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I had the best time with my Monday Interview Podcast with Dave Snyder aka the cry baby! Take a listen above or read the transcript below to get total access to Dave admitting that he cries, a lot!

Garrett: Hello everyone. This is Garrett Pierson, YourSEOMentor. I’m here with Dave Snyder of Snydeysense.com, and SearchandSocial.com. How are you Dave?

Dave: I’m doing well. How are you doing?

Garrett: I’m good. It’s great to have you here, I’m excited. Why don’t you tell us a bit more about yourself, for those who might not know you; a little bit of your background in SEO, online marketing, social media, your family; anything you want to talk about?

Dave: I used to be a teacher for three years, when I first got out of school. I actually played music for a year when I first got out of school and just hung out. I didn’t know what to do with myself so I became a teacher. I’d always wanted to be a writer. My love for writing, and my huge love for sports, led me to start working for some content sites. They were a lot of fantasy football and basketball sites.

From that writing I started my own site and got into affiliate marketing just to keep the revenue up, to actually have the site pay for itself. I then got into SEO and all kinds of things. From there I decided that maybe the Web was the place for me to go. I really just wanted to start off as a content writer and editor. I ended up looking into SEO and getting more into it. I took a job in the agency world.

From there I worked with an agency for a while and I toiled in an agency in an online marketing manager. We all know how agency work can go. It can be pretty grueling sometimes. I learned a lot; mostly from just being thrown into the fire.

Now I’m the search and social media strategist for JRDunn.com. We’re the world’s largest designer jewelry store. I’m also the cofounder of SearchandSocial.com, with Jordan Kasteler. We’re a SEO and social media consultancy. We also do our own online media.

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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 if you haven’t heard of Twitter.com yet then you must be living underneath a rock. Twitter whether you like it or not has been changing the online world and has created a lot of buzz. Everyone and their dogs are all on Twitter, so the question is “Are YOU?” If you want to learn a bit more about what Twitter is then check out what Wikipedia is saying about it.

So if you remember each month I will be posting my monthly SEO Cartoons, so here is this months cartoon about Twitterholics:

Guess what there is actually a website about Twitterholics at Twitterholic.com. CRAZY!

Here are a couple articles that you should take a look at about Twitter:

Are You Using Twitter Yet? - by Aaron Wall

Twitter: Is it really worth using? - by Neil Patel

Twitter Poll: Ultimate Time Waster, or Great Tool? - by Lee Odden

Tweet Wars - check out this funny video

To see more posts about Twitter check out all Twitter article posts at Sphinn.com

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I will not pretend that I am the expert of building links, I will leave that to Eric Ward! Also I don’t want to write another link building blog post, there are plenty of those as well. So what I am doing is giving you a good resource to Link Building tools, services, and articles.

So all you SEOs out there do you ever feel like this dog when it comes to link builing? We all know how powerful quality links back to our site are when it comes to Search Engine Optimization. So why can’t we have a cool tool like this dog.

Here are some quality link builiding tools & services that can can help with your link builiding campaigns:

• Aaron Walls Back Link Analyzer
• SEO Elite
• Links Manager
• Xinu
• PR Prowler
• http://www.googlealert.com/
• Marketleap Link Popularity Checker
• Web CEO
• LinkAssistant SEO Tool
• WebLink SEO Software 2.7
• Link Hounds Hub Finder
• DoFollow Directory
• Free SEO Friendly Directories
• Back Link Watch
• OptiLink Software
• SEO for Firefox

Here is a great list of articles that I read in the past that will help with Fetching For Link Love:

• Aaron Walls - 101 Link Building Tips
• Eric Ward – Link Bait Kool-Aid?
• 21 Keys to Link Bait Success
• Rand Fish – 5 Rare & Valuable Link Building Tactics
• Andy Hagans’ – Ultimate Guide to Linkbaiting and SMM
• Jerry West – Link Baiting – Article Debunked
• SEOChat – Using Internet Directories as a Link Building Tool
• [Video] How to Build a Self-reinforcing Authority that Keeps Building Free Links
• 15 of the Best Link Building Techniques
• If you want all the top Link Building articles of Sphinn.com then click here!

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clipped from searchengineland.com One Day You’re Optimized, The Next Day You’re A Spammer by Aaron Wall It is no secret that human review has been playing a bigger role at Google over the past couple years. And we are emotional beings… no matter how logical the guidelines may be, emotions cause human errors. But not all sites that get penalized are penalized in error. Many deserve it. Sadly, Google’s guidelines for its “remote quality raters,” people who are paid by Google to help with quality control, are clearer than the public guidelines for webmasters. Why? Google is using these remote quality raters as an effective and efficient piece of the relevancy algorithm. I have read and re-read leaked Google guidelines for remote quality raters from 2003, 2005, and 2007. The general intent was similar in all 3 document sets, but the specifics changed as the web changed. One of the most revealing quotes from the 2007 document was about music lyrics sites:

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