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Testing Social Media’s Power

]]> We all know social media is powerful – But how powerful? We want to find out so we have set up a test. This test involves making a video offering $100 to a random stranger pulled from a random social media profile. The catch? We aren’t going to tell him… You are.

We want everyone who reads this blog post or watches the video to go out and tell everyone about it by getting on your social profiles and spreading the word. We want to give this guy $100… All he has to do is friend me, Dave Winget – on facebook to verify that he read this blog post/saw the video about him.

Well, what are you waiting for guys? Do you want to help him out or not? I’m sure he’ll thank you for it :)

Be sure to tell all your friends about checking out the video at http://www.youtube.com/10kthings

If you do submit this video or post to any social media sites be sure to leave a link in the comments so other people can continue it.

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Testing Social Media’s Power

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SEO and Google – Arms Race

]]> Kid with questionsA friend asked recently “If no one, outside of Google developers, know how the search engine indexes and ranks websites why do so many people give so much money to have their sites optimized?” No sooner had this left my friends lips did I say: “Because we do know.”

I then went on to explain that while we don’t have access to the code that makes the crawlers work – we still know how to work with and around the system.  We know these things through testing and thanks to the free exchange of theories and experiment results from people across the world – we know what works and what doesn’t.

Being able to have an open dialog and discuss SEO with thousands of other people who have a very vested interest in SEO and search marketing is an incredible thing.  With this open discussion and rapid advancement of SEO it has caused something, perhaps, unexpected.

As SEO’s get better at what they do, by being able to communicate in such an advanced way, so too does the mighty Google get better at thwarting their efforts.  Each advances the other as quickly as they advance themselves.

It is social media that has allowed SEO professionals to take their game to the next level and keep ahead of the constantly changing Google landscape.  Without being able to go to sites like Sphinn and find the latest news, developments and ideas about search – SEO would be a much more difficult thing.  Only those within the most trusted of networks would know what worked and what didn’t and because of this Google would likely not be where it is today.

Communication is key but it is also a double-edged sword.  Speaking freely with each other is what makes us better at getting our sites ranked and it is that same free speaking that lets Google know where it needs to tighten its defenses… and so the cycle continues.

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SEO and Google – Arms Race

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