James St. John also contributed to this report.

Well, students are already complaining that this “upgrade” isn’t working so well. It seems that the most common issue that is being heard so far is the students are not easily able to upgrade from their 32 bit version of Vista to the 64 bit version of Windows 7. In order to do so, it is said that it will require a clean installation of the operating system.

For other folks, there is a hang up in this downloadable option of the upgrade when it gets to a particular percentage where it won’t resume or continue on at all. So, microsoft is hard at work saying that “This appears to be a series of isolated issues that are often related to the user’s Internet provider or installed third-party software.”

It sounds like they are letting students know that the problem could sometimes be resolved by contacting the third party company Digital River helping out with these downloads. They are advised to try redownloading the operating system or that it could be a corrupt file on the computer that is messing with things.

Bing.com displays Twitter results in real-time

In addition to the simple real-time results they will show the results from Bing.com and the Twitter result that is associated with that query. See the image below as an example:

Twitter Seach on Bing.com - Live example