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I think everyone has noticed this recent change in the algorithms. I am seeing it more in Google, but Bing is also ranking facebook pages very highly. I think the social signals are gaining steam.

You will get a lot of traffic if you are able to utilize one of the most popular online aggregators of news, but you will have to start a Bing Webmaster account and put some work into it.

It is easy to determine which organize terms are attracting local visitors by studying your google analytics tools and drilling down through traffic sources.

New data suggests that over 55% of click throughs go to top 3 spots, with over 35% going to number one.

I personally hate the autocomplete guide and the whole concept of nudge. You shouldn’t let Google do the thinking for you. That being said, how many of you are utilizing this when you are doing keyword research for SEO?

How much of a threat do you see the use of tablets being to SEO? Recent research indicates a steady increase of use, over an hour per day using tablets at home. For the moment, most use them for gaming, not for search.

There is a lot of speculation about the impact Google +1 is going to have on PageRank. Google is very heavily invested in this program and needs it to be a bulwark against Facebook, so I suspect it will have more impact than we want to admit.

Is there a consensus here about whether google reviews will have a significant impact on their algorithm? What about people trying to game the reviews with proxies?

Lots of people are closely watching the new rollout of Google Hotspot.  They have now put it directly into the Places pages, which will have a huge impact on reviews for services.  SEOs need to pay close attention to this.