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I had the wonderful opportunity to talk a bit with the crazy and funny Dave Harry aka TheGypsy. If you dont know who Dave is then shame on you because you are totally missing out on his very valuable and hilarious content at his famous SEO Blog Huomah.com. So listen to my interview podcast with Dave and get into the mind of this master of words! (P.S. He didn’t even swear once, NEW RECORD!)

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In my very first Monday Interview Podcast I had the opportunity to talk a bit with my good friend Jordan Kasteler aka Utah SEO Pro. I think of Jordan as an authority in the search and social media communities. So listen to my interview podcast with Jordan and get a sneak peak of what he will be speaking on in some of the upcoming conferences and get some real gold nuggets to help with your SEO!

If you would rather read then listen here is the transcript of the interview:

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SEO Superlatives Winners for 2008

Just wanted to give a big shout out to Chris Hooley’s “SEO Superlatives Winners for 2008″ survey. I truly enjoyed voting and the results. Here are a couple of my favorite winners:

SEO Conference Clown – Chris Hooley

Best SEO Conference Speaker – Matt McGee

Biggest SEO Nerd – Aaron Wall

Best SEO Nickname/Handle – SexySEO

Biggest Google Fanboy – Ann Smarty

Most Fiery SEO – Michael Gray

SEO’s Biggest Douchebag – Jason Gambert (forgettable SEO Trademark guy)

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So I have had a lot of people wondering where I have been for the past week and wondering if the SEO Baby was born or not. Well I am finally truly back in the saddle and wanted to let everyone know that Grace (Gracie) Pierson was born on May 21, 2008 at 7lbs 1oz and 20 inches long. Your SEO Mentor is now a proud daddy.

We are so happy and blessed to have little Gracie in our lives. Just to let you all know how it all went here is what happened:

On Tuesday night at 9:30 PM we went in to the hospital and at about 10:30 PM they started Lindsey on Pitocin to get her started. Family was there until about 12:30 AM and all went home to sleep and we tried but failed to sleep. At 6:30 AM that next morning the doctor broke Lindsey’s water and at 7:30 AM she received a Epidural for the pain. Family then started coming around 8:30-9:oo AM.

We then continued to wait, wait, and then wait some more. Then at about 2:30 PM the nurses had Lindsey start pushing and then 10 minutes later the doctor was there and Grace was born at 2:55 PM.

The next day at about 11:00 AM Grace’s pediatrician called and said that she had high CRP and Band Cell levels (whatever the heck that is) and was worried that she had an infection. At 12:00 PM the nurses took Grace to the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit). We then proceeded to go to the NICU and feed Grace every three hours for the next 3.5 days. Her levels continued to drop down to where they needed to be and we were able to bring her home at 11:00 Am on Sunday May 25, 2008.

Here is a little video of her birth that my wife put together, ENJOY:

The winner of the “SEO Baby Contest” has been announced and is Stephanie Sharp. Thanks to everyone that participated.

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This SEO Podcast I talk about some of the following news items:

Google Joins Venture for Mobile WiMAX Next-Gen Wireless Internet Access

Yahoo and McAfee Offer a Safer Way to Search with SearchScan

 Yahoo Shares Tumble After Microsoft Pulls Bid

The SEO Tip for this podcast I talked about Loren Baker‘s post about Subdomains or Subfolders : Which are Better for SEO?!

“Subdomains or Subfolders? What’s better for a blog/forum/etc: a subdomain (eg. http://jobs.searchenginejournal.com/) or subfolder (eg. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/)?

Subdomains and subfolders both have their advantages, especially when setting up blogs.

For blogs, I prefer a subfolder (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/) because the link juice which is sent to that blog is going to be naturally distributed to that main domain, and other subfolders under the domain.”

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Here it is my third SEO Mentor Podcast and this one is packed full of the latest SEO News and Tips. Here are some of the things that I talk about:

SEO News:

• Google Stock Up 18% to $533
• Yahoo Earnings : Q1 Increases Beat Market Expectations of Revenues that reached $1.818 billion for the first quarter of 2008
• Google Enters Utility Business : Invests in Solar Power Plant Technology
• Google Rolls Out Mobile Image Ads
• Microsoft Acquires Farecast : Travel Search & Airline Fare Search Engine
• Google Applies Copyright-ID Technology to Fight Child Porn Online

I also talked about “The SEO Baby Contest” and my last Jason Gambert post and added some great SEO tips with the help from Richard Burckhardt from Searchenginejournal.com. Here are some of those tips I thought were crucial to your search engine optimization:

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