Tips For Cleaning Up Your Blog And Improving Your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Clean up those plugins – If you have been trying out new plugins or widgets for your blog, be sure to delete them if you’re not using them. Do you have too many widgets? Are those widgets slowing down your blog? Digg this! "Spring" via promanex on Flickr under creative commons license. Ahhhh Spring! The flowers are blooming, the trees are budding, and there’s a sense of renewal in the air. But with Spring also brings with it the need to do Spring cleaning. MORE >>

While not as popular as it used to be, Digg still has some great shared posts and news on its site. mix of social bookmarking and community, Blog Engage is similar to Digg and BizSugar with its voting system, but it focuses a lot on just bloggers and is a great starting point for ideas. You can get a widget with different blogs in it, and use this to build some ideas for your own content. This post originally appeared over at our blog resource centre, For Bloggers By Bloggers. Feel free to pop on over and check the rest of For Bloggers By Bloggers out! Here they are. MORE >>

Another excellent free tool for finding relevant influencers across the social media sphere, Social Mention is a real-time social search engine that also provides alerts and a cool buzz-monitoring widget you can add to your website or blog. Digg this! Until fairly recently, keeping track of your organization’s online presence was relatively easy. Other than your company’s website, most mentions were likely in well-known online news sites or trade industry publication sites. Your PR team was aware of most of these as it often had a hand in generating those placements. MORE >>

think about it…when was the last time you actually looked at anything in that annoying ticker widget? Digg this! Nothing says social networking like advertisements. Right? Blech! Apparently Facebook isn’t satisfied with targeting advertisements to you in the right-rail of the Facebook user experience. Not surprising, since just about every Web UX professional will tell you that most web surfers have developed a blindness for content that lives in the right-rail. Obviously, Facebook has to make money. ”), they have to generate revenue through investors or ads. MORE >>

It’s also possible to add a Google Offers widget to iGoogle. Digg this! Last week, Google sort-of confirmed to  Mashable about the existence of Google Offers by reporting that: Google is communicating with small businesses to enlist their support and participation in a test of a pre-paid offers/vouchers program. This initiative is part of an ongoing effort at Google to make new products, such as the recent Offer Ads beta, that connect businesses with customers in new ways. We do not have more details to share at this time, but will keep you posted. Email this to a friend? MORE >>