Samuel Axon has four writing tips to make blog posts SEO-friendly, so search engines can find, index and serve them up at the top of search results. It's not rocket science, but using these and other SEO tips could help push results to the top of the page.

Relating SEO to fantasy football, Daniel McElroy suggests looking into past fantasy season scores and analytics to help determine strategy. He tells us that a majority of football leagues offer an archive where you can look up weekly scores.

Bill Slawski points to an Apple patent granted this week that provides immediate search-as-you-type feedback. Search input is received within a search field of a Web browser application. Characteristics determine whether to automatically submit a query to a search engine. Yes, Google has been testing something similar. Slawksi tells us Google's pending patent focuses more on showing query suggestions as someone types into a search box, but it also may update search results as a searcher types.

Andy Beard provides feedback on optimizing for Twitter, and suggests that the site likely only wants to rank name and brand. Much of the technical content in the article is not based upon verifiable facts, but rather experience. For starters, he shows us code that prevents Google's bot from crawling historical tweets. And although the post leaves us hanging for Part 2, Beard wraps up this one with tidbits on real time search engine result pages.

Sadaqut Khan tells us how getting overly obsessed with search engine optimization can kill online business. He explains why it's more important to listen to customers rather than an SEO expert who doesn't take feedback into consideration. Khan warns against spending too much time and resources on optimization and not on conversion.

Cindy Krum explains that traditional Web sites rank in mobile search results, especially on a smartphone, but mobile pages can rank well in traditional search, too. She tells us how this happens and ways to optimize mobile sites for searches on personal computer -- but notes she can't tell for sure if different indexes for smartphones and feature phones exist.

Marketers running a paid search campaign on Yahoo or Bing may want to pay attention. PPC Hero put together some solid advice for getting through the Yahoo and Microsoft search alliance transition. It points to the differences, posts graphics to provide a visual view, and explains the combination will consolidate time spent to get campaigns up and running.

Murari Sridharan tells us about how Microsoft Research will speed up the Web, with its project Cloud Faster, aimed at making the Web faster for search, social experiences and more. He describes the changes made on the backend servers that speeds up Web transfers and methods to improve communication in the data centers. The technology needs to process large data sets in a short period of time.

MySpace.com extended a search advertising contract with Google for one month as the site tries to secure a new agreement, according to Bloomberg Businessweek, citing two sources. The agreement should have expired in June and then extended to the end of August, but the two companies continue to hash out the details with no resolution.

When's the last time you read the word "bitchin'"? That how Chris Lake describes 16 Twitter commands. He skips the basics and starts with non-search commands. Then Lake follows up with commands pertaining to search such as how to drill down into search, showing more results and finding local tweets.