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• Reddit, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us and Hacker News Algorithms Exposed! — Social Media Websites Exposed
  
  
• 8 Simple Reputation Management Emergency Measures — Fending off a Reputation Issue
  
  
• Dear Google - This Aint Cloaking — Thinking About Blocking Countries and Regions?
  
  
• How Google Universal Search and Blended Results May Work — How Google Decides What to Show Us
  
  
• The Value of a Generic Brand — More Than You Might Think
  
  

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• Improved Flash Indexing — Google's Indexing of Adobe Flash Files 'Vastly Improved'
  
  
• Determine Relevance, Authority, and Accuracy — An Ideal Search Environment?
  
  
• The Press Release — Still Going Strong
  
  
• The Spirit of the Game — Work the System or Beat it? It's Your Call
  
  
• The 5 C's of Social Media — The Core of Social Media?
  
  

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• How to Increase Your Site Crawl Rate — Entice the Bots
  
  
• 5 Useful URL Rewriting Examples — Using .htaccess
  
  
• Search Engines Preferred Method For Research — Products and Services High on Searchers Agenda
  
  
• At Google, Slow Growth in News Site — Is Google News Stuck in Neutral?
  
  
• Managing Robot's Access to Your Website — Control What Gets Found and What Doesn't
  
  

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• Google Switches to Universal Icon — Confusion Abounds
  
  
• It's All About Web Search — Analysts Don't Know What They're Talking About
  
  
• Travel Search 2.0 — Know Your Audience
  
  
• Long URLs May Hurt You — CMS Issue or Spam Magnet?
  
  
• First Links Are the Deepest — In Any SEO Speak
  
  

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Google Trends Comes to Websites

Google Trends is an amazing tool when it comes to researching linkbait and seeing what's popular on the Net. However, Google seems to have one-upped their tool by adding Google Trends for websites. You can now search for website addresses, as opposed to just searching for trends by keyword. In addition, when entering in a domain name, Google will return traffic, search, and geographic visitation data.

AP and Google - A Match Made in Internet Heaven?

The Associated Press have begun threatening to sue (and have been suing) websites that quote more than four words from any of their stories, even if it falls under their "fair use" policy. However, in reporting the story, the AP quoted twenty-two words from Michael Arrington's TechCrunch blog, violating their own policy. Wired.com have envisaged a Google buyout of the AP. Who would this benefit though?

Link Building With Relationships

Building links and developing inbound traffic can be a time consuming process. However, there's one part of the process that you may be overlooking - developing relationships. With linkbait being a hot SEO topic recently, so much of the focus involves the result rather than the method. The Search Engine Guide agrees, and goes so far as to say that building relationships in your link building process can actually increase the value of the link and the following conversions.

Raven Recap

• SEO Daily Reading — Issue 79
• SEO Daily Reading — Issue 80
• 8 Steps to a Successful SEO Campaign: XHTML & CSS

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