By: David A. Utter | Source: webpronews.com

By anonymizing logs of information captured from people who search on Google after 18 to 24 months, the company hopes to improve the perception people have of their privacy being protected.

Google keeps data now for as long as finds the information useful. That could be an infinite period due to the relative low cost of storing that data.

They likely still feel the sting from last summer’s oopsie at AOL, where a researcher posted reams of search data online that became big news just as the SES San Jose conference began. That leak enabled others to put together pretty accurate pictures of users, enough for the New York Times to positively identify one of them.

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By: Irina Ponomareva | Source: seo-news.com

When we talk about the relationship between SEO and web design, it’s usually the technical part of the website design art that’s relevant, not the visual part (though certain aspects of visual design have their impact on SEO/SEM, as will be shown below).

One of the latest trends in the SEO industry is to put more and more emphasis on quality web design in the overall SEO process. If you aim at a long term success online, you need to know exactly how design and SEO integrate.

Make Your Design Work For You

Good website design is like a foundation for the building of your future SEO success. The more aspects you think about before you start working on your site, the fewer obstacles you will meet later when you start looking into SEO, web promotion, ROI and other important aspects of your web presence.

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By: Loren Baker | Source: searchenginejournal.com

Tagging has become the ultimate way to externally describe a web site using metadata.

Services such as YouTube, Flickr, StumbleUpon, Yahoo! MyWeb and del.icio.us use tagging to let users or visitors of that site define it beyond the content and met tags used by the publisher.

Essentially tagging is what people are saying about your business, and in terms of SEO, what better way to define a site’s relevancy or authority by cross comparing the on-site content to the tags given that site over multiple channels.

Del.icio.us has taken tagging one step further by letting its users add a Description to a tag. The original intent is to let users define the nonsense, slang, or web centric (think MySpace and txt lingo) terms they use for tagging.

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