A recent survey by Burst Media found that 66% of those surveyed use the Internet for "wellness" information. Wellness encompasses fitness, diet, health, and beauty.

In line with other purchasing decisions, 71% of women research wellness compared to 60% of men, but usage by men over 45 years old closely rivals women.

Baby boomers will continue to use the Internet in substantial numbers and many find the website design employed by sites as a critical factor in measuring useful and usable sites from those that are quickly abandoned.

Viewzi is striving to create a visual interface providing interesting search results. Their home page is nothing terribly new but when a search request is made the options provided for results are, well, visual.

I entered web design as my search and was confronted with small flash views providing the user options to choose the method of displaying results.

The shopping view provides results from Amazon, Ebay, Target, and Walmart. The video from Youtube, BlinkX, and Veoh. Photos from Flickr and Smugmug. You get the idea. There are 14 views in all provided on a horizontal slider creating a less cluttered view that should work pretty well at all resolutions.

Fewer and fewer pages out there have silly messages like :

Best viewed using Internet Explorer at 1024x768 resolution

Certainly there are good reasons for this but I find it interesting when discussing compatibility issues with website design clients how many of them are unaware of usability issues poor design methodologies can create.

Simple information found in log files with analytics programs define the criteria for web page creation that will be useful and usable for visitors. Each niche has different result sets and I found it enlightening to identify the differences in two websites, one in the technology arena, the other in building materials.

Is a link simply a link?

It isn't if you know how to get ranked for competitive keywords. Google, Yahoo, and MSN/Live search are all link centric but each has its own algorithm that treats the dozens of factors in ranking somewhat differently. This is why it can be difficult to rank high in all the search engines for your keywords at the same time.

The best way to develop a good linking campaign is to know what is important now, and what is likely to be important in the future. These are the factors we use to get our clients ranked in the search engines.

Google Notebook is a web research tool that allows users to clip text, search results, and images from web pages and place them in notebooks for later use.

Notebook entries can be defined as public or private. So, here's the rub.

I was perusing the various search engines looking at SERP's for various keywords and noticed that on page 3 on Live search that the 30th position for Internet marketing was a public Google notebook entry.