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Anne led off the hangout talking about Yelp. She mentioned using Yelp wifi to increase reviews. The jury is out on that as it has not been in long enough to evaluate it. The group went on to discuss the difference between the number of Yelp reviews in the US and Canada Google results. It seems far fewer are in Canadian results. Tim went on to add that Yelp is in many of his clients knowledge panels, to which, some others added they have the same problem. Tim was able to improve his Yelp visibility with a time consuming audit of Yelp reviews and he was kind enough to share some of the ways he was able to not only remove negative reviews on his clients but also get positive reviews for competitors removed. Steve was bringing on a new SEO client which turned the conversation to using co-occurrence analysis as a way to optimize a page. Terry discussed his method of using the top 10 results for a query as the record set for the analysis. The discussion then turned to using SEMrush to increase visibility and finding new audiences. Terry suggested that using Google Trends is a good way to discover new audiences because it measures interest across many industries. Next Tim discussed putting short videos on client sites. Terry continued the discussion discussing what the plans are for SEO Dojo Radio and how he has used Libsyn as a low cost host and distributor. Terry then went on to describe how a strong content strategy can utilize Video productions can be used for images, slide-shares and videos. The panel went on to discuss the Local SEO Ranking Factors post on Whitespark.ca. Terry mentioned that there was some information in the post on Googles guidelines for use of virtual offices that was misleading. Tim went on to discuss the use of the Service Area option which is a way to not disclose address. The panel went on to discuss some thoughts Terry had on changes in the blending of Universal Search results in particular. Next we discussed Building Links in Boring Industries. The consensus was that it comes down to the creativity of the SEO or marketer. Next Terry introduced a Post by Barry Adams Mobile SERP survival: Technical SEO checklist which brings the point home that a responsive design is not necessarily Mobile Friendly. We went on to Related Articles & Internal Linking: Will It Help Your SEO Results? where the consensus was that they can help if the articles are closely related, however, in most cases the choices made by plugins are not the best with the other issue being that often the images are not mobile friendly.

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News

• How Google Processes Different Algos To Determine Sites Ranking
• Google Paul Haahr On Patents SEO
• Google Local Ranking Signals/160809
• How Does Google Determine My Local Ranking
• Google Testing The New Penguin Algorithm
• What Is Google Rankbrain
• When Fake Good Reviews Are Bad For Business

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Welcome back to another week and all the latest search and SEO news from the week past..

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• Google 302 Pagerank
• - GONE
• Googles Gary Illyes On Penguin When Is It Coming And What Will It Do
• Jonathan Allen Tweet
• Google Will Be Using Machine Learning For Spam Detection Search Quality
• Does Google Use Click Data To Rank Pages
• A Local Seo Got 60 Clients Suspended Overnight
• Google Engineer Sarcasm
• Former Googler Spam Fighter says Machine Learning at Play

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• Google's Mobile April 21st update
• doorway page update in the Google guidelines and the usual SEO response: Google uses doorway pages
• FTC staff wanted to sue Google
• deep linking search appwords
  Google and the Knowledge Graph:
• techcrunch
• Google
• Bill Slawski does some answer searches
• Jan-Willem Bobbink: optimising Google's knowledge graph
• answer SERP's do drive traffic... in fact! Lots of it!

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Local SEO 2015

• http://blumenthals.com/blog/2015/03/16/google-maps-upends-primary-data-suppliers-yp-ca-is-out/
• Google is using knowledge Panels in competitive areas to highlight ads and Google Properties Knowledge Panes
• Problems Editing Data Google is in Control of

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• data driven SEO getting detailed insights using free tools
• Facts are replacing links! Discussions on  Bill Slawski and Scientific Americain
• Google breaks G+ up into image and info streams

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• Become a Google Local Guide
• Google Tightens it's grip on the money being made over at Youtube
• Google Flights - seems legit and who would complain?
• Pinterest continues to get better at fighting spam
• Googles new hacked classifier misclassifies web sites
• Older copy of the Webmaster Guidelines
• Google Vietnam was hacked breifly
• Google chat boxes on local listings
• Panda turns 4?
• What to ask when hiring an SEO... (from Bing)

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• the myth of the penguin penalty
• Google says no Panda or Penguin update
• Facebook/YouTube apples and oranges
• negative seo study
• Google get access to Twitters firehose: SEL Marketing Land

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Show Notes

• Manage Flitter
• Kristi's Suggested Monitoring tool
• Debra's PowerPoint Presentation

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• Google will make car insurance ad industry look different soon
• Google disavow good links penguin
• Will Matt Cutts return to Google? SEORoundtable readers poll
• Should Google have inflicted Panda on SEORoundtable readers poll

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• Ranking Factor Post
• Bill Slawski's Post
• Negative SEO

References not Discussed but Worth a Look See!

