SEO Geeks Newsletter Vol 19

Talk of the town

How to be bold and influence people – a good look at the bold attricbute and other prominence factors; an area not often covered, but important fer sure…

Why you should care about link spikes – Julie Joyce talks about link velocity and some common issues that arise… another area not talked about enough IMO.

10 Link building questions to ask a new client – some great common sense tips from on of my fav’ link bloggers; Wiep Knol

Vince update hits the UK – my good mate and SEO Warrior was noticing that there are some odd brand dominant SERP shuffling going on in the UK as we had on this side of the pond… hmmmm… one to watch most definitely…

Stop building shit links – an entertaining tail of how one should really be going about building links in 2009… we all know I hate crappy link building tactics.. Kudos Shaun

Google more relevant than Bing – while some of my SOSG mates are quick to ‘poo poo’ the testing used, I thought this SEL post was at least worth a mention.

Assessing SEO readiness for digital asset management – content is still king and Lee Odden presents a concise checklist that’s worth a bookmark (and a place in this newsletter :0)

Why you need to run your own SEO tests – this area (SEO testing) is certainly a pet peeve and Michael says it well…

SEO strategy for semantic search – friend o’ this fire horse and qualified SOSG, (the?) Virginia Nussey had an interesting post on semantic search that got me so excited I wrote a massive response… this discussion has just begun my friends.

Google Ranking and CTR – how clicks distribute over different rankings on Google - the SEOScientist makes a debut with this detailed click data analysis post. If you've ever wanted to explain why we want to rank above the fold - bookmark this one.

Search Geek Central

Search Stuff

What Automatic Segmentation of Webpages Might Mean to Design and SEO - SEO by the Sea

Is Google a semantic search engine - SEO Phill

hengine (hen-jin) The Human Search Engine - a human-filtered search engine

Playster! - a search engine that helps you find things to do.

Social Search

Google speaks – Marissa Mayer on a variety of topics including real time search.

(sigh...... ) Shareholic Launches Buzz Monitor with OneRiot, Twitter Real time Search (Social Times)

Real time search; definitions and players – Danny also got into the world of RT search over on SEL, (and is soooo much nicer than I on the topic).

Making sense of real time social search – I have had a burr in my saddle about so-called RT search… so here’s my take.

Real time V traditional search basics – Virginia once more makes this week’s edition! Granted, quoting your’s truly and bucking the RT search kool-aid always helps… (it’s a great post tho, honest).