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Blimey, very good point, reputation damage caused by ID fraud! This could become quite an interesting and dangerous area!

Anyone had any experiences of this?

It is fascinating, you look at some of the deals, things like restaurants offering a meal for 2 for

Missed it, but heard all about it As an RBS daytrader though, they are certainly a white knuckle ride!

Here's the basic story here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338508/WikiLeaks-RBS-bosses-slap-wrist-failure-live-responsibilities.html

Thinking about it, they signed a deal with twitter a while ago didn't they, so would make sense to include twitter as a social signal. But do you think Google will really use FB as a social signal for its algorithm, or would Bing who are in bed with FB, use Google +1 data?

I hope they do, as it will make all of our lives easier. Be great to get a better Google ranking because hundreds of people have FB "liked" a particular page, but not convinced..

Gone a bit of topic though, so is Twitter good for SEO, consensus is yes

Ok just a bit of fun, but why not? They couldn't do a worse job could they? Even without Steve Jobs.

Latest estimates are that Apple has $81.5 billion in cash as well as investments.

Not bad for flogging a few mp3 players and phones with dodgy reception

It's quite an extraordinary growth when you think about it, although interesting to hear that Apple, along with other major Blue Chip giants is calling for a tax holiday on overseas investments

I wonder if governments around the globe ponder on how to shoehorn some of this commercial efficiency and enterprise into elderly and archaic goverment practices and thinking?

lol, honestly, the financial services in this country, from the bank to the taxman are beyond belief!

Just recently got dragged over the coals and my credit rating damaged by Abbey/Santander who inadvertently forgot to close a bank account, after confirming it had been sorted and was zero balanced, and decided 3 years later to slap payment charges on a mystery 70p overdraft, at a rate of

The UK Office of Fair Trading has received lots of complaints from people being hassled on Social Media sites by debt collecting agencies.

So if you owe a few quid, you could be named and shamed in front of all of your followers or fans

Guess it depends which side of the fence you are on, are you owed, or do you owe?

What do people think, is this a fair tactic, businesses using social networking sites trying to recover a debt if you are owed money, or does this push things too far?

No wonder the UK is bankrupt! Good old Revenue and Customs have screwed up again, with 6 million people to receive tax rebates while another million will be told they owe more dosh. Yet another ropey UK goverment computer system that doesn't work properly...

"HMRC said the number of cases would reduce as the new system beds in."

"Last year, HMRC identified 4.3 million people due refunds for overpayments and some 1.4 million who owed the taxman after paying too little."

I'd say it's getting worse not better

Wonder how much will this latest balls up end up costing the tax payer!
BBC News - Millions more in line for tax rebates

Interesting about the exact match domains, I've heard other people say the same, but in the post panda world, I'd put most emphasis on onpage SEO, then followed by a blend of social networking and link baiting (rather than building), or at least that's the strategy we have been following, and seems to be paying off.

For now Google seems to have stopped shaking the tree! Or at least quite so violently

No actual numbers, but I doubt few people venture onto page 2 unless the search was very broad and threw up lots of unrelated results.

Page 1 Top 3 should be your goal, with anywhere in the top 5 good for conversions.