I've been asked for some tips on how to start driving traffic to a new online store, whilst writing the email I thought it best to share this with the rest of you I hope you can all benefit from some of these ideas - often the simplest steps are over looked.

There are a few things I would suggest for you to do which should move you forward in search optimisation and traffic generation.

Many website owners and businesses sooner or later become eager to speed up the process of becoming visible in the search engine results for their targeted keywords. It is important to realize that real organic growth takes time and speeding up the process will only cause more harm than good. Black Hat search engine optimization efforts are an easy way out that at most only offer search engine rankings for a short period of time.

Columbia Pictures are due to begin production of a movie about Facebook and its astonishing rise to internet stardom.

WOW - look what Facebook has become, once a one man show in some pokey Harved dorm room, now over 200 million users worldwide and just to top it off - Facebook makes it to the silver screen.

More news on Bing (MSN, Windows Live etc) this week - according to Nielsen Bing has acquired over 10% market share.

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News about any online phenomenon is close to obsolete as soon as it is reported. This is especially true in reporting on the battle for supremacy between search engine leaders Google, Bing, and Yahoo!.

It is not surprising that it's hard to get relevant information on what recent search market developments mean for the online advertising and SEO community. The search algorithms of these search services are updated daily; interactions between these companies are complex and constantly shifting; proposed corporate partnerships involve anti-trust issues and require the approval of a cautious government.

I've been skimming through the latest Search Marketing Standard and have come across a very interesting article written by Eric King of Anvil Media, Inc.

Eric has written about using RSS to drive more traffic to a website, best ways to do it etc, after reading through this great piece I felt compelled to share these valuable pointers with you.

Ok so it's pretty safe to assume that you all own a website or two, running a website, like any other business means you need to promote it  and what better way to promote the website than via regular search engine submissions and promotion.

Now here's a thought and it was jogged by an email I received just this morning.

I've complained about email auto responder once before, though I think this was over Twitter. The reason being that when we shoot out our newsletter I get 1,000's of thank you emails etc; all of these auto responders.