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20 of 400 new modifications made to the soon to be released 2.7 version of WordPress. Great post by Sean P. Aune over at Mashable. read more »
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Within the Internet Marketing Industry we have celebrities and fan favorites. In many cases if one of our industry celebrities tell us to jump we won't ask why but instead how high?

I just finished reading this post at SEOMoz written by Chenry read more »
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David Mihm gets a little political by discussing how Joe the Plumber should consider HyperLocal Blogging. Some good statements and useful links about HyperLocal Blogging.

Also included:

"...In which case he should ignore my recommendation to read more »
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David Harry discusses his findings related to some research he has done related to the SERPS and personalized search. Apparently personalized search isn't the big bad that many have made it out to be. read more »
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A website called, "Be a Magpie" has developed a method of connecting Twitter users with Advertisers in what I'll dub PPT (Pay Per Tweet) fashion.

I know it was only a matter of time before something like this would come about but what are your th read more »
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SEOmoz is right, more than that: The key phrase SEO company is not the exception. Take a look at the more generic terms SEO and search engine optimization and you’ll quickly realize that the Google results there are even less relevant. read more »
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Rand Outs a company ranking for SEO Company in Google sighting poor links and Aaron disagrees with the decision to write such a post. Who / where do you stand in this argument? read more »
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In my opinion, good (and I emphasize "good" here) SEO software helps to automate repetitive tasks and is beneficial for the community in spreading SEO awareness and teaching best practices. Here’s what some of the top SEO’s and members of Sphinn ha read more »
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In light of Google's recent toolbar PR update Jeremy wrote a quick prayer that I got a quick laugh over and thought I'd share with everyone else. read more »
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Derek Ball, CEO of Tynt responded to the SEO community - and this follow-up pot includes a review of my core issues with Tynt, why they're exemplifying reputation management in action, and, discusses the opinionated views of Michael Gray (GrayWolf) read more »
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Links are the highways that Google and other search engines travel in an effort to determine the popularity, relationship and relevancy of every page and website they come across. read more »
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Ever wanted to find a webmaster but there's no obvious contact page or details on the site? Here's a comprehensive guide to tracking these elusive figures down! A great guide read more »
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I hate to come off as a paranoid person…but isn’t that just a little bit creepy? I mean, utilities are good, and search is an excellent tool, but the…intimacy needed to allow search that type of power is… frightening to say the least. I don’t know t read more »
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Michael Gray: When Google took away the supplemental index last year, they killed one of the key diagnostic tools in the SEO’s toolbox, the ability to identify which parts of a site were unimportant (and being infrequently crawled) in a search engin read more »
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Why a Ning network is a great investment and how to market your network effectively for free using Facebook and other methods. read more »
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This morning my friend and Manager noticed that Google's Keyword Tool for Adwords is displaying 'Insufficient Data' for 'Approx Search Volume: July' and 'Approx Avg Search Volume' fields. read more »
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Rae Hoffman (Sugarrae) thinks live bloggers at conferences contribute to freeloaders and shouldn't be allowed.

Lisa Barone on the other hand thinks it is no different than WebProNews reporting on conference panels.

So how about it? Should Liv read more »
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Yahoo has announced the launch of their new crawler, Yahoo! Slurp 3.0. 3.0 is slowly being pushed out over the course of the "next several weeks," including "some infrastructure updates," Yahoo said. I suspect the recent changes we reported with the read more »
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SEO agency nr Seattle sued by Attorney General: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About SEO Scams But Were Afraid to Ask. SEO agency now banned from selling SEO services to new customers. "SEO standards? We have none." read more »
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I love videos! I have been messing around with them for a few months now and yesterday, I officially launched a video podcast. For now, I will likely just do weekly video recaps, 10 minutes or less, on the past week's search news/tips.

I have d read more »
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Aaron Wall recently volunteered to guest post on other blogs. I took him up on his offer and asked him a few questions on long tail keywords. read more »
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Awesome new firefox extension by Aaron wall at SEObook for checking organic rankings across search engines. read more »
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An interesting forum post about how educators don't trust Wikipedia...and whether that is a good or bad development read more »
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An interesting evaluation of the organic listings panel discussion at SES New york, and how Blogs are out ranking static sites. read more »
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Easter may be over but the in-eggscusable puns are not. Solid tips on getting the attention and respect of bloggers with the goal of pitching Linkbait to them further down the line. read more »
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