Jason Calacanis talks about his new human powered search engine, Mahalo.com at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York.

Mahalo is a “Human Powered Search Engine” where human beings create all of the result pages by hand. This allows you to find the top five or ten links for any particular topic. Search engine results are often times filled with spam sites, Mahalo is working to fix that.

You can check Mahalo out for yourself at Mahalo.com

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Matt Bailey discusses Site Validation at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. This is part 6 of 6 from Matt’s session. Matt discusses that while making your site validate does not directly increate your SEO rankings, it can help the web spiders to properly access your content.

You can find out more about SEO at Matt’s site – SiteLogic.com

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Matt Bailey discusses Cascading Style Sheets at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. This is part 5 of 6 from Matt’s session. Matt talks about the power you gain by using a style sheet to fully separate your content from your design.

You can find out more about SEO at Matt’s site – SiteLogic.com

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Matt Bailey discusses URLs and Favicons at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. This is part 4 of 6 from Matt’s session. Matt talks about human readable URLs and a simple little branding tool called the favicon.

You can find out more about SEO at Matt’s site – SiteLogic.com

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Matt Bailey discusses user defined action at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. This is part 3 of 6 from Matt’s session. In this video Matt talks about how search engines will not follow to pages that require user defined action. Things like forms or flash elements can not be properly indexed, impacting your SEO options.

You can find out more about SEO at Matt’s site – SiteLogic.com

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