Google Analytics is a great free tool for monitoring your web traffic.  Most every webmaster would probably agree that it's important to have some kind of statistical tracking on your website, but few that I know actually *use* the data for anything useful. 

So here are a couple ideas to get you thinking how Google Analytics can help you improve your site's search rankings:More...

John Reese, a very established Internet marketer, just released part 3 of his Traffic Secrets 2.0 pre-release videos.  The purpose of these videos is to build hype for his new traffic building e-course.  Personally, I rarely spend money on those kinds of Internet marketing products, but that's not the point of my post. 

All three videos are light on specifics, but they do explain some of the general tactics that his course is based on.  If your current marketing techniques are starting to not work as well as they used to, take a look at these videos as I think they do a nice job of summarizing what I believe are the most current techniques that are still working to promote sites and improve search rankings. More...

As a web developer with many sites, it quickly became a major time consuming problem to keep them all updated with the latest code.  Visual Studio has never had a good solution for deploying the necessary files (and only the necessary files) directly to a web server. 

Sure, they provide a feeble attempt at an FTP synchronization tool, but this tool has never really proved to be anything more than an integrated FTP client, leaving the developer to manually upload the files that need to be uploaded, updating configuration files for the remote server, and most importantly, ensuring that nothing gets overwritten that shouldn't be.  More...