• Google Smokes Freebase! Switching to WikiData
• For the local SEO - Bill Hartzer --- how to get into D&B
• Panda pages de-indexed?
• Yahoo surpass twitter For Mobile ads
• Interesting post on click fraud and Google's new ad strategy
• Have google places descriptors been grandfathered in? possibly or it's a massive manual edit?
• Semantic web business models marketing perspective by Jan William Bobbink
• Dojo Member Jan William Bobbink wrote this great piece on how schema actions can be used in Google email

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• How Disqus Got Their Google Pr 9
• Different Types of Ads Influence Google Organic Ctr
• Victims of Major Celebrity Photo Hack Sue Google for 100M
• Google Disavow Link Automatic
• Google Panda 4.1 Still Rolling Out
• 6 Simple Tips for Optimizing Pinterest Search
• Google Considers Adding Disavow Tool Confirmation
• Google Penguin Refresh May Come Early Next Week
• Google Webmaster Tools 404 Errors Sorted By Priority

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Show Notes

• Google shows source to credit quick answers knowledge graph
• http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9615661c-3ce1-11e4-9733-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3DPzNR6Pt (sorry there is a paywall here)
• Improved sitelinks search box
• Nearly year later finally going get penguin update refresh
• Google plus Gmail integration
• Google knowledge graph change
• Is Performance based SEO really risk free
• Links FUD and webmaster guidelines
• Introducing structured snippets now
• Google makes penalty mistakes on buffer story
• Private Blog Network sites de-indexed
• Nearly year later finally going get penguin update refresh

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Allright folks... hello and welcome back to another week here on the Regulators. We're moving back to "news as usual" after last week's special editon. The entire cast in back in da' house as Steve's done his summer vacation. It was a good week with lots to bitch about...

Enjoy the show!

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• No Guin recovery without refresh
• Google Algo updates; change takes time
• Faster Penguin refreshes
• SearchMetrics ranking factors
• YELP goes mental?
• SEO firm pretends to be Google
• WTF is the new link building? I did have to giggle..
• Panda update...or?
• Paid social campaign conversion rates
• Outing competitors for buying links?
• Video watching habits on the rise
• Google indexing itself

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No notes this week beyond a link to the article that started the conversation.

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• Google starts call tracking program for Adwords
• Google replacing carousal coverage: Darren Shaw G+, Local SEO Guide.com, Mike Blumenthal and SEL
• shared interest graph
• advertising offline drives traffic!
• Google responds to negative SEO extortion
• Penguin 3?
• Google still having problems in reconsideration process
• Knowledge Graph is nightmare for Greggs Bakery brand!
• HubPages buys Squidoo

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• Google Capital invests in Credit Karma
• For the patent readers in the group
• Google turns in man to police for child Porn
• interview with x Google spam team member
• guest posting...low quality?
• Barry Swartz roundup on SSL
• Map project may have inadvertently collected data it shouldn't have
• Google: No Comment On Possible Google Algorithm Update Over The Weekend

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• Google+ Launches Showcase To Show Rich Media To Viewers Of Hangouts On Air
• lifting veil on secret SEO industry chats
• Spain ready enact Google tax forcing company pay content links
• unraveling panda patterns
• Google testing timeline view in Knowledge Graph

Pigeon Local Search Update

• 23 percent drop in local packs
• MOZ updates local query set revised data show 23.4 drop post pigeon update
• Google's Pigeon update solves yelp problem and boosts local directories

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• social media traffic trends
• Facebook social login report
• Google knowledge graph branded results
• discover and Buy Products on Facebook
• Hummingbird assessment 10 months later
• The Moz thinks it's special
• Google engineers working on Penguin
• does good content help bad SEO more than good SEO helps bad content

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• Google+ allows anonymity
• is SEO dead?
• state of the industry: real SEOs solve problems
• Google is getting worse
• Seattle utility wants 17500 refund after failure to scrub negative search results
• You've been hit by Penguin should you start over or try to recover

