SEO Geeks News Vol 17

Talk of the town

Nofollow fall out – while there was more grumbling on the DF front, I’ll pass alonog Sebastians offering. Most enjoyable… and a hat tip to Rand as well. Further thoughts can also be found from Econsultancy and Aaron takes a shot at the experts and their experiments in; Worthless Hype

Google and bounce rates – seems a SEJ post brought back the ghosts of bounce rates as ranking signals (in the comments) which CJ gave a quick smack down to ( you go girl!!) - Speaking of comments, I had to leave one on; Bounce rate or links? Which is more important?

Google to launch Twitter, erm..I mean Microblogging search

Bing is looking good – while early data is unreliable, seems some folks are enjoying Bing (peer review)

Understanding federated link building - Eric Ward had an interesting primer worth a gander.

Google Mapping Out Its Search Results – Frank Watson drops by SEJ for some interesting analysis of the Maps in the main SERPs.

Should links be relevant or credible? It’s the age old question and at the end of the day, I’d like both please :0)

Search engines want to eliminate domain names – is an interesting post (and supposition) from John Andrews… the comments are always interesting as well.

Google indexing Flash (even?) better – from the Google webmaster central blog

Search Geek Central

Search Stuff

How Google May Rate Raters - from SEO by the Sea

Is the ‘common’ tag too complicated? - on Bnode

Large-scale graph computing at Google and coverage here as well

Zift PDF Search – a new offering from the forum search peeps.

Search Edu – for searching academic and education sites.

Search3 – is a search engine that displays results from; Google, Bing and Twitter.

Real Time search - Crowd Eye, (a self professed ‘real-time’ search) is good for Twitter, but not over-all buzz monitoring programs. Another new entry, Collecta, seems to do a better job.

Exploratory Food Search – post from the IR Blog