Strike Point

Google Hummingbird is getting people worried, plus Mikkel and Andy discuss the Jason Calacanis and Matt Cutts feedback coming out from Pubcon 2013. Also, Andy shares info on his PubCon presentation on the value of social shares in ranking where he moderated an interesting panel with Duane Forrester of Bing.

Search Not Provided, Keyword Data Options, Google Launches Project Shield to Access Web From Repressive Countries; Facebook status updates, wall postings and payments temporarily go down.

Discssusion on Google Penguin 2.1 Update, the latest video from Matt Cutts where he explains how User Redirection Based On Location Is Not Spam, plus we talk about Google Hummingbird and how it may affect search.

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Google has cut off keyword data altogether as they Move Entirely to Secure Search. We learn about the transition of State of Search the website to now State of Digital with Bas Van Den Beld, the founder of State of Digital.

Mikkel and Kristjian discuss how someone posted on Google + how a client received an unnatural link warning via Google Webmaster Tools and one of the two examples given was a link he has from DMOZ, the Open Directory Project. Also, Google is planning to give webmasters a year worth of top search query data within webmaster tools.

Returning from the International Conference on Internet Marketing and Branding in Tehran, Iran. Mikkel and Kristjian talk to us in flight as they are on their way back to Europe. They welcome the conference organizer, Hamid Sepidnam from Kaspid Web Marketing, to give us his thoughts on how the show went.

Where Are We with Google Panda, Has Amazon got it wrong? Also, Andy discusses his Search Engine Land Article he wrote In Memoriam for Search Engine Pioneer, Leader and Visionary Ilya Segalovich, the co-founder of Yandex, Russia’s largest search engine who recently succumbed to cancer this weekend. Mikkel and Andy also follow up on the story where the UK Prime Minister Attacked Google, Bing and Yahoo On Child Porn.

UK prime minister David Cameron unveiled a wide-range of efforts today to protect children against pornography on the Internet. A significant part of his speech attacked the search engines of Google, Bing and Yahoo for not doing enough and demanding changes. Andy and Krisjtian look at the latest Google Transparency report, as well as comment on the latest Matt Cutts video where he says Duplicate Content Won’t Hurt You, Unless It Is Spammy .

The Death of AltaVista: Why Did It Happen? Why did the popular search engine decline and lose ground with the rise of Google and how it further would not recover once it was purchased by Yahoo! Mikkel welcomes new co-hosts Andy Atkins-Krueger and Kristjian Mar Hauksson to discuss.

Mikkel and Jason briefly recap SES London 2012, and discuss the challenges they have encountered in building search marketing campaigns for clients while working with advertising agencies that might have a different approach. Also, don’t miss what could arguably the quickest analysis of Google Panda, one year later.

Mikkel and Jason discuss the plans by Google to replace the existing Privacy Policy. Meanwhile, reports are out that Google had sidestepped privacy settings in Safari, Microsoft announced today it had discovered they had done the same with Internet Explorer.

Google makes a significant change to protect the search privacy of users. Mikkel and Jason discuss the impact of the move as well as how by default, how the search engine will encrypt the search sessions of anyone signed in to Google.

How Google Determines What’s A Paid Link: Google’s head of search spam Matt Cutts explains. Do Google employees really know anything about SEO? How to get success without any linkbuilding. Is Social beating Search? Will Google take over the search results?

FairSearch, a group of search companies including Microsoft which lobbies that Google is too dominant, has sent a white paper outlining its anti-trust concerns about Google to the 50 state attorneys general in the US. Mikkel and Jason discuss that plus How Google got a Patent For Google Doodles

Traffic plunges for Google+ as 60% of users log off; Jerry Yang may be raising funds to take Yahoo private. David Naylor has the top ranking in Google Search ranking competition to rank highest for theA4U Expo Bavarian Beer and Sausage on stand 50.Jason also offers listeners a call to action to sign a petition onDeath Camp policies in Assisted Living Facilities, Long Term Care & Alzheimers homes supporting negligence.

Mikkel has on his new guest host Jason Duke, Owner and Director of Strange Logic, the creators of Pzyche. Listen in as they discuss Converison Optimization techniques, and their opinions on Panda 2.5.

Mikkel speaks with Kristjan Mar Hauksson from Nordice Marketing about his book Global Search Engine Marketing: Getting Better International Search Engine Results, which he co-wrote with fellow SEO, Anne Kennedy.

Mikkel discusses social media and how it ties into search today, plus how you get more of those damn mentions, likes, shares and retweets now that they count so much in SEO with guest co-host Li Evans, author of Social Media Marketing: Strategies for Engaging in Facebook, Twitter & Other Social Media and Co-Founder and CEO of LiBeck Integrated Marketing.

Mikkel discusses International SEO and SEM and Selling Search to the C-Suite Bill Hunt, SES Advisory Board Member and President of Back Azimuth Consulting.

Department Store JCPenney Fires Back at Google and New York Times Over an SEO Controversy. Mikkel and Dave discuss the New York Times story that states how JC Penney allegedly gamed Googles page-ranking algorithm, which artificially made them a top search result.

