Strike Point

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.