Hello and welcome to another edition of ‘7 Days of Search and Social‘ – your weekly feast of SEO and social search goodiness. Maybe it was just me, but it did seem a little light last week. Adter 56 weeks, it becomes harder and harder to find new and interesting content that hasn’t already been done to death. Heck, it’s hard enough just coming up with things to write about. Have no fear though, there’s still PLENTY of reading, just not as massive as usual, (some of you saying YAY on that I’m sure…hee hee)

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Nada, butkis… a snoozer!

For the first time in some 56 weeks, there really wasn’t anything I’d call a ‘big story’ out there. Sure, Google had the new interface… but even that wasn’t enough to get me going.

So, we’re just going to get right into it ok?

Oh, hey, since I have the space, I might as well highlight the new video gallery over on the SEO Dojo. We put it up last week, drop in for the best in SEO related videos from around the web.

On with the show

Quick Nav Links – Talk of the Town – Geek Central – Social Search – Going Vertical – Videos – Tools – Patents -

Talk of the town

SEO Magic Bullet: 2010 Edition – is a post I put up on the Trail last week to lament the all-to-often occurance of people that take search patents and IR papers as gospel. Just STOP IT ok? Anyway, please give it a read and spread the word!

Five Fatal Flaws in a Link Request – if you’re a link hound or are doing blogger outreach, there are some great tips in this one as far as what NOT to do.

Why You Should Stop Reading "How To" SEO Content – as many of us know, one can’t believe everything they read out there in the blogoshpere. Every situation is unique and your strategy needs to be as well.

Why targetting competitive keyterms could break your small business – an interesting post from a more recent addition on my radar, Kay Dinsdale. This one tells the tale of woe when targeting top head (generic) terms can break the bank. Start on the long tail my friends!

Home Pages Suck On Google – Barry (Welford) had a passionate prose on SEP last week with some analysis on home pages and how blogs tend to have a wider dispersal of links.

How To Build Links Faster: 5 Tips For Faster Link Qualification – Garrett continues his world tour with a good post on SEL for qualifying prospects before the outreach program begins.

A Natural Link Love Story – what can I say? An interesting and entertaining post over on SEOmoz from Dr. Pete. I do enjoy posts that play with analogies. Nicely done.

B2B SEO: Content Sourcing & Optimization – I for one am ALWAYs nervous about outsourcing content. Lee Odden looks at digital asset management and more.

Is SEO bullshit? – our pal Goosh, took a second run at the SEOBS blog post from last week. Have no fear, I’ll give u the spoiler alert, SEO ain’t bullshit. Hee hee

Blogger Outreach: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly – what gives with all the ‘outreach’ stuff this week? Lol. This entry I found over on 10e20 – a worthy addition to the list.

Please help my experiment to see if Google Starred Results affect rankings – Patrick over at Blogstorm is looking for a little community involvement with some experiments/research he’s doing. Why not spare a few moments for him?

Do results for “SEOBook sucks” prove that Google doesn’t use latent semantic indexing? – oh my he’s didn’t just go there did he? Hugo Guzman was looking at some SERPs and suggesting that semantic analysis isn’t one of Google’s priorities. Interesting….