My first day at SMX West 2008 was spent in sessions focused on optimizing video, images, local results and more for blended search results as well as link building strategies.

I’m heading out west again the week of February 25th. This time for Search Marketing Expo West, which I am very excited about. Not only because I get to escape the snowy unpredictable Cincinnati weather for a week, but I’m looking forward to the advanced level of a search engine marketing conference.

Google’s Analytics Evangelist, Avinash Kaushik recently discussed some interesting updates related to Google’s user stats and the trends they are seeing. Avinash said, “the average number of keywords per query has gone from 3 to 4 words per query on average for the first time ever!” How does that affect your site’s content?

There are 75,000 new blogs created every day (including this one today), and many millions more already up and running. Should you join the crowd and have a blog for your business? The short answer is yes! At least you should seriously consider it as we have.