Top News

• Google’s Gags Go Worldwide For April Fool’s Day 2012
• Google Sending Warnings About “Artificial” Or “Unnatural” Links
• Australian Court Finds Google Responsible For Misleading Ads Placed By Its Advertisers
• For Social Media Marketers, SEO Is Much More Popular Than PPC
• Google’s March Updates: Anchor Text, Image Search, Navigational Search & More
• Yahoo Confirms 2,000 Employees Getting the Axe
• Meet Project Glass: Google’s Siri For Your Eyes
• Lawmakers Question Whether Google Adequately Reviews Ads Potentially Related To Human Trafficking
• Yahoo In A Fight For Its Life
• Page To Anti-Trust Critics: “Actions” & Google+ Are An Essential Part Of Search
• How “Facebook Search” Could Help Google Escape The Antitrust Noose
• How The Bing Toolbar May Accidentally Submit Private Pages & Ads
• Yahoo’s Re-Organization: Search Stays Alive, At Least On Paper
• comScore: Only Search Engine To See Drop In Queries In March Was Yahoo
• Reports: Google CPCs Continue To Decline And Yahoo/Bing’s Rise While Spend Overall Grows In Q1
• Google Grows Revenues 24% From Last Year, Plans New Class Of Stock
• Microsoft-Yahoo Ad Transition Wrapping Up In UK, Ireland & France
• Microsoft Updates Excel Add-On For Keyword Research And Optimization
• Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Promo Returns
• Yellow Pages Sites Beat Google In Local Data Accuracy Test
• Foursquare Hits 2 Billion Check-ins, 20 Million Users
• Blekko’s Traffic Is Up Almost 400 Percent; Here Are The CEO’s Five Reasons Why
• New adCenter Metric Launched: Share of Voice
• AdWords To Automatically Match For Misspellings, Other Variants
• IAB & PwC: Search Still Tops Online Ad Revenues, And Share Grew In 2011
• 8 Products That Might Be On Yahoo’s Chopping Block
• Dropped In Rankings? Google’s Mistake Over Parked Domains Might Be To Blame
• No, Bing Doesn’t Support Pagination Attributes to Consolidate Pages In A Series
• Home Depot To Correct Misleading Link Request
• Google Redirects Patent Search, Shuts Down Google Related Toolbar, One Pass & Vaccine Finder
• Behind The Scenes In Google’s Battle Against Bad Ads
• Faking A Breadcrumb Trail To Stand Out On Google
• Google Testing “Trusted Stores” Badges On Search AdWords
• Breadcrumb Trails Come To AdWords
• Google Launches “Penguin Update” Targeting Webspam In Search Results
• Google Helps Advertisers Zero In On AdWords Quality Score Problems And Better Organize Their Accounts
• Panda Update 3.5 Is Live: Winners & Losers
• Report: Microsoft Did Shop Bing To Facebook
• Did Penguin Make Google’s Search Results Better Or Worse?
• The Penguin Update: Google’s Webspam Algorithm Gets Official Name
• Google Penguin Update Recovery Tips & Advice
• Google Webmaster Tools Expands Query Data to 90 Days
• Almost 1 Of Every 5 Google Searches Shows Rel=Author In Top 100 Results, Study Shows
• AdWords “Rotate Evenly” Setting To Stop Rotating After 30 Days
• Google “Comparison” Units Get New Look; Change Highlights Paid Inclusion In Some Vertical Search Areas

All Things SEO

• In This Bright SEO Future, Don’t Forget The Basics
• 11 Considerations For International SEO
• This Old Website: What Bob Vila Can Teach You About SEO
• Could DuckDuckGo Be The Biggest Long-Term Threat To Google?

B2B Search Marketing

• Determine The True Value Of Your B2B Search Marketing Program
• Four Steps To Building A Powerful SEO Brain Trust
• 4 Key Recommendations For Social Media Execution In The Industrial Sector
• Runaway Facebook Threads! 5 Tips B2B Community Managers Should Master

Beginner

• The SEO Breakdown: Bank Information Center Site Audit

Blekko

• Blekko’s Traffic Is Up Almost 400 Percent; Here Are The CEO’s Five Reasons Why

Enterprise SEM

• What Is The Real Value Of Branded Search Campaigns?
• Three Questions To Ask When Selecting An Enterprise SEM Tool Provider
• Benefits Of Cross-Channel Analytics For Search Marketers
• The Complete Guide To Bidding On Competitor Brand Names & Trademarked Terms

Enterprise SEO

• How To Get Past 9 Common Enterprise SEO Roadblocks
• How To Prune The Enterprise Link Tree
• How To Structure Your Organization For SEO Success
• Contingency Plans: The One Thing Mike Tyson Wants You To Know About Enterprise SEO

Facebook

• How “Facebook Search” Could Help Google Escape The Antitrust Noose
• Report: Microsoft Did Shop Bing To Facebook

Featured

• Google Launches “Penguin Update” Targeting Webspam In Search Results
• Report: Microsoft Did Shop Bing To Facebook
• The Complete Guide To Bidding On Competitor Brand Names & Trademarked Terms
• Google Penguin Update Recovery Tips & Advice
• Google Webmaster Tools Expands Query Data to 90 Days
• 7 Real Mobile Duplicate Content SEO Issues
• AdWords “Rotate Evenly” Setting To Stop Rotating After 30 Days

Features

• The SEO Breakdown: Bank Information Center Site Audit

Features: Analysis

• For Social Media Marketers, SEO Is Much More Popular Than PPC
• Page To Anti-Trust Critics: “Actions” & Google+ Are An Essential Part Of Search
• How “Facebook Search” Could Help Google Escape The Antitrust Noose
• Blekko’s Traffic Is Up Almost 400 Percent; Here Are The CEO’s Five Reasons Why
• Home Depot To Correct Misleading Link Request
• Google Launches “Penguin Update” Targeting Webspam In Search Results
• Did Penguin Make Google’s Search Results Better Or Worse?
• Google Penguin Update Recovery Tips & Advice
• Google Webmaster Tools Expands Query Data to 90 Days

Features: General

• Watch, Know, Learn: A Rich Online Video Academy
• In Depth: Search Gear For The Titanic Centennial
• Dropped In Rankings? Google’s Mistake Over Parked Domains Might Be To Blame
• Panda Update 3.5 Is Live: Winners & Losers
• Report: Microsoft Did Shop Bing To Facebook

Features: Site Audits

• The SEO Breakdown: Bank Information Center Site Audit

Foursquare

• Foursquare Hits 2 Billion Check-ins, 20 Million Users

Google

• StarCraft Themed Google Easter Egg “Zerg Rush” Calls An Attack On Your Search Results

Google: AdSense

• Group: Google Should Halt All Online Dating Ads Until They’re Sure None Are Fronts For Human Trafficking

Google: AdWords

• Google’s Gags Go Worldwide For April Fool’s Day 2012
• Federal And Rhode Island Agencies Divvy Up $500M That Google Forfeited In Pharmaceutical Settlement
• Australian Court Finds Google Responsible For Misleading Ads Placed By Its Advertisers
• How To Run A Pay Per Click Campaign In Multiple Languages Without An Agency
• Lawmakers Question Whether Google Adequately Reviews Ads Potentially Related To Human Trafficking
• AdWords Gets ZIP Code Targeting, Location Insertion, Other Tweaks
• Question Of Whether It’s Legal To Use Trademarks As Keywords Revived On Appeal in Rosetta Stone/Google Case
• AdWords To Automatically Match For Misspellings, Other Variants
• Behind The Scenes In Google’s Battle Against Bad Ads
• Google Testing “Trusted Stores” Badges On Search AdWords
• Breadcrumb Trails Come To AdWords
• Google Helps Advertisers Zero In On AdWords Quality Score Problems And Better Organize Their Accounts
• Google Tweaks Keyword Tool And Traffic Estimator
• AdWords “Rotate Evenly” Setting To Stop Rotating After 30 Days
• Mobile App Marketers Get New Tools From AdWords
• Google “Comparison” Units Get New Look; Change Highlights Paid Inclusion In Some Vertical Search Areas

Google: Algorithm Updates

• Panda Update 3.5 Is Live: Winners & Losers
• Did Penguin Make Google’s Search Results Better Or Worse?
• The Penguin Update: Google’s Webspam Algorithm Gets Official Name

Google: Analytics

• Google’s Gags Go Worldwide For April Fool’s Day 2012

Google: Android

• Meet Project Glass: Google’s Siri For Your Eyes
• Looking Back At Larry Page’s First Year At Google’s Helm
• More (Local) Searches Coming From iOS Than Android — Study

Google: Antitrust

• Looking Back At Larry Page’s First Year At Google’s Helm
• How “Facebook Search” Could Help Google Escape The Antitrust Noose

Google: Business Issues

• Looking Back At Larry Page’s First Year At Google’s Helm
• Page To Anti-Trust Critics: “Actions” & Google+ Are An Essential Part Of Search
• Google Grows Revenues 24% From Last Year, Plans New Class Of Stock

Google: Chrome

• Google’s Gags Go Worldwide For April Fool’s Day 2012

Google: Critics

• Page To Anti-Trust Critics: “Actions” & Google+ Are An Essential Part Of Search
• How “Facebook Search” Could Help Google Escape The Antitrust Noose

Google: Employees

• Looking Back At Larry Page’s First Year At Google’s Helm
• Google Loses Search PR Director Gabriel Stricker To Twitter

Google: Feeds

• Getting Started With Google Shopping Feeds

Google: General

• Google’s Gags Go Worldwide For April Fool’s Day 2012

Google: Gmail

• Google’s Gags Go Worldwide For April Fool’s Day 2012

Google: Google+

• Page To Anti-Trust Critics: “Actions” & Google+ Are An Essential Part Of Search

Google: Legal

• Federal And Rhode Island Agencies Divvy Up $500M That Google Forfeited In Pharmaceutical Settlement
• Australian Court Finds Google Responsible For Misleading Ads Placed By Its Advertisers
• Looking Back At Larry Page’s First Year At Google’s Helm
• Lawmakers Question Whether Google Adequately Reviews Ads Potentially Related To Human Trafficking
• Group: Google Should Halt All Online Dating Ads Until They’re Sure None Are Fronts For Human Trafficking
• How “Facebook Search” Could Help Google Escape The Antitrust Noose
• Question Of Whether It’s Legal To Use Trademarks As Keywords Revived On Appeal in Rosetta Stone/Google Case

Google: Logos

• Eadweard J. Muybridge 182nd Birthday Google Logo
• Google Grew Their Own Earth Day Logo
• Google Zipper Logo Celebrates Birthday Of Inventor Gideon Sundback

Google: Maps & Local

• Google’s Gags Go Worldwide For April Fool’s Day 2012
• Google Maps Traffic Estimates Even For Many Roads
• AdWords Gets ZIP Code Targeting, Location Insertion, Other Tweaks
• Yellow Pages Sites Beat Google In Local Data Accuracy Test
• Microsoft Makes Venue Maps More Visible On Bing
• Analyst: Mobile To Overtake PC For Local Search By 2015
• More (Local) Searches Coming From iOS Than Android — Study

Google: Marketing

• Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Promo Returns

Google: Mobile

• Google’s Gags Go Worldwide For April Fool’s Day 2012
• Meet Project Glass: Google’s Siri For Your Eyes
• Analyst: Mobile To Overtake PC For Local Search By 2015
• More (Local) Searches Coming From iOS Than Android — Study
• 7 Real Mobile Duplicate Content SEO Issues
• Mobile App Marketers Get New Tools From AdWords

Google: Other

• Google’s Gags Go Worldwide For April Fool’s Day 2012

Google: Outside US

• How To Run A Pay Per Click Campaign In Multiple Languages Without An Agency
• Does Booming International Search Mask A Google Decline?
• Google Street View Images Now Online In Israel

Google: Parodies

• Google’s Gags Go Worldwide For April Fool’s Day 2012

Google: Partnerships

• Google “Comparison” Units Get New Look; Change Highlights Paid Inclusion In Some Vertical Search Areas

Google: Patents

• Google Redirects Patent Search, Shuts Down Google Related Toolbar, One Pass & Vaccine Finder

Google: Penguin Update

• The Penguin Update: Google’s Webspam Algorithm Gets Official Name
• Google Penguin Update Recovery Tips & Advice
• Penguin Update Peck Your Site By Mistake? Google’s Got A Form For That

