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.

One of the latest fad among social networking has been the use of Twitter ,which mainly uses the concept of microblogging.Infact once you have created a twitter id, and you click the "Home" option,you will be directed to a page which says "What are you doing?". Also,through twitter,we can follow people and also allow other people to follow you. Each entry that we make in twitter is known as a "tweet".And all the people who are using/logged in twitter are known as "tweeple".Also if people who follow you feel that your tweet is useful/informative ,they can retweet it and make it inturn visible for their followers.

From the Search Engine Optimization(SEO) point of view,most people use twitter to widely increase traffic to their sites.If you can tweet regular updates regarding your business or organization,your clients can also be up-to-date with all the happenings.Additionally you can drive immense traffic only if there are many followers to your twitter id. In other words twitter can be utilized as a Search Engine Marketing(SEM) tool.

However posting any links in twitter ,though can increase traffic to your site will not add to the Page rank of your site as all the links posted in twitter are by default "nofollow".

Increasing website traffic is one of the most important and tedious tasks for those maintaining their own websites.A thread was started on this topic in the forum: forums.seo.com.We had posted a query in this discussion on Nov11th regarding how to convince people to give backlinks to your sites.

A response is posted on the same day by the member "Brainerd Minnesota".Check it out to know how to obtain relevant backlinks.

The above discussion can be viewed at forums.seo.com/showthread.php?t=3825

The commonly used tag in HTML is the span and the paragraph tag.Sometimes people are in a dilemma as to which tag to be used especially in tables.

In one of the best forums sitepoint.com, a thread has been started lately as to which tag needs to be utilized.4 people have commented in response to the thread.

However the last comment also includes links to other sitepoint locations,with detailed explanation of the span and the paragraph tag.

Here is the location of the thread : sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=655664

Most people these days prefer to utilize videos in their website, as it makes a great impact on the visitors viewing their sites. In order to drive traffic to your site, it is important to optimize the videos for seo .

A discussion in webconfs.com has focused on the importance of  video optimization.

The above thread in forums.webconfs.com/t3236-p2-video-optimization.html seems to have been going on for several months. Many people have expressed a positive future in the area of video optimization.
Also check out the link mentioned in the first posting of this thread.