Here are some of the posts and articles from the search engine marketing field we have found interesting lately.

Why Great Content Doesn’t Guarantee You Links
SEJ: When it comes to content creation the most important concept to grasp is the fact that it is an asset. Just like a rental property or some stocks and shares, your content has the potential to generate cold hard currency.

Consumers Still Don’t Know What to Do with QR Codes
Marketing Pilgrim: A new study from Chadwick Martin Bailey shows that people are scanning, but they don’t know what do with the results.

Should computers have their own websites?
New Scientist: Stephen Wolfram, creator of “computational knowledge engine” Wolfram Alpha, suggests that “.data” should join the likes of .com, .org and .net as a new top-level domain (TLD) for organisations to share data in a standard from, creating a “data web” that would run in parallel with the ordinary web.

Building Links & Driving Traffic with How To Posts
Graywolf: From the earliest days of the internet, people have turned to search engines to find information and to solve problems. When you create “how to” posts, you fill this “information vacuum.”

Search Engines Are Winning the War on Content Farms
SE Watch: This time last year, search industry eyes focussed on the general quality of search results eventually causing a storm of protest from all parts of the web regarding over optimized websites that offered little of value to the user – and too many ads.

The 5 Tech Blogs That Will Grow Influence And Explode In 2012
Zesty: We wanted to move away from the usual suspects and share the 5 blogs that we think will have huge break out years in 2012 and dominate the tech space…

Yahoo! Site Explorer Is Dead – What Are the Alternatives?
Marketing Pilgrim: Why was Yahoo! Site Explorer so immensely popular with SEO-optimizers? Well, first, it was free. Second, it offered one of the biggest backlink data sources on the Web. And third, it was very simple to use.