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• Google removes authorship badges
• The importance of Google Map management for Local SEO and Another odd lawsuit...
• Lightboxes can affect indexing?
• the real power of guest blogging
• Matt Cutts takes a break
• Neat hacks that Eric came across;
• Suing to get the results U want?
• Don't 301 toxic pages
• sometimes ya gotta start over
• Google new thin content penalty has arrived

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Welcome to another episode of the Regulators on SEO Dojo Radio! This week on the show Dave, Terry and Steve dig through the usual slow summer news period with a variety of interesting bits from German War on Links, Another attempt to force Google to start paying for content;New Chrome add-on for seeing analytics by page right in your browser window;SearchMetrics has ranking factors "correlations"; again Orion? No-click searching on the rise?; KG Expanding; "Right to be forgotten" service; Matt's an SEO again; Blocking JS and CSS from Google; more guest blogging chatter; Negative SEO in the News again and still no Penguin and more!

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• German War on Links
• Another attempt to force Google to start paying for content
• New Chrome add-on for seeing analytics by page right in your browser window
• SearchMetrics has ranking factors "correlations" again Here's the 2013 version;
• Orion? No-click searching on the rise? On Face Book By Dave on Huomah and by Bill Bill last year
• KG Expanding
• "Right to be forgotten" service
• Matt's an SEO again
• Blocking JS and CSS from Google
• More guest blogging chatter - misses the mark
• Neg-SEO seems to be on the up-tick from SER and Naylor
• Still no word on Penguin by SugarRae

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Welcome to another episode of the Regulators on SEO Dojo Radio! This week Terry,Justin,Steve and David rapped about Search and social news for another hour of SEO Dojo Radio hilarity and chaos!

As tends to be the case during the summer, it's slow going news wise. And while the content looked thin off the top, the gang still managed to find plenty to get into and rant about. This week's show is a nice mix of search as well as social and some other goodies.

• Martin's response to SEO is dead
• Google's low satisfaction score
• Only 2% of social sharing on Google Plus
• Webmaster Help on Link Schemes
• Mom and pop no longer pay for social media
• Honda's Vine and Twitter campaign
• Irish Wonder on twitter
• Irish Wonder on twitter part II

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• Citadal Insurance Spamming?
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Welcome to another episode of the Regulators! This week Justin was too busy to grace us with his presense so we wnt on without him!

This week Terry van Horne, Steve Gerencser and David Harry rap about the recent Penguin update, some wacky Google SERPs; Prism; Google's WT recent changes and more on SEO Dojo Radio's news show!

• Penguin analysis links: LRT Penguin analysisSEO RoundtableAgent Blackhat
• Poor Smartphone design changes rankings
• Google intern pay
• GWT adds support for tagmanager verification
• Stock Images do not affect rankings
• Alternative SE's benefiting from Prism
• Expanding Google Author Snippets beyond Web pages
• SEO byTheSea authorship Patents
• German Parliament limits Patents
• Google Webmaster Notifications to show examples
• GWT Query data is worthless

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Welcome to another episode of the Regulators! This week the guys were lively as they discussed the Matt Cutts revelations at SMX and more!

This week Justin Parks, Terry van Horne, Steve Gerencser and David Harry talk about the recent Penguin update, some Google SERPs; Bing has better wifi and more on SEO's wackiest news show!

• Live Blog of Matt Cutts You and A
• From Google Forums
• Sesame Street
• Twitter Ads!
• Bing Providing better Airport Wifi
• Apparently it is safe to link out!

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This week we had a few issues on the technical side but we did manage to get the audio. Don’t know if it was a result of the new recording technology or I zigged where I should have zagged. At any rate we were recording audio on another device so… lesson learned and thank sweet Jebus for the Social Sweetie’s backup recording! In the future we will also be using Camtasia to backup the video.

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All the boys are back this week and we've got a ton of goodiness ready to roll. And yes!! It's all Google this week! Thankfully Justin decided to get us some show notes from the land of social. It should be some good fun. So without further adieu....

Onwards...

