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 !

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

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.

Social networking sites are one of the best means to promote traffic to your blog.But in order to obtain proper traffic,social networking needs to be used effectively.Most important is to ensure that the title of the blog that your are bookmarking is attractive enough.Additionally provide good descriptions for the blog.Titles and descriptions are one of the most important factors.Also there would be no point in just bookmarking your blog.You need to add more friends and join more groups and it is important to bookmark other people's content also.

Most people using social networking sites or involved in the field of Social media marketing also might have had this question occurring in their minds couple of times.How do we measure popularity in social networking sites?Do we draw conclusion about this on a quantitative or qualitative basis?

The main aim of participating in social media sites is to drive traffic to your sites.But the important factor is what kind of traffic is vital to your site?Quality traffic comes from members who are actively following your details or participating in the social media network.”Quantity” based traffic is obtained from members who are temporary visitors.

Consider these factors also while measuring traffic:
How many members are following (number of users)
How many regular visitors are there (people with interest)
How progressively are the variables rising (increase in awareness)