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James Gandolfini Death, Build a Good Site not Links; Why Google Stopped Asking Job Applicants to Answer Impossible Brainteasers; Will Google Plus overtake Facebook for social sharing?

Takeaways from Matt Cutts at SMX Advanced 2013: Page Speed, Bounce Rate, Authorship, Panda Updates and more, Does page speed affect rankings? Bounce Rate; Is Short Term Social vs. Long Term Social overrated for SEO? Dave welcomes David Harry of SEO Training Dojo and Terry Van Horne of SEO Pros to break down what we learned this week.

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U.S. Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls; Is Google America's third political party. Jim and Dave also preview SES Toronto 2013 and how Google Analytics is becoming A Robust Testing Platform With Content Experiments API, and how Google has No Plans for Glass Facial Recognition Apps.

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Matt Cutts and Google: New Warning on Advertorials and Paid Content; Google Warns Disclose Paid Content or Else; Disavowing links? use a machete rather than a scalpel. Delete from entire domains rather than cherry picking links; Facebook cracking down on sexual violence against women? What took them so long? Also, who said If you are a brand and youre not on Google+, youre an idiot.

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Google releases Penguin 2.0; Teens Leaving Facebook? Crackstarter moving to Kickstarter. We also discuss the art of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing with the founder of Boca Raton, Florida based co-working facility Caffeine Spaces (and the co-founder of the South Florida-based New Tech Community) Mark Laymon and 17-year-old Jared Kleinert , Founder/CEO of Synergist, a crowdsourcing platform for social entrepreneurs.

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Jim is joined by David Harry aka THeGypsy from Verve Developments to discuss the fallout that came from the 6th annual Google I/O Developer Conference, which featured changes to Google+ Chrome and search via spoken answers. We also get a report from Michelle Stinson-Ross from Firestarter Social Media on location from Interactivity Digital 2013, including the anticipated session from post-Blueglass executives Loren Baker and Greg Boser.

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Jim and Dave discuss 5 Ways You May Be Stuck In the Good Ol' Days of SEO based off a recent Search Engine Watch article by Kristine Schachinger that discusses all the algorithm changes of years past and how SEOs have looked at past techniques to manipulate the latest algorithm.

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Google Enhanced Campaigns Get Social Annotations, Availability For Mobile App Advertisers; Google chairman Eric Schmidt defends tax avoidance policies; Google Reconsideration Request Guidelines; Google Instant Previews Removed From Search Results ; Google Changes Authorship Interface and Removes More By. Also, Kristine Schachinger from SitesWithoutwalls reports from PubCon New Orleans 2013.

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International SEO Roundtable Part 2 as Jim and Dave discusses the joy and pain of taking SEO overseas with American based SEOs Aaron Aders from Relevance, Frank Watson from Kangamurra Media, Dave Snyder from Coypress and David Portney from Portent Interactive.

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International SEO Roundtable Part 1 as Jim and Dave discusses the joy and pain of taking SEO overseas or into the Americas. We first hear from international based SEOs with David Harry and Terry Van Horne from SEO Dojo, Mikkel DeMib Svendsen, Chris Adams from gShift Labs and Tony Hutchcroft.

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