Details have begun emerging as to why Burst.net were ordered by the FBI to shut down over 70,000 blogs on a free blogging platform called Blogetery. Latest rumours state that material on some of the blogs included messages from Osama Bin Laden, detatils of how to make bombs and explosives and lists of US citizens to be targeted for assassination by al Qaeda.
If you are a Wordpress user, you can now enable the 'Post by Voice' option under the 'My Blogs' tab. This will give you a phone number and pin code which allows you to call your blog by phone. The audio file is then automatically posted to your blog for your subscribers to listen to.
The Google Webmaster Central blog has announced that it has rolled out, across all data centres a new indexing system called Caffeine, which they claim will provide fresher results from a much larger index.
Supermarkets are being advised to seize a significant marketing opportunity - SEO for retailers is likely to attract more customers willing to buy from shops and stores with an online presence.
Google, Yahoo, YouTube and Starbucks are just the tip of the iceberg of April Fools jokes this year. We thought we'd share some of our favourites that we've found so far today.
Google is being paid by the BBC to improve search engine rankings for various search terms - key words and keyphrases - and to ensure the news and entertainment corporation features highly for a range of issues and topics.
For the BBC to be paying for top positions in search engines appears to be troubling the commercial interests of other media.
Web surfers are searching for cheaper deals on the high street by searching for discount vouchers via search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo!
For companies looking to boost sales - and SEO firms - it is important they consider optimising their websites to achieve decent positions within the search engines to reap business benefits.
