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 …
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:
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 …
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 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!
