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.

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

Webmaster Tools,one of the free tools offered by Google is an extremely useful tool for a webmaster.Once your site is added in webmaster, this tool tracks various factors which helps in improving the status of your site.

Once your site is added, and you click the site name, you will be taken to the dashboard.The dashboard lists all the options available for a site.This includes

• Site Configuration
• Your Site on the web
• Diagnostics

Keyword research is an important technique used by search engine optimization professionals to research and identify the exact terms which people type in search engines in order to perform a search.Keyword research is one of the foundations of search engines and the keywords affects
the following on page factors:

* URL
* Title tag
* Navigation links
* Metadata
* Headers
* Actual Content
* Image names
* Alt attributes

The various tools used for keyword research include Google adwords,Wordtracker, Keyword