• Barry's recon-request
• Ship my pants
• Facebook graph Ads
• Google Plus logins on the up?
• SEO assumptions
• Google when yer dead
• More Google when yer dead
• Vine and Boston bombing
• Update; Google affiliate network
• Bing does pinterest right
• Google image traffic down
• Matt on internal anchors
• Google hit in EU Probe
• Recon Links

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• Google temperature universal
• Irish newspapers want you to PAY to link to them
• Jan 17 2013; Brand update?
• Does Google reward content scraping?
• Barry on scrapers and Google
• Google Plus now second largest SN?
• Instagram wants your ID!
• Sue your SEO company
• Skype privacy concerns
• Crap hat SEO email spam
• Warrior Forum's awesome offer!
• Social signals and SEO
• Is link velocity an issue?
• Vine...

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This week the Regulators discussed the EMD Update; Google Updates Webmaster Guidelines; Bing taste test; Twitter Opens up to Crawlers; Twitter Convo Between Lolo and Les Grand; Twitter Opens up to Crawlers; Trove: Facebook and Social Search; NYPD add Facebook for discovery tool; Social message Study infographic and more!

• EMD Update apparently asecond algo update was running it may have been Panda 4.0!
• Google Updates Webmaster Guidelines andWebmaster Blog
• Bing taste test
• Twitter Convo Between Lolo and Les Grand
• Twitter Opens up to Crawlers
• Trove:Facebook and Social Search
• NYPD add Facebook for discover tool
• Social message Study: Infographic

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• Motorola gets a flat
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• Googly and iFrames. Kinda knew tho no?
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• State of Search Schema Be A Factor
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• Facebook faces fines for privacy misconducts
• The Panda won't go away!
• Googles non engagement metrics
• Look out Googly...here comes da IRS!
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• MyPad still beating FB on apps war
• Twitter has a $8BL valuation?
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• Curious.... last I heard products fer links is poo poo'd?
• What did I tell ya? Sneaky feckers
• Google analytics goes Real-time
• Interesting entity annotation (Circle Counts)
• Chrome is catching FF? Huh.... interesting
• Matt Cutts 30 Day Vegan Challenge

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The guys had a ball discussing GooglePlus adds search and now open to all!; Algorithms that rule the Web; Google plus dead; Google v Facebook; Has Google Reported That Your Business Is Closed?; Google's a Robber Baron; 5 Big name failures; Facebook redesign; Interesting bits for the geekish; Bing is getting more personal; Celeb endorsements are from Google and more!

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• 5 Big name failures
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• Where'd my scraper service go???
• The fickle nature of SEO mythology (aka Overstock)
• Groupon IPO (back?) on track?
• Bing is getting more personal
• Celeb endorsements are from Google, not a social annotation from twitter

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• A Very Gloomy Picture Of Larry Page's Short Tenure As Google CEO
• Groupon's Publicity Boss Quits after 2 Mo.
• Can't recover from Panda? True? Or is Hubpages CEO just a whiner and his SEO team a bunch of eedjits?
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• Google chasing attribution issues AGAIN? (hehe go with the ScrapeRank and be done with it)
• Meh - it's only 176 Mil... chump change
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What started out as Dave and I shootin' the shit wid' "link automater extraordinaire" Rob "Contempt" Adler and taping it evolved into two podcasts and growing. I am thinking about another show on a platform to be named later. Might not even be SEO related. As we know that first show was just the start of something that has continued to evolve with the addition of Justin Parks Social Media Consultant and Feydakin AKA Steve Gerencser of Steam Driven Media becoming semi-regulars on the first few shows and official Co-Conspirators in "the Regulators" a few months later!

the Regulators "it ain't easy havin' pals!"

"the Regulators" name comes from the Movie Young Guns. I'm a bit of a Western movie fan so it wasn't long before the references to it started. Initially the show was referred to internally as the Regs or "the Regulars" then I started calling it "the Regulators" partially cuz it fits our podcast style as we kinda' monitor the SEO news for the usual craphat technique or test or other such nonsense. The Tagline was the original Movie tagline and well it's very true about the four of us! It's in a great kinda' camaraderie where we may argue and make fun of one another... but... I know for me these are friendships I'll have for life!

Let's get it on!

With a Social star, a charity marketing maverick and a coupla' search and dev geeks how could "the Regulators" not be totally mind blowing awesome! SEO Dojo wunderkind Darren Shaw sat in on a show or two and is nice to have around in the lounge droppin' a link here or there, and tellin' us how "the hardest working tool in local citations" is doing!  I know I can speak for the whole gang when I say we appreciate Darren and all the tweets, RTs and mentions by our Brutha' and Sista' Dojo peeps! Most of all we are amazed by the public response. We can't say enough about how happy we are you are all joining us on the trail to SEO enlightenment!

