SEO Question: Is a Yahoo! Directory registration worth it? How do I know what directories are worthwhile? What directories should I submit to? Do you have any good site submission tips?

If I were to start talking about optimizing content, most of our readers immediately conjure up visions of text words, words, words.

An email from Trevor Cook alerted me to a campaign Trevor and Paull Young are undertaking to fight the scourge of astroturfing.

Today’s Google logo features elements of work by Spanish surrealist Joan Mir to commemorate the artist’s 1893 birth, but an organization representing the artist’s estate exploded in anger over what they called a copyright violation.

Aviran shows an image of the “Designed for Windows XP / Windows Vista Capable” logo that manufacturers will start slapping on new PCs to indicate customers should have little problem upgrading to the next version of Windows in nine months.

From the OSGeo Project… The Open Source Geospatial Foundation needs some creative minds to help us develop the “look” for OSGeo.

The Onion ran one of their faux “man on the street” pieces last Thursday, asking “Google recently suffered a 13% percent drop in stock price, the sharpest drop in the history of the company.

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas certainly was the place this week for many companies to announce a dazzling array of new tech products, alliances and ventures.

The Google Store now has Google-branded dog collars and leashes.

Graphic designers frequently play a prominent role in launching or repositioning a company. When they create a look (or new look) for a company’s stationery, brochure, ads and web site, this often goes by the name of an “identity package.”

It takes a matter of seconds for someone to form an opinion of your business and it’s usually your logo that helps them generate that opinion.

If you’ve got the design panache, Blogads.com is looking to bloggers to design a new logo for them. Corporate suits need not apply, however, they’re looking for a more human, user-generated blogospheric feel. If they pick your design, they’ll pony up $1000.

Learn how greatly the symbolic significance of your corporate identity can impact your business. This is a guide to educate you on how an experienced designer can help you through a project whose outcome you will need to live with for years.

Any business with the minimum interest to be successful should concentrate on developing their corporate image and when I say “any business”, I mean it, absolutely any business-even if it’s a mom-n-pop shop.

You’ve done it all right content, title tags, descriptions, keywords, advertisers, link partners and Google has approved you as an AdSense publisher!

First Things First

Having a business card is usually the first priority for any business. Without a business card, it’s almost impossible to network and meet with new clients.

In their efforts to further their commitment to turning the web into one large community, Yahoo Search has begun listing the most popular image searches on their Image Search homepage.

Google has a tradition for celebrating particular calendar events of note. Whenever there is an important date the search engine wants to acknowledge, they do so by altering the main Google logo to fit the occasion.

Findwhat, Espotting, and Comet Systems, disparate properties which have been brought together through acquisition, will now come together under the Miva brand, the e-commerce storefront company that had also been part of the group.

What makes one logo better than another?

Experts urge small business owners to “brand” their business – to use a logo and a set of consistent marketing materials. But, they rarely go into the reasons behind this advice. Here’s a list of some of the benefits to having a professionally designed logo and marketing package: