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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With Facebook being in the forefront of the social media/networking niche, I thought it would be appropriate to mention some ways to get your personal profile (along with your business’/organization’s profile) more SEO friendly so that other people can better find it in SERPs, especially since Facebook‘s page rank is 9.

Facebook Profile SEO Tips:

1. Post Often! – Make sure that your Facebook statuses are updated on a regular basis (at least once a week), especially with topics that relate to you or your business’ products. The more active your happenings on facebook are, the more active people will see you are with your information.
2. Use Keywords – Keywords are a very important factor in SEO rankings. With this in mind, they can also be cleverly used within your profile. To best be found under specific niches, use keywords separated by commas within the various tiers (Activities, Interests, etc.) of the Personal Information section of the Facebook profile editor. Be sure to stay away from phrases (e.g. “I like Benford from Wally Arnold”) within these tiers as well.

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Recently, the video team of WebProNews (a sister site to MySEOBlog) caught up with Matt Cutts from Google and discussed the pending feature of Caffeine, which was a test search engine that returned search results at a faster speed with better organization that rapidly updated data from various social networking websites.

During the video interview with Cutts, he also discussed the idea of the speed of a site playing a factor in ranking sites in Google’s index in 2010. Site speed is already an important factor when searching for websites in today’s “fast-paced” society, so this will make searching and finding faster sites in an easier way.

Click on the video below to watch this exclusive interview with Cutts and what he had to say regarding site speed’s integration with SEO:

With this premise, many webmasters may have to increase their resources, such as finances and server types and space to get their sites faster and better within SERP (Search Engine Ranking Pages) if and/or when this idea is implemented into Google’s SEO criteria.

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