So finally, Yahoo and Microsoft got the clearance to implement terms and conditions of their search ad deal.

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DOJ, EU Approve the Yahoo-Microsoft Search Deal

Twitter went wild today on rumors that Google decided to actually begin offering SEO consulting services.  There’s even a couple articles out that make this ridiculously dumb claim in their titles, and yet it’s all due to a post on a Norwegian AdWords blog , which does NOT say that Google is getting into the business of SEO Consulting, nor as one article claimed, getting into the business of Validating SEO work. At one point people started ranting about getting tested by Google like they offer for AdWords.  Can you imagine?  “Certified SEO Professional”

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Google Gets Into The SEO Consulting Business

I know that many of our readers are fans of using YouTube as a video hosting platform.  While I completely agree that almost everyone should leverage YouTube itself for its massive audience, and while there are clearly some benefits to using YouTube, (mainly – it is free) there are reasons why a business may choose a custom video platform solution for their own website (player customization and content rights to name a few).  Even more important to me, is the fact that currently the easiest way to get your own site’s video thumbnails to show up in Google Universal search (pointing to your url vs YouTube’s), is to use a platform other than YouTube to power your website videos. All that being said, with more than 60 platform solutions that I can think of myself, it can quickly become overwhelming to choose a custom video hosting/streaming platform service.  Our friend Kristopher Drey created a comparison tool and directory of online video platforms (OVPs), VidCompare .  I interviewed Kris a few months back and asked him to tell us a bit more about the service and to provide some tips as to what to consider when shopping for an online video platform solution. What to Consider when Shopping for an Online Video Platform Kris provided a few good tips in our interview and also authored an in-depth article on ReelSEO about what to consider when shopping for a custom online video platform.

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Web Video Hosting Platforms Comparison Tool – VidCompare

Arkayne is the related posts plugin with some additional features allowing to network and build link (support provided for: WordPress, Movable Type, Joomla, Django, TypePad, and Blogger). How it works can be basically explained the following way: You register and install the plugin, add people to your trusted circle of friends and they add you. The tool examines your post and compares every post to other content in your circle to determine how contextually relevant they are

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The Detailed Review of Arkayne, Related Posts Plugin

So YouTube has made some changes .

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YouTube’s Video Landing Pages and Player Get Huge Makeover

Businesses that are looking for a vendor often spend a lot of time and energy researching and meeting with various different companies to make sure they make a selection that meets their needs. Too often the vendor isn’t doing the same thing and end up with a lot of ugly surprises

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Know Your Client Before You Sign the Contract

This post is in reference to SEO services as a business model, however many of the ideas can be juxtaposed to businesses and their utilization of the method for marketing So much gets said about SEO and its relevance or even legitamacy.

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SEO is a Brick not a House

What could be a better way of starting the new year but with a new Google Phone?Well, Google surely knows how to create the hype and the buzz to build the excitement over the Google Phone, which up to know is tentatively called Nexus One. What started out as a rumor, has been blown out of proportion.

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Google Nexus One : What We Know About the Google Phone

It’s time for another Viral Round Up—our weekly look at the latest viral success stories as we attempt to reverse engineer them to see what made them work. Since I missed last week’s Round Up, we’ll actually look at more videos than normal this week.  Call it my tangible apology, like the flowers I sometimes buy my wife.

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Viral Video Round Up – Lessons From This Week’s Viral Successes

Delicious is introducing a slew of new features aimed at making its social bookmarking service more useful. From search refinements to graphing technology to its mobile version, Delicious is sending a signal to us that the site is still alive and still wants to kick the competition

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Delicious Rolls Out New Search Features