Rand Fishkin, CEO of SEOmoz.org, made some comments on the benefits of Social Bookmarking and SEO. He stated;

First and foremost is that placement in Wikipedia, a highly dug (i.e., Digg.com), blogged about and linked to submission rules the search engine results on those topics. Fishkin also notes that this can be very influential in the traditional media, who troll social networks and the tops of the search results for information and story ideas.Fishkin recommends five specific tools:

Flickr - upload industry-relevant and useful photos of events, conferences, developmentsNewsvine - create a profile with keywords that will become your Newsvine subdomain; submit news stories, comment on popular stories, create connections with regular users

I have to take exception to the statement about MySpace. MySpace is a social networking website that is just 1 step up the ladder from a dating website. As a website owner and president of a web development company, it is very hard for me to believe that Google is going to be looking at MySpace as an Authority site. My daughter uses Myspace (which I dont particularly approve of), and so does my 26 year old step son to rant about anything and offer very little useable content. Mostly, he uses it to socialize with friends and try to pick up girls.
I dont have an account at MySpace, but I did do some browsing of the site. I navigated to their forums and looked at their business section of their forums. Out of the first 10 forum topics, 6 of them were forum postings for MLM opportunities and work at home opportunities. I delete this crap from my email box when ever I see it.
One look at the video section and you will see why it is just one step above porn. With titles like Paris Hilton grabs Britney Spears Tit, or Super Hot Contortionist, how can this be taken seriously as an authority site?
Why any business professional would look to Myspace as an authority site is beyond me. I can understand Newsvine, Flickr, Technorati, Digg, and the like, but MySpace? Please.
I guess the next SEO advice will be to place videos on YouTube? Please Google, Dont put any weight on a link coming from MySpace.

I have, over the years, experimented with several different web traffic tracking systems. I have tried all of the free ones that come with various hosting services like Analog, Awstats, and Webalizer. I have tried samples of various commercially available tracking systems as well.

The one system I have found that I really like is NetTracker. Net tracker gives great detailed reports about where my traffic is comming from and where they go. It gives technical reports on errors, and server useage as well. The think I like best about it are the easy to read Executive Dashboards and the ability to send a dashboard to any potential advertiser who wants to see web stats.

Here is a picture of the dashboard;

If you are looking for a solid, commercially available web analytics solution, I highly reccommend NetTracker.

Join me in welcoming Randy Stone and John Davis to our team here at CAD Enterprises LLC and CADWebsiteDesign.com

Randy has joined our team as a website designer bringing fresh new designs with a great eye for graphic design.

John has joined our team as a programmer bringing with him mastery of php and mysql along with visual basic, cobalt, c, c++, the list goes on …

The addition of these 2 guys rounds out our staff to 8 people total with 2 programmers and 3 designers and 3 administration or account management.