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Criticizing Google for their boundless data greed and the unfettered self-serving disregard for their users’ privacy is nothing new. But rather than adopt a myopic, fragmentized view of things, it’s about time to view their transgression in aggregate because in total it is actually dramatically greater and far more sinister than the mere sum of its individual constituents would lead you to believe.

An issue you won’t find being discussed a lot is the nightmare most all content management systems (CMS) will hit you with. Unfortunately, from an SEO’s point of view, it’s also their predominant feature…

The wedding party is definitely over: both the media and the political establishment are starting to view Google as a prime threat to a slew of well established rights and business practices, ranging from privacy through copyright infringement to monopoly status possibly requiring enforcement of Anti Trust laws. Google, expectably, is not amused – and pulled a link they had pointed to our recent Data Kraken article.

Criticizing Google for their boundless data greed and the unfettered self-serving disregard for their users’ privacy is nothing new. But rather than adopt a myopic, fragmentized view of things, it’s about time to view their transgression in aggregate because in total it is actually dramatically greater and far more sinister than the mere sum of its individual constituents would lead you to believe.

Aaron Wall and fantomaster (Ralph Tegtmeier) conducted this extensive interview discussing the state of search, the efficacy of cloaking and black hat SEO, the crypto fascist mindset governing Google, and lots more…

Mike Grehan, one of the search industry’s best known and most respected mavericks, has finally revived his old newsletter e-marketing-news – in a way. Now named Keyword-Driven, it’s a must-read for every serious SEO.

If you thought directory marketing was dead – let IrishWonder disprove you: featuring the biggest and most current directory list on the market, along with a slew of techniques and tricks, it’s a must read for every serious SEO

Here’s a free online tool that allows you to check your pages by simulating how they will look to people inflicted by various forms of color blindness.

Propeller mouth Jason Calacanis aka Mr SEO Is Dead, founder of Mahalo, has been caught red handed dabbling in what is generally considered to be blatant black hat SEO techniques

Here’s an nice piece explaining how to get dofollow links on fickle Delicious

So we won’t be heading for Rio this year, after all…

Another retro piece floating up again from the deep vaults of SEO history – seems that nothing has really changed since 2002…

Seems that Google Search (US) have switched over to entirely Ajax based pages.

The 10 Links A Day link building service is now re-scheduled for launch on Thursday, 29 January 2009

Black hat, white hat, no matter: if you have plenty of content, you’ll want to publish it somewhere, and if you need links for ranking, submitting it to article directories, RSS aggregators, social bookmarking sites, press release sites, video directories etc. will be your daily fare. Strangely enough, good mass submission software is actually quite rare and you won’t find a lot of programs or services that cover the lot reliably. Here’s what the pros use