UPDATE: I'm back from Crete, after what turned to be one of the best holidays in my life :-). Fresh, full of energy and enthusiasm, I'm already working on several interesting articles that will be posted soon.

I am going on my 2-week (long overdue) holidays in Crete in a couple of hours. That means that all articles that I am working on (including reviews of several very cool tools) will have to wait at least 2 weeks.

But... that may be a great opportunity for you! If you have an idea for an article that would fit this blog nicely, please contact me via the contact form. Include a brief summary of your idea. I should be able to check my email at least every 2 days.

In exchange for your article, you will gain:

• Nice exposure
• A solid back-link
• An opportunity to promote your blog

I really encourage you to take this opportunity.

Have you ever dreamt of the freedom provided by your own online business? If yes, have you ever felt the disappointment of discovering that running an online business may sometimes be worse that the regular 8-5 day job? If you develop content sites in many niche markets, that's more than likely.

If you own a network of white-hat websites in different niches, you invariably face the dilemma of generating content. There are many options, the most popular ones being as follows:

Even while off-site factors may be far more significant today in achieving high rankings, on-site factors are not to be neglected.

Making sure that the code of your blog / site is SEO-friendly is still a very important step. As you maybe using a ready-made template for Wordpress or other CMS, here's a quick tip to make sure that it is not doing harm to your positions in the search results.

When looking through my logs today, I found this great article listing 30 different keyword tools, both free and paid, with short descriptions. This is an excellent resource to discover new tools that you may have never heard about before.

I've some tools that I will try to review a little more in-depth in the coming days.

By the way, my little keyword bookmarklet is mentioned - thanks!

Fantastic sources of keywords are available virtually to everyone - you only need to know where to find them.

When I am looking for new ideas for articles or when I'm trying to optimize some of my content for specific keywords, I very often rely on my own keyword bookmarklet that many of my readers seem to like as well.

The trick is really to find a good starting point for this bookmarklet. Today, I am going to share with you 5 of my best and proven methods (sources) for working with this tool.