Are you ready for this?
If you’re a wannabe SEO (like me) and trying to learn all you can about the search engine game (important), you grab all the research papers you can that are released.
Here are a few:
An Analysis of Factors Used in Search Engine Ranking
Web Spam, Propaganda and Trust
Identifying Link Farm Spam Pages
Link [...]

I just received an email from Become.com that the search engine is now open to the public (it was in beta testing). See what you think by trying them here:
Become.com
Our research service enables you to locate valuable (and often hard to find) shopping-related research: buying guides, reviews, articles, specifications, forums, merchants, and a variety [...]

I think Aaron Wall has done lost his mind.
Links are All You Need !!!
Here’s the real song, I wonder if Aaron will be slapped with a C&D for copyright infringement???
All You Need Is Love
The Beatles (Lennon/McCartney)
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
There’s nothing you can do that can’t be [...]

Are you up for some heavy reading? Warning: It’s pretty intense!
There’s been chatter round the net regarding Google’s Patent
Graywolf has put together a phenom analysis:
Google Patent Analysis
Many people who have seen the document think it’s nothing more than red herring to throw people off, others disagree. I believe the patent expresses three things:
1. Factors Google [...]

There’s a bit of a storm over on Slashdot that involves Threadwatch and the famous GoogleGuy:
Millions Of Pages Google Hijacked Using ODP Feed
The Real Nick W writes “Threadwatch reports that millions of pages are being Google Hijacked using the 302 redirect exploit and the ODP’s RDF dump. The problem has been around for a couple [...]

This week’s buzz in the SEO world is mainly the 302 hijacking problem with Google. I posted about this here: Google’s 302 Problem Exposed
Idaho from Webmaster World has posted the steps he took to remove a hijacker’s page from the Google index. You’ll find that post here:
How to Remove Hijacker Page Using Google Removal Tool
Over [...]

Great read over at Wired.com featuring an interview with Greg Boser who owns and operates WebGuerrilla:
Search Rank Easy to Manipulate
“The search engines created the monster,” he said. “It only exists because Google’s algorithm places a lot of emphasis on link popularity.”
Funny just the other day I posted on a forum that I thought all aspects [...]

Everything you ever wanted to know about Google’s 302 *issue* is now on one handy page. Danny Sullivan has compiled a killer list of resources in regards to Google’s 302 problem, check it out here:
Google’s Redirect Hijacking Problem Gets Slashdotted
The key thing is that the situation seems to really only impact you if someone does [...]

You see Google hitting your site, but which pages are being grabbed? Here’s a nice freebie tool I just found:
Recently Indexed Pages By Google
One word of caution. Don’t put a trailing slash after the URL or you’ll get no results.
This tool shows you the files on a web site that have been index over [...]

SiteProNews has an interesting article in their latest newsletter:
A Back Road Loophole For Getting a Top Google Ranking
I’ve noticed that Google loves to list questions and answers from Google Answers within their top 10 search results.
For example, somebody posted a query saying that they needed a list of brokers who buy and sell used LED [...]