Just a quick shout-out to all the people that I had the pleasure of chatting with down in Seattle a couple weeks ago!   Was a great conference and although there wasn’t a TON OF earth-shattering stuff that we don’t already know about and preach, the networking amongst peers is always worth the price of admission 😉

Also cool that I managed to wrangle down Matt Cutts from Google for a quick pic!  😉

.. can also be called 7 things to consider when managing SEO during ANY page/site design.

Good little reference piece from Optify about things every designer/SEO should consider when (re)building websites.  Yah it’s of course sales material from them, but the tips are still valuable…

7 Steps to Managing Site Redesign

Straight from Matt Cutts about what to expect in the next few months regarding SEO and their updates.  Matt mentioned a bunch of this stuff down at SMX Advanced a few weeks ago – nothing beyond the obvious but always a fun thing to try and figure out how to stay ahead of the Big G 😉

This is a great video from Rand at SEOMoz.  Although it was published over a year ago, the points he mentions are absolutely still valid and very relevant today.  The whole over-optimization thing is so 2000, so STOP DOING IT!

Ironically, I haven’t been doing anything on my own site for so long since I’m so incredibly busy, but the good news is, can’t over-optimize or penalize your site when you aren’t doing anything with it lol…  Although there are probably a few things I should tweak… anyway, catch up with ya all soon and enjoy the video.

http://moz.com/blog/6-changes-every-seo-should-make-before-the-over-optimization-penalty-hits-whiteboard-Friday

So do shares and likes (social signals) as well as low bounce rates influence SEO? Does a one legged duck swim in circles?