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Eric Enge interviewed Matt Cutts of Google and extracted some interesting tips about Google, but one of the most interesting information is that the 301 redirect do not fully pass Pagerank. Here is a part of interview .

The simple answer is no. Here's an simple example explaning this, consider 2 website with similar pagerank, ipl.org and carlosbakery.com both these sites have PR4. But if you are around SEO for a while you might notice that a link from ipl.org will be consider far more valuable than a link from carlosbakery.com. Getting a link from ipl.org is a big deal and its one of those site that Google trusts.

Search is turning into something more and more personal each day. For SEO, we believe that we should now try to improve our online network and seriously start putting more effort on online social media.

Google Social Search:

 You need to start with the answer to two other important questions:

1. How many of these keywords carry the same visitor?

2. How competitive are the targeted terms/phrases?

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has unveiled the ipad, a tablet-style computer that resembles the iPhone, but larger.

"It's so much more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smart phone," Jobs said Wednesday at the device's highly anticipated debut in San Francisco. The rumors surrounding it have been the talk of the town for months, but now Apple has put them to rest. This device is real.

Price Starts at $499.

Apple Inc's Chief Executive Steve Jobs is expected to make a big bet on that he can sell consumers on the value of tablet computing, looking to define an new category of devices which will be a Tablet computer much similar to iphone but larger than it. Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be on Stage, today at San Francisco. Analyst believe that it will have all the features of a Desktop Computer, you can stream videos, surf the web, read books and play games.

Many of us can't wait for this exciting new product, lets see that name apple gives to its new tablet iSlate may be. Apple is really an interesting company not only its products are innovating, they have managed to keep it under wraps for so long.

Twitter brought the online social networking to 140 characters by asking a simple question — what are you doing right now? The next level of social networking asks a similar question — where are you right now?

Twitter has begun rolling out location-based trending topics.

The product is officially called Local Trends. In a statement, Twitter said the following:

As social bookmarking is relatively new so before discussing it in depth, I would like to tell you what exactly is social bookmarking. It is a way to store, classify, share and search links through some online services like Del.icio.us, Technorati and more. The basic concept behind them is that when thousands of people get together, bookmark their favorite pages, and apply descriptive tags to each page that they bookmark, certain websites will rise to the top as being more popular. It will help the surfers to know which websites are currently popular among users.

Is it possible to make good money as a blogger? Many think it is impossible but I know that is not the case. My friend David Risley has put out a new video today that clearly explains why some bloggers make a ton of money while others make nothing.

David is a pro-blogger who has been making a six-figure income at it since 2004. Like me, David started with a technology blog and expanded from there. He knows his stuff, and he doesn’t beat around the bush as to how to do it. In his Wealth Gap video, David talks about things like:

Link building is one of the most important SEO activities but this certainly doesn't mean that you should build links at any price – literally and figuratively. Link building can be very expensive in terms of time and money. There are many costly link building mistakes and here are some of the most common: