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The Washington State Attorney General announced in a press release yesterday that it was suing a Redmond-based SEO company, Visible.net. According to the Complaint, Visible also does business under the name WebMarketingSource.com, Caputures.com, and Captures.com (that’s not a typo). The AG also names the owner of the companies, Gilbert Walker, as a defendant in the case.

http://www.mt-soft.com.ar/2008/11/15/washington-stat... 

Google webmaster tools has released an official Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide that covers many areas that webmasters might consider optimizing to get better Google ranking and indexing. Here is the index of contents that should interest you.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/g... 

In a slightly surprising move, Google has launched via its webmaster central blog a best practice guide for search engine optimization. Why surprising you may ask? Well, Google is notorious for being pretty quiet on this front leaving it to SEO’s, designers, and developers to figure out what works best.

This being so, professional SEO’s needn’t be too concerned as it very much a basic guide and more useful to small business owners looking for ‘just the basics’. I quote…

http://thenextweb.com/2008/11/13/google-publishes-a-... 

I love working with clients who bring energy and enthusiasm to an SEO campaign. It’s great to want to jump in and get started on new content development, link building, blogging, and so forth. But first, that energy and enthusiasm has to be channeled into creating a plan that outlines the strategies and tactics that’ll be used.

http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/planning-an-seo-camp... 

Doug Heil of IHelpYou.com will be participating at the upcoming Search Engine Strategies Chicago “Black Hat/White Hat” SEO panel. Doug is currently working as a search engine optimization consultant; before jumping on the internet in 1996, he worked in the lumber business for almost two decades, he says. I emailed Doug some questions on the subject of SEO.

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-11-12-n84.html 

I recently did a quick SEO consulting job for a friend of a friend. This lead to a little research on SEO services pricing. Here is some pricing info that I discovered:

http://8020im.com/2008/11/seo-pricing/ 

Writing an article on SEO is easy and I am going to show you how to do it. Trust me you will learn this SEO stuff quickly. First, you need to know exactly what SEO is, and how it helps you bring in the visitors to your articles.

SEO is search engine optimization, and it means simply making your articles stand up and be noticed. It rather is like making your article stand up, wave its fictional hands in the air, and yell I am here. It is like putting you article on a massive billboard while all the other articles are on note cards.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1194835/seo... 

If you are a blogger trying make money blogging, traffic is everything to your blog. By following these SEO (search engine optimation) tips and tricks, your blog will get more traffic. Remember that traffic boom not arrive in one day. It take times and requires your patient. And don’t forget keep on posting good content for your blog. This is real tip. Here is some traffic tips for your blog…

http://shareblogtips.com/30-seo-tips-increase-blog-t... 

On an average business day, more than 2,000 press releases are distributed by the five leading wire services in the United States – Business Wire, Marketwire, PrimeNewswire, PR Newswire, and PRWeb. What can you do to set your press release apart from the pack and allow your target audience to find you? Implement the use of search engine optimization, or SEO.

To put it simply, when someone Googles you or your company, where do you show up in the search results?

http://mashable.com/2008/11/04/how-to-make-press-rel... 

The role domain names play in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is sometimes overlooked. Domain names can help SEO campaigns in a few different ways, especially if they are relevant to the web site in question.

To some extent, search engines prefer sites with relevant domain names when determining which results should appear first. Although other factors can limit the SEO impact of a domain name containing relevant keyword(s), it will rank better in results for these words.

http://www.seowhitehats.com/2008/11/04/how-domain-na...