Originally posted CNET.com , Matt Elliott
With Google's change to YouTube's comment system, you are now required to have a Google+ account in order to post a comment. This has angered many users who would rather continue posting under their current anonymous profile or simply don't want to be forced to create a Google+ account. People are so irate that a petition has been started to bring back the old way of commenting.

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Personally, I like Google's attempt to clean up YouTube comments, but what has me worried about this change is the ability it has given users to post URLs in comments.(SEO-tastic)  (I also don't enjoy the limitless character count that's now in effect.) I have two young children who like to peruse YouTube from time to time, and I would rather avoid them stumbling across a link someone posted on YouTube that might lead them to an unseemly corner of the Internet.

Thus, it's time to remove or otherwise change YouTube comments. I have three extensions for the job, for either Firefox or Chrome, and one userscript.

First up, the Chrome extension, Reddit Comments for YouTube. As the name suggests, this extension replaces YouTube comments with a Reddit comment thread that's associated with the video. And if you find there are no Reddit comments for the video, you can toggle between regular YouTube comments and the Reddit comments using the two links at the top of the comments section.

For Firefox users, there are a number of extensions that hide YouTube comments, but many of them do not work with the new G+ comments system. One extension that does, is Comment Snob. It's available for Firefox as well as Chrome, although the extension didn't work with either browser on a Mac, and only with Firefox on a Windows 8 machine.

Comment Snob lets you set a variety of rules to filter YouTube comments. You can filter out comments with profanity, spelling mistakes, excessive punctuation, ALL CAPS, and so on. The extension also blocks comments with certain keywords or phrases of your choosing. Alternatively, you can check a box to simply hide all comments.

Since I had some issues with Comment Snob, especially using Chrome, I wanted to find a Chrome extension that just hid YouTube comments. What I found was Turn off Youtube Comments Toggle. It hides comments by default but adds a Comments link (between About and Share below the video) which lets you unhide and hide comments.

Lastly, there is a userscript called Toggle Youtube Comments. With it enabled, it hides YouTube comments along with some other elements on the page such as the footer, making the page look a bit of a mess. And its behavior is a bit erratic.

The Toggle userscript for Firefox adds a Comments link next to the About link below the video player that lets you toggle comments on and off. With Chrome, the button goes missing (Windows 8) or is present but doesn't do anything (OS X). Thus, your only option for toggling comments in Chrome is to disable and enable the extension from Chrome's extensions page. Also, the Comments link goes missing on any video page you arrive at from a related videos link.

At any rate, those are your current options as I see them. If you find an extension that you find useful in combating YouTube's new comment system, please share in the, well, comments below.

Matt Cutts talks about ,whether all comment links are spam

“At the end of it all, I was left with a small pile of documents I could use to reasonably convince someone this new person was real,” writes Wallen in a blog post. “I had the physical proof of a person with an entirely digital genesis.”

Wallen even created an Aaron Brown Twitter service that anyone could use, which he describes as “reverse astroturfing”; and an Aaron Brown proxy server.

“I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if I could fabricate a new physical person using the Deep Web, Tor, Bitcoin, and all of these technologies available to subvert digital tracking, and see how far I could push it’,” Wallen said in an interview [view].

Below, in the short documentary I directed, Wallen goes into detail on the Deep Web birth of Aaron Brown, including how he created this fake alter ego’s face.

`How to Disappear from Uniswoon on Vimeo.  [view]`
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When will the next Google Page Rank Update actually be ??

This article originally appeared at www.Wordtracker.com by Andrew Tobert

A decent position in the search results is a sure fire way of making more money online.
But to do that, you need to make sure your site gets crawled. Here, I'll take you through the basics of how Google crawls the web and what you can do to help it. You might be surprised how easy it is.

So, let’s start at the beginning. Google searches the web. This much you probably know. Then it ranks all the sites and matches them to your query, in order of relevance and authority. SEOs spend a lot of time talking about this part, but much less time talking about how Google actually looks at sites. But it’s important - Google can’t put your site at the top of the search engine results if it doesn’t know you exist.

