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TechCrunch reports that Adobe has finally solved the problem of Flash files being invisible/non-indexable to searh engines. This means that Flash SEO is now a reality.

Matt Cutts, Google’s SEO liason, has just posted an entry about Improved SEO Documentation on his blog. As always, a very informative read and highly recommended.

I ran across this post speculating about the end of SEO, courtesy of Google. This article is written with the premise that SEO consists of simply paying for links to your site. Once again, it is evidence of clinging to the outdated belief that the way to get to the search engines is to focus on link building and PageRank.

This isn’t the end of SEO, but simply people finally catching on to what I’ve been saying for up to three years now - link buying, link building, linking strategies no longer work with Google. They caught on to this trick many years ago, and most SEO companies are just now figuring this out. The reason this is is because they make significant revenue by selling their clients on Link Building.

So this isn’t the end of SEO. Far from it. It’s simply a call to focus on one’s own site, creating great content, and optimizing your own site for search. Let’s quit worrying about PageRank and Link Building and focus on the task at hand — SEO.

To say that Search Engine Optimization is an industry in constant flux would be an understatement. Since we provide bi-weekly search performance reports for our clients, we continually monitor thousands of keywords across hundreds of sites. The one thing that is consistant is that search results changes. The main goal for us is to be sure those changes trend upward instead of downward.

I’ve always been curious just how often Google makes changes to their algorithm, and now I know, thanks to this article - Google Tweaked Search 450 Times in 2007.

In Google’s continuing quest to organize the World’s information, they have now added WhoIs lookup. Looking up WhoIs information reveal “who is” the owner of a domain name. This is especially good news given the recent front-running of Network Solutions (in a nutshell - if you look to see if a domain name is available on Network Solutions, they quickly register it so that you have to buy the domain from them at a ridiculously high price).

Simply type “whois” in the search field in Google, followed by a space, then the domain name in question. So for example, “whois Google.com”.

 Kuddos to SearchEngineLand for alerting me to the Whois feature now in Google.

The most popular blog platform, especially for Search Engine Optimization is WordPress (also referred to as WP). WordPress recently upgraded to version 2.5, and it seems the more they upgrade in order to plug security holes, they introduce new ones. There also other miscellaneous technical issues being reported with this latest release.

What I like about WordPress in particular for SEO is the ability to easily create categories. Another nice features is the ability to associate tags with a topic, and each of these tags are then organized in a nice, search engine friendly, keyword relevant structure. For example, here is a link to all of our posts that have been tagged with the term Organic Search Engine Optimization. I’m tagging this particular blog entry with that term, so you should see this post at the top of the page if you follow the link.

Matt Cutts writes about how to report websites that have paid for links to their sites. I encourage anyone interested in SEO to read this article - because it will help in understanding why Link Exchanges and Link Buying are not worth the risk.

Matt Cutts, Google’s SEO advisor, provides insight on how to get links to your site. An interesting and informative read.

If you haven’t already done so, be sure to check out our latest list of Page 1 results - available at http://www.seopage1.com/seo.pdf

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And considering how competitive SEO is in a city such as Tulsa, you may find it of interest that we are #1 on Yahoo when you search for “Tulsa SEO” out of over 2 million matching search results.