Google: Personalized Search

• Page To Anti-Trust Critics: “Actions” & Google+ Are An Essential Part Of Search

Google: Project Glass Eyeglasses

• Meet Project Glass: Google’s Siri For Your Eyes

Google: Rich Snippets

• New: Google Rich Snippet Tool Allows HTML Input & Product Snippets Go Global
• Faking A Breadcrumb Trail To Stand Out On Google
• Almost 1 Of Every 5 Google Searches Shows Rel=Author In Top 100 Results, Study Shows

Google: Search Plus Your World

• Page To Anti-Trust Critics: “Actions” & Google+ Are An Essential Part Of Search
• Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Promo Returns

Google: Security

• Google Sent 20,000+ Hacked Notification Messages To Webmasters Today

Google: SEO

• Google Sending Warnings About “Artificial” Or “Unnatural” Links
• Google’s March Updates: Anchor Text, Image Search, Navigational Search & More
• Google: No, We Don’t Use Akismet To Catch Link Spam
• New: Google Rich Snippet Tool Allows HTML Input & Product Snippets Go Global
• Dropped In Rankings? Google’s Mistake Over Parked Domains Might Be To Blame
• Home Depot To Correct Misleading Link Request
• Infographic: Goldilocks SEO, Getting Search Engine Optimization “Just Right”
• Google Launches “Penguin Update” Targeting Webspam In Search Results
• Site Performance, Subscriber Stats & Robots.txt Tool Removed From Google Webmaster Tools
• Panda Update 3.5 Is Live: Winners & Losers
• Did Penguin Make Google’s Search Results Better Or Worse?
• The Penguin Update: Google’s Webspam Algorithm Gets Official Name
• Google Penguin Update Recovery Tips & Advice

Google: Sitelinks

• Getting Started With Google Shopping Feeds

Google: Street View

• Google’s Gags Go Worldwide For April Fool’s Day 2012
• Google Street View Images Now Online In Israel

Google: Toolbar

• Google Redirects Patent Search, Shuts Down Google Related Toolbar, One Pass & Vaccine Finder

Google: User Interface

• An Easter Egg For The Qingming Festival On Google

Google: Web Search

• Google’s March Updates: Anchor Text, Image Search, Navigational Search & More
• An Easter Egg For The Qingming Festival On Google
• Page To Anti-Trust Critics: “Actions” & Google+ Are An Essential Part Of Search
• comScore: Only Search Engine To See Drop In Queries In March Was Yahoo
• Google Sent 20,000+ Hacked Notification Messages To Webmasters Today
• Dropped In Rankings? Google’s Mistake Over Parked Domains Might Be To Blame
• Google Redirects Patent Search, Shuts Down Google Related Toolbar, One Pass & Vaccine Finder
• Google’s Cutts Explains How Google Search Works
• Google Launches “Penguin Update” Targeting Webspam In Search Results
• More (Local) Searches Coming From iOS Than Android — Study
• Panda Update 3.5 Is Live: Winners & Losers
• Did Penguin Make Google’s Search Results Better Or Worse?
• The Penguin Update: Google’s Webspam Algorithm Gets Official Name
• Almost 1 Of Every 5 Google Searches Shows Rel=Author In Top 100 Results, Study Shows

Google: Webmaster Central

• Google Sending Warnings About “Artificial” Or “Unnatural” Links
• Google: No, We Don’t Use Akismet To Catch Link Spam
• Google Sent 20,000+ Hacked Notification Messages To Webmasters Today
• Site Performance, Subscriber Stats & Robots.txt Tool Removed From Google Webmaster Tools
• Google Webmaster Tools Expands Query Data to 90 Days

How To

• The SEO Breakdown: Bank Information Center Site Audit

How To: Mobile Marketing

• Mobile SEO Is A Must For Acquiring Mobile Shoppers
• 7 Real Mobile Duplicate Content SEO Issues

How To: PPC

• How To Develop A Keyword Plan
• The Complete Guide To Bidding On Competitor Brand Names & Trademarked Terms

How To: SEM

• The Complete Guide To Bidding On Competitor Brand Names & Trademarked Terms

How To: SEO

• How To Develop A Keyword Plan
• The SEO Breakdown: Bank Information Center Site Audit
• 7 Real Mobile Duplicate Content SEO Issues

In House Search Marketing

• Do It Yourself A/B Testing
• The Most Destructive Lie In Search Marketing

Infographics

• Infographic: Goldilocks SEO, Getting Search Engine Optimization “Just Right”

Keywords & Content

• How To Develop A Keyword Plan
• 9 More Content Development Ideas For Increased Visibility
• What’s In A Word? The Critical Role Of Keyword Selection For Business Growth

Legal: Trademarks

• Question Of Whether It’s Legal To Use Trademarks As Keywords Revived On Appeal in Rosetta Stone/Google Case
• The Complete Guide To Bidding On Competitor Brand Names & Trademarked Terms

Link Building: General

• Google Sending Warnings About “Artificial” Or “Unnatural” Links
• Home Depot To Correct Misleading Link Request

Link Building: Paid Links

• Google Sending Warnings About “Artificial” Or “Unnatural” Links

Link Week

• Using The Brown M&M Technique To Build Links
• Signs Of Linking Over-Optimization
• Will Pitching Guest Posts Be The Death of Marketers?
• Six Degrees Of SEO Bacon & B2B Link Building Q&A

Local Search

• Four Key Reasons To Reconsider Today’s Yellow Pages For Local Marketing
• 5 “Local” Search Engines You Should Be Targeting
• Five Key Learnings From A Local Marketing Success Story

Microsoft & Yahoo Search Deal

• Microsoft-Yahoo Ad Transition Wrapping Up In UK, Ireland & France

Microsoft: adCenter

• AdCenter Launches Training Hub To Grow Ranks Of Accredited Professionals
• Microsoft-Yahoo Ad Transition Wrapping Up In UK, Ireland & France
• Microsoft Updates Excel Add-On For Keyword Research And Optimization
• New adCenter Metric Launched: Share of Voice

Microsoft: APIs

• Bing Search API No Longer Free

Microsoft: Bing

• comScore: Only Search Engine To See Drop In Queries In March Was Yahoo
• Bing Search API No Longer Free
• Microsoft Updates Excel Add-On For Keyword Research And Optimization
• Microsoft Makes Venue Maps More Visible On Bing
• Report: Microsoft Did Shop Bing To Facebook

Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local

• Microsoft Makes Venue Maps More Visible On Bing
• Analyst: Mobile To Overtake PC For Local Search By 2015

Microsoft: Bing Mobile

• Analyst: Mobile To Overtake PC For Local Search By 2015

Microsoft: Bing SEO

• How The Bing Toolbar May Accidentally Submit Private Pages & Ads
• No, Bing Doesn’t Support Pagination Attributes to Consolidate Pages In A Series

Microsoft: Outside US

• Microsoft-Yahoo Ad Transition Wrapping Up In UK, Ireland & France

Mobile Search

• For Mobile SEO Ask “What Do Mobile Searchers Need?”
• Smartphone Vs. Mobile-Only Google Indexing
• Mobile SEO Is A Must For Acquiring Mobile Shoppers
• 7 Real Mobile Duplicate Content SEO Issues

Multinational Search

• How To Run A Pay Per Click Campaign In Multiple Languages Without An Agency
• Stop Blaming IT! How Communication Could Improve From The SEO Side
• Does Booming International Search Mask A Google Decline?
• New Search Engine Attrakt Focuses On Curated Content

Paid Search

• Simple Tips To Make Miracles Happen In Your PPC Campaigns
• Consider The Ends To Justify The Means In PPC
• 5 Highly Effective Landing Page Tips
• The Who, When & Why Of PPC Account Audits

Panda Update News

• Panda Update 3.5 Is Live: Winners & Losers

Panda Update Winners & Losers

• Panda Update 3.5 Is Live: Winners & Losers

Search & Analytics

• Using Data To Better Understand Tablet Consumer Behavior
• Conversion Rate Optimization In Paid Search: Why Click Through Rate Matters
• Understanding Your Analytics Versus Campaign Management Tools

Search & Conversion

• Hack Your Web Developer’s Questionnaire For Higher Conversion
• Remarketing For Conversion: The Long Way Rocks!
• 5 Colorful Sketches On Conversion Optimization

Search & Display

• What Does Big Data Mean To You?
• Four Things You Need To Know About Search Retargeting

Search & Retail

• Google Becomes Answer Engine With Semantic Technology – Great News For Retailers
• Getting Started With Google Shopping Feeds

Search & Social

• Why Pinterest Is NOT Your SEO Miracle Worker
• Social Search: Dead On Arrival? Or On Life Support?
• How To Prioritize The Long Tail With Twitter

Search & Society: April Fool’s

• Google’s Gags Go Worldwide For April Fool’s Day 2012

Search & Usability

• How To Understand Keywords In Searcher Context

Search Ads: General

• For Social Media Marketers, SEO Is Much More Popular Than PPC

Search Ads: Paid Inclusion

• Google “Comparison” Units Get New Look; Change Highlights Paid Inclusion In Some Vertical Search Areas

Search Engines: Disasters

• In Depth: Search Gear For The Titanic Centennial

Search Engines: Government Search Engines

• The 1940 U.S. Census: Soon, A Searcher’s Treasure Trove

Search Engines: Kids Search Engines

• Watch, Know, Learn: A Rich Online Video Academy

Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines

• Yellow Pages Sites Beat Google In Local Data Accuracy Test
• AT&T Interactive: More Than 30 Percent Of Searches On Network Are Mobile
• More (Local) Searches Coming From iOS Than Android — Study
• Wolfram Alpha Gets Into Local Search — Very Badly

Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines

• AT&T Interactive: More Than 30 Percent Of Searches On Network Are Mobile
• More (Local) Searches Coming From iOS Than Android — Study
• 7 Real Mobile Duplicate Content SEO Issues

Search Engines: Other Search Engines

• Watch, Know, Learn: A Rich Online Video Academy
• In Depth: Search Gear For The Titanic Centennial
• New Search Engine Attrakt Focuses On Curated Content

Search Engines: Outside USA

• Does Booming International Search Mask A Google Decline?
• New Search Engine Attrakt Focuses On Curated Content

Search Engines: People Search

• The 1940 U.S. Census: Soon, A Searcher’s Treasure Trove

Search Engines: Social Search Engines

• New Search Engine Attrakt Focuses On Curated Content

Search Engines: Video Search Engines

• Watch, Know, Learn: A Rich Online Video Academy

Search Engines: Wolfram Alpha

• Wolfram Alpha Gets Into Local Search — Very Badly

Search In Pictures

• Search In Pics: Google Halfpipe, Gooogle Cars & The Bing Train

Search Marketing Toolbox

• Clickable’s Widget Dashboard: Expansion Into Cross-Channel Intelligence

Search Marketing: General

• For Social Media Marketers, SEO Is Much More Popular Than PPC
• Do It Yourself A/B Testing
• Reports: Google CPCs Continue To Decline And Yahoo/Bing’s Rise While Spend Overall Grows In Q1
• Google “Comparison” Units Get New Look; Change Highlights Paid Inclusion In Some Vertical Search Areas

Search Marketing: Mobile

• Mobile SEO Is A Must For Acquiring Mobile Shoppers

Search Marketing: Multinational

• Does Booming International Search Mask A Google Decline?

