Well, your SEO blogger may have been under the weather lately, but that doesn’t stop the flood of SEO news coming in.  To hlep me get back in the swing of things, and to get you caught up, here’s just some of what’s been going on lately:

German Internet sales grew in 2008. Despite the economic [...]

Your search engine friendly website should have search engine friendly URLs.  If your home site is in English, this means having URLs that (ideally) look like this:
www.mysite.com/url/nice.html or like: www.mysite.com/nice-url.html, but not like:
www.mysite.com/url/really/too/long.html and definitely not like:
www.mysite.com/2343459/2343893skjr/gibberish/messy/url/is/uninviting/to/click_on.html.
Even if your URLs are generated in a database, cart, or CMS, you may have some ability to take [...]