Excellent overview of the recent Rich Snippets expert-level session at SMX Advanced.  THIS is the sort of thing that every session at SMX should bring.  If you understand what Rich Snippe

I've never been fond of guest blogging, when it comes to people asking to write on my blog. My cynical side says they're all just looking to spread some keyword rich junk around.

Wikipedia editors stand accused of trashing the profile page for an American novelist, after she cried foul at Wikipedia removing women from their list of "American authors".

Google has updated the Authorship rich snippet that appears alongside search results.

You can always count on Aaron Wall to call Google out, especially on its hypocrisy.

Danny Brown's Sunday Share features a worthwhile presentation by John Lane of Centerline Digital:

Jen Goode writes on 5 ways to profit with existing content, including lists of materials for how-to articles and a suggested reading list t

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/04/13/wordpress-blogs-and-more-under-global-attack-check-your-passwords-now/

Pretty good article on doing the opposite of what almost every other SEO is doing at the moment:

Google has updated Google images, so that you no longer need to visit the website Google got the image from when you click it!

Raise your hand if you are a video game nerd.

Keep it up if you are over 30.

Hand still up?

Good.

Digg have back themselves into a corner by editing or burying many of the commercial submissions. It looks as though they intend to capture a bit of that commercial market they have despised:

Yesterday Google announced Google Gears, to help make online applications work offline. Yesterday Apple also announced that they will be syndicating YouTube content to Apple TV. Today RealNetworks announced that their player will allow you to download videos to your hard drive.

Google is releasing a cross-browser extension called Google Gears which gives offline capability to online ap

Let's grab some VC money, repackage the web in a stale aging link list format, call it web 2.0, and watch it fail. Introducing Mahalo, which is:

Amazon announced that they are going to sell DRM free music:

News service Reuters has agreed to a deal with Canadian financial data provider Thomson in a deal worth about £8.7bn ($17bn) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6656525.stm

While US soldiers continue to die in Iraq, the US has finally decided to increase security. No, they are not talking about getting that safety armor they have been lacking for years, they are worried about protecting their computers. The Pentagon is limiting soldier access to numerous websites, especially video sites:

The WSJ is reporting that News Corp made an unsolicited buyout offer for Dow Jones for $5 billion.

Google plans to announce today that they are partnering with state governments to help make their public records more accessible:

J.L. Needham, who manages Google's public-sector content partnerships, said at least 70 percent of visitors to government Web sites get there by using commercial search engines. But too often, he said, Web searches do not turn up the information people are looking for simply because government computer systems aren't programmed in a way that allows commercial search engines to access their databases.

As more of this content comes online industries such as real estate and insurance will get uglier as commercial players are forced out of the SERP and into buying AdWords. But on the upside, if you gain editorial access to one of these trusted websites it should be quite easy to rank for virtually anything.