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Mahalo Spam? from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.164034
Bas and Roy discuss the comments made on a recent blog post entitled Mahalo.com: Meet the New Spam, Worse than the Old Spam. Bas also talks moderating a Dutch Dialogue Marketing Association panel o...
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Blogger and Speaker Evert Veldhuijzen from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.160375
Bas and Roy welcome Evert Veldhuijzen as they lament over the final broadcast of Webmasters on the Roof for the forseeable future, conference stories, privacy issues in Germany and more.
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SEO Copywriting Myths from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.156759
Dutch SEO copywriters David Brinks and Ramon Eijke
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Google Retrieving Stranded Employees in Europe from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.152074
Bas welcomes Mediavest Lead SEO Pete Young and returning guest Lisa Myers, preview the upcoming Search, Analytics and Social Media Conference or SASCon, Google Hiring Private Jets to retrieve stran...
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Conversion Optimization Specialist Sander Tamaela from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.149237
Onetomarket SEO and conversion specialist , internet enthusiast and entrepreneur, news junkie, gadget freak, semantic web purist Sander Tamaela discusses Conversion optimization, Facebook and gener...
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Using Local Search from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.144376
Local Search Discussion with Arjan Snaterse and Martijn Beijk as they discuss service areas, local linkbuilding, monetization and analytics.
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How Do I Delete My Facebook Account? from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.141051
Bas and Roy discuss about the fascination of FourSquare, Starcraft and a Danny Sullivan Search Engine Land blog post titled Growing On Google, People Asking How Do I Delete My Facebook Account.
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How Small Business Entrepreneurs Can Benefit from Search? from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.138147
Entrepreneurial Merchandiser Richard Theuws discusses how he uses a lot of niche sites to promote his products and what his standpoints are concerning search agencies and search consultants. How do...
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SMX London 2010 Recap from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.098657
Richard Baxter is an SEO consultant at SEOgadget.co.uk, a UK SEO Consulting firm. He joins Bas and Roy to recap SMX London 2010 including some handy tips he learned From SMX London 2010.
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Searching for eBay from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.095792
Dennis Goedegebuure - Senior Manager & Team lead SEO for eBay joins Bas and Roy to discuss his work at eBay setting up and managing a full training program on SEO for eBay Inc worldwide, plus h...
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Mayday Update and Bing on iPhone from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.092436
Bas welcomes guests Joost de Valk and Richard Baxter to discuss the topic of microformats. They answer questions from both State of Search readers and the WebmasterRadio chatroom . A very informati...
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Twitter Spam from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.089904
Roy and Bas talk about Twitter and how using automated bots to advertise on Twitter can be both harmful and beneficial. They point out the right way, and the wrong way, to use Twitter for advertising.
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Struggling with Redirects from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.087179
Roy is joined by his guest Eduard Blacquiere to discuss a multitude of of search topics. They focus on struggling with redirects, and the problems with Google. Is good content actually enough, or i...
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Microsoft adCenter Community Manager Mel Carson from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.083742
Bas and Roy are joined Mel Carson, adCenter Community Manager for Microsoft in Europe. Mel joins in on commentary of the latest search news headlines, plus talks about Bing and his work in the adCe...
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SES San Francisco 2010 Preview with Matt McGowan from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.079516
Bas and Roy welcome Matt McGowan, who heads the publishing of ClickZ.com, SearchEngineWatch.com, and the U.S. operations for Incisive Media which host the Search Engine Strategies or SES Conference...
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Facebook Announcement to Marketers; Google Panda Link Evaluation Factors from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.074848
What Facebook Might Announce at their conference for marketers; Google Panda 3.3, its 40 updates and its Link Evaluation Factors. This topics and more are discussed with Online Marketing Consultant...
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WordPress Plugins and Sunglasses Site Review from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.069849
Roy is joined by Joost de Valk, and they peruse through the search news headlines, including SEO Reputation and upcoming conferences, as well as some details on some new WordPress Plugins Joost has...
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Blogging SES San Francisco 2010 from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.064018
Bas and Roy welcome Bastian Grimm, a German SEO and a State of Search blogger who reported from SES San Francisco 2010 last week. They discussed what he took from the show, plus they discuss recent...
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Good and Bad Linkbait Debate from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.059739
Bas and Roy discuss a story on the ethics of an infographic about the Pakistan floods lead to a discussion with the chatroom about good and bad linkbait. Also a new eyetracking study on User behavi...
