Hopefully you enjoyed your weekend - we had some excitement at our house as the cows invaded. :o) -

That's me - looking rough after all it was early Saturday morning. My daughter Haley and "Bessie". Bessie brought along 7 or so of her closest friends as well.

Well it appears that the second part of the "Jagger" update has begun - some folks are now calling it the "Joker".

http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=54970

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/31688-65-10.htm

Google is up to something... besides the update. They are in the process of starting Google Base - you can find more details here -

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2013

and the "new" site can be found here -
http://base.google.com/

although I got a database error - so maybe it's not ready just yet.

More Jagger stuff -

How did XML site mapped sites fare -

http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=54883

It's not over till its over - make sure to check out Google Guy's post on this page -
http://www.searchengineworld.com/forum912/4-2-20.htm

More conversations on the "update" - I think Google actually said it wasn't an update.... hmmm.

Part 1 -
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/31509.htm

Part 2-
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/31688.htm

Couple of more notes on Jagger -

How to contact Google if new results are full of trash -
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/update-jagger-contacting-google/

An excellent conversation is going on here as well - next week - after some more dust settles we'll give some observations.

http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=54379
You'll have to register but it takes about a minute to do that.

Well looks like Google is definitely doing a big update - details below -

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?threadid=8261

http://www.searchengineworld.com/forum912/1.htm


Just don't PANIC until after the dust settles.

An excellent article on improving your sites navigation can be found here -

http://www.wilsonweb.com/art/design/menu-builder.htm

If you haven't subscribed to their newsletter yet, you should.

Is there another Google update going on - maybe... maybe not. Details can be found here.

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/002654.html

Hopefully you enjoyed your weekend. If you are looking for a place to find keywords without having to pay - then you may want to check out Nichebot -

http://www.nichebot.com/

If you use windows XP and it seems to have slowed down - then these tips may be just what you need. One reminder before you try new things make sure that you BACK UP your files.

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1949

We mentioned before about Google and dupe content - check out this -
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/4091

hmm it appears that Google is going to get involved as a payment service (like paypal) - what better way to streamline their payments to affiliates etc. More can be found at the link below.

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1940

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The service we use to send our newsletter is offering free leads - you may be interested in that so here's the link -

http://www.demc.com/artman/publish/article_50.shtml

Enjoy your Columbus Day!

What happened today in history - you can find out at the following link -

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/

Enjoy your weekend.

I'm not sure if I mentioned this before - a good place to learn about recent changes in the SEO world can be found here -

http://www.seroundtable.com/

A nice article on Indexing and Ranking can be found here -

http://www.clickz.com/experts/search/results/article.php/3552906

Also if you didn't get a chance to check out the October issue of our Newsletter you can find it here.
http://www.blitzpromotions.com/blitz254-05oct.htm

An excellent article on competition and what it can mean for you -

http://www.businesslyceum.com/compete.html

It seems like that the states want in on income they may be loosing from taxes more details here -
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3552921

Enjoy your day.

A pretty nice "debate" on some useful things to include with SEO -

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=16848