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For entrepreneurs looking to swim with the SEO sharks; think of this business rule:

Always ask yourself how someone could preempt your products or service. How can they put you out of business? Is it price? Is it service? Is it SEO? Is it social?

Thats an inspired lesson that Dallas Mavericks owner and "Shark Tank" co-host Mark Cuban shares in his book "How to Win at the Sport of Business".

Taking Cubans business advice to the murky waters of the SEO world, entrepreneurs should ask themselves:

Depending on who you ask, you just may get different answers and results!

Here's some advice for business leaders looking for the ultimate entrepreneur SEO checklist for 2014.

Depending on who you ask, the pros and cons to hiring an in-house SEO or dedicated social media talent versus an agency or consultant may vary depending on opinion, budget, business plan, and industries.

Lets face it, the number of self-proclaimed SEO "magicians" and social media "gurus" can be disenchanting and cause more digital injuries than any entrepreneur can imagine. But hiring the right talent and having a team that follows best SEO practices and delivers the level of social media punch that your community cares about can be key to beating the competition.

What should an entrepreneur know when hiring an SEO/social agency or search professional? Bruce Clay, president of Bruce Clay Inc., offers this checklist:

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The Ultimate Entrepreneurs SEO Checklist for 2014

India #39;s Censorship Board Should Get Bolder
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"Time travel requires cosmic censorship." George Smoot, 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics
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By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai2014-05-16 19:15:49 UTC

Google and Wikipedia appear to be the latest victims of Iran's online censorship efforts, just two days after the Iranian government repeated once again that it's planning to loosen its grip on the Internet.

Iran has reportedly blocked access to another Google service, the hosting platform Google Sites, and censored at least two sensitive Wikipedia pages in Farsi in the last couple of days. It's unclear at this point if these blocks are government mandated, but if they are, activists think they would expose the Iranian government's double-sided stance on Internet freedom.

Ever since President Hassan Rouhani was elected last year, his government has pledged to open up to the Internet, while, at the same time, it has steadily censored various services and websites, and even jailed 16 tech bloggers. Twitter and Facebook also still remain blocked in Iran, even though Rouhani, as well as other members of the government, routinely use them.

On Wednesday, Iran announced that it was planning to loosen Internet censorship by using so-called "smart filters," which would allow the government to block only specific "depraved and immoral" websites and leave others untouched, according to Communications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi.

Iran has a long history of blocking Wikipedia sites, as previous research has shown, but these latest blocks, activists warn, seem to indicate that the future is more of the same, rather than more freedom.

"The fact that pages on Wikipedia are now being censored is a troubling harbinger of a tighter hold on access to information, as opposed to the notion that these new technologies will allow for 'looser censorship,'" Mahsa Alimardani, an Iranian Internet researcher based in Toronto, told Mashable.

On Friday, Nariman Gharib, an Iranian researcher based in London reported that the Wikipedia pages about the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the one about the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran were inaccessible within Iran.

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