This is the first post of what will be our Friday recap on some of the things we have been reading this week.
The nofollow Panic
We covered this in one of our posts but it is well worth reading:
Matt Cutt’s Page Rank Sculpting – A must read and really clarifies a few points after all this nofollow kerfuffle
Google Says: Yes, You Can Still Sculpt PageRank. No You Can’t Do It With Nofollow - Another good post provided from SEOmoz
The Power of Social Media
Twitter probably gets most of the plaudits for this however it has been very interesting to see how social networking has proved to be an invaluable tool in the midst of the protests happening in Iran over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s election victory. Here are some of the snippets from the BBC this week:
Ayatollah backs election result
US asks for Twitter outage delay
Twitter responds on Iranian role
Up, Up, and Away
Real Time Search
We have discussed this topic this week also and it is one that is still generating a lot of opinion and debate around the office. Here are some of the posts that have covered the topic this week:
Twitter SEO - the Future of Keywords - Interesting post on how Twitter is shaping the way in which we search
Twitter Search Gradually Becoming a Real-Time Search Engine - Another post exploring how Twitter Search is fast becoming an search engine.
Look Who’s Talking Now - Facebook want a slice of the search pie
General SEO and Search
Here some more general things that have been discussed in the SEO this week
Google Now Indexing Flash From External Files - It’s been mentioned for a while now but at last Google is beginning to index flash files
Bing Search Improves on the Search Results Page - Offers a great opinion on how Microsoft might have finally cracked the search engine market
SEO in 2020 - A very interesting post exploring how search could be in the future
InfluenceRank: Google’s Social Media PageRank - Well worth a read and interesting to see how Google are going to reward social media marketing efforts
Is Ask.com Out of the Search Engine Race? - With all this hype about Bing what about others like Ask.com? This post explores what role Ask will be playing in the search market.
Google Page level penalty for comment spam – rankings and traffic drop - Really interesting post on how comment spam can affect rankings.
Other Points of Interest
These are just some other points of interest we have found:
Clean Tweets: New Add-On Zaps Twitter Spam - An add-on from Firefox allows you to elimiate spam in your Twitter feed
3 Tools to Combine Bing and Twitter Search Results - Some great tools for looking at various search engines in one go. I particulaly like Mixxr.
Google Removes File Size From Search Results Page - Google removes file size from search results
Yahoo Is Now Resorting To Selling Killer Domain Names On The Cheap- TechCrunch covers how Yahoo is selling domain names
And Last But Not Least… A Bit Of Fun!
This gave us a bit of a laugh in the office this week
Enjoy!