Every now and then, a blogger might need to take a break from blogging. If it is a short break, posts can be scheduled in advance. But sometimes, this isn’t possible. So, what happens to your blog when you stop blogging?

Video is becoming more and more popular on blogs. Is this the way to go? Or should we stick with text?

Search engine optimization, the art of making your website more appealing to search engines, can deliver lots of free high quality traffic. But not all techniques work, nor are they all approved of by Google. If you’ve hired an SEO expert to optimize your website, how can you determine if he knows what he is doing?

It takes a considerable amount of time to build traffic via search engines, so it is understandable if you opt to use networking as a way to jumpstart your traffic and get noticed. However, if you plan on making money from your website, networking might be delivering you the wrong visitors.

One of our visitors raised an interesting question regarding the fairness of using search engine optimization techniques to manipulate rankings. He stated that companies with large budgets have an unfair advantage because they could pay for better SEO experts, and thus rank more highly for keywords regardless of whether or not they are indeed the best match. What do you think?

Our friends over at DollarShower.com just announced an SEO contest called the DollarShower SEO Challenge ’09, with $1500 in prizes! Winners will be judged based on improvement in their organic search engine traffic. Join today!

Have you ever spied on a competitor? Perhaps you’ve checked out their pagerank. Or maybe you have just peeked at their Alexa traffic stats. And are you irritated that they seem to be getting more traffic than you, while putting in less effort? Don’t despair, there is usually an easy explanation.

Search engine optimization experts will have you believe that the best way to increase your search engine traffic is through using their tried and true techniques. But did you know that you can actually increase your traffic without using SEO principles?