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Fascination Of Latent Dirichlet Allocation from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.053940
Bas and Roy welcome back the SEO Head of MediaVest, Pete Young. They discuss the recent voting changes at Sphinn, as well as a recent Rand Fishkin post at SEOMoz entitled Latent Dirichlet Allocatio...
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Google Instant Could Kill Organic Search from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.048956
Bas, Roy and guest Andy Atkins-Krueger discuss the launch of Google Instant, which was received by the industry as being one of the biggest changes Google had made so far. They examine if Google co...
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White Hat vs. Black Hat SEO Contradictions from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.044306
Bas and Roy speak with Brent Payne from the Chicago Tribune about a recent blog post where who tries to sort through a few contradictions on white hat vs. black hat SEO.
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A4UExpo, Hyves and Apple vs. Google from 2023-12-12T19:32:06.038418
Bas and Roy discuss recent headlines including Hyves a Dutch social network, plus they preview A4U Expo with Chris Johnson, the Head of Client Services at Existem, the company that runs Affiliates4...
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Do You Know What a Sponsored Link Is? from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.993917
Young people appear in their searches on Google using both sponsored and non-sponsored links. Contrary to previous research 41 percent do not even know what a sponsored link. Roy and guest co-host ...
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A4U Expo London 2010 Recap from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.988256
A4U Expo London 2010 Recap with guest Search Engine Strategist Rishi Lakhani as he and Bas recap some of the notable SEO sessions that they participated on.
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Spamming a Poll on a Blog from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.983875
Spamming a poll on a blog like Pete Young is doing on his Holistic Search Marketing where he has posted a poll for viewers to vote on the top influential SEOs in Europe.
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Dutch Social Network Hyves Sold from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.978811
Leading Dutch social network, Hyves sold to Dutch media group TMG, Bas, Roy and guest Nicola Stott discuss this plus recap the Manchester SEO conference and more
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New Crawl Regime on Majestic SEO from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.973988
Majestic SEO did a major update, claiming to have crawled about 52 billion URLs and has nearly 350 billion unique URLs in their anchor index. Majestic SEO Marketing Director Dixon Jones joins Bas a...
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Microformats Roundtable from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.970002
Bas welcomes guests Joost de Valk and Richard Baxter to discuss the topic of microformats. They answer questions from both State of Search readers and the WebmasterRadio chatroom . A very informati...
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Biggest Myths in Conversion Optimization from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.964130
Biggest Myths in Conversion Optimization with Stephen Pavlovich, one of Europes most respected conversion experts. Bas and Roy follow-up with Stephen on his post on conversion optimization on SEOMo...
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Search Monitoring Tool Talk from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.959385
Search Monitoring Tool Talk with Jon Henshaw and Taylor Pratt from RavenTools as we learn about the many tools out there to use to optimize your online strategy.
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Google Might Buy Groupon, So What? from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.954412
Google might buy Groupon, so what? Bas and Roy discuss with fellow blogger Peter Young, author of the post Search and social: A match made in heaven?
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Tripadvisor blocks Results from Google Places from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.949047
Tripadvisor blocks Google Places, but Google doesn’t know…? Tripadvisor, one of the biggest sites when it comes to reviews for local: hotels, restaurants but also flights and trip ideas, seems to h...
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Goldman Sachs and the Facebook Investment from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.943131
Goldman Sachs reportedly had been offering their clients the chance to invest in Facebook, in a deal that values the company at 50 billion dollars. They also discuss what might happen with the Sex....
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From Twitter Transparency to Affiliate Transparency from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.939266
From Twitter Transparency to Affiliate Transparency, Bas and Roy welcome back Barry Adams to discuss Google rankings, Twitter submissions and more.
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Search and Net Neutrality from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.899693
Roy is joined by guest host Richard Theuws to discuss Search and Net Neutrality, plus Google Voice introduces a new major feature: Number Porting.
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Bing Allegations and Google Search Results from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.892645
Bas and Roy have an exclusive interview with Search Engine Land Editor-in-Chief Danny Sullivan about the allegations that Bing had been copying Google search results.
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Bing Director Stefan Weitz from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.886144
Bas and Roy speak with Stefan Weitz, the director of Bing, on a plethora of issues including improving their organic SERPs, driving UK market share, and when will Bing arrive to the rest of Europe.
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Social Media Marketing: Engaging on Facebook and Being Successful from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.880740
Bas and Roy have a Social Media Marketing discussion with Li Evans author of the Social Media Marketing book and co-founder of LiBeck Integrated Marketing. She follows up on her appearance at SES L...