The bottom line is that "the Regulators" would meet once a week regardless of the show. We are just 4 guys who like sittin' round shootin' the breeze and having some good laughs! IMO, that's what makes the show unique, fresh and entertaining! I know I can say for the rest of the boys "we hope you like it like that!" you keep downloadin' 'em, we'll keep makin' 'em!

Some Favorite "the Regulators" Shows

The Regulators: I've a Horse Outside!  Justin was away doin' wahatever it is the stars do in their spare time... and Steve was in Tennessee settin' up the new homestead so Dave and I explored the connections in the Social Graph (which Google dropped for the most part when they dropped Twitter and RTS) came across something we believe no one else has reported. We found connections that went beyond the primary connections and where information was strung together from Google Profiles, the footer of a site and more!! download episode

The Regulators March 03 2011: Steve's Bitches are back as he's got a few classic posts on the list. After that the guys spent some time talking about the Overstock affair, Google's latest (thin content) algorithm update, social search and more. download episode

A happy holiday rant. Steve gets stomped and Barry Schwartz drops by
Topics are: the great indexation debate, RDFa or Microformat?, RockMelt review, social signals for search?, SEO is Undead – Bill goes on a tear!  download episode

The Regulators: Schemin' Schema org, What is a Ranking Signal and Panda Goes Postal! Panda update; Schemin' Schema.org; Video Previews in SERPs; Google announces rel="Author" attribute; Google dumps support for IE 7; T asks do they know what is a ranking signal?; Marketing to a younger audience on Social sites
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The Regulators: Google +1 Vs. Regulators -1 This week on the Regulators the boys discussed the present and possible future of the Google +1 button!;Trouble in the house of Google?;From the boards: comment links and page segmentation; Speaking of the Panda, Terry posted a vid about PR News Wire; Exact match domains; changes are a comin'?; Ross loses it about 'link building'. download episode

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So another week has gone by and it's time for "the Regulators" on SEO Dojo Radio. It was a bit of a slow week news wise but we did manage to put enough together for another exciting episode!

This week "the Regulators" talked on some Social Media topics which included a discussion on Social gaming; How Deals on Facebook will affect Groupon; How Facebook and Twitter are affecting Rankings and we couldn't resist all the hoopla on the Royal Wedding! On the Search side we talked about standards; Automatic Personalization and Jim Boykin's post on Google's Panda Update and the possible signals behind it.

Let's get it on!

• Empire Avenue Provides Social Gaming Opportunities For Brands
• Empire Avenue on Twitter
• Jim Boykin's Google Panda Update
• What Deals on Facebook Means To The Group Buying Coupon Business
• Automatic Personalization and.html
• Facebook Twitters Influence Google Search Rankings
• Facebook Suspends Another Real Kate Middleton Account
• Kate Middleton Doll Goes on Sale Complete Wth Amethyst Ring

Show Hosts;

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

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Good day and welcome to this week's edition of the Regulators; search news with a bit of spice. The week that was had some interesting tidbits, but none more interesting or notable than yet ANOTHER high profile Google spanking (see; Google Penalizes Overstock).

As such we're going to be talking about outing, risk adverse tactics and more. We even have a special guest joining us again this week; Rob Adler. He was one the very first podcast we ever did, it's great to have him back with us. Will we get to any other news? I have no idea... it's a hot topic. But we'll see where it leads!

• Overstock Story via WSJ
• Would you report your competitors?
• Rob on twitter
• Rob's link building company

Show Hosts;

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

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As an added bonus, I've talked to Alan Bleiwiess about coming on, so he should be joining us as we go along. We talked to Alan because of his coverage of the event and the subsequent (long tail ain't SEO) drama that followed it. All in all, it should be a great show (ain't it always?).

• Should Groupon Have Taken The $6 Billion And Run?
• Search Still Sucks
• Matt Cutts; no search doesn't still suck
• NYT and JC Penney
• Alan's JC Penney post
• Alan's follow up on SEJ

Show Hosts;

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

Show Notes

• Dumbass of the week; First Page Placements
• Google algorithm changes (my take)
• SEL's correction post on algo change
• Google v Bing; who stole what?
• Humourus twitter action on Bing V Google
• More Google social aquisitions
• Living Social V Groupon
• Facebook V Groupon
• Deman Media IPO
• Jim Boykin's comments

Show Hosts;

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

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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

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