SEM Industry: Conferences

• Stay on the Cutting Edge of SEO: Attend SMX Advanced June 5-6
• SMX Advanced: Hotel Alert
• Elevate Your Paid Campaign ROI – Attend SMX Advanced June 5-6
• See Who’s Speaking at SMX Advanced – Only 70 Tickets Left

SEM Industry: General

• SEM / PPC Jobs Big In New York, Chicago, San Jose, Austin & Seattle

SEM Industry: Stats

• For Social Media Marketers, SEO Is Much More Popular Than PPC
• SEM / PPC Jobs Big In New York, Chicago, San Jose, Austin & Seattle

SEM Tools: Web Analytics

• Do It Yourself A/B Testing

SEO – Search Engine Optimization

• How To Develop A Keyword Plan
• The SEO Breakdown: Bank Information Center Site Audit

SEO: Duplicate Content

• No, Bing Doesn’t Support Pagination Attributes to Consolidate Pages In A Series

SEO: General

• For Social Media Marketers, SEO Is Much More Popular Than PPC
• The SEO Breakdown: Bank Information Center Site Audit
• Infographic: Goldilocks SEO, Getting Search Engine Optimization “Just Right”

SEO: Mobile Search

• For Mobile SEO Ask “What Do Mobile Searchers Need?”
• Mobile SEO Is A Must For Acquiring Mobile Shoppers
• 7 Real Mobile Duplicate Content SEO Issues

SEO: Spamming

• Google Sending Warnings About “Artificial” Or “Unnatural” Links
• Faking A Breadcrumb Trail To Stand Out On Google
• Google Launches “Penguin Update” Targeting Webspam In Search Results

SEO: Titles & Descriptions

• The SEO Breakdown: Bank Information Center Site Audit

SEO: Writing & Body Copy

• The SEO Breakdown: Bank Information Center Site Audit

SMX & SMN Alerts

• Stay on the Cutting Edge of SEO: Attend SMX Advanced June 5-6
• Elevate Your Paid Campaign ROI – Attend SMX Advanced June 5-6
• Free webcast: Google+ and Social’s Impact on Search
• See Who’s Speaking at SMX Advanced – Only 70 Tickets Left
• Webinar, Thursday, April 26: Display Audience Targeting
• Big Data Management: Forensics – SMN webcast next Wednesday, May 2

Social Media Marketing

• For Social Media Marketers, SEO Is Much More Popular Than PPC

Stats: comScore

• comScore: Only Search Engine To See Drop In Queries In March Was Yahoo
• Blekko’s Traffic Is Up Almost 400 Percent; Here Are The CEO’s Five Reasons Why
• Analyst: Mobile To Overtake PC For Local Search By 2015

Stats: General

• For Social Media Marketers, SEO Is Much More Popular Than PPC

Stats: History

• IAB & PwC: Search Still Tops Online Ad Revenues, And Share Grew In 2011

Stats: Popularity

• Blekko’s Traffic Is Up Almost 400 Percent; Here Are The CEO’s Five Reasons Why

Stats: Relevancy

• Did Penguin Make Google’s Search Results Better Or Worse?

Stats: Search Behavior

• More (Local) Searches Coming From iOS Than Android — Study

Stats: Size

• Analyst: Mobile To Overtake PC For Local Search By 2015

Stats: Spend Projections

• Reports: Google CPCs Continue To Decline And Yahoo/Bing’s Rise While Spend Overall Grows In Q1
• IAB & PwC: Search Still Tops Online Ad Revenues, And Share Grew In 2011

Twitter

• Google Loses Search PR Director Gabriel Stricker To Twitter

Twitter: Business Issues

• Google Loses Search PR Director Gabriel Stricker To Twitter

Yahoo

• Yahoo In A Fight For Its Life

Yahoo: Answers

• 8 Products That Might Be On Yahoo’s Chopping Block

Yahoo: Business Issues

• Yahoo Confirms 2,000 Employees Getting the Axe
• Yahoo In A Fight For Its Life
• Yahoo’s Re-Organization: Search Stays Alive, At Least On Paper
• Yahoo Q1: Revenue Beats Expectations, Search Up 8 Percent
• 8 Products That Might Be On Yahoo’s Chopping Block

Yahoo: Employees

• Yahoo Confirms 2,000 Employees Getting the Axe
• Yahoo In A Fight For Its Life

Yahoo: Flickr

• Google’s Gags Go Worldwide For April Fool’s Day 2012
• 8 Products That Might Be On Yahoo’s Chopping Block

Yahoo: General

• Yahoo In A Fight For Its Life

Yahoo: Outside US

• Microsoft-Yahoo Ad Transition Wrapping Up In UK, Ireland & France

Yahoo: Pipes

• 8 Products That Might Be On Yahoo’s Chopping Block

Yahoo: Search

• Yahoo Confirms 2,000 Employees Getting the Axe
• Yahoo In A Fight For Its Life
• Yahoo’s Re-Organization: Search Stays Alive, At Least On Paper
• comScore: Only Search Engine To See Drop In Queries In March Was Yahoo
• Yahoo Q1: Revenue Beats Expectations, Search Up 8 Percent

Yahoo: Search Ads

• Microsoft-Yahoo Ad Transition Wrapping Up In UK, Ireland & France

Yahoo: Translation

• 8 Products That Might Be On Yahoo’s Chopping Block

Yelp

• Yelpy Insights: Yelp Adds Two New Search Filters, Looks To Add More

Top News

• Google Is Watching You (Or Not): New Privacy Policy Takes Effect Today
• Bing Testing New, Google-y Local Search Results
• Google Faces “Innovator’s Dilemma” As It Prepares Response To Siri
• Keeping Up With Google: Bing Launches New “Search Quality Insights” Series
• Google “Search Plus Your World” To Launch Beyond US? Likely, As Secure Search Set To Expand
• Google Webmaster Tools Finally Adds User Administration
• Google Meets Miss Manners, Encourages Searchers To Thank Those Who +1′d Content
• Ask.com Launches New Visual Q&A App “Pollroll”
• Santorum’s Changing “Google Problem” — & Search Engine Land — Make The Rachel Maddow Show
• Pew Report: 65% View Personalized Search As Bad; 73% See It As Privacy Invasion
• An Unprecedented Video Glimpse Into How Google Crafts Its Search Results
• Google Webmaster Tools Revamps Crawl Errors, But Is It For The Better?
• Implementing Pagination Attributes Correctly For Google
• Report: More Complex Attribution Model Shows Organic Search Significantly Undervalued By Marketers
• Google Opens Kimono (Slightly) On AdWords Screening Measures
• Google Search Now Highlights “Latest Posts” From Google+ Pages & Profiles
• WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality Check Time!
• Google Chrome’s Paid Link Penalty Now Lifted
• Too Much SEO? Google’s Working On An “Over-Optimization” Penalty For That
• Bing Fires Two Marketing Execs Over Vendor Issues
• How Microsoft Removes “Junk” From Bing Search Results
• Wikipedia Appears On Google’s Page One Only 46% Of Time, Study Shows
• SMX Advanced Agenda Now Available – Register Today & Save!
• How A Google Change May Mistakenly Turn Search Traffic Into Referral Traffic
• Microsoft’s adCenter Improvements Rolling Out Fast And Furiously
• Firefox To Use Google Secure Search By Default; Expect More “Not Provided” Keywords To Follow
• Move Over, Wikipedia: Amazon May Be The King Of Google Rankings
• Google Says Panda 3.4 Is ‘Rolling Out Now’
• Report: 25 Percent Of Paid-Search Clicks Will Come From Mobile By December
• Google Eliminates Another Link Network, BuildMyRank.com – Just One Of Several?
• Survey: 87 Percent Of iPhone 4S Owners Use Siri Monthly
• Google Research: Even With A #1 Organic Ranking, Paid Ads Provide 50% Incremental Clicks
• Traffic Estimates Return To Google Maps
• How Serious Is Facebook About Search?
• Will Pending Layoffs Put Final Nail In Yahoo Search?

Advanced

• Getting Started With Microsoft Advertising Intelligence

All Things SEO

• The Internet: It’s Like Real Life, Only With Buttons
• How To Create An SEO Positive Company Culture
• What People Do Is The New SEO
• The Golden Triad Of Search Marketing: How To Leverage It For Massive Success

Apple

• iPad-apalooza: Yandex Looks At iPad Search & 30 Percent Of North Americans Want iPad3
• US Subpoenas Apple For Details About Default iOS Google Search Deal
• Is Apple Is About To Launch A New Global Search Engine?

Apple: Siri

• Google Faces “Innovator’s Dilemma” As It Prepares Response To Siri
• Is Apple Is About To Launch A New Global Search Engine?
• Survey: 87 Percent Of iPhone 4S Owners Use Siri Monthly

Ask

• Ask.com Launches New Visual Q&A App “Pollroll”

Ask: Mobile

• Ask.com Launches New Visual Q&A App “Pollroll”

B2B Search Marketing

• 4 Proven Methods For Improving B2B Ad Targeting
• 3 Step Model For Developing Insights Through Keyword Trends
• 4 Examples Of B2B Content Marketing Executed With SEO Best Practices In Mind
• B2B Blogger’s Guide To Turning Tweets Into Rockstar Conference Coverage

Baidu

• Rumor: Apple To Add Baidu To iPhone Search Options

Beginner

• Work Smart, Not Hard – An Introduction To Google Analytics Dashboards
• Are You In Danger Of An Online Traffic Crisis?

Enterprise SEM

• Preparing Your Search Program For Mobile In 2012
• 4 Reasons Your Boss Might Hate Your SEM Campaign
• SMX West: Where Search Marketers & Fire Alarms Meet
• Understanding The Limits Of Attribution

Enterprise SEO

• Why So Many Companies Fail At Enterprise SEO
• How To Get The IT Team On Your Side
• The Latest & Greatest On SEO Pagination
• 24 Ways To Make Life Hard For Your SEO Team

Facebook

• 10 Optimization Secrets To Drive More Mobile Traffic From Facebook
• How People Power (& Personalize) Bing’s Social Search
• How Serious Is Facebook About Search?

Featured

• Are Yellow Pages Toast? Four Years Later We Review Ad Value
• Report: Google Makes $10 Per Android User Per Year
• How Serious Is Facebook About Search?

Features: Analysis

• Google Faces “Innovator’s Dilemma” As It Prepares Response To Siri
• Pew Report: 65% View Personalized Search As Bad; 73% See It As Privacy Invasion
• Survey Paradox: People Like Google But Not What It’s Doing
• An Unprecedented Video Glimpse Into How Google Crafts Its Search Results
• Google Webmaster Tools Revamps Crawl Errors, But Is It For The Better?
• Implementing Pagination Attributes Correctly For Google
• WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality Check Time!
• Too Much SEO? Google’s Working On An “Over-Optimization” Penalty For That
• Video: Google’s Susan Wojcicki Keynotes SMX West 2012
• Google Webmaster Tools Crawl Errors: How To Get Detailed Data From the API
• Wikipedia Appears On Google’s Page One Only 46% Of Time, Study Shows
• SMX Advanced Agenda Now Available – Register Today & Save!
• How A Google Change May Mistakenly Turn Search Traffic Into Referral Traffic
• Firefox To Use Google Secure Search By Default; Expect More “Not Provided” Keywords To Follow
• Move Over, Wikipedia: Amazon May Be The King Of Google Rankings
• Google Eliminates Another Link Network, BuildMyRank.com – Just One Of Several?
• How Serious Is Facebook About Search?

Features: General

• Four Seriously Cool Information Resources
• March Madness: Stats, stats, stats!

Firefox

• Firefox To Use Google Secure Search By Default; Expect More “Not Provided” Keywords To Follow

Google

• Google Meets Miss Manners, Encourages Searchers To Thank Those Who +1′d Content

Google: +1

• Google Meets Miss Manners, Encourages Searchers To Thank Those Who +1′d Content

Google: AdSense

• AdSense Ad Review Center Gets Overhaul

Google: AdWords

• Google Research: Yes, You Still Need To Keep Buying Search Ads
• Google: Demographic Bidding Being Eliminated To Clear Way For New AdWords Features
• Google Opens Kimono (Slightly) On AdWords Screening Measures
• Video: Google’s Susan Wojcicki Keynotes SMX West 2012
• New Ad Status Info Added To AdWords
• Display Gets Its Own Interface, New Keyword Targeting In AdWords
• Report: 25 Percent Of Paid-Search Clicks Will Come From Mobile By December
• Google Research: Even With A #1 Organic Ranking, Paid Ads Provide 50% Incremental Clicks

Google: Analytics

• Work Smart, Not Hard – An Introduction To Google Analytics Dashboards
• How A Google Change May Mistakenly Turn Search Traffic Into Referral Traffic

Google: Android

• Google Faces “Innovator’s Dilemma” As It Prepares Response To Siri
• Rumor: Apple To Add Baidu To iPhone Search Options
• Survey: 87 Percent Of iPhone 4S Owners Use Siri Monthly
• Report: Google Makes $10 Per Android User Per Year

Google: Antitrust

• Keeping Up With Google: Bing Launches New “Search Quality Insights” Series
• TheFind Joins FairSearch.org To “Restore Balance” To The Search Marketplace

Google: Business Issues

• Video: Google’s Susan Wojcicki Keynotes SMX West 2012
• Report: Google Makes $10 Per Android User Per Year

Google: Chrome

• Google Chrome’s Paid Link Penalty Now Lifted
• Firefox To Use Google Secure Search By Default; Expect More “Not Provided” Keywords To Follow

Google: Critics

• Google Is Watching You (Or Not): New Privacy Policy Takes Effect Today
• TheFind Joins FairSearch.org To “Restore Balance” To The Search Marketplace

Google: Employees

• Video: Google’s Susan Wojcicki Keynotes SMX West 2012
• Survey: Google Pays Less, Harder Interviews But Better Place To Work Than At Facebook

Google: Flight Search

• Google Expands Flight Search Outside US To 500 Cities

Google: Google+

• Google Meets Miss Manners, Encourages Searchers To Thank Those Who +1′d Content
• Google Search Now Highlights “Latest Posts” From Google+ Pages & Profiles
• Video: Google’s Susan Wojcicki Keynotes SMX West 2012

Google: Legal

• Google Is Watching You (Or Not): New Privacy Policy Takes Effect Today
• US Subpoenas Apple For Details About Default iOS Google Search Deal
• TheFind Joins FairSearch.org To “Restore Balance” To The Search Marketplace
• Video: Google’s Susan Wojcicki Keynotes SMX West 2012
• In Japan, Google Ordered To Remove Some Autocomplete Suggestions
• Report: Google Makes $10 Per Android User Per Year

Google: Logos

• International Women’s Day Google Logo
• Akira Yoshizawa Google Logo – Modern Origami
• Google’s First Day Of Spring Logo
• Google Remembers Juan Gris, Cubism Artist With Logo
• Google Logo For Mies van der Rohe 126th Birthday

Google: Maps & Local

• Google Enables Cross-Platform Local Search (As Carrot To Relinquish Your Privacy)
• Associated Press To Use Google Maps For Super Tuesday Results
• Google Places Ranking Factors – The PhD Version
• Google Makes Android Maps Cleaner, More Personal
• Traffic Estimates Return To Google Maps

Google: Marketing

• Keeping Up With Google: Bing Launches New “Search Quality Insights” Series
• Google Chrome’s Paid Link Penalty Now Lifted

Google: Mobile

• Google Faces “Innovator’s Dilemma” As It Prepares Response To Siri
• Untangling Your Mobile Metrics With Better Redirects
• Google Enables Cross-Platform Local Search (As Carrot To Relinquish Your Privacy)
• US Subpoenas Apple For Details About Default iOS Google Search Deal
• Video: Google’s Susan Wojcicki Keynotes SMX West 2012
• Report: 25 Percent Of Paid-Search Clicks Will Come From Mobile By December
• Rumor: Apple To Add Baidu To iPhone Search Options
• Tips For Multinational Mobile Site Optimisation
• Google Makes Android Maps Cleaner, More Personal
• Report: Google Makes $10 Per Android User Per Year

Google: OneBox, Plus Box & Direct Answers

• Google Graphical Calculator Now 3D & Animated

Google: Outside US

• In Japan, Google Ordered To Remove Some Autocomplete Suggestions
• Rumor: Apple To Add Baidu To iPhone Search Options

Google: Personalized Search

• Pew Report: 65% View Personalized Search As Bad; 73% See It As Privacy Invasion
• Survey Paradox: People Like Google But Not What It’s Doing
• Video: Google’s Susan Wojcicki Keynotes SMX West 2012

Google: Place Pages

• Google Places Ranking Factors – The PhD Version

Google: Privacy

• Google “Search Plus Your World” To Launch Beyond US? Likely, As Secure Search Set To Expand
• Survey Paradox: People Like Google But Not What It’s Doing
• Video: Google’s Susan Wojcicki Keynotes SMX West 2012

Google: Rich Snippets

• Google Search Now Highlights “Latest Posts” From Google+ Pages & Profiles
• Google Discussion Forum Snippets Now Showing “Top Answers”

Google: Search Plus Your World

• Google “Search Plus Your World” To Launch Beyond US? Likely, As Secure Search Set To Expand
• Pew Report: 65% View Personalized Search As Bad; 73% See It As Privacy Invasion
• Survey Paradox: People Like Google But Not What It’s Doing

Google: Secure Search

• Firefox To Use Google Secure Search By Default; Expect More “Not Provided” Keywords To Follow

Google: Security

• Firefox To Use Google Secure Search By Default; Expect More “Not Provided” Keywords To Follow

Google: SEO

• An Unprecedented Video Glimpse Into How Google Crafts Its Search Results
• Implementing Pagination Attributes Correctly For Google
• Report: More Complex Attribution Model Shows Organic Search Significantly Undervalued By Marketers
• Google Chrome’s Paid Link Penalty Now Lifted
• Google: No, New TLDs Won’t Give You A Ranking Boost
• Too Much SEO? Google’s Working On An “Over-Optimization” Penalty For That
• Google Webmaster Tools Crawl Errors: How To Get Detailed Data From the API
• Wikipedia Appears On Google’s Page One Only 46% Of Time, Study Shows
• Move Over, Wikipedia: Amazon May Be The King Of Google Rankings
• Google Eliminates Another Link Network, BuildMyRank.com – Just One Of Several?
• Tips For Multinational Mobile Site Optimisation

Google: Squared

• WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality Check Time!

Google: Street View

• Nathon Fillion Demonstrates His “Google Maps Pose”

Google: Suggest

• In Japan, Google Ordered To Remove Some Autocomplete Suggestions

Google: User Interface

• Google Testing Toggle For Search Options & Tools In Search Results
• Google Discussion Forum Snippets Now Showing “Top Answers”

Google: Voice Search

• Google Faces “Innovator’s Dilemma” As It Prepares Response To Siri
• WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality Check Time!
• Survey: 87 Percent Of iPhone 4S Owners Use Siri Monthly

Google: Web Search

• Keeping Up With Google: Bing Launches New “Search Quality Insights” Series
• Bing And Google Gain Market Share While Yahoo Drops
• Google’s Easter Eggs For Binary, Octal & Hexadecimal
• Survey Paradox: People Like Google But Not What It’s Doing
• An Unprecedented Video Glimpse Into How Google Crafts Its Search Results
• WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality Check Time!
• Google Chrome’s Paid Link Penalty Now Lifted
• Wikipedia Appears On Google’s Page One Only 46% Of Time, Study Shows
• Firefox To Use Google Secure Search By Default; Expect More “Not Provided” Keywords To Follow
• Move Over, Wikipedia: Amazon May Be The King Of Google Rankings
• Google Eliminates Another Link Network, BuildMyRank.com – Just One Of Several?
• Google Testing Toggle For Search Options & Tools In Search Results
• Google Discussion Forum Snippets Now Showing “Top Answers”
• Google Graphical Calculator Now 3D & Animated

Google: Webmaster Central

• Google Sent Over 700,000 Messages Via Webmaster Tools In Past Two Months
• Google Webmaster Tools Finally Adds User Administration
• Google Webmaster Tools Revamps Crawl Errors, But Is It For The Better?
• Google Webmaster Tools Crawl Errors: How To Get Detailed Data From the API

How To

• Work Smart, Not Hard – An Introduction To Google Analytics Dashboards
• Tips For Growing Keyword Seeds With Excel Formulas
• Getting Started With Microsoft Advertising Intelligence

How To: Analytics

• Work Smart, Not Hard – An Introduction To Google Analytics Dashboards
• Are You In Danger Of An Online Traffic Crisis?

How To: Mobile Marketing

• Untangling Your Mobile Metrics With Better Redirects
• Building Mobile Landing Pages That Succeed In Mobile Search

How To: PPC

• Tips For Growing Keyword Seeds With Excel Formulas
• Getting Started With Microsoft Advertising Intelligence

How To: SEO

• Tips For Growing Keyword Seeds With Excel Formulas

In House Search Marketing

• The Hidden Lever In Paid Search Optimization
• Top 3 Paid Search Marketing Features Underused By In-House SEM’s

Intermediate

• Tips For Growing Keyword Seeds With Excel Formulas

Keywords & Content

• Tips For Growing Keyword Seeds With Excel Formulas
• 10 More Content Ideas To Improve Organic Visibility

Legal: General

• US Subpoenas Apple For Details About Default iOS Google Search Deal

Legal: Privacy

• Google Is Watching You (Or Not): New Privacy Policy Takes Effect Today
• Pew Report: 65% View Personalized Search As Bad; 73% See It As Privacy Invasion
• Survey Paradox: People Like Google But Not What It’s Doing

Legal: Regulation

• Google Is Watching You (Or Not): New Privacy Policy Takes Effect Today
• US Subpoenas Apple For Details About Default iOS Google Search Deal
• TheFind Joins FairSearch.org To “Restore Balance” To The Search Marketplace

Link Building

• When The Going Gets Tough, The Links Get Blamed
• Why A Diverse Link Profile Is More Critical Than Ever

Link Building: General

• When The Going Gets Tough, The Links Get Blamed
• Why A Diverse Link Profile Is More Critical Than Ever

Link Building: Paid Links

• Google Chrome’s Paid Link Penalty Now Lifted
• Google Eliminates Another Link Network, BuildMyRank.com – Just One Of Several?
• Why A Diverse Link Profile Is More Critical Than Ever

Link Week

• When The Going Gets Tough, The Links Get Blamed
• 4 Reasons The Social Link Graph Will Have To Improve
• 5 Ways To Get The Best Links For New Websites
• Why A Diverse Link Profile Is More Critical Than Ever

Local Search

• Now Is The Time To Take Your Local Business Mobile
• Study: 72% Of Consumers Trust Online Reviews As Much As Personal Recommendations
• Google Places Ranking Factors – The PhD Version
• Are Yellow Pages Toast? Four Years Later We Review Ad Value

Microsoft

• How People Power (& Personalize) Bing’s Social Search
• Twitter Trends: Now Showing In Bing Results?

Microsoft: adCenter

• Microsoft Advertising Begins Aggressively Courting Small Businesses For Search
• Microsoft adCenter Launches Location Extensions In Ads
• Microsoft adCenter Re-Intros Yahoo Rich Ads, Tweaks Negative Keywords And Landing Page Functionality
• Microsoft’s adCenter Improvements Rolling Out Fast And Furiously
• Getting Started With Microsoft Advertising Intelligence

Microsoft: Bing

• Keeping Up With Google: Bing Launches New “Search Quality Insights” Series
• Bing And Google Gain Market Share While Yahoo Drops
• Pew Report: 65% View Personalized Search As Bad; 73% See It As Privacy Invasion
• WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality Check Time!
• Twitter Trends: Now Showing In Bing Results?
• How Microsoft Removes “Junk” From Bing Search Results
• Microsoft’s adCenter Improvements Rolling Out Fast And Furiously

Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local

• Bing Testing New, Google-y Local Search Results
• Microsoft’s Photosynth App Goes Worldwide After 6 Million US Downloads
• Bing Maps Updates Map Pins, Adds Drag & Drop Routes & More

Microsoft: Bing SEO

• Keeping Up With Google: Bing Launches New “Search Quality Insights” Series
• How Microsoft Removes “Junk” From Bing Search Results

Microsoft: Bing Social Search

• How People Power (& Personalize) Bing’s Social Search

Microsoft: Bing User Interface

• Bing Testing New, Google-y Local Search Results

Microsoft: Bing Videos

• Bing Video Update: Larger Previews, Infinite Scroll & Related Content

Microsoft: Marketing

• Microsoft Advertising Begins Aggressively Courting Small Businesses For Search
• Keeping Up With Google: Bing Launches New “Search Quality Insights” Series

Microsoft: Photosynth

• Microsoft’s Photosynth App Goes Worldwide After 6 Million US Downloads
• WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality Check Time!

Mobile Search

• Untangling Your Mobile Metrics With Better Redirects
• 10 Optimization Secrets To Drive More Mobile Traffic From Facebook
• One URL To Rule Them All For Mobile SEO
• Building Mobile Landing Pages That Succeed In Mobile Search

Multinational Search

• Cutting Through The Confusion Of Google’s Guidance To Multilingual Website Owners
• Is Your Global Search Ecosystem Thriving Or Dying?
• Is Apple Is About To Launch A New Global Search Engine?
• Tips For Multinational Mobile Site Optimisation

Paid Search

• Hot Off The Press: PPC News, Tips & Tools From SMX West
• 3 Common PPC Ad Copy Flops
• 4 Pieces Of PPC Conventional Wisdom You Should Possibly Ignore

Panda Update News

• Google Says Panda 3.4 Is ‘Rolling Out Now’

Search & Analytics

• Google Analytics Now Data Sampling: What’s The Catch?
• Work Smart, Not Hard – An Introduction To Google Analytics Dashboards
• Dear Google: Take Me To Dinner First Before You Try To Score
• Are You In Danger Of An Online Traffic Crisis?