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The Next Web with Jorg Ruis from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.876461
Tonight on the show we have Jorg Ruis of The Next
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Google Commerce Search and Optimum Research from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.871212
Bas and Roy give their take on version 3 of the Google Commerce Search their search solution for e-commerce websites. They also discuss the SEOBook blog post entitled Reddit Distilled Virante, Yaho...
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A4U Expo Munich Preview; News from Google I/O from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.868353
Bas, Roy and guest A4U Expo founder Matthew Wood discuss the news that came out of the Google I/O Conference including the beta of their new music service, the Ice Cream Sandwich and that advanceme...
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A4U Expo Munich 2011 On Location from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.864924
From A4U Expo Munich 2011 On Location, Bas discusses brand links, link data and link research with Christopher Cemper of www.cemper.com. Bas also ...
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RavenTools Announces Google Webmaster Tools Integration from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.855813
Bas and Roy speak with Jon Henshaw from RavenTools to discuss Ravens integration with Google Webmaster Tools. They also discuss the latest headlines including Schema, Google Voice and more.
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Google Now Warning WordPress Users They Need To Update from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.851930
Bas and Roy's guest is Liana Li Evans, the author of the award winning social media marketing book, Social Media Marketing: Engaging Strategies for Facebook, Twitter & Other Social Media.
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The Money Which is Surrounding Groupon from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.848389
This is the topic Bas and Roy tackle tonight in which they talk with Sean Sewell, Director for Lead Generation for Performance Horizon Group, about Groupon, Google Offers and much more.
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Playing with Google Plus from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.845399
Bas and Roy wlecome back Dom Hodgson to discuss Google Plus, the top-secret social layer that turns all of Google into one giant social network. Dom, Bas and Roy were lucky enough to test out the b...
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Removing Sites From Google from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.840069
Following an update on Google Plus and how business accounts are managing to sprout up, Bas and Roy are joined by Pete Young, Head of SEO at Brilliant Media. They discuss a story broken by James Br...
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Yahoo! Algo Transition from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.836960
Bas and Roy speak with Cedric Chambaz, EMEA Marketing lead, Small and Medium Businesses Advertising at Microsoft, about transition of Yahoo! search to the Bing algorithm, as well as what the future...
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What's Shaking in Social Search? from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.798064
Bas has on Li Evans to talk shop on Google+, how Google may be dropping the ball on social search, and how they think you should use each of your social networks.
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ThinkVisibility Conference Recap; New Google Sitelinks from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.795338
Guest Commentator Dom Hodgson talks to Bas and Roy about the just passed ThinkVisibility Search, Social Media and Affiliate Conference, plus Roy rants on why we still cannot search Google+ on Googl...
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The New Search Universe: Google, Bing, Twitter, Facebook, You Tube, Foursquare – Hype Or Opportunity from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.792647
The New Search Universe: Google, Bing, Twitter, Facebook, You Tube, Foursquare – Hype Or Opportunity? The last ten years was the decade of Google. But now the search market is changing rapidly. Is ...
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SEOktoberfest Recap and WordPress SEO Plugins from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.789213
Following his return from SEOktoberfest, Joost De Valk fills us in on his consulting work and the ongoing development of new WordPress SEO Plugins.
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Apple iPhone announcement, Google Panda 2.5 Update, A4U Expo news from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.786646
Apple iPhone announcement, Google Panda 2.5 Update, A4U Expo news, and a discussion on Whats Your Primary Consumption Device? with Kelvin Newman, creative director at SiteVisibility.
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A4UExpo London Preview 2011 from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.783618
A4UExpo organizer Matthew Wood joins Bas and Roy to preview the upcoming show in London, including how State of Search is running a SEO competition together with A4U Expo.
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Google Encrypted Search; Conference Training in Demand from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.779972
Google Encrypted Search discussion and conference attendees demanding more training as Bas and Roy talk with Head of SEO Brilliant Media and the organizer of the Sascon Search, Analytics and Social...
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SEO Training Stories; Google+in Google Apps; Google Maps API Limitation from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.776851
Bas and Roy start off with a discussion on their individual SEO training and education from teaching from how to prevent spam to linkbuilding to Google Pagerank. They also discuss how Google + is n...
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Search Personality of the Year; Google+For Businesses from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.773360
Bas and Roy speak with Lisa Myers, who was named Lisa Myers was voted as Search Personality of the Year at the UK Search Awards, plus Google+ For Businesses: What The Industry Thinks.
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Matt Cutts Crowned Google Distinguished Engineer from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.770492
Matt Cutts is now Crowned Google Distinguished Engineer, Bas and Roy discuss the industry reaction, plus how Google is doing a lot with snippets, metadata and personalization of social search.
