The search engine market is quite a crowded place. Google, by far the dominant search leader, has a massive 65% market share. Yahoo comes in at a distant second, so far back that they had to make a deal with 3rd place Bing in order to share results and ads , making them big enough to compete.

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SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Interview with Google’s Maile Ohye from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.

Getting solid information on SEO from Google is much like drawing blood from a stone but every now and then they slip up and say a bit too much.

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What Are Some Effective Techniques For Building Links?

Ok, we have a question from Pulkit Agrawal. Pulkit asks: “Organic link building, according to me is one of the most difficult tasks for SEOs of SMEs.

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Will Google recognise text within images any time soon? Not any time soon, according to Mr. Matt Cutts, software engineer and web spam fighter from Google. If we went back to the year 2003 and asked any SEO what factors they think are important for rankings they would surely list ALT as one of them, and probably pretty high on the list.

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Maile Ohye: Hi, my name is Maile Ohye. I work at Google as a Developer Programs Tech Lead and I manage our webmaster central blog. I’d like to help you better understand how Google approaches site performance and also to help you feel more comfortable in taking those first steps to making your site faster.

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Now you can promote and de-mote (delete) the search results as well as comment on them. Google remembers your preferences for the next time you search and also learns about your searching style so next time you search for something else it may bring you more relevant results.

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Dan Petrovic talking about link building strategies at Search Engine Boot-Camp at Clifton’s in Brisbane. For any questions or information contact us online or call 1300 123 SEO.

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Webmasters all over the internet understand that paid links can hurt their site. In their YouTube video, “How should I link to a site that I have a personal relationship with?”

Google Webmaster Central explains how to disclose any personal relationships you have with webmasters of the websites you link to on your site so that you avoid the detrimental effects of paid links.

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Matt Cutts Video: How Google Social Search Works

The more you become engaged in the online world, the bigger your social network is likely to get. The bigger it gets, the more difficult it can be to manage.

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