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If business owners want to gain a competitive edge online in 2009, a comprehensive strategy is the way to go.Businesses of any size will succeed with online marketing – and blow past the competition – by focusing on multiple fronts at one time to deliver the most favorable ROI.The Internet offers a dizzyingly array of services, everything from search engine optimization and link building to paid search, banner advertising and video marketing. Each has merit and can improve profits.How could it make any sense to let them operate as silos?

For someone who isn't 17, I have to admit that I spend a fair amount of time digging around in MySpace and trying to understand how all the pieces fit together. Indeed, MySpace help is an an important element of my tech Q&A blog too (where I offer tech support and, specifically myspace help).

About three months ago, Ask joined a tree-planting program created by Dell to offset carbon emissions.  Those trees are presumably doing just fine.  The bigger piece of news relates to energy-efficient servers the two companies discussed, and those are also on track.

Unreliable access to one's website when spiders come crawling could result in being dropped from a search engine's index.

Three weeks ago, the New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced he was subpoenaing Facebook to learn how the social networking site dealt with users who were reported for sexually soliciting underage users. The notice came after New York conducted an undercover operation posing as teenagers on the site and reporting the illicit advances that adults made on their profiles.

The OpenCRS database of research performed for Congress, and the Secrecy Report Card from OpenTheGovernment.org, have helped make more information about the federal government available online.

Here's a recent exchange on LiveHelp with blog reader Jerry, who is concerned that his blog efforts aren't paying SEO dividends: Jerry: Hi kalena, I'm writing like crazy but not bumping my seo juice. I was hoping for advice kalena : how are you syndicating your articles? Jerry : I'm not. I'm just blogging. kalena : Ah. Have you registered your blog with as many blog directories as possible?

YouTube cofounder Steve Chen addressed the "speculation" in the media about the video-sharing site's technological efforts to combat copyright infringement.