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Google has made a couple of changes involving the +1 buttons, including that the color scheme is changing to white and red, plus Signed-in Google users can now thank others for hitting the +1 button. Jim and Dave also discuss a Search Engine Journal post entitled Are We Putting Ourselves Out of Business With All These How To Blog Posts?

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Resources for Stocking Your Internet Marketing Toolkit, Dave takes us through a Search Engine Watch post that helps us separate the good from the bad, the expensive from the inexpensive and figure out how to tell when the price difference is worth it?
Jim and Dave discuss the Death of Conservative activist Andrew Breitbart that lead to lots of negative Twitter comments.

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Talking Link Building and Analytics as Citation Labs Founder Garrett French and SitesWithoutWalls founder Kristine Schachinger join Dave and guest host Terry Van Horne.

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Jim and Dave discuss Bill C-11, the Canadian equivalent to SOPA and PIPA in the US and how the entertainment industry is lobbying to persuade the Canadian government to accede to their demands for highly punitive restrictions on copyrights. They also comment on Bill C-30, the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act.

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Google Screenwise Pays You To Give Up Privacy and Surf The Web With Chrome; Chrome Web browser comes to Android phones and tablets; Blackberry 10 operating system coming soon.

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Facebook filed papers Wednesday to raise at least 5 billion dollars and begin to sell stock this spring.How to Understand Your Google Not Provided Traffic.

Jim and Dave also discuss a Search Engine Watch article from Miranda Miller entitled Google, Bing and Yahoo in Partnership to Sell Top Organic Local Listings?. They uncover some reported irregularities

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Everything is measurable. How does that idea relate to Google Search Plus Your World? Jim notes that many old-time SEOs are suddenly consulting to new tool makers. This indicates A) a recgonition of SEO as important and B) recognition that changes make current/old metrics obsolete.

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The Controversial Protect IP Act legislation (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) asd Congress declares it needs more debate. SEO Rockstars host, SEMPO President and Director of Thought Leadership at Rosetta Chris Boggs gives us his take.

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Looking Inside the BlueGlass as Jim and Dave welcome BlueGlass VP of Marketing / Managing Partner at BlueGlass Interactive, Loren Baker and the newly appointed Chairman of the Board Richard Zwicky.

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Jim and Dave analyze the hiring of new Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson, the task he has at hand of restoring the search engine to prominence and the overwhelming factors that he will have to overcome.

They also discuss Rick Santorums near win in the Iowa caucus results and how it rehashed his Google problem for when you search for Santorum on Google.

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