For those of you who have blogs published through FTP,you might have noticed the following message incorporated by google when you logged into blogger.

"FTP publishing will no longer be available after May 1, 2010 .You currently have blogs that are published using FTP. You must migrate your blogs to a new custom domain URL or a blogspot URL. To learn more, see our dedicated blog and help documentation."

One of our blogs was being published through FTP and we had noticed this message for quite some time while logged in blogger.We were in a dilemma whether to proceed with the migration or not considering the consequences involved in this. Eventually we had decided to proceed with the migration after going through the video at blogger-ftp.blogspot.com/2010/03/ftp-migration-tool-released.html.With the help of this video, we were able to perform the migration successfully ,by choosing the custom domain URL.

The video regarding the blogger migration tool was clear enough and we had to refer to this URL google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47283 for adding the CNAME to the DNS for our domain name registrar.So migration as such was not a difficult task.

The search engine giant “Google” is always out with something.This time they have created a buzz with Google Buzz. Well,most of us might have been hearing a lot about this tool lately. Majority might be aware of the utility of this latest buzz. For others,who are yet to catch up on this recent technology addition,here is what Google Buzz is all about.It’s a microblogging and social networking tool which can be used within our very old and popular Gmail.More precisely,Google Buzz just combines the features of the most popular “FaceBook” and the recent fad “Twitter”.So in a way, Google has just built upon on previously existing concepts.

Here are some of the features that Google Buzz guarantees:

• Follow other individuals and/or be followed by others
• Ability to publish your posts to your friends/family/colleagues and obtain comments to your Gmail inbox in real-time.
• The feature to post messages in private or public mode.
• It is possible to share links, photos and videos with followers or those you are following.
• The facility to maintain all your social networking friends' conversations in one spot.
• Sharing from your Androids or iPhones is also a possibility with Google Buzz.
We just experimented with Google Buzz and found all the above (though we didn’t test the last one) as important features.In case you are a person who has not yet started tweeting on twitter, Google Buzz would be a real excitement !

Sitemaps , an important segment for any website helps in giving a clear picture of any website as well as assists in quicker crawling of each page of the web. While adding blogs in websites,it is possible to create additional sitemaps. But does creating these blogs benefit the Google Bot?What are the advantages and disadvantages,if any in adding additional sitemaps?

In the forum, forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1473162, the user has queries regarding adding 2

Keywords are one of the most essential aspects when it comes to SEO.There are a lot of basic,yet important factors to know when it comes to optimizing your site.In the site,forums.seochat.com,a number of useful threads with regard to keywords is available.An in-depth discussion is available in the forum for each of the
following areas:

• Using multiple keywords in anchor text

forums.seochat.com/keywords-30/multiple-keywords-as-anchor-text-268169.html

• Finding good keywords to bring traffic?

forums.seochat.com/keywords-30/how-to-find-good-keywords-which-can-bring-good-traffic-265947.html