Search & Conversion

• How To Design Your Website For Dollars, Not Your Ego
• 6 Interview Questions For Conversion Optimization Hires
• Getting Organized: Paid Search, User Intent & The Search Funnel

Search & Display

• How To Use Search Retargeting Data For Site Retargeting
• Why Search Marketers Are Losing Out With Search Retargeting

Search & Retail

• A Framework For Maximizing The Agency/Retailer Relationship
• 3 Search Opportunities Retailers Can’t Afford To Miss
• Keyword Expansion Resources & Strategies For Retailers

Search & Social

• UGC + Search Collide: Jesus, Jelly & Susan G. Komen
• The Social Search Revolution: 8 Social SEO Strategies To Start Using Right Now
• The Double-Edged Sword Of Social Media

Search & Society: Santorum Google Problem

• Santorum’s Changing “Google Problem” — & Search Engine Land — Make The Rachel Maddow Show

Search & Usability

• The Ultimate Secret For Successful Marketing & Web Design
• Web Searcher Behavior Quiz – Test Your SEO Knowledge
• The Value Of Testing Website Usability & Search Engine Performance

Search Ads

• Microsoft adCenter Launches Location Extensions In Ads

Search Ads: Mobile Search

• Building Mobile Landing Pages That Succeed In Mobile Search
• App Search Engine Appolicious Introduces “AdWords For Apps”

Search Engines: Experimental

• Comparison Engine FindTheBest Debuts Local Classifieds

Search Engines: Government Search Engines

• Four Seriously Cool Information Resources

Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines

• Comparison Engine FindTheBest Debuts Local Classifieds
• UBL And Yext Join Forces To Offer More Complete Local Data Syndication

Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines

• Untangling Your Mobile Metrics With Better Redirects
• Building Mobile Landing Pages That Succeed In Mobile Search
• App Search Engine Appolicious Introduces “AdWords For Apps”

Search Engines: Other Search Engines

• Four Seriously Cool Information Resources
• Comparison Engine FindTheBest Debuts Local Classifieds

Search Engines: Outside USA

• Is Apple Is About To Launch A New Global Search Engine?

Search Engines: Personalized Search Engines

• Pew Report: 65% View Personalized Search As Bad; 73% See It As Privacy Invasion

Search Engines: Photo & Image Search

• Four Seriously Cool Information Resources

Search Engines: Powerset

• WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality Check Time!

Search Engines: Shopping Search Engines

• Comparison Engine FindTheBest Debuts Local Classifieds

Search Engines: Special Events

• March Madness: Stats, stats, stats!

Search Engines: Travel Search Engines

• Google Expands Flight Search Outside US To 500 Cities

Search Engines: Video Search Engines

• Four Seriously Cool Information Resources

Search Engines: Wikipedia

• Wikipedia Appears On Google’s Page One Only 46% Of Time, Study Shows
• Move Over, Wikipedia: Amazon May Be The King Of Google Rankings

Search Engines: Wolfram Alpha

• WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality Check Time!

Search Engines: Yandex

• iPad-apalooza: Yandex Looks At iPad Search & 30 Percent Of North Americans Want iPad3

Search Features: Dates

• Google Discussion Forum Snippets Now Showing “Top Answers”

Search Features: Enhanced Listings

• Google Discussion Forum Snippets Now Showing “Top Answers”

Search Features: Search History & Personalization

• Pew Report: 65% View Personalized Search As Bad; 73% See It As Privacy Invasion

Search Features: Shortcuts

• WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality Check Time!

Search In Pictures

• Search In Pics: Google Sheep, Bing Neon Sign & Google Pinata
• Search In Pics: Google Fish, Yahoo 17th Birthday & Googlighting Tie
• Search In Pics: Google Village, Tom Hanks At Yahoo & Google Cake
• Search In Pics: Google Drinks, Yahoo Soup & +1 That Plate
• Search In Pics: Google Basketball, Bing Coffee & 376QQ6

Search Marketing

• Dictionaries, Grammar & Feeds: A Rules-Based Keyword Generation Approach For PPC

Search Marketing Toolbox

• Dictionaries, Grammar & Feeds: A Rules-Based Keyword Generation Approach For PPC
• Using Wordstream’s AdWords Performance Grader For An Instant Audit
• Getting Started With Microsoft Advertising Intelligence

Search Marketing: General

• Dictionaries, Grammar & Feeds: A Rules-Based Keyword Generation Approach For PPC

Search Marketing: Local Search Marketing

• Study: 72% Of Consumers Trust Online Reviews As Much As Personal Recommendations

Search Marketing: Mobile

• Is Apple Is About To Launch A New Global Search Engine?
• Report: 25 Percent Of Paid-Search Clicks Will Come From Mobile By December
• Building Mobile Landing Pages That Succeed In Mobile Search

Search Marketing: Multinational

• Is Apple Is About To Launch A New Global Search Engine?
• Tips For Multinational Mobile Site Optimisation

Search Marketing: Search Term Research

• Dictionaries, Grammar & Feeds: A Rules-Based Keyword Generation Approach For PPC

SEM Industry: Community

• SEOmoz Industry Survey Now Open

SEM Industry: Conferences

• Day Three: Search Marketing Expo West 2012 Live Blog Recap
• SMX Advanced Registration Open – Best Rate Available Until March 24
• SMX Advanced Workshops: Register by March 24 for Best Rates, Stay for Deep-Dive Training
• Rates Increase Saturday for Search Engine Land’s SMX Advanced Conference – Register!
• SMX Advanced Agenda Now Available – Register Today & Save!
• SMX Advanced Agenda Posted: Over 20 Expert Only SEM Sessions – Register Now!
• Want To Speak @ SMX Advanced? Here’s How

SEM Industry: General

• Report: More Complex Attribution Model Shows Organic Search Significantly Undervalued By Marketers
• SEOmoz Industry Survey Now Open
• Survey: Google Pays Less, Harder Interviews But Better Place To Work Than At Facebook
• SEO Featured In National Car Rental Commercial

SEM Industry: Organizations

• Take The 2012 State of Search Marketing Survey

SEM Industry: Search Marketing Expo – SMX

• SMX Advanced Registration Open – Best Rate Available Until March 24
• Looking For Session Ideas For SMX Advanced 2012
• SMX Advanced Workshops: Register by March 24 for Best Rates, Stay for Deep-Dive Training
• Video: Google’s Susan Wojcicki Keynotes SMX West 2012
• SMX Advanced Agenda Posted: Over 20 Expert Only SEM Sessions – Register Now!
• Want To Speak @ SMX Advanced? Here’s How

SEM Industry: Stats

• Take The 2012 State of Search Marketing Survey
• Report: More Complex Attribution Model Shows Organic Search Significantly Undervalued By Marketers
• SEOmoz Industry Survey Now Open

SEM Tools

• Dictionaries, Grammar & Feeds: A Rules-Based Keyword Generation Approach For PPC

SEM Tools: Keyword Research

• Dictionaries, Grammar & Feeds: A Rules-Based Keyword Generation Approach For PPC
• Tips For Growing Keyword Seeds With Excel Formulas

SEO – Search Engine Optimization

• The Latest & Greatest On SEO Pagination

SEO: Blocking Spiders

• The Latest & Greatest On SEO Pagination

SEO: Duplicate Content

• Implementing Pagination Attributes Correctly For Google
• The Latest & Greatest On SEO Pagination

SEO: General

• Implementing Pagination Attributes Correctly For Google
• Tips For Growing Keyword Seeds With Excel Formulas
• Report: More Complex Attribution Model Shows Organic Search Significantly Undervalued By Marketers

SEO: Local

• UBL And Yext Join Forces To Offer More Complete Local Data Syndication

SEO: Mobile Search

• Untangling Your Mobile Metrics With Better Redirects
• One URL To Rule Them All For Mobile SEO
• Is Apple Is About To Launch A New Global Search Engine?
• Building Mobile Landing Pages That Succeed In Mobile Search
• Tips For Multinational Mobile Site Optimisation

SEO: Redirects & Moving Sites

• The Latest & Greatest On SEO Pagination

SEO: Spamming

• Google Chrome’s Paid Link Penalty Now Lifted
• Too Much SEO? Google’s Working On An “Over-Optimization” Penalty For That
• Google Eliminates Another Link Network, BuildMyRank.com – Just One Of Several?

SMX & SMN Alerts

• SMX Advanced Registration Open – Best Rate Available Until March 24
• Looking For Session Ideas For SMX Advanced 2012
• Effective B2B Link Building – Webcast Next Week Features Debra Mastaler
• SMX Advanced Workshops: Register by March 24 for Best Rates, Stay for Deep-Dive Training
• Rates Increase Saturday for Search Engine Land’s SMX Advanced Conference – Register!
• AdCenter Best Practices for Agencies – Webcast on Thursday
• SMX Advanced Agenda Now Available – Register Today & Save!
• SMX Advanced Agenda Posted: Over 20 Expert Only SEM Sessions – Register Now!
• Want To Speak @ SMX Advanced? Here’s How

Social Media Marketing

• How People Power (& Personalize) Bing’s Social Search
• The Double-Edged Sword Of Social Media

Stats

• Google Research: Even With A #1 Organic Ranking, Paid Ads Provide 50% Incremental Clicks

Stats: comScore

• Bing And Google Gain Market Share While Yahoo Drops

Stats: General

• Wikipedia Appears On Google’s Page One Only 46% Of Time, Study Shows
• Survey: Google Pays Less, Harder Interviews But Better Place To Work Than At Facebook
• Move Over, Wikipedia: Amazon May Be The King Of Google Rankings

Stats: Popularity

• Survey Paradox: People Like Google But Not What It’s Doing

Stats: Search Behavior

• Survey Paradox: People Like Google But Not What It’s Doing
• Report: More Complex Attribution Model Shows Organic Search Significantly Undervalued By Marketers

Twitter

• How People Power (& Personalize) Bing’s Social Search

Yahoo: Business Issues

• Will Pending Layoffs Put Final Nail In Yahoo Search?

Yahoo: Search

• Bing And Google Gain Market Share While Yahoo Drops
• Will Pending Layoffs Put Final Nail In Yahoo Search?