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Yahoo Stuggle; Google AdWords and AdSense Pros and Cons from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.764882
Yahoo board of directors are leaning toward selling a minority stake in the company, and they are looking at ways to bolster their product and financial strategies. Bas and Roy look at the struggle...
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How to Take Your Site From Suck to Unsuck from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.761175
How to Take Your Site From Suck to Unsuck as Bas and Roy talk to Best Selling Author, Marketing Optimization and User Experience expert Bryan Eisenberg about a recent blog post entitled How to Go F...
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Best and Worst of 2011 in State of Search from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.757560
Recapping the Best and Worst of 2011 in the State of Search as Bas and Roy run down the top stories of the year from Google Panda to Google Plus. They also review the guests they spoke with and the...
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Google Chrome Sponsored Post Controversy from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.753509
Google is caught up in Chrome sponsored post controversy, being accused of violating its own guidelines on paid advertising links, which they blame it on marketing partner Unruly Media. Bas and Roy...
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Google Search Plus Your World from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.750377
Bas and Roy discuss The Kenya controversy and the Google Search Plus Your World dilemma. Google Search Plus Your World gives search results based on the user’s social media connection with Google+.
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How Recession is Affecting Search and Social from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.744882
Bas and Roy discuss if recession is affecting search and social and their ongoing challenges with clients. They also look into the Google privacy policy change.
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MySpace and JCPenney On The Rebound from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.741360
Since December, when MySpace introduced a new music player, the site has signed up one million new users. Bas and Roy also discuss Pinterest and the JCPenney rebound one year after their SEO scandal.
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Google Encrypted Search Going International; Personalized Search and Google Plus Your World from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.737774
Encrypted search is set to expand internationally for signed in Google users as Google will introduce SSL encryption on their local domains, plus Bas discusses Personalized Search and Google Plus Y...
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Firefox Adopting Secure Search; Tools at SES New York 2012 from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.695627
Firefox adopting Secure Search will Allow Snake Oil SEOs to Thrive, Tools at SES New York 2012 and Google Tries To Hide The Search Options By Default.
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Yahoo Reorganization; Google Analytics for Google+ from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.691925
Yahoo To Be Operating in Three Groups Says CEO following the layoff of 2,000 employees; Google Analytics To Be Used For Measuring Google+ Pages: Google CEO Larry Page: What Did He Accomplish in his...
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Keynote vs. PowerPoint; WordPress Plugins; New Google Link Algorithm from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.689328
Bas and Roy debate Keynote vs. PowerPoint; WordPress Plugins, MacBooks and a another New Google Link Algorithm that is causing some sites to lose their ranking.
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Integrated Content Marketing with Search and Social Media from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.686074
Bas discusses Integrated Content Marketing with Search and Social Media with the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing and the author of the new book Optimize:How to Attract and Engage More Customers by ...
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Google Penguin and Panda Updates; Ray-Ban Facebook Hoax from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.682842
Bas and Roy run down the latest news regarding the Google Penguin and Panda Updates, plus Ray-Ban Hoax on Facebook Shows Even Marketers Fall for Peer Pressure; Could Your +1s actually be Domain Bas...
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Search Personalization and Privacy from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.679566
Search Personalization and privacy, Google, Bing, Baidu ,Yahoo,Facebook and more are discussed as Bas exclusively talks to SMX Conference Chair and Search Engine Watch Editor in Chief Danny Sullivan.
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SEO Consultancy Stories; Getting Weird Messages in Google Webmaster Tools from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.676037
Roy is joined by UK SEO Consultant Neil Walker to share SEO Consultancy Stories. The Regional Head of SEO at Mediacom, Peter Young joins them on the second half of the program. They also discuss th...
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a4uexpo Europe 2012 Recap; Is Google AdWords for the Lazy Manager? from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.672523
a4uexpo Europe 2012 Recap; Is Google AdWords for the lazy manager? Samsung and Google teaming up for an anti-Apple legal plan.
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State of Search Wins European Search Award; Google+1 Button Now Recommending Pages from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.669047
State of Search Wins Best Blog at 2012 European Search Awards; Google + 1 Recommendations as Google +1 Button Now Recommending Pages as part of their updated version that displays social recommenda...
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SES New York 2012 Recap from 2023-12-12T19:32:05.664277
In this SES New York 2012 Recap, Bas speaks on location with TopRank Online Marketing CEO Lee Odden, the Director at Rosetta and President of SEMPO, Stone Temple Consulting President Eric Enge and ...
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