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After running a poll on SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Nick La found that 10% of designers didn’t think SEO was mandadory in their field and a whopping 24% didn’t even know what it was. He’s written a post titled SEO Guide for Designers which should bring everyone up to speed.

Erick Schonfeld asks if Keyword Search is about to Hit its Breaking Point? Nova Spivak, the CEO and founder of Radar Networks discussed this in his presentation to the Next Web Conference this month where he went on to explain the importance of smart data and dumb software in the creation of a Semantic Web.

Frederick Townes on WebProNews offers up 50 tips to get your blog Google-ranked in 30 days or less - nice advice.

Design Coding from Poetic Prophet - SEO Rapper has put another dimension to the education of best practice website development. Who would have thought web standards, accessibility and usability would make it to the Rap scene?

Galen De Young on WebProNews asks so what links should you nofollow? Looking at your site analytics and using nofollow to pages like your about page or privacy policy page can help you conserve PageRank for other pages. You should be careful though because your about page may just be sending you heaps of traffic - check your analytics.

Chris Heilmann’s Accessihacking YouTube presentation from BarCamp has an interesting look at making online video more accessible by allowing for sensible, time based commenting.

An Introduction to SEO by Daryl Quenet.

Chris Heilmann has posted slides from a talk he gave at an internal SEO conference. SEO and Accessibility looks at the overlap between two huge areas of web design.