Yahoo: Search Ads

• Microsoft adCenter Launches Location Extensions In Ads
• Microsoft adCenter Re-Intros Yahoo Rich Ads, Tweaks Negative Keywords And Landing Page Functionality

Top News

• Report: Search Ad Spend To Rise 27% In 2012
• Matt Cutts Convinces Some South Korean Govt. Websites To Stop Blocking Googlebot
• Google & Bing: We’re Not Involved In “Local Paid Inclusion”
• French Court Fines Google $660,000 Because Google Maps Is Free
• Google’s New Privacy Policy May Violate HIPAA, Congresswoman Says
• Chrome’s Market Share Drops In January; Was It Due To Google’s Penalty?
• Google’s January Search Update: Panda In The Pipelines, Fresher Results, Date Detection & More
• Google Instant: Only On When Your Computer Can Handle It
• Google Still #1 Traffic Source For Most Of Top 30 Websites — Report
• Volunia, A Social Search Engine, Says The Web Has Come Alive
• Did Super Bowl Advertisers Take Advantage of Search Interest?
• Google: 41 Percent Of Super Bowl Ad Searches Were Mobile
• Wolfram|Alpha Goes Pro With Powerful Data Analysis & Presentation Tools
• Google Screenwise: New Program Pays You To Give Up Privacy & Surf The Web With Chrome
• Apple’s Siri Drives 25 Percent Of Wolfram|Alpha Queries
• Why Does Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine Hate Rick Santorum?
• Survey: People Largely Negative About Google’s Personalized Search Results
• Bing Now A Full Point Ahead Of Yahoo In Search Share — comScore
• Now, Mitt Romney Has A Santorum-Like Bing & Google Problem
• Google’s Recent Domain Registrations: Labs, Screenwise & AdWords
• Where’s It Hurt? After You Search For A Symptom, New Google Health Search Results Suggest Causes
• Search Engine Land’s SMX West Conference in Two Weeks!
• Bing & Google: “Spreading Romney” Ranking Tops For “Romney” Is Normal
• Why The Wikipedia/Google Search Results Study Is Flawed
• Two Google+ SEO Guides You Should Read
• Google: 62 Percent Of Valentine’s Day Restaurant Searches Were Mobile
• Microsoft Security Patch Marked Google.com As Malware
• Cookiegate Another Privacy Black Eye For Google
• Google Enables Blocking AdWords Results With Block Site Feature
• Search Engine Land’s SMX West Starts Next Week! Register Now!
• Scroogle’s Gone? Here’s Who Still Offers Private Searching
• Bing Launches Linked Pages, Promises Better People Search Results
• Bing Posts To Facebook Timeline If You Use New “Linked Pages”
• Is SEO Killing America?
• Valentine’s Day AdWords “War” Among Florists Highlights Another Google Challenge
• In Chomp, Apple Gains A Social Search Engine For Apps
• Infographic: The Google Panda Update, One Year Later
• WSJ Pulls Back On What Google Searchers Can Read For Free
• Google: 1 Billion People Will Use Mobile As Primary Internet Access Point In 2012
• Google, Yahoo Both Fail At Moneyballing Oscar Predictions
• Google Confirms Panda 3.3 Update, Plus Changes To How It Evaluates Links, Local Search Rankings & Much More
• “Spreading Santorum” Drops At Google; New Site Keeps Anal Sex Definition At Number One
• msnNOW Is Driving More Traffic To Bing, But Is It Artifically Inflating Searches?
• Live Blogging the Google (Susan Wojcicki) SMX West Keynote

All Things SEO

• How Much Does SEO Cost? 3 Analogies To Help You Determine Its Value
• The Golden Age Of SEO
• Everything You Need To Know About SEO Web Structure & Internal Links
• Nine Best Practices For Optimized < title > Tags

Apple

• In Chomp, Apple Gains A Social Search Engine For Apps

Apple: Siri

• Apple’s Siri Drives 25 Percent Of Wolfram|Alpha Queries

Ask: General

• Google Valentine’s Day Logo Features Tony Bennett’s Cold Cold Heart

Ask: Web Search

• Scroogle’s Gone? Here’s Who Still Offers Private Searching

B2B Search Marketing

• How to Spice Up B2B Ad Creative Brainstorms In 90 Minutes Or Less
• 3 Steps To Optimize Your B2B Informational Assets
• The Future Of B2B Search: Start Preparing For Social SEO Now
• 5 Critical B2B SEO Initiatives, In Addition To Developing A Google+ Page For Business
• Beef Up B2B Publications With Rockstar Industry Conference Coverage

Beginner

• 12 Steps To Optimize A Webpage For Organic Keywords
• 5 Common Tracking Problems: How To Troubleshoot & Fix Them
• 9 Free Tools For Link Discovery & Content Creation
• How To Find Link Prospects Without Using Google
• Nine Best Practices For Optimized < title > Tags

Blekko

• Blekko Testing Search Ads

Content Farms

• Google Panda Update Costs Demand Media $6.4 Million In 4th Quarter?

Demand Media

• Google Panda Update Costs Demand Media $6.4 Million In 4th Quarter?

DuckDuckGo

• DuckDuckGo Has Its First Million-Search Day
• Scroogle’s Gone? Here’s Who Still Offers Private Searching

Enterprise SEM

• Can Bing & adCenter Bring More To The Table For Large Advertisers?
• The Paid Search Uncertainty Principle
• An Inside Look At How Yahoo! Handles Olympic Games Marketing
• Why Patience Is A Virtue With The Long Tail

Enterprise SEO

• The Ultimate Guide To Enterprise SEO: 25 Things To Know Before You Take The Plunge
• 3 Ways Enterprises Cripple Their Online Marketing Efforts
• The Challenge Of Justifying Enterprise SEO
• You Don’t Have To Be Nuts To Worry About Changing Your Domain
• Enterprise SEO Panel Preview For SMX West 2012

Facebook

• Under Threat Of Being Blocked Google, Facebook Comply With India’s New Internet Censorship Rules
• Bing Posts To Facebook Timeline If You Use New “Linked Pages”

Featured

• Infographic: The Google Panda Update, One Year Later
• 5 Ways To Give Your PPC Account A Kick In The Butt
• Google: 1 Billion People Will Use Mobile As Primary Internet Access Point In 2012

Features

• Volunia, A Social Search Engine, Says The Web Has Come Alive

Features: Analysis

• When Is the Super Bowl Start Time? The NFL Finally Gets It Right
• Did Super Bowl Advertisers Take Advantage of Search Interest?
• Google Clarifies: No, Ads Shouldn’t Help Rankings & No, SEO Isn’t Bad
• Wolfram|Alpha Goes Pro With Powerful Data Analysis & Presentation Tools
• Why Does Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine Hate Rick Santorum?
• Now, Mitt Romney Has A Santorum-Like Bing & Google Problem
• Bing & Google: “Spreading Romney” Ranking Tops For “Romney” Is Normal
• Why The Wikipedia/Google Search Results Study Is Flawed
• Bing Posts To Facebook Timeline If You Use New “Linked Pages”
• Is SEO Killing America?
• Infographic: The Google Panda Update, One Year Later
• WSJ Pulls Back On What Google Searchers Can Read For Free
• “Spreading Santorum” Drops At Google; New Site Keeps Anal Sex Definition At Number One

Features: General

• Volunia, A Social Search Engine, Says The Web Has Come Alive
• Where’s It Hurt? After You Search For A Symptom, New Google Health Search Results Suggest Causes
• Scroogle’s Gone? Here’s Who Still Offers Private Searching

Foursquare

• Foursquare Brings More Search Refinements To Mobile Apps

Google

• Live Blogging the Google (Susan Wojcicki) SMX West Keynote

Google: Acquisitions

• “Googler Killer”, Cuil, Patent Applications Acquired By Google

Google: AdWords

• How To Use The AdWords Search Term View To Optimize Keywords & Negatives
• Google AdWords Gets Shared Lists To Eliminate Duplicate Data Entry
• Google’s Recent Domain Registrations: Labs, Screenwise & AdWords
• Google AdWords Sitelinks Now Uses Related Ads
• Google Moves AdWords Help Forum To AdWords-Community.com
• Google Enables Blocking AdWords Results With Block Site Feature
• AdCenter Revamps Location Targeting To Mimic AdWords
• Valentine’s Day AdWords “War” Among Florists Highlights Another Google Challenge

Google: Analytics

• Google Analytics Update To Organic Reports

Google: Android

• Geek Chic: Augmented Reality Google Glasses To Go On Sale This Year

Google: Business Issues

• Matt Cutts Convinces Some South Korean Govt. Websites To Stop Blocking Googlebot
• Microsoft Security Patch Marked Google.com As Malware
• “Googler Killer”, Cuil, Patent Applications Acquired By Google
• Live Blogging the Google (Susan Wojcicki) SMX West Keynote

Google: Chrome

• Chrome’s Market Share Drops In January; Was It Due To Google’s Penalty?
• Google Screenwise: New Program Pays You To Give Up Privacy & Surf The Web With Chrome

Google: Critics

• Matt Cutts Convinces Some South Korean Govt. Websites To Stop Blocking Googlebot
• Scroogle Says Google Is Blocking Their Privacy Search Engine
• Cookiegate Another Privacy Black Eye For Google
• “Scroogle.org Is Gone Forever” Says Site Owner

Google: Employees

• Interesting Quotes From Google’s Search Lead, Amit Singhal
• Google’s First Hired Employee, Craig Silverstein, Quits

Google: Flight Search

• Google Offers Flight Search To Go

Google: Google+

• Survey: People Largely Negative About Google’s Personalized Search Results
• Two Google+ SEO Guides You Should Read
• A Google+ Primer For Retail Brands

Google: Health

• Google’s New Privacy Policy May Violate HIPAA, Congresswoman Says
• Where’s It Hurt? After You Search For A Symptom, New Google Health Search Results Suggest Causes

Google: Images

• Google Images Related Searches Now More Visual

Google: Instant

• Google Instant: Only On When Your Computer Can Handle It

Google: Labs

• Google’s Recent Domain Registrations: Labs, Screenwise & AdWords

Google: Legal

• Matt Cutts Convinces Some South Korean Govt. Websites To Stop Blocking Googlebot
• French Court Fines Google $660,000 Because Google Maps Is Free
• Google’s New Privacy Policy May Violate HIPAA, Congresswoman Says
• Under Threat Of Being Blocked Google, Facebook Comply With India’s New Internet Censorship Rules
• Scroogle Says Google Is Blocking Their Privacy Search Engine
• “Scroogle.org Is Gone Forever” Says Site Owner

Google: Logos

• The Characters In Google’s Charles Dickens Logo
• Google Valentine’s Day Logo Features Tony Bennett’s Cold Cold Heart
• Google Wave Logo For 155th Birthday Of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
• Google Frog Leap Day Gioachino Rossini Birthday Logo

Google: Maps & Local

• Google & Bing: We’re Not Involved In “Local Paid Inclusion”
• French Court Fines Google $660,000 Because Google Maps Is Free
• Google: 62 Percent Of Valentine’s Day Restaurant Searches Were Mobile
• Have You Been The Target Of A Google Places Hit Job?
• Geek Chic: Augmented Reality Google Glasses To Go On Sale This Year
• Google Confirms Panda 3.3 Update, Plus Changes To How It Evaluates Links, Local Search Rankings & Much More
• Microsoft And Nokia Unify Maps On PC, Mobile
• New comScore Study Suggests 50 Percent Of Local-Mobile Search Happening In Apps

Google: Mobile

• Google: 41 Percent Of Super Bowl Ad Searches Were Mobile
• Google: 62 Percent Of Valentine’s Day Restaurant Searches Were Mobile
• Less Than 10% Of The Web In 2012 Is Mobile Ready
• Google Offers Flight Search To Go
• Geek Chic: Augmented Reality Google Glasses To Go On Sale This Year
• Google Mobile Tests Large Black Menu Drop Down Bar
• Google: 1 Billion People Will Use Mobile As Primary Internet Access Point In 2012
• New comScore Study Suggests 50 Percent Of Local-Mobile Search Happening In Apps

Google: News

• Google’s January Search Update: Panda In The Pipelines, Fresher Results, Date Detection & More
• WSJ Pulls Back On What Google Searchers Can Read For Free

Google: Other

• Microsoft Security Patch Marked Google.com As Malware

Google: Outside US

• Matt Cutts Convinces Some South Korean Govt. Websites To Stop Blocking Googlebot
• French Court Fines Google $660,000 Because Google Maps Is Free
• Czech Republic Gives Google Green Light To Resume Street View
• Under Threat Of Being Blocked Google, Facebook Comply With India’s New Internet Censorship Rules

Google: Panda Update

• Infographic: The Google Panda Update, One Year Later

Google: Patents

• “Googler Killer”, Cuil, Patent Applications Acquired By Google

Google: Privacy

• Google’s New Privacy Policy May Violate HIPAA, Congresswoman Says
• Google Screenwise: New Program Pays You To Give Up Privacy & Surf The Web With Chrome
• Survey: People Largely Negative About Google’s Personalized Search Results
• Scroogle Says Google Is Blocking Their Privacy Search Engine
• Cookiegate Another Privacy Black Eye For Google
• “Scroogle.org Is Gone Forever” Says Site Owner
• Scroogle’s Gone? Here’s Who Still Offers Private Searching

Google: Rich Snippets

• Google Recommending New Video Schema.org Markup
• Concert Rich Snippets: List Your Ticket Sale Site Under Band Web Sites

Google: Screenwise

• Google Screenwise: New Program Pays You To Give Up Privacy & Surf The Web With Chrome
• Google’s Recent Domain Registrations: Labs, Screenwise & AdWords