What actually is ‘Google’?
Whenever you read an article about SEO, the author will almost always talk about "Google" (usually not "Bing" or "the search engines" - Google’s market share is so big, that the smaller ones often don’t get mentioned). But they’re not talking about the company, with offices and marketing departments and all that. They’re talking about the Google algorithm.

The Google algorithm, if you saw it, would look very complicated, incomprehensible even. It’s lines and lines, pages and pages, of mathematical sequences. But unless you become a search engineer at Google, you’re not going to. So phew.

What I‘m about to tell you, and indeed what anyone will ever tell you about the Google algorithm, is what’s presumed to be true. No one outside Google knows exactly how the Google algorithm works because no one has been able to see it. We, the SEO community, can only monitor and record the search results and draw assumptions based on what we see, but we can never ‘know’.

It also exists as a verb. We say that Google has cached your site to mean ‘Google has seen your site and taken lots of screenshots’. (Screenshots is just a general term, but it’s a good way to visualize what happening. In reality, it stores your sites' text and links.)

So, given that it’s the cache of your site that’s searched, it’s also the cache that will affect your rankings. Google isn’t looking at what your site is like right now, it’s looking at the version that it’s cached. What does that mean in practice? Mostly, that it will take a while for any new content you add to show up in the Google rankings. And, you want to do what you can to make sure your site is cached as often as possible.

Luckily though, there’s a really simple thing you can do to make sure your site is crawled more frequently, and that’s just to add more content. Essentially, each time Google crawls your site, it monitors if there has been any changes. If there has, it makes a note, and remembers to come back a little sooner next time.

If you’re a newspaper website that uploads new content almost constantly, you’ll probably get crawled every few hours. But if you never update your content, or only do very rarely, you’ll probably be crawled every few weeks. Which is bad news.

To see when you were last crawled, just put cache:http://www.YourDomain.com (eg, cache:http://www.Buzzolo.com) into Google (or in the navigation bar if you're using Chrome), and it will tell you.
You can see that ours was crawled on the 8th, which was the day before I wrote the article. That's pretty good. (And if you can't read this, don't worry. When you do it on your computer, the text will spam the width of your browser, so it'll be much more readable.)

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Don’t obsess about how often your site is crawled. Check it once in awhile, if your site hasn’t be crawled in a while, add some more content, but otherwise, don’t stress. It's Google's job to crawl the web, and they do it really well. You no doubt will have bigger SEO fish to fry, but if you want to explore this in more detail, here are nine ways to get your site crawled quicker. So if you’re into this, have a read!


So that broadly is crawling. The next step is to ‘index’ the pages ...

The Google index is the list of all the pages that Google has cached. It’s really more of a matrix, in the mathematical sense, with axes related to the key ranking factors like authority and relevance. If that helps you visualize what’s going on, great. We can get into discussions about eigenvalues and eigenvectors another time. But if not, if your idea of the matrix is something involving Keanu Reeves, ignore what I‘ve just said. Swallow the red pill (or was it blue?), go back to your normal life, and know that the Google index is a list and you want every page on your site to be on it.

Deciding which sites go in that list, never mind what order they go in, is actually one of Google’s hardest jobs.

The web is large, very large. Google can’t crawl every page, every day, so it has to choose which fraction of the web it should crawl. It does this by looking at the sites that have the best information, presented in the most accessible way. Sites that do this will get indexed more than sites that don't.

Google will crawl most sites at some point without the site owner really doing anything. (Google, it turns out, is pretty clever.) But if you want to make the search engine's life a little easier (and get more love from it in the process), there are a few things you can do.

Link building
as well as being great for the rest of your SEO, is a really easy way of simply letting Google know that page exists. When Google crawls the site that’s linking to you, it will then ‘click’ the link and discover your page. Hooray! And of course the more links you have the more authoritative your site becomes in Google’s eyes. So build links. Now.

