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I had the wonderful honor of spending some time with Lee Odden of Top Rank. He gave great insight on the changing SEO Industry and the up and coming Social Media industry. Also Within the interview that you can listen to above or read the transcript below you will find that Lee is not only smart but a really great guy and down to earth. So take a listen or check out & read the transcript below:

Garrett: Hello, it’s Garrett Pierson, Your SEO Mentor, here today with Lee Odden. Lee is known for his TopRankBlog.com and TopRankMarketing.com sites. How are you, Lee?

Lee: I’m very good Garrett. How are you?

Garrett: I’m good. It’s good to have you. I really appreciate you taking time to spend some time with me and my listeners. It’s a great honor to talk with you. I’ve been following your stuff for a long time now and I really appreciate your wonderful content for the industry that we’re in.

Lee: That’s very kind of you to say that. I appreciate the opportunity. I also appreciate that you’re one of the few people who actually says my last name is “Oh-den”. Most people say “Aw-den” or some other variation of that. They are kind of like key word permutations or something. I don’t know.

Garrett: That’s a big reason why I do these short and to the point interviews. A lot of us follow you, or follow some great authorities within the industry, but we don’t know a lot about you. That brings me to my first, introduction question. What could you tell us about yourself that we might not know about you your background in the SEO, social media industry, your family, and your hobbies, anything you want to talk about?

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Take a listen to my SEO Weekly News Tuesday Podcast above. Here are a couple of the news items that I talked about:

Google Walks Away From Digg Deal

Google was in the due diligence stage of the deal, where they peer deep into Digg’s technology and financial statements. Most term sheets are non binding, so anything that gives the buyer pause can be used as an excuse to walk away …

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In todays Social Media News & Tip Podcast there was some quick news items and a great tip. Here are some of the items that I talked about when it comes to social media and networking:

Facebook Redesign To Go Live Tomorrow

Initially Facebook announced they were working on a redesign earlier this year. In May, a glimpse of the redesigned was released to developers in the developers sandbox. Tomorrow evening the redesign will be open to the public. …

Google Maps Offers Walking Directions

If you visit Google Maps today, you may notice a new feature called Walking Directions. It could definitely come in handy, especially if you live a city where having a car is just not efficient. Google Maps lists the driving directions …

Serious YouTube test of copyright law

A woman who posted a home video on YouTube of her 13-month-old son dancing to Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” squared off Friday against entertainment giant Universal Music Corp. in a federal court case that tests copyright law. …

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Here is what was talked about in my Tuesday SEO News podcast #2:

Robots.txt Overview, Generator, & Analyzer

We recently compiled a 6 page robots.txt primer and added a robots.txt generator and robots.txt analyzer to our suite of free SEO tools.

The Happiest SEO in the Sea

I wanted to get on bended knee, as I slipped the ringbox into my hand, but I didn’t want her to leave my side as I asked her to marry me… She said yes! I love you, Kimberly ♥. Thank you for making me the happiest man in the world …

Last Call For SMX Local & Mobile in San Francisco

For the last couple months, we’ve been telling you why you should come to SMX Local & Mobile. That you’ll learn the online marketing tactics influencing $500 billion in offline sales. That local and mobile search are opportunities for …

Google Has Over 75% Of US Search Ad Market

New figures out on search advertising spend from Efficient Frontier show Google continues to dominate the market, stats that will no doubt complicate the company’s goal to gain approval of its deal with Yahoo on search ads. …

No, The Toolbar Does Not Lead Google To Index My Content

Matt Cutts of Google has posted another one of his debunking theories post, this time on the Google Toolbar aiding Google in indexing content. Matt said, “if Ken Simpson is implying that the Google Toolbar led to these urls being …

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So here it is my first Tuesday SEO Weekly News minicast ready for your listening pleasure. Don’t forget you can watch these podcasts live at YourSEOMentor.tv. In this episode I talk about the latest SEO news and related items such as the new release of WordPress 2.6 and as I promissed a link to the coveted WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin that will save you precious time and energy backing up and updating to the latest version of WordPress. We can thank DazzlinDonna for letting me know about this wonderful plugin!

I also talked about my new free Technorati Tag Generator Firefox addon go check it out and leave me some feedback. Also don’t forget to listen to my interview with Jordan Kasteler!!!

Here are a couple of the other SEO News items that I talked about but listen to the podcast to hear them all and my take on each item:

Google Now Displays Code Search Results as Search Snippets

Sometime in 2005, Google has launched the Code Search, a vertical search property that indexes and parses published source code on the web giving users a flexible search engine to find what source codes are …

Google Improves Flash Indexing Again

On the first day of this month, we reported that Google and Yahoo were to begin indexing Flash files. According to the pertinent Google Webmaster Central blog post, Google is able to crawl the contextual elements in these blog posts. …

Yahoo Patents Anchor Text Relevance in Search Indexing

Yahoo was granted a patent this week which describes how anchor text in links may be used to increase the relevancy ranking of a page pointed to by that anchor text. The patent was originally filed in 2002, and it discusses how anchor … (From Bill Slawski)

Remember to stay tuned to tomorrows Wednesday Social Media Weekly News minicast live at YourSEOMentor.tv or listen to the recording here at YourSEOMentor.com!

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In this episode I not only give great and useful tips for using Technorati.com, I also give you exclusive access to my new Free Technorati Tag Generator addon for Firefox! As promised in my podcast here is the direct link to download the free addon at:

http://www.yourseomentor.com/technoratitaggenerator

In the podcast listen to how you can win an iPod Nano!!! Also don’t miss out on my new Technorati Tag Creator!

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