Social networks are becoming a hit on the web, especially since the dawn of Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, but no one could have imagined “way back when” that search engines could have become a social area on the web. With this in mind, Google, the web’s most utilized search engine, has started to embark down the social path and has integrated social-like features into its services.

Google started to get its name associated with social networks when it released Google Wave back in 2009; however, this service still is an invite-only service that helps keep the high demand and curiosity for the service.

Another way that many have seen the search engine giant take the social path is by seeing real-time Twitter updates relating to a specific search term (especially relating to pop culture people or events). For example, if you were to search for “Michael Jackson” on Google, an area of the SERPs will be sectioned off for the most recently tweeted posts in real time on Twitter from people who are discussing “Michael Jackson” in their tweets.

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Prior to publishing your website on your business’ website, a good routine practice to keep in routine with is making sure that ALL of the links on the website that you have just made are all pointing to somewhere. As a web administrator, your coworkers and your boss will look up to you and trust you with the content of the website that you are making for them.

With the premise mentioned above in mind, I would like to direct your attention to a nifty and convenient tool called Xenu’s Link Sleuth that helps make this process easier, especially if you have a large, robust website with tons of links that would take a long time to manually check on your own.

Xenu’s Link Sleuth is a great tool if you are doing your business’ website by yourself; it will load the code of your website and automatically skim through your links to make certain everything is satisfactory. If this program finds any erroneous links, a report will display the links that were found as non-functional and their location in your website’s code.

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Just recently, search giant Google and its web-based mail service Gmail were victims of a cyber attack that targeted the accounts of Chinese Human Rights activists.

David Drummond, the chief legal officer for Google responded to this incident with the statement provided below:

“These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered — have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China.”

With the above information in mind, Google’s blogs later stated that they are no longer going to censor search results on Google.cn. More information concerning their response is to this attack can be found on their blog post titled “A New Approach to China.”

A lot of talk about this controversy has started reaction from all over the world on Twitter, which can be seen below.

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Ever since the dawn of the well-known web animation software of Macromedia/Adobe Flash, it has been a “no no” to use it if you are developing a website for SEO purposes. With this in mind, many web administrators have deemed the software evil, because it can hurt your rankings in various SERPs. With this in mind, I would like to let you know that Flash can now be made to suit various SEO principles.

The developer staff at Adobe have developed various video discussions and tutorials to make your Flash content more SEO friendly, and I have specified the main premises of these videos below:

• Overview of SEO Issues - Discussion of what issues developers and designers need to know when building rich media or dynamic content for websites, devices, and web video delivery.
• Demystifying SEO - Explanation of how search engines view dynamic content within a web page, and highlighting the importance of tags, descriptions, and links.

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Even though MySeoBlog is a great, concise, and content-rich site for web promotion tips and tricks, this site also includes a free forum as a counterpart where you can post an SEO-related question to gain knowledge or feedback from and also to participate in various SEO-related threads.

The MySeoBlog Forum is a great place to post an SEO-related question that you have been searching for an answer and also to communicate with various other SEO professionals and specialists around the web. Some of the unique categories included on our forum have been listed below:

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Recently, the WebProNews Video Team interviewed various well-known SEO celebrities to ask them: “What Do You Want for Christmas?” and some of their answers have been listed below:

• Marty Weintraub (President, aimClear): “I’d like the search engines to put their trust factors in an API with really great documentation.”
• Anne Kennedy (BeyondInk): “I would like Google to tell me when they’re going to be reading visual cues and how I’m supposed to know how to put them in.”
• Topher Kohan (SEO Manager, CNN) “…is for Twitter and Google to actually integrate and give me something I can use in real time search.”
• Stoney deGeyter (Pole Position Marketing): “I would love to see Bing get a lot more market share and approach the 40/50 percent mark.”

To see reactions from other SEO celebrities, please click on the video below:

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Since the Mozilla Firefox browser is used so frequently within the SEO community, I thought I would highlight a few counterparts that you can add to Firefox to benefit your SEO experiences. These plugins are great for SEO enthusiasts, and also for people/businesses that are just getting started with SEO.

• SEOpen - This add-on allows quick and easy access to web-based tools that will aid you in your SEO efforts, and it also provides instant page rank statistics and an inbound-link checker.

  

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If you are new to the WordPress blogging platform and wanting to have your blog optimized on search engines with gaining better visibility, I would recommend installing and utilizing the All-In-One SEO Pack. I have specified the various benefits and features of this plug-in below:

This plug-in can be downloaded directly from the WordPress website in a .zip file format, and installation instructions can be found under the Installation tab of their website as well.

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