Source: http://searchengineland.com/google-panda-update-112805

Few words from the statements of Google,

Here are the basic steps:

1. Find your Google Profile

2. Add “?rel=author” on the end of your Google Profile URL

3. Wrap that in an a tag – <a href=”that url here”

4. Google wants you to use something like “+Matt Cutts” as the anchor text.

5. Insert that on your article, and point your Google Profile back to the site

A few conversations from the PubCon conference 2011

​“Amit said they have been focusing on high quality sites this year. Our preference is to do things algorithmically, because they scale. Google has tested Panda. It has been a very positive change across all known measurements. All of their measurements said they have done a great thing. Our responsibility is to Google users first and at the same time to pubslihers who build the web. As Matt said, no algorithm is perfect, so please send us reports of issues.”

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=63758

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334

Remove a page or site from Google’s search results

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=164734

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1269119

Report scraper pages to avoid them rank above you

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGM4TXhIOFd3c1hZR2NHUDN1NmllU0E6MQ&ndplr=1

Think you’re affected by the recent algorithm change? Post here.

​http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=76830633df82fd8e&hl=en&start=6400

Is Google showing site links for your site when it appears in search results?

Google sitelinks are automated, but as per Google statement you can control this feature through webmaster input in the future. There are other factors you can comply. “ For example, for your site’s internal links, make sure you use anchor text and alt text that’s informative, compact, and avoids repetition,” Google says.

To do this, go to Webmaster Tools,

click the site, and go to “sitelinks” under “site configuration”.

In the “For this search result” box, complete the URL you don’t want to appear as a sitelink.

In the “demote this sitelink URL” box, complete the URL of the one you don’t want to appear.

From Webmasters Help Center - 

Demoting a URL for a sitelink tells Google that you don’t consider this URL a good sitelink candidate for a specific page on your site. Google doesn’t guarantee that demoted URLs will never appear as a sitelink, but we do consider a demotion a strong hint that we’ll try to honor when generating sitelinks.​

You can demote up to 100 URLs, and demotions are effective for 90 days from your most recent visit to the Sitelinks page in Webmaster Tools.

Below are the factors that influencing Sitelinks,

• Popularity
• URL Structure
• Internal Links
• Anchor Text
• Alt Text
  
• Relevance to search term [New!]

Note: It will take some time for Google to make them effective in search results. We can also undemote a link.

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == “item”‘>

<table border=’0′>
<tr>
<td><div style=’margin-right:5px;’>
<g:plusone expr:href=’data:post.url’ size=’medium’/>
</div>
</td>
<td><div style=’padding-top:6px;’>
<script type=’text/javascript’>
tweetmeme_style = &quot;compact&quot;;
</script>
<script src=’http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js’ type=’text/javascript’/>
</div></td>

<td><div style=’margin-right:25px;’>
<script expr:src=’&quot;http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=1&amp;r=&quot; + data:post.url’/></div>
</td>
<td><div style=’margin-right:25px;’>
<div id=’fb-root’/><script src=’http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1′/><fb:like font=” href=” layout=’button_count’ send=’true’ show_faces=’false’ width=’40px’/>
</div>
</td>
<td>

<!– AddThis Button BEGIN –>
<div>
<a></a>
</div>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js”></script>
<!– AddThis Button END –>

</td>
</tr>
</table> </b:if><br/>

5.   Next search for </head>

6.  and just above it paste the following code,

<script src=’http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js’ type=’text/javascript’> {lang: ‘en-US’} </script>

7.  Save your template and you are done!

Listen ReachLocal – Google Adwords Premier SMB Partner

URL – http://www.google.com/ads/premiersmbpartner/

Source: http://www.smallbusinessnewz.com/topnews/2011/10/28/google-launches-adwords-smb-partner-program

Frictionless sharing is going to be powerful. When a visitor comes to your blog or website, if they’ve enabled access, Facebook will automatically post your content on that user’s wall. No more clicking the Like button. No more copying and pasting links. He visits your site and it shows up on his wall.

But what about the Privacy Concern:

On September 29, 2011, a set of advocacy groups asked the Federal Trade Commission to ban Facebook’s Frictionless Sharing feature that allows automatic sharing of news articles and other information after user access.

The letter to the FTC from those groups denotes:

Facebook’s tracking of post-log-out Internet activity violates both the reasonable expectations of consumers and the company’s own privacy statements. Although Facebook has partially fixed the problem caused by its tracking cookies, the company still places persistent identifiers on users’ browsers that collect post-log-out data and could be used to identify users. “Frictionless sharing” plays a leading role in the changes Facebook announced at the recent F8 development conference, and works through the interaction of Facebook’s Ticker, Timeline, and Open Graph. These changes in business practices give the company far greater ability to disclose the personal information of its users to its business partners than in the past. Options for users to preserve the privacy standards they have established have become confusing, impractical, and unfair.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20113457-281/groups-ask-feds-to-ban-facebooks-frictionless-sharing/

Also, Read the Pros and Cons here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/240592/facebooks_frictionless_sharing_a_privacy_guide.html