It’s time for another ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘. It could have been active out there last week and… well.. I probably wouldn’t have noticed as I was knee deep in some personal stuff.

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion on link building. The discussion is around, do you do it or not. The thread has several SEOs that I respect saying they haven’t asked (or bought) a link in a really long time

We know how Google Maps plots much of the real time traffic. In short, they watch people via their mobile phones and see how fast they are driving in real time. But how do they go about the predictive traffic?..

Although we have no need to be afraid of duplicate content, there is no doubt we are still afraid of it.

As hard as some web content copywriters try, they always find their writing rejected or sent back for major revision, often multiple times, because the style and substance doesn’t blend well with the client’s existing site. For a copywriter, this is a frustrating (not to mention time-consuming) experience, and there’s a temptation to become unnecessarily resentful. I spoke with Tiana Smith and Andy Eliason , lead copywriters at SEO.com about their experiences with a variety of client sites, styles, and expectations and how they write website copy that won’t get rejected (or at least has a much lower chance of rejection)

I will be live blogging the small but informative BlueGlass two-day conference this coming Tuesday and Wednesday, November 2nd and 3rd. I do not need to post a schedule, because it is clear, there is only one session going on..

Posted by randfish This week, Distilled’s Will Critchlow and I held our 4th “presentation-off” battle against one another as the final session of the London PRO SEO Training Seminar . We both put plenty of blood, sweat and tears into our decks and I think it shows. Enjoy: A few notes from Rand’s Talk: The Excel spreadsheet that I invite you to build off, expand and use to help predict the ranking elements for a given SERP can be downloaded here

Local businesses in San Francisco, Houston, and Chicago, can now access Google Boost , a beta AdWords program that auto-generates search ads to appear in Google’s sponsored links section and Google Maps search results pages. Click to read the rest of this post…

Chitika has just published some very interesting data about voice search on the iPhone. Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently said that about 25 percent of queries on Android devices are voice-initiated. That’s an unexpectedly large percentage.

Owners of select Android devices, including Droid, Droid X, and Incredible, are reporting the arrival of Google Instant (beta). Click to read the rest of this post…