Check it out now in Google Labs!

Hey gang... just a quick heads up to let you know that Google Social Search is now Live and can be accessed here. We were just talking about it this morning, so as expected, I am gonna dig in to see what we have.

For more info; see the official blog post, the help center and/or watch this vid

We'll have more on this story once I get in, dig around and get dirty! Now git on outta here and report back what ye find my fellow search geeks and warriors alike! The dawn of a new era? Or yet another 'meh' moment... We shall see.

Training for Search Warriors!

OK, if you've been wandering the trails with us here for any length of time, you might have caught wind of a little project me and a few dozen friends (old and new) have been working on. I speak of the SEO Dojo, a community for search geeks and professionals. It began as a desire to have a private hang out with a few peeps and turned into a community that evolved with dozens of members and new features/content each and every week.

Somewhere along the line things changed. No longer was it just a simple little hobby, oh no my friends, when you'r search obsessed, odd things can happen. We started to polish it, prime it and make ready to bring our little home to the world.

We've Launched on our maiden voyage!

Yup it's true... just like I promised. So what do you do now? That's easy.. come join us! You can learn more and join us using the following links;

• Learn more about membership
  
• Read Member Testimonials
  
• And of course; Sign Up
  

For those of you that have been looking for a top notch community for search geeks (we've got some bloggers, web designers and shirt makers too!) it is my hope that you'll join us. It has been a labour of love (mostly hee hee) and it's nice to see it leave the nest. 

Hey Gang, I wanted to pass along some exciting news (for me at least...hehe). Over the last while we’ve been quietly building a community for SEO geeks and warriors called; the SEO Dojo. It all started back earlier this year when some fellow search geeks and I had been talking about having a place where SEO professionals (and webmasters) could hang out and talk shop. So we built one.

In my youth, training/teaching martial arts was a big part of my life and so the SEO Dojo was built with the same credo; ‘We’re all teachers and we’re all students’. There are no egos and it isn’t a competition. There is always someone that knows more, (or different areas) than you do, and there are those with less knowledge. It is by working together, and exhanging ideas that we can achieve the best results.

(Learn more about the membership program here)

Monday October 19th 2009 is the day

After many months of hanging out and building the offering, we’re thrilled to announce we’re setting it loose into the wild next Monday. Our goal is to offer a (gated) commuity that SEOs will feel comfortable talking tactics, strategy and even participate in the latest industry chatter.

If you’re interested in learning more…. Use the following links;

• Learn more about the Dojo
  
• More on the community spirit
  
• What we have to offer (and what it costs)
  
  

We have taken our time in building this community and struggled even with what we wanted to do with it ultimately. To ensure the quality of the individuals and avoid spam, it will be a closed door affair. We’ve had 100 great SEO and webmaster related peeps in there for the last while and the evolution of the SEO Dojo, was greatly enhanced from the interactions.

As for me, it has been a truly exhausting experience at times and it will be nice to get the maiden voyage underway.

Watch for discounts

As part of the launch next week we’ll be offering some discounts to the early birds that get on board early. If you want to make sure YOU get the specials be sure to get hooked up with the SEO Geeks Newsletter or watch the SEO Dojo on Twitter for more.

I want to thank all of those that have helped build the Dojo and to those that are sponsoring the effort. You folks just ROCK!!

We hope to see you there!

NOTE: If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please get in touch

Hey there…. Just a few tidbits in passing that are worth mentioning...Yesterday there was some interesting news in the form of an update to Google Insights for Search, you can get some coverage here;

New features and languages for Google Insights for Search - Official Google Blog
Google Adds Keyword Forecasting To Insights For Search Tool – Search Engine Land

Essentially they got some toys recently (embed and gadget even) as well as a new feature for evaluating query space predictions via Keyword Forecasting, (for selected categories). That’s also clever and comes with a short video;

OK… now that we’re up to speed…Let’s git outta’ dodge an’ get geeky.