SEO Radio

This week a few topics we'll be covering include;

• Google Maps says Costa Rica was invaded by Nicaragua!
• Proof keywords don't matter
• Google says NO to brand bias
• Twitter launches advertising model
• Standing up to Google
• Google's Acquisition of Zetawire
• Anna Patterson back at Google

Show Notes;

• Nicaruagua invades Costa Rico
• Proof Keywords Don’t Matter
• Twitters new advertising model
• Twitter’s US Adoption At 8%, Report Says
• Is Google.me just a toolbar?
• TripAdvisor Tells Google Places to Go Take a Hike
• Trip Advisor and Google affair
• Google Adds Features to Keyword Tool
• Google's Acquisition of Zetawire brings Electronic Wallets Nearer
• Google says NO to brand bias
• Yandex gets semantic

Show Hosts;

• Terry Van Horne
• Steve Gerenscer
• Justin Parks
• Dave Harry

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Show Notes;

• Angry Irishman and the Wanking Bankers
• Marissa Mayer Interview (TechCrunch)
• Trailer Park (SEO)... seriously?
• Social Signals for Search ( and poll on SNC)
• Structure Is King With SEO, Not Content
• Google News Testing More Social Features With “Most Shared” Box
• Google’s New Social Sitelinks
• Bad customer service Borker gets busted!
• Groupon Turns down Google Choosing Pursue a Social Platform and Stores of its Own!
• AROUND has always been around - (Hat tip to Barry)
• Google: Canonical Tag Slower Than 301 Redirect

Show Notes;

• Gold standard results take hit
• Self promotion endemic says expert
• How SEO Agencies Lost Their Digital Marketing Mojo to Social Marketing
• Social Media doesn't mean the end of SEO
• SEO Claims Twitter Increased Rankings From Page 4 To Number 2 On Page 1
• 8 Social media metrics you should be measuring
• The problem with influence
• What’s the point in making a Webspam report?
• Berners Lee says social is fragmenting the web

Brian's World

• On twitter
• His agency site
• His blog
• Speaking at WordCamp

Hello and welcome to (yet another) edition of SEO Dojo Radio. You keep listening, so we keep talking. Since it's Thanksgiving down States side, a huge thanks to all for tuning in. And to those of you on iTunes, (who can't read this dummy) a big thanks as well since that just continues to grow (more than 200DLs/week now).

The entire cast of regulators are in house today, we're going to me talking smack on a variety of items including;

• The great indexation debate
• RDFa or Microformats; which is better?
• RockMelt – wat's the skinny?
• Social Signals for Search? Are the peeps onto something?
• The Jackass 200
• SEO Is Undead – Bill goes on a tear!

It should a tough one since we've a guest this week and only have a 1/2 show to get into it. Speaking of this week's guest...

Turkey Day Talk with RustyBrick!

In the second half of the show this week we're having one of the folks I most repsect in the industry on; Barry Schwartz (aka Rusty Brick). Known for his tireless reporting on Search Engine Roundtable and Land, Barry brings a wealth of knowledge from his constant reporting on the industry at large.

I will certainly be on my best behaviour for once. Likely one of the first PG rated segments we've had on here.

Show Notes;

• RDFa or Microformats; which is better?
• Social Signals for Search? Are the sheeple onto something?
• SEO Is Undead – Bill goes on a tear! Part I - Part II - Part III
• Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook could fragment web - The Guardian
• Rock Melt Review on SNC

Barry's World

• On twitter
• Search Engine Roundtable
• Rusty Brick (his web dev co)
• Sphinn-con Isreal
• Search Cap on SEL

Show Hosts;

• Terry Van Horne
• Steve Gerenscer
• Justin Parks
• Dave Harry

Dojo Radio on iTunes  iPhone app

Hey there, what's shakin'? It's time again for this week's edition of SEO Dojo Radio! Yes, I know, you've been just dying for it right? This week it will just be the regulators (Terry, Steve, Justin and myself) talking smack for the next hour or so. Among the many things we're hoping to cover, we have;

• From the (Dojo) Boards; is SEO getting too hard?
• On SNC; Search user behaviour study
• Comment spam WTF?
• Shopping @ Google heats up
• Google; my signals are bigger than yours
• Business.com closes; are directories dead?
• Matt Cutts speaks

We've no guest this week, so you're stuck with us. We were hoping to have Barry Schwartz on, but he's feeling under the weather, so we will have him back on next week with us. We've a LOT of goodies to yak about this week, so it won't be a problem.

Show Notes;

• Search User Behaviour on SNC
• Comment spam for links. REALLY? 83 tweets? REALLY?
• Raven plays with comment spammers
• Local Heatmaps = More to Think About with New Google SERPs
• Two Weeks Later: Changes in Google Local Traffic – tempest in a tea pot as usual?
• Key Takeaways From Google’s Matt Cutts Talk At PubCon
• Dear Bing, We Have 10,000 Ranking Signals To Your 1,000. Love, Google
• Business.com Closing: Directory Links A Thing Of Past?
• Google's new fashion portal – a sign of verticals to come?
• Improvements to Google Product search

Show Hosts;

• Terry Van Horne
• Steve Gerenscer
• Justin Parks
• Dave Harry

Dojo Radio on iTunes;

Hello my weary web wandering search geek, it's time for everyone's favourite non-family friendly SEO talk show! SEO Dojo Radio is on the air! This week we have no guest... yup, it's true. We have the regulators in house with a new friend (Thomas) dropping by to play. It seems most of the folks we were going to talk to were headed to PubCon, so we decided to go it alone.

