In the dynamic and ever changing world of Search Engine Optmisation it can be a very time consuming process to try and keep up with all the news and information that is available. Here we have selected what we consider to be some of the best available News Feeds about SEO.
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Search Engine Watch – SEO News Feed
Search Engine Watch
Keep updated with major stories about search engine marketing and search engines as published by Search Engine Watch.SEO vs. PPC Debate — Which Do You Prefer?
10 Mar 2010 at 4:01pm
There’s a growing divide between online marketers who enjoy organic search and those who prefer paid search. What do your preferences say about you? …Don’t Over Optimize Your Site
9 Mar 2010 at 4:01pm
SEO is a best practices game. Understanding how not to over optimize is an important part of the mix. …Winning the Multi-Agency Game: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
8 Mar 2010 at 4:01pm
Some survival tips for when you’re asked to work with your clients’ other agencies. …Passing The Torch as an SEO Manager
5 Mar 2010 at 4:01pm
At some point in your career as an SEO manager, you may decide to leave your current employer for greener pastures. How you help your soon-to-be former employer during this time says a lot about you as a professional. …Get Your Search Campaigns Ready for the Yahoo/MSN Merger
4 Mar 2010 at 4:01pm
Tips on MSN search, blocking referrers, choosing your network, and a look at some promising Yahoo betas. …Search Around the World: Italy
3 Mar 2010 at 4:01pm
A look at the most popular search engines, top industries, and search marketing best practices in Italy. …Your Locations are Your Biggest Digital Assets
2 Mar 2010 at 4:01pm
A physical address has huge online implications. While you’re covering your assets, make sure to build up your presence for local-based searches. …Measuring Social Media with Web Analytics, Part 1
1 Mar 2010 at 4:01pm
Measuring social media is possible and Web analytics should be a key part of your measurement strategy. Part one of a two part series. …Forget Shorty: Long Tail Keywords Convert Cheaper
26 Feb 2010 at 4:01pm
Don’t miss out! Long tail PPC terms offer the cheapest ROI in many industries and are also easier to rank for organically. …3 Tools for Optimizing Page Speed
25 Feb 2010 at 4:01pm
If you’re responsible for a site, and you think you may have page load time issues, here are some tools to get your site performance up to speed. …What Can Mobile Do?
24 Feb 2010 at 4:01pm
The transition for advertisers from online to mobile search is still in its infancy, so there are massive benefits for early adopters. Get ahead of other marketers, understand the space, and drive your brand as a leader. …Using Linkscape Metrics to Prioritize Link Building Campaigns
23 Feb 2010 at 5:01pm
How to get the most out different backlink reports and generate high value link targets. …Focus on the User
23 Feb 2010 at 4:01pm
How do you make sure that your Web site is user friendly? Here are some tips to avoid setting yourself up for search engine optimization disaster. …Google Buzz 101
22 Feb 2010 at 4:01pm
For those of you who are just tuning in and trying to understand what Google Buzz is and how it works, this article will answer some of the basic questions and help get you started using it. …Mobile PPCall Simplified: A Conversation with Google
19 Feb 2010 at 4:01pm
Google’s mobile pay-per-call program looks like a bargain for advertisers in verticals and large agencies alike. But will Google eventually decouple the call monetization from AdWords clicks? … -
Matt Cutts – SEO News Feed
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO
neat fun stuffStart an embedded YouTube video at a certain timestamp
by Matt Cutts
4 Mar 2010 at 6:31am
In a previous post I covered how to link to a specific timestamp in a YouTube video. The short version looks like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDw3azfZWI#t=31m08s
The “#t=31m08s” takes you to 31 minutes and 8 seconds in a video. I just found out that you can also start embedded videos at a certain timestamp.
To do it on an embedded [...]Calling for link spam reports
by Matt Cutts
4 Mar 2010 at 6:12am
Google has been working on some new algorithms and tools to tackle linkspam and we’d like to ask for linkspam reports from you. If you’d like to tell us about web sites that appear to be using spammy links (e.g. paid links that pass PageRank, blog spammers, guestbook spammers, etc.), here’s how to send us [...]Leaving the iPhone
by Matt Cutts
23 Feb 2010 at 4:42am
I’m three weeks into a new 30 day challenge: no iPhone. When I got a Nexus One in December, I spent a few weeks carrying both phones around in the pockets of my jeans. It took a little while to adapt to Android, but I’m very happy with my Nexus One and I don’t plan [...]My speaking plans for 2010
by Matt Cutts
18 Feb 2010 at 4:25am
Last year I tried to limit my travel but still ended up making about ten (!) trips in 2009. This year I’ve resolved to travel less for work. Right now, here’s my current speaking/travel plans for 2010:
March 2-4, 2010: SMX West, Santa Clara, CA. I’m doing a “Ask the Search Engines” panel.
May 19-20, 2010: Google [...]Finding the best cell phone carrier
by Matt Cutts
17 Feb 2010 at 2:20am
Okay, someone tell me if this device exists (or build it!). I want a device where I can pay $10-15 to get a gadget in the mail. The gadget would sit in my pocket for a week wherever I go. The device would record cell phone signal strength for each of the four major U.S. [...]Blog to Book?
by Matt Cutts
16 Feb 2010 at 10:23am
I recently went looking for some software to make a blog into a book. Here’s what I found:
- Lulu will take PDF files for a book. Blogbooker.com will try to create a PDF from a blog. Unfortunately, my blog made BlogBooker choke (I have 991 posts from my blog) — even when I excluded comments.
- [...]Chrome support for Greasemonkey
by Matt Cutts
9 Feb 2010 at 4:30pm
Back in December, I happened to click on a Greasemonkey script in Chrome and was shocked that it just worked. At the time, I wrote a note within Google that saidWhoa. I just clicked on a Greasemonkey script in the latest dev version of Chrome (4.0.266.0 on Linux). Chrome offered to install the GM script, [...]
Improving Arabic searches and talking more about ranking
by Matt Cutts
3 Feb 2010 at 7:55am
Moustafa Hammad and Mohamed Elhawary, a couple engineers in our search quality group, just did a nice post about improving Arabic language searches:Our algorithm employs rules of Arabic spelling and grammar along with signals from historical search data to decide when to leave out spaces between words or when to remove unnecessarily repeated letters. Now, [...]
Installing Android development environment on Ubuntu 9.04
by Matt Cutts
31 Jan 2010 at 1:18pm
I wanted to play with writing Android apps on my home Linux computer, which is currently running Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). These are mostly notes for myself, so don’t feel guilty if you skip this post.
- Make sure your system is up-to-date:sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
- Install Java
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
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Keep an eye on changing pages
by Matt Cutts
26 Jan 2010 at 1:58pm
Google just launched a nice feature on Google Reader: the ability to keep an eye on pages for changes. This works even if the page doesn’t have its own RSS feed. This sort of thing is very handy. You could use it to spot new things on a privacy policy page or watch for changes [...]
