document.write('<div id=\"originalsignal_widget_by_spm\"><h2>SEO news</h2><small>By <a href="http://seo.originalsignal.com" target="_blank">Original Signal</a></small>');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchengineland/~3/505747185/google-confirms-layoffs-of-contract-employees-16043" title="The Associated Press reports that Google has released &#8220;a substantial number&#8221; of its contract and temporary employees, but the exact number isn&#8217;t known. The news isn&#8217;t a surprise; in October, Google co-founder Sergey Brin told the San Jose Mercury News that the company wo(...)" target="_blank">');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feeds.searchenginewatch.com/~r/sew/~3/505631745/showPage.html" title="Today\'s search engine marketing news and opinion: Forget Tibet; Free the Content; Paid Search Spend up 12% in Q4; Facebook Reaches 150 Million Users Worldwide; and more." target="_blank">');
document.write('SearchDay | Writing Sales Copy for Conversions');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://www.seobook.com/interview-muhammad-saleem-social-media-expert" title="After seeing the rapid rise of Tip\'d, I figured it would be a good idea to interview Muhammad Saleem, a social media adict who knows social media both from  site manager and site participant perspectives.How did you get into social media?I got into social media by reading James Surowiecki\'s Wis(...)" target="_blank">');
document.write('Interview of Muhammad Saleem, Social Media Expert');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineJournal/~3/505619230/" title="At the recently concluded Macworld conference, among the not so many highlights of the event was Apple&#8217;s announcement that it would start selling songs at its iTunes store withouth the usual Digital Rights Managements software. Apple reported that it has already reached an agreement with (...)" target="_blank">');
document.write('Apple Removes Anticopying Measures on iTunes Songs');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineJournal/~3/505484981/" title="In a move which may influence the search association mobile phone users have with their search engine of choice, Verizon has chosen Microsoft Search over Google as its default search engine of choice.Verizon is expected to be the #1 mobile carrier in the US after its planned acquisition of Allt(...)" target="_blank">');
document.write('Verizon Picks Microsoft Over Google for Mobile Search');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineJournal/~3/505367825/" title="1. Scribd (already mentioned at SEJ)  is a huge user-generated database of eBooks and community of writers. Due to the huge volume of eBooks it contains and also being user-generated (and thus used for self-promotion most of the time) in nature, it is not so easy to find something valuable ther(...)" target="_blank">');
document.write('Search for SEO eBooks and PDF Tutorials');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineJournal/~3/505367827/" title="I&#8217;ve been reviewing rank-cheking tools previously and also looked at both sides of the problem asking the readers if rank checking is worthwhile in general. Anyway, whether Google rankings are in your SEO campaign focus or not, you might be interested to know about a new rank chaking and (...)" target="_blank">');
document.write('ExactFactor: Track and Compare Your Search Engine Rankings with Ease');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/505608259/019160.html" title="Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...." target="_blank">');
document.write('Daily Search Forum Recap: January 7, 2009');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/505282407/019156.html" title="Just a quick heads up that the Google team has posted a notification at Google Groups that the AdWords team will be conducting maintenance this Saturday. Both the AdWords login console and the API will be offline between 10am and..." target="_blank">');
document.write('Google AdWords Downtime on January 10, 10am-2pm PST');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/505260130/019155.html" title="A WebmasterWorld thread asks for tips on how he can get his site indexed and crawled faster by Google. The thing is, most, if not all, of these tips apply not to just Google, but any search engine, such as..." target="_blank">');
document.write('Tips on How to Get Indexed Faster by Google, Yahoo, &amp; Live Search');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/505257855/019154.html" title="A Google Webmaster Help thread asks a very interesting question. Should a webmaster consider submitting a reinclusion request if the site is still ranking well in Google? The question seems obvious. Why would you bother submitting a reinclusion request when..." target="_blank">');
document.write('Request Reinclusion If Site is Ranking Well in Google?');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/505253521/019153.html" title="There is a nice old school SEO thread at HighRankings Forum on the old topic of ranking well for singular cases, when you are already ranking well for the plural version. For example, you are in the tops of tops..." target="_blank">');
document.write('Ranking in Google Search For Plurarls Vs. Singulars');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/505243258/019152.html" title="A WebmasterWorld thread asks why does the site command in Google not match up in the number of \'indexed\' URLs reported in Google Webmaster Tools. A very valid question, let me show you. A simple site command in Google for..." target="_blank">');
document.write('Why Does The Site Command Show More Indexed Pages Then Google\'s Sitemap Report?');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/505243259/019151.html" title="Yesterday, I was tipped off by a reader that the number two listing on Google Trends was this form of \'ASCII art\' ✈ ▌▌. At first, I thought it was an airplane landing on a runway strip. By I was..." target="_blank">');
document.write('Google Trends Attacked, Again: Targets Former World Trade Center Towers');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/505233821/019150.html" title="A week ago, we reported that the Google Mobile team is using a new tool to track and monitor how popular feature requests are. Well, it seems like Google AdWords started their own similar tool, using Google Moderator. A AdWords..." target="_blank">');
document.write('AdWords Using Google Moderator For Feature Request Voting');
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