This is what we found this week in the world of search engine marketing:

• Funny Dilbert SEO Comic Strip Cartoon by Scott Adams
• 24 E-commerce development tips
• MySpace Results Now in Google Real Time Search
• Applying Atul Gawande’s Checklist Manifesto to SEO
• Can having dofollow comments on my blog affect its reputation?
• Aaron: It’s not Spam, It’s a “Newsmaster Site”
• The next generation of ad serving for online publishers
• Spam vs Mahalo: Matt Cutts Explains the Difference
• 3 Steps for Optimizing Content for Long Tail Keywords
• How can I add more than 1,000,000 URLs to a Sitemap?
• Spam Free Search
• By The Numbers: Twitter Vs. Facebook Vs. Google Buzz
• FTC, Disclosure And Your Blog
• SEO Chrome Extension - Comprehensive View of Page and Domain Data
• How a Search Engine Might Weigh Pages with Relevant Annotations Higher in Search Results
• How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google
• Google Real Time Search Now Shows Updates From Facebook Fan Pages
• Buying Links Can Get Your Site Penalized
• “Mad Libs Converts!” says Case Study
• Get yourself a smart robots.txt
• Yelp Sued Over Accepting Money For Removing Negative Reviews
• Refine your searches by location

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I’m just not sure what to say …..

This is what we found this week in the world of search engine marketing:

• Buying Text Links – Pre-Published vs. Post-Published
• Link building strategies: Video from SEMPDX
• Google Blurs The Line Between Paid & Unpaid Results Again
• Comparing SEO Business Models
• 11 Usability Mistakes SEOs Make
• The Evolution of Search Results into Query Portals
• Fortune 500 Still Clueless About SEO, Study Says
• Is Google Referrer Spamming Too Now?
• Are You “Google Pagerank Certification”? I Hope Not
• First Touch Tracking in Google Analytics
• HTTP Status Codes
• Yahoo & Microsoft Receive Go Ahead To Implement Search Deal
• How We Got a Link from The New York Times
• Facts For Webmasters & Advertisers: Yahoo Out Of Search, Bing Takes Over
• The Renewed Value of Branding

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Always make sure to DOUBLE check!

This is what we found this week in the world of search engine marketing:

• The ‘Information’ Age
• Love and the Super Bowl
• Testing How Crawl Priority Works
• Personalization of Google Results Creates a Huge Advertising Opportunity
• Google LBC Categories Preview Beta
• Introducing Google Buzz
• Google On Moving Servers & Hosting Companies
• Google’s Specialized Forum and Discussion Thread Search Results
• Where Wireframes Are Concerned
• Google Analytics Tracking Code Basics and Time Saving Plugins
• A Step by Step 15 Minute SEO Audit (A Sample from SEO Secrets)
• the top 100 websites of 1999
• New: Google Maps Labs
• The Key To Top Video Rankings On YouTube & Google
• Information Architects Are From Venus, SEOs Are From Mar
• Google: We May Remove Buzz From Gmail

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I can’t wait for Christmas cause I know what I am going to ask Santa for….

MikroKopter - HexaKopter from Holger Buss on Vimeo.

This is what we found this week in the world of search engine marketing:

• Stephen Colbert Gets An iPad & Shows It Off At The Grammys
• Understanding Concepts And Terminology
• It’s a Feeding Frenzy for Keyword-Rich Domains
• Google New Local Ad Category Invades The “7 Pack”
• What Is A Link Worth? Part 1: Valuing PageRank
• 10 questions to evaluate an SEO
• The Art And Science Of The Email Signature
• Using the hReview Microformat for your Review Pages
• Does Google remove the PageRank coming from links on pages that no longer exist?
• Facebook Advertising for Lead Acquisition Case Study
• Google Earth Adds World War II Imagery

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Why Akira Matters

This is what we found the past few weeks in the world of search engine marketing:

• Martin Luther King, Jr Logo from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, Dogpile & Othersin 2010
• Add Real Time Content to Your Google Maps Listing
• Keyword Targeting: How to Employ Multiple Keywords for SEO & Conversions
• Study Looks At Personalization’s Impact On Search Results
• Helping computers understand language
• Dropbox Announces 4 Million Users, Hires A VP From Salesforce
• Google Changes How It Handles Synonyms
• Conicalization Checking Tool
• One Giant Leap for Link Data: Announcing Open Site Explorer + Page/Domain Authority Metrics
• Man Buried in Haiti Rubble Uses iPhone to Treat Wounds, Survive
• YouTube Music Discovery Project
• How do Majestic and LinkScape get their raw data?
• NASA Astronaut Tweets From Space – For Real This Time
• Google Increases Sitemaps Limit to 50,000 from 1,000
• Google Founders To Sell 10 Million Shares Over Five Years
• Google Adds More Answers & Info To Search Results
• Satellite Images Of Haiti Earthquake From Google & Bing Maps
• Can Too Much Keyword Density Be Interpreted as Boiler Plate Text?
• No Feed, No Problem – Google Reader Now Tracks Any Website Change
• 9 SEO upgrades you can make right now
• 17 Important Things to Do After Starting Your Wordpress Blog
• Is Celebrity Tweetvertising Worth Paying For?
• Remove Pages From Google ~Forever Using a 410 Status Code
• Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color
• RB Coder Initiation
• Search is getting more social
• Google Maps Adds Personalized Suggestions; Where’s Personalization?
• 7 Do’s & Don’ts For Working With A Technical SEO During A Redesign
• Cracking the Google Algorithm, and Understanding Search Patents with Ted “tedster” Ulle

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Play the Piano on Youtube!

Every good cult product or brand goes wrong at some point and loses its underground appeal.

Hammer pants were cool for a minute

Start crying now Apple D-bags.

More than ever am I hearing people unravel the self-deprecating Apple product releases.

I get it, Mr. Jobs, every new iPhone release is the most important to date. Every single new feature is the culmination of 400 years of scientific breakthroughs and technology handed down by aliens.

With a straight face there aren’t many people that won’t sing the praises of the Apple products themselves, which is either a testament to the functionality or the amazing snow job in release.

Most people complain that products take way too long to be released, but not with Apple.

“Steve Jobs and Apple (has) been working on creating a tablet device that doesn’t suck.  Steve is a very long range thinker.”

It’s amazing; as if Steve Jobs has become some sort of supernatural being that speaks directly to techno-Gods.

Steve Jobs as Techno-Poseidon

The Apple product release strategy is a ploy to spellbind consumers, and one that has worked magically. However their will come a point when even the stupidest, most uninformed consumer won’t be influenced by this.

Here is my understanding of the current product release timeline:

Apple Product Release Strategy

‘No matter what type of new product Apple unveils at its much-anticipated press event later this week, Xavier Yaffar says he will buy it. Whatever the cost. “I don’t even have to look at it,” the 48-year-old said.’ CNN -‘Cult’ of Apple hangs on Wednesday announcement

No matter how dumb you become, everyone has a tipping point of brain-matter that finally pushes them into the Matrix. ‘Apple is only doing and saying these things to get me to buy more stuff’ and not giving me an overwhelmingly great reason to do so other than to stay a part of the obnoxious cult of sycophants. This isn’t marketing anymore; it’s some sort of cruel game.

Pull it together folks, only buy a new gadget if it fits within your budget and has all of the great features that you want and need.