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Search Engine Optimization Companies: Break Google Rules to Get Top Rankings?Google Slaps Another Guest Blog Network: PostJoint; Also, returning guest Kristine Schachinger joins Jim and guest host David Harry to discussthe serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library called Heartbleed. Michelle Stinson-Ross of Offers.com discusses social media branding and tells us how she thoughtherposting format on a Facebook brand page she manages had changed.
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Google Instant Apps are the abbreviated applications would be streamlined enough to start working immediately after users open them with a URL tap, temporarily loading the full software's functionality without going through the rigmarole of a traditional Play Store installation. After half a year, the Android team has opened up a select few Instant Apps to live testing. Cindy Krum, Emily Grossman and Ashley Berman Hale from MobileMoxie fill us in. 

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DuckDuckGo Reaches 10 Million Searches; Matt Cutts Retires From Google, and chooses to head up the US Digital Service. Plus, Google Home units arguing over which is human and which is robot, Google Killing off Google +, and an interesting Google patent - an extension on what they're doing with cars.

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Google confirms rolling out the mobile intrusive interstitials penalty. This penalty only impacts intrusive interstitials that happen directly after going from a Google mobile search result to a specific page. Bad Content = Bad SEO. Though less is not more, more is not necessarily better. Ryan Shelley from Search Engine Land reports on Why SEO and Lousy content don’t mix.

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Some May See A Drop In Google Link Counts In Search Console;  Google: SEO Is One Of The Primary Reasons Websites Are Targeted For Hacking. Plus Jim and Dave discuss an interesting google patent- an extension on what they're doing with cars.

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SEO AS Dirty As Ever. As much as the SEO industry wants to grow up and shed the shady reputation it had in the past, it seems many don’t want to change and still cast a shadow over the industry." Plus, and On-Page SEO Tips and Tricks with Jon Henshaw from Raven Tools. 

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Rob Bucci, the founder and CEO of STAT Search Analytics, chats with Jim Hedger and Dave Davies about featured snippets and the future of search. Vivid Seats SEO Director Bryson Meunier talks to Jim and Dave about search in a world where there is no SERP at all (Echo, Google Home, etc.)

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Users and their impact on search, the new SERP features and voice search discusses as Jim Hedger and Davies welcome ‎SEO & Content Architect at Moz Britney Muller and  Freelance Journalist, Content Marketer, and Storyteller Cara Harshman. 

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Link Acquisition and Link Building : What Has Changed? Jim Boykin and Ann Smarty with Internet Marketing Ninjas explains how changes to Google like the numerous and continuous releases of their Penguin Update have made a significant impact. We learn about the positive changes Google has made to help Identify link networks and private networks.

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Conversion Optimization with a focus on things you can do on the fly as Jim Hedger and Dave Davies speak with performance marketer at Unbounce, Duane Brown. Duane works in performance marketing at Unbounce. Past work includes Jack Wills, ASOS, TELUS and KPMG. He's also a wanderluster having traveled & eaten his way through 34 countries.

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