And that includes internal links by the way. Make sure all your best content is easy to navigate to. Put links to those pages on all the most prominent pages of your site (like, the home page) and Google will be able to find them easily and quickly.

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Clean code
Imagine if you were driving somewhere, had to get there quickly, and had a choice of two routes. One would take you straight there on a highway. The other would take you on smaller country roads, most of which involves driving behind a tractor. And some of the road isn’t sealed. Which route would you choose?

If you chose the highway, congratulations, you’re thinking like Google. If your site is written using clean code, Google will read it quickly and is more likely to index you.

If you’re not quite sure what’s the difference between clean code and, er, messy code, you should read how to optimize your code,http://www.wordtracker.com/academy/seo-code
And there’s also a technical checklist you can work through.

Site speed is also a good indicator of how clean your code is, so the article I’ve just linked to will help.
http://www.wordtracker.com/academy/improve-site-speed

Good navigation To go back to the driving analogy, if you have somewhere to get to, it’s helpful to have signs to point you in the right direction, otherwise you get lost. Similarly, Google wants you to tell it where your good content is. It needs to know it can get to your best content quickly, so so it can make sure all the best of the web’s content is indexed. Good, keyword rich navigation is part of this. As is having a sitemap

A sitemap A sitemap is a great way of making sure Google can access your best content quickly. Again, if you were in a car, you’d probably appreciate a map (or a few road signs) to make sure you don’t get lost. You want a road map, Google wants a sitemap. So make one


Google+ It sounds almost too good to be true, but Google loves crawling the sites that people share on it's own social network. So if you've created some awesome content, share it on Google+ straight away, and it's likely to get crawled quickly.

How are you doing? So, you’ve learned some theory. But how is your site actually being viewed right now?

Google's Webmaster Tools is a brilliant (free) tool from Google that lets you see how your site is performing in Google's eyes. If you've not got an account already, it's worth setting one up as it helps you spot loads of errors with your site.

The bad news is that they don’t index content which has similar content to other pages. Content which you’ve not redirected or canonically tagged, but Google has nonetheless deemed it to be duplicate. Google doesn't like duplicate content – if it has to crawl the same content lots of times, that’s just a waste of time. And what’s another word for time? Money.

If you do have lots of duplicate content, read what we have to say about the canonical tag and redirects, and we might be able to help you.

Webmaster Tools is a really great resource to see how Google views your website. It flags up problems and let’s you ‘feed back’ to Google. You can nudge its algorithm in the right direction and see the results in the search pages.

This is a selection of great thoughts from one of the great minds of marketing :

1. “In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

3. “If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular."
This is a reminder from Ogilvy to know your audience. If you don’t know your audience, you won’t be able to speak to them in a convincing or personalized way. Speak your audience's language.

4. “Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.”
This is an Ogilvy way of saying that you need to do your research and then apply what you’ve learned to your marketing strategy. You should be shaping your decisions based on thoughtful and informative research.

5. “Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.”
Keep experimenting, learn from every experiment, and apply what you’ve learned to a new experiment. It seems like intuitive advice, but it’s easy to fall into a pattern of doing what you know and not experiment with your marketing tactics.

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6. “Do not … address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are writing to each of them a letter on behalf of your client.”
The master of advertising believed that it is important to remember you’re most often talking to an individual in an advertisement, not a group of people. If you remember this, it should help you connect with customers on a more personal level.

7. “Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.”
Ogilvy was a strong believer in not aiming for small achievements, but rather aiming as high as possible. He also believed that every time you make a goal, make it (at least) a little bigger than your last goal.

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4 Link Building Techniques That Actually Work

• Author Bret Donovan
  

It is a well-known fact that building backlinks to targeted websites/webpages is an integral part of search engine optimization, brand visibility and traffic generation online. Question is which link building methods actually work? We’re not just talking about the generic, ineffective and penalty-inducing backlink spamming that many agencies do.

