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Weekly Search & Social News: 12/22/09
Welcome to another edition of ‘7 Days of Search and Social‘ – First off, HAPPY HOLIDAYs to all those partaking. May you and yours have a safe and relaxing time! Now, I had thought things would start to slow down as we got closer to ...
Google’s 2009 Acquisitions : Focus on Mobile & Collaboration
I was reading up on Google acquisitions yesterday and although Google’s acquisition this year is not as many as previous years, particularly 2006 and 2007, Google’s acquisitions in 2009 certainly made sense with their landmark acquisition...
The Psychology Behind Link Giving
The citation method of ranking indexed content is flawed. It is based on human aid, and any technology based on the work of humans is always going to have flaws. Links are the product of what elicits an emotion from website owners, and the link build...
A week worth of treats for SEO geeks
Welcome ot another edition of ‘7 Days of Search and Social‘ – I hope you are well and getting well into another week in the trenches. As is the case with most conferences, things were a bit slow out there as the PubCon effect was in...
Pixelsilk: SEO-Friendly Content Management System
Why would one want to use a content management system? The major benefits include: (1) the ability to easily create and publish web content with no programming language knowledge required and (2) the ability to connect multiple websites and multiple ...
Search Geek Weekly News Update; Google Social Search & More
It’s been another week in the trenches and while it may have been a little slow out there, we did have some big news with Google Social Search. Question remains, will it really be a game changer or just another vertical? And what the SEO commun...
7 Days of Search and Social; more news than you can handle!
Hello my weary web warriors and welcome to another week of news for the search obsessed. It was an interesting week that had some big announcements, app updates, more Super Heroes and the usual collection of gratuitous goodiness that is the world o...
Use Multiple Keyword Research Services with KeywordSmash
KeywordSmash is a free online tool that lets you search every major online keyword research and content source as well as search a number of them simultaneously. The keyword research tools that can be accessed via the site are sorted into the followi...
Yahoo To Discontinue Paid Inclusion Program
At the end of 2009 Yahoo will no longer be offering the paid inclusion advertising program. This unexpected move from Yahoo comes as a shock to most speculators. From Yahoo "We are committing our resources and efforts to our core areas of focu...
Why Some Weak Sites Rank High in Google SERPS
Have you ever noticed a page being ranked "too high" - a page in the top 10 search results which seems to be too "weak" in terms of backlink power and on-page optimization? Well, WebmasterWorld thread has a good theory explaining this: this is anot...
Twitter to Get a $1 Billion Valuation
For a simple site with a large following, Twitter definitely needs all the technical infrastructure it can get. But given the simplicity of its function, does Twitter really need $1 Billion? Well, whether we like it or not, Twitter is about to gain a...
