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It has been 10 months since I last posted anything to x7SEO.com.  A lot of things have been going on with several large projects that have occupied almost all of my time.  But during these 10 months something interesting has happened.  This website has moved to the front page of Google for the search term “learn seo”.   x7SEO.com had been bouncing around between 20 and 40 for quite a while but now it is showing up on the front page…. number 6 in fact.   I am curious how this and subsequent postings will affect this ranking and whether or not I can maintain it by writing here again.

I was doing a search for search engine marketing on Google and saw Bing advertising in the sidebar via Adwords.  Has anyone else noticed this? I think it is interesting that Google is allowing Bing to advertise on Google.  Here is a screen shot. Click for larger view

I suppose the title of this blog post says it all.  It is a little long I will agree.  I certainly have not learned all there is to know about SEO, but I realize there are many changes going on at this time and I want to discover and learn more about off site techniques including social networking to drive traffic to my websites.  I guess the question I am asking myself is which is more valuable and produces the best results; off site social networking to drive traffic or onsite SEO for the search engines and subsuquent discovery by visitors.

I am curious as to what your opinion is?

Testing the Twitpress pluging since changing my Twitter username to see if it still auto updates.  Changed my Twitter name to reflect the name of this blog, x7SEO.

Got a pleasant suprise this morning while looking at Bing. This blog is on the first page of returns for the search “learn SEO” on Bing.  I am at number 10 but everyone knows the importance of first page listings.  I have been hovering between 15 and 20 on Google for about 6 months so it will be interesting to see if there is an increase in traffic.