Fairly recently around the middle of May 2007 Google began bringing up videos from YouTube(now owned by Google), Google videos and other video sources in their main results. If Google finds a video relevant to your search it may be displayed with sites.  These videos can be watched right in the google search window, no clicking out is necessary. This makes it easy for users to watch the video OVER clicking a result. So far these video results have not been overwhelming however they do seem to rank quite well especially if any mention in the search is made up “video/s”, “clip”, or other words which could insinuate the user might be inclined to listen to a movie.  However regular searches return these videos as well.

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I have been promising this article for a while but was waiting till I had more data in. I have done extensive research and I feel I have now done enough research to atleast provide a basic understanding of this new technology and its effects on your site and mine, how we can combat any problems this may cause our site and how we can actually benefit from it.

The data I will be presenting will be based on my own research, and research done by other participants at SeoChat and 100 anonymous participants who were kind enough to donate their time.

I hope this article helps you better understand what effects Googles behavior factoring has on you site. Please be sure to post your comments and thoughts.

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…and 5 more reasons why I don’t do it so often

Okay apparently I am in this game they call tag or something. Some new thing thats going around and your not supposed to break the ring, curse or whatever you call it.  Sounds like a chain letter to me

Okay so WebGeek from hybrid6.com tagged me so I am assuming that means I have to write a “5 reasons…” post.  Well I am in a good mood because I just got done fixing a problem in my forums so here goes.
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You haven’t heard the news? Matt Cutts official blog is now under new management, 1st Search Engine Rankings now manages the famous Matt Cutts blog. You don’t believe me? Well what do you do when in doubt? Google it right? Okay lets see what Google says:

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Google is always right

Maybe someone wants to send a note to Matt and ask what the favoritism is all about - Of course i’m not complaining but as long as we are such good buddies and all he could pass along a little link love you know

[This is indeed a real result from google for the search term 'seo blog'. Nothing has been changed.]