Google Maps quite new wizard to embed a map on your site enable users to copy and past the code (you can also chose among a couple of customization options) directly on your web pages. The following is a sample code obtained this way (>>>> signal returns for formatting purposes):

Ok, so you want to add a video to your web pages but want to avoid using the iframe tag? You can do it, thanks to the magic of HTML and keeping your web standards clean and pure as well.

Flash Movies

If you are looking to embed Flash movies, like the ones served by YouTube, Google Video, or Daily Motion for example, look no further that the two web video repositories for instructions on how to do it. The following example is the D.A.N.C.E. video by French group Justice embedded with the Daily Motion provided code.

As previously posted here, SEO, SEM, and a lot of vaporware, you can save a lot of money and obtain way more results if you implement your own SEO strategy instead of putting your business in the hands of someone's not even good at doing her own web site.

I'm targetting this post mainly at small/medium business with a limited budget available to promote their online presence. Obviously the following is a free and easy approach you should consider even if you are Fortune 500 company and plenty of money to waste. Also consider this applies mainly to Google, but let's be honest, there's just one search engine out there.

There's a service on LinkedIn called Answers. Any LinkedIn user may post a question and get answers from other users; everybody's may give his own advice, suggest links or the name of a supposed expert on the topic proposed. What happens, as everywhere there's a free-not-moderated-everybody-get-in access (which is ok), is the signal-to-noise ratio is quite in favour of noise. For the very peculiarities of LinkedIn everybody's looking to stand out of the crowd, or to promote his own business. Which, again, is ok. As long as you have something intelligent, and honest, to say and you're really trying to give out a tip to somebody's that maybe really need some help.

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION IS TOO EXPENSIVE for small office & home office’s websites. Any advices?

This is the question asked. A very interesting question, since it touches a common problem to lots of small/on a budget business in a global and more and more competitive digital business world. I don't know why, but SEO looks to me one of those fields where sharks are more common. I'm sure you know what I mean.

From the post How to embed a Flickr slideshow in your blog on Download Squad, quoting the HOW TO Quickie: Embedded Flickr Slideshows post by Paul Stamatiou, and as follow up to my previous post on the IFRAME thing, here a way to embed your Flickr slideshow, in a standard way.