You may have gotten some good links in the past, but don't count on them helping you forever. Old links go stale in the eyes of Google. Do you still get links to old content? Tell us why you think that is . Google's Matt Cutts responded to a user-submitted question asking if Google removes PageRank coming from links on pages that no longer exist (for example, GeoCities pages that have been shut down ). The answer to this question is unsurprisingly yes,

The GSMA and comScore, Inc., in partnership with operators O2, Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile and 3UK, today announced the official UK launch of the GSMA Mobile Media Metrics (MMM) product, a pioneering census-level solution for mobile media reporting. Taking irreversibly anonymised mobile Internet usage data from all five UK mobile operators, the service will provide comprehensive insights into mobile media consumption,

The Bing Blog has the latest on Facebook and Microsoft . From their post: Facebook has been a close and valued partner of Microsoft for a number of years. We have worked together on several fronts all designed to create great experiences and services.

Facebook has been a close and valued partner of Microsoft for a number of years. We have worked together on several fronts all designed to create great experiences and services for our users. As we begin 2010, we are stepping up that collaboration yet again. Here is a sense for what we are up to: First, we have deepened our joint work together on web search to provide even more compelling experiences to Facebook users with Bing. As part of this expanded cooperation in search,

Google's social network site Orkut has a new application that lets you morph one face into another. Called People Hopper , it was broken yesterday but is working now. I've created a profile for this purpose (I deleted my real one a while ago) and morphed the first picture, Mr. John Cleese, into Tony Ruscoe below: The interesting part here is that the intermediate steps themselves are other people from Orkut. Clicking on any face will take you to their profile.

This blog post is a bit of fun that might give you some idea of the sorts of  thing that cannot be tracked by your web analytics system' 1. Odysseus Off-Site Image from Litmuse on Flickr This intrepid traveller ranges far and wide across the internet but has so far resisted the siren call of your site.

Posted by great scott! Will Critchlow of Distilled (now the preferred consulting partner of SEOmoz ) is back in Whiteboard studios to help Rand discuss how to Choose an SEO consultant-or any consultant for that matter. Whether you're a consultant yourself, you frequently work with consultants, or you're thinking of outsourcing some work for the very first time, you'll find this week's video worthwhile. Knowing beforehand how the engagement needs to be structured,

Have you ever been to a website where there is so much going on you almost start convulsing? There is a thin line between having good on site search engine optimziation and way too much. I often times visit websites where the footer has hundreds of links mashed in between content followed up with even more links. Whoever decided that this was a good approach to take?

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Today is Data Privacy Day , an international collaboration by governments, privacy professionals, academic institutions, businesses and nonprofits to raise awareness about data privacy and the protection of personal information. For Facebook, privacy is a core component of the products and features we build every day. It is critical that we give the more than 350 million people on Facebook the power to share what they want with whom they want while safeguarding their privacy.