Bas and Roy were joined by Peter Young, a UK SEO who is also blogger for State of Search and a regular guest on the show. They discussed several different topics from the news in the past few days. Google which might be buying Groupon, how Google is maybe ‘evil’ and is being investigated by the EU, reviews and much more.
Also Bas told about the Dutch artist VanVelzen who “gets” social marketing and Peter spoke about his post “Search and social: A match made in heaven?”
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Links and topics discussed in the show:
Peter Young
Twitter account: @peteyoung
His blog: http://www.holisticsearch.co.uk/
Search and social: A match made in heaven?
Post by Peter yesterday
Post by Rand Fishkin
Google might buy Groupon, so what?
AllthingsD
SEOBook
Google hard codes its own links on the top
Business Insider
Venture Beat
Post Danny Sullivan on Searchengineland
Good reviews / bad reviews , what does it matter?
Searchengineland
New York Times article
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If Google buys or creates their own ‘groupon’ one thing that they (google) can do is to stop running groupon on on the google ad network.