SEO 101

Google Plans Algorithm Changes for Fixing Spam as Matt Cutts, head of the search quality team, wrote in his blog that he agreed about the increase in spam and detailed what the company is doing to keep it under the hood. Ross and John also look into Googles answer to Groupon, Google Offers.

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Matt Cutts Goes to Washington, Testifies Google Has Integrity, Europeans Go Fishing for Bad Google Behavior, plus Ross and John answer listener questions on sources for keyword analysis, WordPress plugins and more.

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Search Roundtable for Affiliate Marketers as Ross and John answer questions from WordPress blogs to linkwheels in Part 2 of their breakout session from AffCon Miami 2010.

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Search Roundtable for Affiliate Marketers as Ross and John answer questions from WordPress blogs to linkwheels in Part 1 of their breakout session from AffCon Miami 2010.

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Sources for Keyword Analysis and local listings are some of the topics brought up by listeners this week. Ross and John discuss how they approach this plus they answer a listener question who is trying to break into Googles local listings.

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Effective ways of Communicating the Benefits of SEO to potential clients, like local/small business owners that do not know anything about computers who are completely overwhelmed by the internet.
Ross and John answer that listener question plus another question on Keyword TLDs.

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How do you do competitor analysis? A listener asks if it has to do with typing in your major keywords from keyword analysis and seeing who ranks well for them, then clicking on their site and literally reading content on the page and checking links to and from the page? David Ogletree from SEOFox.com also chimes in with his perspective.

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New Google Local Search Results and How to Adapt. Listeners ask how to optimize for these new results, and how Title Attributes, Menu Labels, and Alt Image descriptions play into SEO.

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Domain Geotargeting and Keyword Research are up for discussion this week. Ross and John talk about how to balance content across several top-level domains, Keyword Research, Google Instant, brand search and a new spam report extension for Google Chrome.

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Increasing the level of indexation, plus Ross and John discuss what are factors that could lead to non-indexing of a single page, or group of pages if they are in the sitemap.

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