Well, it was an interesting week. Seems everyone is at the SMX Advanced this week, so it was a little slow. I thought I would wrap up a few bits of news for a nice Friday informative. I haven’t been blogging a lot lately (seems less and less every week), but that’s just a sign that SEO Factor is doing well. Catch 22 I guess.

Catch 22
Speaking of catch 22, Hugo guzman of Zeta Interactive wrote a neat post on The Ranking Report Catch 22: Part 1. This is always a tricky subject. As a business owner, it’s easier to justify an increase in rankings; so you would want to see a report giving you this information. As an SEO/SEM, I want to tell you I don’t care where your traffic comes from or about your rankings, as long as we can get quality traffic that will convert. It’s always a topic for SEOs, but honestly, why not just run the report, give the client what they want, and do what we do at the same time? Those reports don’t take a lot of errort or time. Still a good article.

No English?
In usual Shimon Sandler form, he posted a great tactic for building foreign language keyword lists. This guy is probably one of my favorite SEO/SEMs out there. His posts are always great. If you do any work for clients outside of your country, give this post a good read.

Google Gives It Up
At the SMX this week, Mike McDonald with WebProNews conducted an interview with Matt Cutts. During the video, Matt reveals that Google Help now offers information on NoFollow and its uses. You can read a ton of details at Matt’s post about the subject.

Go Directly To UK Jail
In very interesting news, Sarah Bird over at SEOmoz gave us some detailed information on the New UK Law Criminalizing Stealth Marketing Techniques. It’s a lot to explain, so I suggest checking the post out yourself. It’s so interesting to me because I feel that this is a plight in the US as well. I know of a very successful company that makes use of one of these tactics almost exclusively.

Decisions, Decisions
Finally, there seems to be a movement by a lot of my Twitter SEO friends to go to Plurk. This is a little disconserting. I don’t mind moving to Plurk or staying with Twitter either way. However, I don’t get to spend much time on just one, I really hope there isn’t some big split. Mark O’Neill with NowSourcing has a pretty nice coverage of the Plurk system. Sigh…here’s my Twitter account, and here’s my Plurk account. Someone just keep me in the loop on what everyone chooses.

Well, that’s it for now. I hope everyone has a nice weekend.

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