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It doesn’t require an Einstein to predict that Page Segmentation is up for some very extensive testing by a great number of leading SEOs within the foreseeable future - ignore their results at your own peril!

While the jury is still out on the question to which extent bounce rates and behavioral factors will actually impact search engine rankings, there seems to be a general consensus that it’s bound to come. If so, it’s equally likely that we will soon witness the emergence of a new super duper black hat instrument: the SEO Surfbot Net (SBN).

There’s always been savvy online marketers who didn’t fall for the mainstream media’s hypnotized focus on the Mountainview ‘Plex crowd - chances are that your Yahoo! and MSN traffic, while possibly puny compared to Google’s, will achieve an astronomically higher conversion rate - certainly nothing you should knock too lightly as it may well prove to be the costliest mistake of your life!

Social networking sites are a dime a dozen these days. This one, however, seems to have adopted a slightly more intelligent approach and, contrary to Digg, Reddit, and others SEO isn’t a shunned taboo word. Whether it will actually succeed, remains to be seen but for the serious SEO it certainly seems worth a try.

The Google Labs Experimental search section is a playing ground for innovative approaches to search. As such, it may or may not be quite revealing in terms of what cards Google’s got up their sleeve - an indicator of things to come at best, a junkyard of nice tries at worst. As an SEO, you will want to keep up with what’s brewing.

Here’s a friendly heads up by way of a Season’s gift to our esteemed readers, offering a sneak peak behind the scenes of what’s brewing in the sinister clandestine developer labs of modern bad ass Black Hat SEO: Mosaic Cloaking is essentially componentized IP-Delivery - a highly sophisticated and fairly complex technology that will enable black hat SEOs to truly push the envelope in terms of well nigh undetectable cloaking/IP delivery to an unprecedented degree of efficiency. It will also effectively dissolve the hitherto clear cut borders between cloaked and non-cloaked pages - Web 3.0 at its very best

It’s been a long standing assertion amongst the A-list members of the SEO community that PageRank does not equate with ranking: Too many low PR sites hitting top spots in the SERPs, outdoing their high PR competitors, it’s really hard to come to any different conclusion. However, now there’s a statistical study determining PR evolution in the Google SERPs over the past 6 months and analyzing the correlation between PR and rankings, offering some interesting conclusions

When you’re traveling or running errands, far from the office desktop or in lack of that nifty laptop, having to make do with your smart phone’s standard search function usually sucks bigtime. The last thing you need is to wade through a hundred search engine results on a display screen the size of a postage stamp!

Earl Grey of Syndk8 forum is conducting an SEO experiment targeting what is arguably the most competitive market of them all: pharmaceutical spam, specifically Viagra.

Seems that reverse or upside down SEO as a means to capture underestimated traffic may finally be discovered across the board as a hitherto neglected powerful source of revenue

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