Well, for starters, it appears that anyone and everyone can see your tweets whether you engage in formal follow/follower requests or not...

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Does your site have a privacy policy? Many websites do.  It’s generally understood that these online privacy policies should outline an online business' policy regarding the handling of personal information it collects from private individuals. 

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Recently, Google made some big announcements that will affect every Google user on the planet eventually, and placed Google firmly in the lead in terms of search.

One has to do with search "personalization" while the other is referred to as "Universal Search".

Both will have interesting implications in the world of search but will also lead to a bunch of questions.

For example, in terms of personalization, why didn't Yahoo, MSN or AOL do this first? They all have large user bases and, in fact have had larger user bases than Google up until a few years ago yet they failed to act for whatever reason.

Aside from that though there are many Google related questions as well.

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Search engine optimization or SEO, is becoming a more common and (hopefully) more commonly understood phrase. For more about what SEO is, see our article on SEO, SEP, or SEM Specialists - Who am I talking to? What is not so commonly understood is, when SEO gets factored into the building of a new web site or the revamp of your old one.

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Well, it is that time of year again. The time of year when I boldly make my predictions for the coming year.

I have to tell you that over the past few years that I've done this I've been pretty successful. Granted some of my predictions may be considered “safe” by a few, but all in all I'd say my success rate has been in the high 70% to low 80% range.

So keeping that in mind, let's get right to it, shall we?

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