Welcome to the November 4, 2008 edition of linkedin bloggers! This is my first time hosting a blog carnival, so I’d like to thank you for stopping by. Please check out the blogs listed below – with the wide range of participants, there’s sure to be something to match your interests. If something really speaks to you, I encourage you to join the conversation by leaving a comment. We like that.

Wayne John presents 10 Cool Create an Avatar Web Sites posted at Wayne John, saying, “What web site are these people visiting to create these cartoon styled avatars? I found a mess of them, and tried each one out. If you are looking for a new look on the web, this is a great starting point.”

AndrewB presents Do search engines like your Web site? posted at Personal Plug, saying, “Between 75% and 98.8% of visitors to Web sites come from searches made at search engines. If you’re going to get high levels of traffic – and hence the levels of ROI you’re looking for – it’s very important that the search engines can access all the information on your Web site.”

Prashant K Shukla presents Search Engines or Web Directories | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “After you have built a website and optimized it by tuning its meta tags to the best, it is the time to get it submitted to major search engines and directories. So, that your site gets indexed by the search engines and the directories. There are lot of confusions in submission to search engines and web directories.”

Anne Maybus presents Does viral marketing work? posted at The Tall Poppy, saying, “A great example of the way viral marketing can work and things we can learn from it. http://www.linkedin.com/in/amaybus”

Sandy Naidu presents Publicity Tips For Women Owned Business – Starting Up A Publicity Business – Business Idea Entrepreneur | Interviews With Successful Business Owners posted at Interviews With Business Moms.

AndrewB presents Video – Use Blog Carnival & get FREE Targeted Traffic posted at Personal Hack, saying, “How to explode your search engine rankings and get lots of extra traffic to your website for free.”

Prashant K Shukla presents Role of Meta Title Tag in SEO | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “Meta tags are the blocks which contain information about the contents of your web page and they exist into the head area of your web page. They are basically meant to communicate with the search engine. The Meta Keywords Tag and Meta Description Tag also need to be taken care of and optimized equally in addition to that of Meta Title Tag to secure a place at the top of the search engines and in convincing a search engine that your site’s contents are more relevant than that of your competitor’s.”

Anya Portnik presents Now is the time for sales heroes posted at Gavin Ingham.

Kathie M. Thomas presents Include Your Currency When Quoting posted at Virtual Assistant – THE Blog

Dustin Woodard presents LinkedIn Humor posted at Web Connoisseur, saying, “Linkedin profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/woodard”

Brian Terry presents 4 Great Ways to Explode Your Article Marketing posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, “The idea of building your online business via article marketing has been around for ages. Even before the Internet it was used by publishers to get free content from contributors in exchange of free advertising.”

AndrewB presents How Boost Sales And Boost Profits Effortlessly | Personal Plug posted at Personal Plug, saying, “Nearly all web marketers squander their time hunting one trend to another. Be it SEO, social media, press releases etc. Obviously, I am not saying those techniques are completely ineffective. If accomplished aptly and in the correct situation, they are all vastly valuable. But without the proper basis, they are basically that – marketing processes. They do not earn any sort of earnings without this skill.”

Prashant K Shukla presents SEO and Meta Tags | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “SEO and Meta Tags – Meta Tags play significant role in SEO and if we take utmost care in building these tags, result would be the perfect optimization of our website.”

Simon Stapleton presents The SimonStapleton.com Cancer Charity Fundraiser : SimonStapleton.com posted at Career & Personal Development for CIOs, Technical Professionals and Self-Professed Geeks, saying, “So until the end of this month I am going to help Cancer Research charities by giving $1 for every Digg and Stumble of my site and 50 cents for every comment left!”

AndrewB presents Shared Website Hosting – The Pros And Cons posted at Personal Plug, saying, “For people looking to host a website the most popular and cost effective choice is usually shared online webhosting. Shared online webhosting offers multi platform website solutions for many websites shared online webhosting is the ideal solution.”

Sarah Scrafford presents 100+ Free Open Courseware Links for Web Designers posted at eLearning Gurus.

Susan Tatum presents Are Prospects Searching for You Online? posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.

AndrewB presents Tip On Writing A Feature Article – For Online Success! posted at Personal Plug, saying, “The No.1 challenge of all marketers is getting targeted traffic and targeted paid traffic is rarely cheap. You all know that Adwords costs are skyrocketing these days just like oil prices and it is getting harder to make money using PPC.”

Janet Barclay presents The Importance of R&R posted at From the Desk of Janet Barclay, saying, “How much time do YOU spend working and playing? Please answer this very short survey and I’ll share the results in a future blog post.”

Raymond presents How To Become A Millionaire and Get Rich In 10 Steps posted at Money Blue Book.

John W. Furst presents Todays Lesson: Burying BlogRush Syndicate posted at E-Biz Booster Blog, saying, “It started out with a big, big rush around September 15th 2007. Now it’s history, but don’t miss the one important lesson…”

Prashant K Shukla presents Site Indexing – Great Eight Tips | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “Site Indexing – The most effective SEO technique is to index the pages of new website. There are lot of important issues, one should take care. We are providing a simple guide steps to help you in this regard.”

Raymond presents How To Apply For An American Express Black Centurion Card posted at Money Blue Book, saying, “Behind the mystique and rumors of the fabled Black Card from American Express”

Mark Montgomery presents The Credit Crunch and Financial Aid: What Will It Mean for College Admissions? posted at Great College Advice.

Kathie M. Thomas presents Are You On Facebook Yet? posted at SOHO-Life.com

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of linkedin bloggers using the carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on the blog carnival index page.