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Looking ahead in 2012

You might thing that the whole 'Google buying links' fiasco would get the headline this week. Well, not gonna happen. For starters I have tired of our need for daram in the industry. Secondly, Google doesn't need bloody links. It was a marketing campaign screw up, happens to all of us. There's plenty of chatter out there, go make up your own mind.

Instread, I decicded to get 2012 well and underway by rounding up some of the better end of year/looking ahead posts that were making the rounds last week.

Here ya go;

• Local Search in 2012: Where Should Your Focus Be? - Search News Central
• Predictions For Local Search In 2012 – Year Of The Dragon - SEL
• Search Industry Surprises of 2011 - Moz
• 8 Predictions for SEO in 2012 - Moz
• Data to Help Your Clients Strategize for 2012 - SEJ
• Top 5 Trends for Search & Social Media Marketing in 2012 - SEW
• Online Video Predictions For 2012 - The Reel Web Episode 20 - Reel SEO
• A Year-End (or Year-Beginning) Checklist for Small Business Websites - Small Biz SEM
• Key SEO 2012 Trends in North Asia - Search Engine Watch
• Best of 2011 in Local SEO and Local SEM - OptiLocal
• Build SEO Momentum in 2012, Not Resolutions - Outspoken
• 5 In-House Search Marketing Game Changers In 2011 - SEL
• New Year’s Link-a-Lutions: Quality Link Building in 2012 - Vertical Measures
• SEO 2012 – Will Schema Be A Factor – Guest post - State of Search
• Search & Mobile Marketing Trends: SEO Apocalypse 2012 - SEW

I mentioned last week that I am watching behavioural, social graph, named entities and more from the geeky side of the tracks. We'll see where it leads. You can count on there being a few curveballs as usual... so get strapped in for the ride.

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