Latest Search News from the SEM Room on FriendFeed

The Inevitable Demise of the Black Hatter - SEOptimise
7 Ways to Lower Your Home Page Bounce Rate - Conversation Marketing
Google loses share as Yahoo, Microsoft gain - ComScore
PPC Keyword Sets: Words to the Wise - Search Engine Watch
Semantic Search Arrives at the Web - DevX
Yahoo Researcher Seeks to Combine Semantic Search Methods - Search Engine Watch
Google on One Boxes and Grouping Result Types to Fill Informational Needs - SEO by the Sea
Will Software Patents (Including On Search Algorithms ) Go Away? -Search Engine Land
WordButler: New Keyword Tool Not Quite Ready for the Big Leagues - Pole Position
Proof You Can Buy Your Way to No. 1 on Google & Yahoo - Small Business SEM
Negative keyword research tips - Get Elastic

Latest SEO News from the Learn SEO room on FriendFeed

General TooBar indexing debunk post - Matt Cutts
Robots.txt Overview, Generator, & Analyzer - SEO Book
Guide to getting pics in Google - Digital Inspiration
The Link Building Kiss of Death - Search Engine Land
Alternative Search Results Part I - Alt Search Engines
The New Google Keyword Tool: How To Apply Keyword Research to Your Site - Get Elastic
Tracking your Backlinks with Free Internal Analytics Tools - Search Engine Journal
Source ordered content; SEO benefits or drawbacks - Search Engine Journal
Architecting Web sites - Design from the SEO perspective - SEO Theory

Strangely, there were few patents of interest this week.... so that's it - have a great weekend!!

Latest Search Marketing News from the SEM Room on FriendFeed

Scour - a new social search engine - Social CMS
Why The Google Keyword Tool Is Useless For SEO, Even With Exact Numbers - SmackDown
.Me and .Pro Domains to Go on Sale - Search Engine Watch
7 Ways to Lower Your Home Page Bounce Rate - Conversation Marketing
Video Optimization and Analytics: A closer look at YouTube Insight - 10e20
Yahoo Directory bug lets you see your competitors clients - Blog Storm
Conversion and PPC: Can you start small? - Luna Metrics
Google playing with voting buttons again- TechCrunch
The fallacy of SEO celebrity - Top Rank
SEO Feasability - when it's a good idea and isn't - Hamlet Batista Blog

Latest SEO news from the Learn SEO Room at FriendFeed

How to Write Effective Title Tags & Other On-Page Stuff - SEM Insights
20 must have FF extensions for SEO peeps - Search Engine Journal
Link Building via Word-of-Mouth - Search Engine Watch
How to track outbound links in Google Analytics - SEO Gadget
4 things you should know about Robots.tx - Search Engine Journal
Search Engines and Link Reputation: What’s Yours? - Jeffery Smith (Sub by Garrett Pierson)
Will It Float? A guide to getting Google to love you - SEOpscenter
Online SEO Tools - the Ultimate Collection - Search Engine Journal
Big Brand Link Building - Wiep Knol
Online Marketing Tips Video: 5 Easy SEO Tips to Optimize a Website - Search Marketing Gurus
the Techologies behind Google Rankings - Google Blog
A FAQ about SEO. Helpful for non techie customers. - Mass Media Design (sub by Gregor Spowart )

Search Marketing news; from the SEM Room on FriendFeed

Me.dium Launches "Real Time" Social Search Search Engine Land
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Semantics - Alt Search Engines
Reputation Crises Management: 8 SEO Triage Tips - Aim Clear
B2B SEO/SEM: Interview with Fred Yee of ActiveConversion and FoundPages - Brian Carter
You and A with Matt Cutts Video (from SMX) - Google Video
Revisiting Content-Phobia In Paid Search - Search Engine Land
How to Analyze and Improve the ‘Bounce Rate’ for Your Website - sub by Garrett Pierson

Latest SEO news; from the Learn SEO Room on FriendFeed

Are .co.uk Domains Having an Increased Influence in Google UK Algorithm? - SEOptimize (sub Andy Roberts )
Post by Aaron Wall on the dying SEO Consulting Services - Sub by Garrett Pierson
Recip links - SEO's long standing contradiction - Search Enine Journal
Trade You A Smarte Car For A Link - the Link Spiel
Wait. When Did ‘SEO’ Become Synonymous with ‘Promoter’? - Uncle Peppers
why you need to understand bounce rates - Internet Business Blog
Great list of SEO people to be stuck on the elevator with! - sub by Garrett Pierson
Business Meets Social Media - Your SEO Mentor (sub by Igor The Troll )
Great post wit 10 Emergency SEO Tips - sub by Garrett Pierson
SEO is an orchestra not an instrument - Search Engine Journal

Just a few notes for a Monday morning;

Collective Thoughts – while Social Media Marketing is far sexier than SEO, I have tried my best not to publish too much on the topic here as I like to stay close to SEM and more specifically SEO. So what to do with those SMM musings?

 For the next while I am going to be publishing social goodiness over on Collective thoughts as Brian, Andy, Shana , Mark  and (of course)  Tim decided to extend a friendly hand to yours truly. I’d like to thank them for their interest, no matter how short sighted (hee hee) and pass along my first post; Plurk and intimate guide for the socially inclined

SEO Superlatives – another recent path led me into another collective of sorts to help bring together a fun contest with Monsieur Hooley. The contest finally closed and the winners announced over the weekend. Be sure to check out; The SEO superlatives contest winners

Super Guests – I have also updated the Guest Riders page with our latest posters here on the trail. I want to thank Samir and Brian for dropping by. If you haven’t already be sure to read;

How to get the most from AdWords Geo-Targeting – Brian Carter
5 Reasons you should be using Plurk - Samir Balwani

…and that’s it. I am working on some posts here on the trail as well as a few for Collective Thoughts; stay tuned – and as always, get in touch if you’d like to guest post.