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Search Engine Watch June 3, 2009 Kevin Newcomb	Google Changes Course on Nofollow Google used to advise SEOs that using the nofollow attribute on internal links could help save PageRank for more important pages. Now Matt Cutts has said that's no longer the case.
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Search Engine Watch December 14, 2010 Eric Enge	SEO Planning for 2011 Highlights of the year that was in SEO, plus a look at what big changes we should expect in the new year.
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Search Engine Watch June 16, 2009 Eric Enge	Combining Trust and Relevance When search engines measure the level at which they trust Web sites, and that trust is topic-specific. What's that mean for new sections of a trusted Web site?
Search Engine Watch May 19, 2009 Mark Jackson	Is Twitter a Google Killer? Not Yet The easier a search engine is to manipulate, the less likely it is to deliver quality results. Right now, Twitter Search is just too easy to manipulate.
Search Engine Watch February 9, 2011 Simon Heseltine	Is Syndication Killing Your Rankings? An 8 Point SEO Inspection Syndicating stories can get more people reading your content, but it can also result in other sites ranking higher in the SERPs for your content. Follow these steps to make sure you aren't giving search engines mixed signals.
Search Engine Watch January 27, 2011 Peter van der Graaf	Local Search: Your Address is the New Link A look at some of the changes local search results are bringing to SEO -- especially link building.
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Search Engine Watch October 19, 2010 Eric Enge	5 Website Changes That Will Hurt Your SEO Significant modifications to your website can impact your short-term SEO efforts. Here's how to properly handle changes to the domain, URL structure, content, Whois record, and theme.
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Search Engine Watch February 13, 2011 Mark Jackson	10 Types of Helpful SEO Content Forget algorithms. The biggest influence on search rankings is content. Content in all of its forms is what will drive you to success.
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Search Engine Watch April 25, 2011 Garry Przyklenk	The Social Connection between Google Panda and Google +1 Google's Panda update represents more than just an algorithm change to weed out content farms; it represents (perhaps) a first step in a series of fundamental shifts that will enable Google to become more socially-focused.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Queries guide Web crawlers Search engines approach the problem of sorting out the vast amount of information on the Internet by casting their nets as widely as they can, then sifting through the catch. An algorithm that analyzes what people are looking for could point search engines toward more relevant pages.
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Search Engine Watch June 17, 2010 John Lynch	Optimizing for the User Experience Eight steps designed to help webmasters re-prioritize day-to-day activities that will increase conversion rates, keep visitors around longer, and hopefully improve rankings.
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