Can you benefit from content scraped from your site?
Matt Cutts talks about his thoughts on people "scraping" content from your site. This is a process where people take the content of your site and put it on their site. He basically says not to worry too much about it.
Biz from the USA asks:
"Is there a way to benefit from content scraped from your site?"
This video is part of a "Grab Bag" series in which Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team, answers questions from webmasters. We're not currently taking new video questions, so your best bet for getting an answer about webmaster-related search issues is to head to our help forum: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p...
To Retweet or Not To Retweet
From here: http://bit.ly/2ANmYp
Dan Zarella has spent nine months analyzing roughly 5 million tweets and 40 million retweets. The findings show that there is a recipe for tweets that get retweeted.
Check out this video to learn how you can become a retweet master.
Oh. And PLEASE RETWEET THIS!
Google Wave Overview
Product managers, Stephanie and Greg explain many of the features of Google Wave. Learn more at http://wave.google.com
There has been a lot of buzz about Google Wave. This is a good overview of Wave.
A Wave is a hosted conversation. If you have the Wave open you can see someone typing live.
Anyone can edit any part of the Wave. It includes gadgets that are a way to gather and present data within a Wave.
You can drag and drop files directly into the Wave. As an example, you can use this as a way to make a collaborative online photo book.
This is a pretty interesting tool that might be something that really gets traction.
Michael Gray: Getting Involved in Social Media
This is an interesting interview of ways you can track social media and what is going on with social media. Michael talks about Twitter, Friendfeed, the social media revolution and the lack of buzz about SEO.
Atlas Web Service founder Michael Gray was recently interviewed at Search Engine Strategies San Jose by WebmasterWorld CEO Brett Tabke and shared his thoughts on the current and future state of social media, commenting on Web sites such as micro-blogging service Twitter and social network aggregator service FriendFeed. During their interview Gray stressed the importance of being actively involved in social media. Over the course of their conversation Gray shared several points he considered to be of key importance about the present state of search engine optimization (SEO), including his thoughts about the recent search agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo.
