Maximize your internet real estate by including videos and a separate video sitemap to your website! Google announces their Google Site Map Generator tool. Now, via Google Webmaster tools, you can create a separate video sitemap file complete with title and description tags allowing yet another way for web crawlers to index your page. Their extension of the Sitemap protocol lets webmasters submit all video files and relevant metadata to Google in one file. What does this mean?! More Traffic!

Social Media is the future for the travel industry. Plan your marketing for the future with Social Media outlets, and ensure that you do not live in the past.

Email marketing continues to prove itself as an effective way to communicate with your customers—both existing and potential customers. There are several proven best practices in email marketing which can make your campaign increasingly successful.

SEO book has a extremely powerful keyword research tool which provides date from multiple sources including Wordtracker, Keyword Discovery, and more. The best part about this tool is it’s free.

What keywords are your competitors buying? And what AdCopy are they using? You can always Google the keyword term and see who else appears alongside with your ad, but what if there was a tool that gives you all this information in just a few clicks?

For all Facebook Users, you now have access to a full Yellow Page index, with an estimate database of 15 million businesses so far. MojoPages allows you to search any business within any US city.

SmugMug is a digital photo sharing site that allows members to upload an unlimited amount of photos. Images can be keyword tagged for searching and catigorizing purposes.

Other features include…

• Enables Google Maps integration
• Ability to pull albums directly from Flickr, Picasa, and iPhoto
• Enbed a direct hyperlink within the description of the photo
• Viewers can vote “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” by using PhotoRank.
• RSS Feeds
• Purchase and Print photos

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Contributed by: Mariko Kato, Milestone Internet Marketing