This week we're getting into;

• Google Instant – nada goin on
• Google goes Apache!
• SERPs keep on a changin'
• Gooogle related search refinements
• Google Ranking Internal Pages Rather Than Home Pages
• RDFa/Microformats on the move

Next week's show we'll be having Search Engine Roundtable's Barry Schwartz coming on the show to join us. He's a sort of hero of mine as far as being the record keeper, reporter of note, in the search industry.

• A Month Later, Instant is Having No Impact on Searcher Behavior
• Google goes Apache!
• List of changes since Caffeine (members only)
• Gooogle related search refinements - SEJ
• Google Ranking Internal Pages Rather Than Home Pages
• More on internal ranking pages
• I’m Voting for Structured Data
• Google Now Showing Rich Snippets For Shopping Sites
• Rich Snippets/Poor Execution For Google Places Testimonials – Local SEO Guide

Yes, it's that time again.. WE'RE BACK! While there was plenty going on over the last week, it seems we shall be spending most of the time in the first half of the show talking about the shake up in Google local via the places changes. It's certainly got a lot of folks up in arms, but is it really something they should be bitching about? Or is it a tempest in a tea pot? We're going to find out. Topics on hand include;

• Google Local SERP shake-up

• Google employees heading to Facebook

• RDFa support for ecommerce

Life and times of Virginia Nussey

In the second part of the show this week we have Virginia Nussey in house. Best known as a prominent blogger for Bruce Clay and host of SEM Synergy, she's now out on her own. We'll talk to her about what she's doing with herself now and her take on the world of copy writing and where she see's SEO headed.

Show notes;

• Local Search SERP shakeup spooks SEOs
• Google's official post on new Places changes
• Google local; Do you deserve to be there? Mike Wilton's post
• Brother Bill's post
• AdMob post; where startups go to die
• We have the RDFa Ecommerce snippets
• Who moved my cheese

• Virginia Nussey on Twitter
• Virginia's Blog

 Show Notes

The SEO Dojo Radio iTunes app

Google Says "Don't Be Afraid" Of Duplicate Content

Things Eric Schmidt says – JUST MOVE

Zynga patent story and patent filing

Brian's stuff

pertnear.com

His internet marketing blog

Brian on SEJ

On Twitter;

On Facebook:

Other Facebook

• LDA siloing by Russ Hudgens
• Daily Kos attempt at Google bombing
• Yahoo closing all the directories but US
• Google Demo Slam
• Mashable talking SEO (again)

Garrett;

• Announcement List for FREE access
• Ontolo’s website
• The Ontolo Blog
• Hugo’s Review of Ontolo

iTunes – we’re also now have an iTunes App folks!! Woot hoo! Be sure to check it out here. Has Discount Code for Dojo and extras from the Study Hall at the SEO Training Dojo.

SEO Dojo Radio WK13 - Search, Social and Jill Whalen too! Written by David Harry    Hello and good day to my fellow search geeks... I hope all is well with you. This week on the show the entire cast of regulars (which we've come to lovingly call; the Regulators) are in da' house! We've got a few interesting directions lined up including; Bing adds FaceBook integrations Google News; also get's social Ex-Googlers selling SEO – what's up with that? The Reasonable Surfer patent – again? Paramter handling in Webmaster Tools ...and probably a few more, we like to ramble as you know High Rankings with Jill Whalen In the second half of the show this week we have one of the Queen's of (legit) SEO with us; Jill Whalen. We are going to be getting to know her better and discussing one of her recent posts on why Google seems to have such a problem dealing with the craptastic SEO methods. All in all, it should be fun. She's definately someone I've long admired.

Show Notes;

Bing and Facebook integration

Reasonable surfer – whaddup wid that?

Facebook SEO (again) – REALLY?

Google News adding 'friends'

Ex Googlers selling SEO?

GWT adding parameters handling

Social media numbers are useless

Jill's World

High Rankings Website

SEO Forums

SEO Dojo Radio 12 - Who's talkin with Joe Hall

Show Notes;

Joe Hall’s; Whos Talkin

Who’s talkin; TalkRank

Latest Google Testing;

Google’s hover over screen grab testing

Maps in Adwords positions

Matt Cutt’s video; Does Google see auto-gen content as a bad thing.

Matt Cutt’s video; Site search operator is just an estimation as suspected

Google Instant Eye tracking Study - Enquiro

More Google Instant Eye Tracking – Essential Travel

Twitter Research Data 

Dazzlin Donna’s Site

Monitor Hacked Files

Google Instant AGAIN?? Yes, we can haz data

New Google SEO Starter Guide - (PDF here)

Google Testing 4 result SERPs

Eric Schimdt says comment about people changing their name was a (bad) joke