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Introducing a new way of finding places on Google. Rate and review the places you go using Hotpot, our new local recommendation engine, and we’ll personalize your searches to match what you like. The more places you rate and share with your friends, the better your search results. Start rating now at http://google.com/hotpot.

Making the right technical choices when you build your website will affect the extent to which you can easily improve your on-site SEO. At the very least, your CMS should provide you with enough flexibility to build a site that is both usable by you, the site owner, and by your site visitors.

Once you have settled on a technical architecture, you will need to decide on a site structure that best exposes your content to site visitors, and to the search engines.

The easiest way to think about your site structure, is how you will expect visitors to navigate and find content once on the site. Some questions you will need to answer to help you come up with the best structure, will include…

- What pages will the homepage link to?
- How many, and what are the top level content categories?
- How deep will these content categories be?
- How will relevant pages link to each other?

The answers to these questions will should result in a fairly obvious navigational structure. Be sure to test it with real users too. Getting your on-site usability right is just one aspect you should be considering as part of your overall SEO plan. This navigation structure will also help web crawlers to determine what pages are considered the most important on the site. It will also help to establish the relevance of any content you might have to specific topics too…………………..!!!!!!!!

About the Author: Ben C Hoss – San Jose SEO. If you have any Search Engine Optimization needs or questions, feel free to contact me.

   Quick overview of how to take a garden variety web app built with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and convert it to a native iPhone app using PhoneGap.

In this example, I used jQTouch to style and animated the web app, but this would work with any web app or JavaScript framework.

You can learn more about building iPhone apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript here:
http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/

  Glenda Watson Hyatt, aka the Left Thumb Blogger, shares how blogging with WordPress has enabled her to be heard by the world and increased her circle of friends. She blogs at http://www.doitmyselfblog.com.

When you first start thinking about marketing your website, it is very easy to be lured into thinking that getting a higher ranking in Google is a game and that you need to resort to trickery in order to accomplish your goal.

The purpose of this article is to teach you why Google should not be the main focus of your website marketing or article submission efforts.
Strangely, in order to succeed with the search engines, you need to stop making them the primary focus of your website marketing efforts, because:

- Google and Yahoo are not your website visitors.

- You can’t build a relationship with search engines.

- Search engines are not interested in becoming your customers.

- Search engines won’t refer others to you after having had a great experience with you.

- Most important of all, Google and the other search engines won’t be spending any money with you!

Don’t get me wrong – it is important to keep search engines in your peripheral vision and design and market your site so that it’s easy for them to determine what your site is about. Google shouldn’t be ignored, but it also certainly shouldn’t be the central focus of your site building or article marketing efforts.

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Check in with Google Latitude. Update Google Maps in Android Market and then join Latitude from the main menu to start checking in at the places you go.

- Check in at places such as restaurants to let friends know you’re there.
- Get automatically checked out when you leave.
- Turn on automatic check-ins at places you choose or check-in notifications in Latitude’s settings.

Learn more from the blog post:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011…

“If You’re So Smart… Why Can’t
You Do Math In Your Head?”

Discover the amazing techniques from Ancient India that will have you figuring in your head, faster than most adults can with a calculator…

If you are interested in checking it out, click here to find out more

Have you ever dreamed of creating your own great game or application for iPhone or iPad with no programming skills in just 4 weeks and hit pay dirt with it in the App Store?

If you are interested in checking it out, click here to find out more