We’re talking about proven, powerful and effective “white hat” link building methods used by reputable SEO firms all over the world. Well, that’s what we’ll be talking about today. In this article, we’ll be providing you with proven and guaranteed link building techniques that you can apply today in order to get significant results in your SEO campaigns.

Create Epic Content
Now, more than ever, excellent content is king. We’re not just talking about the generic, wishy-washy content that can be found on hundreds of blogs. We’re talking about “stand out of the crowd” content. We’re talking powerful, can’t-ignore content that people want to bookmark, share and send to their friends and colleagues.

The content could be in any form including texts, videos, audios/podcasts and infographics among others. To help you understand, take a look at the content on some popular blogs in your niche or industry. Always use them as your reference point. For your content to stand out, it should have four crucial elements:

• It must be packed with top-notch information that people can use immediately and get some results.
• Specificity is key. It should help people solve a particular/specific problem. For example, I would pick content with specific, step-by-step information that can help my business add 500 warm prospects/leads to my list in 2-3 weeks than a general one on the importance of building a list. Remember, it’s all about value, not length.
• Should solve a problem (see above point) or make a difficult, tangled issue clearer and more understandable. You might want to use infographics –always an excellent choice by the way and can easily be shared around- if it’ll help your audience understand better.
• Should be straight to the point. Make your points succinctly.

List Curation
This less used , but extremely powerful link building method can point hundreds of links to your website. The best way to do this is create a definitive resource about a specific topic in your niche of choice. You may have probably come across such lists on the internet. We’re not talking about the generic watered down type.

We’re talking about AMAZING lists that people can consult or even use in the future. An excellent example of this can be seen here. Create a list like that and you’ll be amazed at the sheer number of sites that will quote your resource and/or link back to your website without you asking them. The thing about lists like this is they often require in-depth research and time to properly curate them.

The rewards however, are worth so much more. So, learn and master the art of list curation. Here’s the good thing about great lists: they don’t have to be completed. You can periodically update them by adding new information or resources.

And it doesn’t matter what language of the content is in, this technique applies to all languages and countries. For instance, if you’re an SEO in Portugal, Brazil or any other Portuguese speaking country, your content must stand out among similar Portuguese websites to get the same results.

Guest Posting
This is one of the easiest link building methods available, and powerful too. Unfortunately, many people avoid it because of the content requirements. However, you’re at an advantage, if you know how to create excellent content considering that Google actually approves of it.

To make guest posting work, you’ll need to find high PR sites and/or websites with high domain authority –actually, a combination of both is better- in your niche and ask to write for them.

The key to getting your content accepted by these high authority websites is to create content that is valuable, informative, original and compelling. Keep those four things in mind, when you’re guest posting. Also, be sure to ask the site owners what their content requirements are. This is a sure way to get your content accepted quickly.

Blog Commenting
Okay, you probably know this already. But this technique is so powerful when used moderately and appropriately. Successful blog commenting comes from actively participating in industry related blogs.

It’s not just about dropping spammy comments everywhere –thank goodness that doesn’t work anymore. To do this, you’ll need to find the blogs, read the posts, and then make the necessary contributions –sorry, one liners won’t cut it this time. Put some thought into your posts and you’ll get your comments approved with a link to your target website.

Final Conclusion on Link Building Techniques .It’s true that there are many other link building techniques. These ones however, have been tested and tried. You may have noticed that there’s a lot of emphasis on content in this article. That’s because Google and other search engines place a lot of premium on content (the recent Hummingbird Update proves this). Most importantly, they are the best ways to attract links naturally –something Google lays emphasis on- and without risking any penalty. So, if you’re already doing this, continue. If you’re not, it’s not too late to begin.

Do you have other proven –emphasis on proven- link building techniques that have personally worked for you? Do you think we missed some powerful techniques? Sound off in the comments and let us know. We want to hear from you.