Google is Willing To Change Search To Avoid EU Fight as Eric Schmidt, the new executive chairman of Google, has revealed that the search giant wants to come to a deal with the European Commission over its inquiry into Googles dominance in search.

Yandex To Stop Counting Links As Ranking Factor as Andy explains how this announcement will open the door to a world after links. Also, Google Publicly Slaps Backlinks.com For Selling Links plus more discussion on links, content and social signals.

2011 predictions? Limitations in new Google AdWords rules, More Google scams (not by Google), Old SEO scams return and really advanced training are up for discussion.

Google eBooks Launches with 3 million eBooks, Nexus S Launches with Gingerbread, Groupon say no to 6 billion dollar bid by Google, plus more on WikiLeaks and the Mad Merchant.

Facebook Email and Windows Phones are up for discussion as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced a bold attempt to bring email into the network and unify the way people communicate online into one social inbox.Dave tells us about the fascination he is discovering after getting a new Windows Phone.

Blekko.com: Another Wolfram or Cuil? Mikkel and Dave give their take on that, plus Google launches Google Places, loses an engineer to Facebook, sues the US Government, and is reportedly working on acquiring ITA Software.

Mikkel and Andy discuss a recent article by Eric Enge published in Search Engine Land on Google Hummingbird Features; Enabling Use of Social Signals where Eric argues that Google now has the infrastructure to better process social signals (among other things).

Negative SEO Discussion sparks during a A4U Expo London 2010 Recap. Also, The data protection authority in Spain files a lawsuit against Google for allegedly capturing data from Internet users when it collected photos for its Street View service.

SEO Early Days discussion as Mikkel speaks with Disa Johnson of SearchReturn about the early days of her SEO career. She discusses the love of music much like Mikkel has and how they converted into SEO, plus how Bend, Oregon lays claim to where some of the early pioneers of SEO came from

Mikkel and Dave discuss the recent Google AdWords Transparency Requirements, plus they discuss XSS cheat sheets, and breaking news that WordPress.com and Windows Live are partnering together and providing an upgrade for 30 million Windows Live Spaces customers

Mikkel is joined by Anne Kennedy, Managing Partner of BeyondInk, to take a historic look at the Search Conference landscape and a historic look at the search industry. They answers the questions Do we have an industry at all? and will organic SEO ever go away?

Mikkel and Dave discuss how Indian companies are now outsourcing low wage jobs to the US. They also get into more discussion on Google Streetview, plus they look into the dropping value of Lycos from it 12.5 billion dollar sale to Terra, over 95,4 million to Daum and now 36 million to Ybrant Digital out of India

Mikkel and Dave discuss the phasing out of Google Wave, are back from holiday, plus they discuss how Google and Verizon are discussing a joint proposal on net neutrality policy. They also discuss the reviews coming from the release of the iPhone 4.

Mikkel deMib Svendsen and Dave Naylor discuss the drop in traffic on news outlet websites and explore the ways to avoid a drop in readership, including the pros and cons of requiring registration to view content.

To give the users a Microsoft Bing like taste Google offered its users a chance to redecorate their Google home page. Users were allowed to choose their own background photos and colors to brighten the otherwise plain white home page. However the move was withdrawn within just fourteen hours from the launch. Dave and Mikkel also discuss more Google Streetview trouble in Denmark, World Cup Soccer, and how Matt Cutts caught wind of a blog post entitled SEO Is Mostly Quack Science.

Facebook is answering privacy concerns with new settings, Dave and Bas discuss, plus a search for World Cup Soccer results stirs up a conversation on ranking, title tags and keyword rankings on Google.

Mikkel and Dave discuss Twitter Exploit and Longtail Keywords, plus Dave comments on the recent spamming situation on the Search Cowboys website and the review on Facebook browser review post on TopSEOs

Streetview continues to be a thorn in the side of Europeans as Google Catches Flak for Mapping European Homes Wireless Networks, ‎Mikkel and Dave discuss the situation and more.

Mikkel and Dave look at the ongoing situation following a volcanic eruption in Iceland that is causing volcanic ash to affect the European Aerospace. They also discuss how Google Analytics are rumored to become a paid model on Google Webmaster Tools.

Legislation to combat internet piracy, including internet bans for persistent illegal file-sharers, has cleared the Lords and now goes to the Commons where it will be rushed through before the general election. Dave and Mikkel discuss how this affects internet use in the UK. They also go over the interview Eric Enge had with Matt Cutts, that had Cutts talk about crawl budgets, PDFs, 301/302 redirects, site architecture, JavaScript, and affiliate links.

Legislation to combat internet piracy, including internet bans for persistent illegal file-sharers, has cleared the Lords and now goes to the Commons where it will be rushed through before the general election. Dave and Mikkel discuss how this affects internet use in the UK. They also go over the interview Eric Enge had with Matt Cutts, that had Cutts talk about crawl budgets, PDFs, 301/302 redirects, site architecture, JavaScript, and affiliate links.