Google: Search Customization

• Survey: People Largely Negative About Google’s Personalized Search Results

Google: Search Plus Your World

• Survey: People Largely Negative About Google’s Personalized Search Results

Google: Security

• Microsoft Security Patch Marked Google.com As Malware

Google: SEO

• 3 Essential Features For Multinational Content Delivery
• Matt Cutts Convinces Some South Korean Govt. Websites To Stop Blocking Googlebot
• How Much Does SEO Cost? 3 Analogies To Help You Determine Its Value
• Chrome’s Market Share Drops In January; Was It Due To Google’s Penalty?
• Google’s January Search Update: Panda In The Pipelines, Fresher Results, Date Detection & More
• Why The Wikipedia/Google Search Results Study Is Flawed
• Two Google+ SEO Guides You Should Read
• Google Recommending New Video Schema.org Markup
• Concert Rich Snippets: List Your Ticket Sale Site Under Band Web Sites
• Google Confirms Panda 3.3 Update, Plus Changes To How It Evaluates Links, Local Search Rankings & Much More

Google: Sitelinks

• New: Google Sitelinks With Small Arrows

Google: Street View

• Czech Republic Gives Google Green Light To Resume Street View

Google: User Interface

• Google Moves Away From Large Navigation Drop Down Menu
• Concert Rich Snippets: List Your Ticket Sale Site Under Band Web Sites
• Google Mobile Tests Large Black Menu Drop Down Bar

Google: Web Search

• Google’s January Search Update: Panda In The Pipelines, Fresher Results, Date Detection & More
• Google Still #1 Traffic Source For Most Of Top 30 Websites — Report
• Google: 41 Percent Of Super Bowl Ad Searches Were Mobile
• Google Screenwise: New Program Pays You To Give Up Privacy & Surf The Web With Chrome
• Google Fixes Bug That Required Cookies To Search
• Where’s It Hurt? After You Search For A Symptom, New Google Health Search Results Suggest Causes
• Why The Wikipedia/Google Search Results Study Is Flawed
• Google: 62 Percent Of Valentine’s Day Restaurant Searches Were Mobile
• Google Showing Fewer Than 10 Results For Some Searches?
• Scroogle’s Gone? Here’s Who Still Offers Private Searching
• Concert Rich Snippets: List Your Ticket Sale Site Under Band Web Sites
• Google Mobile Tests Large Black Menu Drop Down Bar
• Google: 1 Billion People Will Use Mobile As Primary Internet Access Point In 2012
• Google Confirms Panda 3.3 Update, Plus Changes To How It Evaluates Links, Local Search Rankings & Much More

Google: Webmaster Central

• Google Recommending New Video Schema.org Markup

Google: YouTube & Video

• Google Recommending New Video Schema.org Markup

Groupon

• Groupon Buys Travel Search Site Uptake Mostly For Headcount

How To

• 12 Steps To Optimize A Webpage For Organic Keywords
• 5 Common Tracking Problems: How To Troubleshoot & Fix Them
• 9 Free Tools For Link Discovery & Content Creation
• How To Run Your PPC Accounts Like A Project
• How To Find Link Prospects Without Using Google
• Nine Best Practices For Optimized < title > Tags
• How To Best Optimize Your Mobile Site For SEO
• How To Creatively & Effectively Build Links Using Public Data

How To: Analytics

• 5 Common Tracking Problems: How To Troubleshoot & Fix Them

How To: Links

• 9 Free Tools For Link Discovery & Content Creation
• How To Find Link Prospects Without Using Google
• How To Creatively & Effectively Build Links Using Public Data

How To: Mobile Marketing

• Using The Mobile Ratio To Measure Mobile SEO Success
• 7 Key Mistakes That Cost Advertisers ‘Mobile Super Bowl I’
• How To Best Optimize Your Mobile Site For SEO

How To: PPC

• How To Use The AdWords Search Term View To Optimize Keywords & Negatives
• How To Run Your PPC Accounts Like A Project

How To: SEM

• How To Use The AdWords Search Term View To Optimize Keywords & Negatives

How To: SEO

• 12 Steps To Optimize A Webpage For Organic Keywords
• The Keyword Research Rabbit Hole
• Nine Best Practices For Optimized < title > Tags

In House Search Marketing

• Justifying Conference Attendance For In-House Search Marketers
• 7 Steps To Achieving Nirvana By Using A Media Plan
• Optimizing Search Engine Marketing For Seasonal Opportunities

Intermediate

• How To Use The AdWords Search Term View To Optimize Keywords & Negatives
• How To Best Optimize Your Mobile Site For SEO
• How To Creatively & Effectively Build Links Using Public Data

Keywords & Content

• 12 Steps To Optimize A Webpage For Organic Keywords
• The Keyword Research Rabbit Hole
• 10 Content Ideas To Improve Organic Visibility

Legal: Censorship

• Under Threat Of Being Blocked Google, Facebook Comply With India’s New Internet Censorship Rules

Legal: General

• French Court Fines Google $660,000 Because Google Maps Is Free

Legal: Privacy

• Google’s New Privacy Policy May Violate HIPAA, Congresswoman Says
• Cookiegate Another Privacy Black Eye For Google
• Scroogle’s Gone? Here’s Who Still Offers Private Searching

Legal: Regulation

• Do I Change My Site In The UK To Comply With New Cookie Laws?
• Cookiegate Another Privacy Black Eye For Google

Link Building

• 9 Free Tools For Link Discovery & Content Creation

Link Building: General

• Link Building Tool Review: WordTracker Link Builder
• 9 Free Tools For Link Discovery & Content Creation

Link Building: Link Bombs

• Why Does Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine Hate Rick Santorum?
• Now, Mitt Romney Has A Santorum-Like Bing & Google Problem
• Bing & Google: “Spreading Romney” Ranking Tops For “Romney” Is Normal
• “Spreading Santorum” Drops At Google; New Site Keeps Anal Sex Definition At Number One

Link Week

• Link Building Tool Review: WordTracker Link Builder
• 9 Free Tools For Link Discovery & Content Creation
• Understanding Ranking Lag Time For New Links
• How To Find Link Prospects Without Using Google
• How To Creatively & Effectively Build Links Using Public Data

Local Search

• 10 Basic Bing Local Optimization Tips
• Latest Google Search Revamp Brings Opportunities For Local Businesses
• 5 Rules To Turn Your Local Business Into A ‘Social’ Business
• Have You Been The Target Of A Google Places Hit Job?
• Are Check-Ins A Local Ranking Factor?

Microsoft: adCenter

• Can Bing & adCenter Bring More To The Table For Large Advertisers?
• Microsoft adCenter Increases Ad Description, Adds Budget Widget & More Mobile Targeting Options
• adCenter Releases Features Aimed At Improving Advertiser Time-Efficiency
• AdCenter Revamps Location Targeting To Mimic AdWords
• Search Alliance Beginning adCenter Rollout In the UK, France & Ireland

Microsoft: APIs

• AdCenter Revamps Location Targeting To Mimic AdWords

Microsoft: Bing

• Yandex Joins Bing, Yahoo In Using Nokia-Navteq Map Data
• Bing Webmaster Tools Adds Markup Validator
• Bing Testing New Search Results Design
• Google Valentine’s Day Logo Features Tony Bennett’s Cold Cold Heart
• AdCenter Revamps Location Targeting To Mimic AdWords
• Bing Launches Linked Pages, Promises Better People Search Results
• Search Alliance Beginning adCenter Rollout In the UK, France & Ireland
• msnNOW Is Driving More Traffic To Bing, But Is It Artifically Inflating Searches?

Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local

• 10 Basic Bing Local Optimization Tips
• Google & Bing: We’re Not Involved In “Local Paid Inclusion”
• Microsoft And Nokia Unify Maps On PC, Mobile

Microsoft: Bing Mobile

• Microsoft And Nokia Unify Maps On PC, Mobile

Microsoft: Bing SEO

• Bing Webmaster Tools Adds Markup Validator

Microsoft: Bing Social Search

• Bing Launches Linked Pages, Promises Better People Search Results

Microsoft: Bing User Interface

• Bing Testing New Search Results Design

Microsoft: Bing Webmaster Tools

• Bing Webmaster Tools Adds Markup Validator
• Bing Webmaster Tools API Now Available

Microsoft: Bing: Linked Pages

• Bing Posts To Facebook Timeline If You Use New “Linked Pages”

Microsoft: Other

• Microsoft Security Patch Marked Google.com As Malware

Microsoft: Outside US

• Under Threat Of Being Blocked Google, Facebook Comply With India’s New Internet Censorship Rules

Mobile Search

• What You Need To Know About Targeting iPad & Tablet Searchers
• Using The Mobile Ratio To Measure Mobile SEO Success
• 7 Key Mistakes That Cost Advertisers ‘Mobile Super Bowl I’
• Less Than 10% Of The Web In 2012 Is Mobile Ready
• How To Best Optimize Your Mobile Site For SEO

Multinational Search

• 3 Essential Features For Multinational Content Delivery
• Do I Change My Site In The UK To Comply With New Cookie Laws?
• Developing A Global SEO Diagnostics Plan
• The Top 10 Ways To Achieve Breakthrough In International Search In 2012
• 3 Design Catastrophes To Avoid & 1 Great SEO Solution For Multinational Website Homepages

Paid Search

• 8 Quick Ways to Increase Your AdWords CTR
• Managing PPC Through The Fog Of Long Tail Keywords
• How To Run Your PPC Accounts Like A Project
• 5 Ways To Give Your PPC Account A Kick In The Butt

Panda Update Must-Reads

• Infographic: The Google Panda Update, One Year Later

Panda Update News

• Infographic: The Google Panda Update, One Year Later
• Google Confirms Panda 3.3 Update, Plus Changes To How It Evaluates Links, Local Search Rankings & Much More

Panda Update Tips

• Infographic: The Google Panda Update, One Year Later

Panda Update Winners & Losers

• Google Panda Update Costs Demand Media $6.4 Million In 4th Quarter?
• Infographic: The Google Panda Update, One Year Later

Search & Analytics

• 5 Common Tracking Problems: How To Troubleshoot & Fix Them
• Google Analytics Update To Organic Reports
• How The Era Of ‘Big-Data’ Is Changing The Practice Of Online Marketing

Search & Conversion

• Working The Funnel: Finding Value In Non-Converting Events
• The Neuroscience Of Search & Conversion
• Landing Pages 3.0: How Content & Context Plays A More Meaningful Role
• Want Quick Money? Improve Your Shopping Cart!
• The Conversion Chain In Paid Search: Beyond Traditional Key Performance Indicators

Search & Display

• How To Make Unstructured Data Actionable In Display
• Bringing Order To Sequence In Search Retargeting

Search & Retail

• How To Get A 10x Lift In Monthly Unique Visitors
• A Google+ Primer For Retail Brands

Search & Social

• Google+ Growing Your Social Network: Quantity vs. Quality
• Guide To Finding Linkbuilding Targets With Social Media
• Social Search Engine Volunia Faces The Critics
• Why Entity Search Will Be Controlled By Social Media

Search & Society

• When Is the Super Bowl Start Time? The NFL Finally Gets It Right

Search & Society: General

• Did Super Bowl Advertisers Take Advantage of Search Interest?
• Why Does Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine Hate Rick Santorum?
• Now, Mitt Romney Has A Santorum-Like Bing & Google Problem
• Bing & Google: “Spreading Romney” Ranking Tops For “Romney” Is Normal
• Is SEO Killing America?
• Google, Yahoo Both Fail At Moneyballing Oscar Predictions
• “Spreading Santorum” Drops At Google; New Site Keeps Anal Sex Definition At Number One

Search & Usability

• Recent Findings On Captcha & The User Experience
• Spreading SEO Awareness & Knowledge

Search Ads: General

• Did Super Bowl Advertisers Take Advantage of Search Interest?
• Blekko Testing Search Ads

Search Engines: Cuil

• “Googler Killer”, Cuil, Patent Applications Acquired By Google

Search Engines: Deals & Coupon Search Engines

• Foursquare Brings More Search Refinements To Mobile Apps

Search Engines: Government Search Engines

• A Roundup Of New U.S. Government Search Tools

Search Engines: Health & Medical Search Engines

• Where’s It Hurt? After You Search For A Symptom, New Google Health Search Results Suggest Causes

Search Engines: IxQuick & Startpage

• Scroogle’s Gone? Here’s Who Still Offers Private Searching

Search Engines: Location / Checkin Services

• Foursquare Brings More Search Refinements To Mobile Apps
• New comScore Study Suggests 50 Percent Of Local-Mobile Search Happening In Apps

Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines

• Foursquare Brings More Search Refinements To Mobile Apps
• Report: 52 Pct Of Local-Mobile Search Clicks Turned Into Calls
• Microsoft And Nokia Unify Maps On PC, Mobile
• New comScore Study Suggests 50 Percent Of Local-Mobile Search Happening In Apps

Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines

• Using The Mobile Ratio To Measure Mobile SEO Success
• Report: 52 Pct Of Local-Mobile Search Clicks Turned Into Calls
• Less Than 10% Of The Web In 2012 Is Mobile Ready
• In Chomp, Apple Gains A Social Search Engine For Apps
• How To Best Optimize Your Mobile Site For SEO
• Microsoft And Nokia Unify Maps On PC, Mobile

Search Engines: Other Search Engines

• Yandex Joins Bing, Yahoo In Using Nokia-Navteq Map Data
• Volunia, A Social Search Engine, Says The Web Has Come Alive

Search Engines: Outside USA

• Volunia, A Social Search Engine, Says The Web Has Come Alive

Search Engines: Social Search Engines

• Volunia, A Social Search Engine, Says The Web Has Come Alive
• Social Search Engine Volunia Faces The Critics

Search Engines: Travel Search Engines

• Google Offers Flight Search To Go
• Groupon Buys Travel Search Site Uptake Mostly For Headcount

Search Engines: Video Search Engines

• Volunia, A Social Search Engine, Says The Web Has Come Alive

Search Engines: Wikipedia

• Why The Wikipedia/Google Search Results Study Is Flawed

Search Engines: Wolfram Alpha

• Wolfram|Alpha Goes Pro With Powerful Data Analysis & Presentation Tools
• Apple’s Siri Drives 25 Percent Of Wolfram|Alpha Queries

Search Engines: Yandex

• Yandex Joins Bing, Yahoo In Using Nokia-Navteq Map Data

Search Features: General

• Wolfram|Alpha Goes Pro With Powerful Data Analysis & Presentation Tools

Search Headlines

• StumbleUpon Kills Direct Links, iFrames Everything
• StumbleUpon Responds To Concerns About Links & Iframing
• adCenter Releases Features Aimed At Improving Advertiser Time-Efficiency

Search In Pictures

• Search In Pics: Obama’s Google Hangout, SEO Cake & Zuckerberg’s Desk
• Search In Pics: Google Sugar Cube, Yahoo Valentines & Chrome M&M’s
• Search In Pics: Android Skiing, Fake Google Shops, Google Kippah & Lego Googlers
• Search In Pics: Life-Size Google+ Circles, Google Tinfoil Office & Church Signs

Search Marketing Toolbox

• How To Use The AdWords Search Term View To Optimize Keywords & Negatives
• Preview Live Search Engine Results Pages With The LiveSerp Toolbar

Search Marketing: Local Search Marketing

• Report: National Marketers Love Local, Fail At Basic Tactics

Search Marketing: Mobile

• What You Need To Know About Targeting iPad & Tablet Searchers
• Using The Mobile Ratio To Measure Mobile SEO Success
• 7 Key Mistakes That Cost Advertisers ‘Mobile Super Bowl I’

Search Marketing: Public Relations

• Why Does Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine Hate Rick Santorum?

Search Marketing: Search Term Research

• When Is the Super Bowl Start Time? The NFL Finally Gets It Right

SEM Industry: Community

• Dilbert: Hiring A Weasel To Do SEO & Corrupt The Industry

SEM Industry: Conferences

• Pass Options for SMX West – Sessions, Networking and More
• Don’t Miss Networking with Your Marketing Peers at SMX West – Feb. 28-Mar. 1 in San Jose
• Want To Speak @ SMX Toronto? Here’s How
• Search Engine Land’s SMX West Conference in Two Weeks!
• Search Engine Land’s SMX West Conference Comes to San Jose, CA in Less Than Two Weeks – Register Today!
• Search Engine Land’s SMX West Starts Next Week! Register Now!
• Last Chance! Search Engine Land’s SMX West Kicks Off Tuesday – Join Us in San Jose!
• Day One: Search Marketing Expo West 2012 Live Blog Recap
• Day Two: Search Marketing Expo West 2012 Live Blog Recap

SEM Industry: General

• Dilbert: Hiring A Weasel To Do SEO & Corrupt The Industry

SEM Industry: Organizations

• SEMPO Announces 2012 Board Of Directors Nominees

SEM Tools: Keyword Research

• The Keyword Research Rabbit Hole

SEO – Search Engine Optimization

• 3 Essential Features For Multinational Content Delivery
• Did Super Bowl Advertisers Take Advantage of Search Interest?

SEO: General

• 3 Essential Features For Multinational Content Delivery
• Everything You Need To Know About SEO Web Structure & Internal Links

SEO: Host Crowding & Clustering

• 3 Essential Features For Multinational Content Delivery

SEO: Local

• Report: National Marketers Love Local, Fail At Basic Tactics
• Google Confirms Panda 3.3 Update, Plus Changes To How It Evaluates Links, Local Search Rankings & Much More

SEO: Mobile Search

• What You Need To Know About Targeting iPad & Tablet Searchers
• Using The Mobile Ratio To Measure Mobile SEO Success
• How To Best Optimize Your Mobile Site For SEO

SEO: Spamming

• Chrome’s Market Share Drops In January; Was It Due To Google’s Penalty?

SEO: Submitting & Sitemaps

• Google Recommending New Video Schema.org Markup

SEO: Video Search

• Google Recommending New Video Schema.org Markup

Stats: comScore

• Google Still #1 Traffic Source For Most Of Top 30 Websites — Report
• Bing Now A Full Point Ahead Of Yahoo In Search Share — comScore
• New comScore Study Suggests 50 Percent Of Local-Mobile Search Happening In Apps

Stats: General

• Report: Search Ad Spend To Rise 27% In 2012
• Google Still #1 Traffic Source For Most Of Top 30 Websites — Report
• Why The Wikipedia/Google Search Results Study Is Flawed
• Report: 52 Pct Of Local-Mobile Search Clicks Turned Into Calls
• Google: 1 Billion People Will Use Mobile As Primary Internet Access Point In 2012
• msnNOW Is Driving More Traffic To Bing, But Is It Artifically Inflating Searches?

Stats: Popularity

• Chrome’s Market Share Drops In January; Was It Due To Google’s Penalty?
• Bing Now A Full Point Ahead Of Yahoo In Search Share — comScore
• DuckDuckGo Has Its First Million-Search Day
• msnNOW Is Driving More Traffic To Bing, But Is It Artifically Inflating Searches?
• New comScore Study Suggests 50 Percent Of Local-Mobile Search Happening In Apps

Stats: Search Behavior

• Google Still #1 Traffic Source For Most Of Top 30 Websites — Report
• Report: 52 Pct Of Local-Mobile Search Clicks Turned Into Calls
• Google: 1 Billion People Will Use Mobile As Primary Internet Access Point In 2012
• New comScore Study Suggests 50 Percent Of Local-Mobile Search Happening In Apps

Stats: Size

• Google Still #1 Traffic Source For Most Of Top 30 Websites — Report

Stats: Spend Projections

• Report: Search Ad Spend To Rise 27% In 2012

StumbleUpon

• StumbleUpon Kills Direct Links, iFrames Everything
• StumbleUpon Responds To Concerns About Links & Iframing

Twitter

• Yandex Starts To Drink From The Twitter “Firehose”

Twitter: Business Issues

• Yandex Starts To Drink From The Twitter “Firehose”

Twitter: Search

• Yandex Starts To Drink From The Twitter “Firehose”

Yahoo: General

• Google Valentine’s Day Logo Features Tony Bennett’s Cold Cold Heart

Yahoo: Legal

• Under Threat Of Being Blocked Google, Facebook Comply With India’s New Internet Censorship Rules

Yahoo: Maps & Local

• Yandex Joins Bing, Yahoo In Using Nokia-Navteq Map Data
• Microsoft And Nokia Unify Maps On PC, Mobile

Yahoo: Mobile & Go

• Yahoo Launches Mobile-App Search (For PCs) In The UK

Yahoo: Outside US

• Under Threat Of Being Blocked Google, Facebook Comply With India’s New Internet Censorship Rules

Yahoo: Partnerships

• Search Alliance Beginning adCenter Rollout In the UK, France & Ireland

Yahoo: Search

• Yahoo Launches Mobile-App Search (For PCs) In The UK
• Yahoo Working On Search Across Devices

Yahoo: User Interface

• Yahoo Working On Search Across Devices

Top News

• 2012 New Year’s Day Logos From The Search Industry
• Larry Page “CEO Of The Year” — Investors Business Daily
• Google Launches US Election Hub Website
• Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome
• Google: Yes, Sponsored Post Campaign Was Ours But Not What We Signed-Up For
• Google’s Chrome Page No Longer Ranks For “Browser” After Sponsored Post Penalty
• It’s Official: PayPal President Scott Thompson The New Yahoo CEO
• How Rick Santorum Is Making His “Google Problem” Worse
• Google Announces “Megasitelinks,” Image Search Improvements & Better Byline Dates
• 2011: The Year Google & Bing Took Away From SEOs & Publishers
• BBC Report: Google Admits Accepting Illegal AdWords In The UK
• Google’s Results Get More Personal With “Search Plus Your World”
• Search Engines Should Be Like Santa From “Miracle On 34th Street”
• Real-Life Examples Of How Google’s “Search Plus” Pushes Google+ Over Relevancy
• Google Swallows Hard, Renews Effort In China
• Foursquare Launches “Personalized Search For The Real World”
• To Understand Google Favoritism, Think “If Google+ Were YouTube”
• Google: Ability To Block Sites From Search Results Will Return, But When?
• Report: FTC Expanding Anti-Trust Investigation Of Google To Include Google+
• The Big Preview Post: Search Engine Land’s SMX West 2012 Search Marketing Conference Comes To San Jose
• How To Blackout Your Site (For SOPA/PIPA) Without Hurting SEO
• Yahoo’s Co-founder Jerry Yang Resigns
• Google Blackens Its Logo To Protest SOPA/PIPA, While Bing & Yahoo Carry On As Usual
• AdWords Gets More Granular With New Mobile Targeting Options
• Pages With Too Many Ads “Above The Fold” Now Penalized By Google’s “Page Layout” Algorithm
• An Interview With A Google Search Quality Rater
• Bing’s New Ad Campaign: Bing Is For #Doing
• “Ask On Google+” Links Appearing In Google’s Search Results
• “Don’t Be Evil” Tool — Backed By Facebook & Twitter — Shows Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Can Go Beyond Google+
• A Proposal For Social Network Détente
• WSJ: Federal Prisoner Helped U.S. Sting Against Google’s Pharmacy Ads
• DuckDuckGo Sets New Traffic Record, But Stats Show How Dominant Google, Others Are
• Google Changes Definition Of Average Search Ranking Position
• Google Panda 3.2 Update Confirmed
• Major Entertainment Groups Accuse Google, Bing Of Directing Users To Illegal Content
• Dear Google: Crappy Results Like This Don’t Give The Impression You Care About Search
• Two Weeks In, Google Says “Search Plus Your World” Going Well, Critics Should Give It Time
• Study: Reviews & Images Drive Clicks In Mobile
• Report: Search Ad Spend To Rise 27% In 2012
• Matt Cutts Convinces Some South Korean Govt. Websites To Stop Blocking Googlebot
• Google & Bing: We’re Not Involved In “Local Paid Inclusion”

All Things SEO

• What Comes Before The Landing Page – The Crucial Role Of Psychology-Driven SEO
• 5 Tips For Optimal Mobile Site Indexing
• Search Rankings are Dead: Long Live Search Placements
• Are You Keeping Secrets From The Search Engines?

Ask: Promotions

• 2012 New Year’s Day Logos From The Search Industry

Ask: Web Search

• Ask.com Has The Most Long-Winded Searchers, Report Says

B2B Search Marketing

• 6 New Year’s Resolutions For The Modern-Day B2B Community Manager
• My Search Rankings Are Great! But My Traffic Sucks! Now What?
• Optimizing The Business Of Your B2B Search Program
• 4+ Recommendations To Enhance B2B SEO Initiatives

Baidu

• 2012 New Year’s Day Logos From The Search Industry

Beginner

• Justified – Beginning Steps To Proving Your Internet Marketing Point
• 12 Steps To Optimize A Webpage For Organic Keywords

Business Issues: Acquisitions & Investments

• Trada Secures Additional $9M In Funding From Google Ventures & Foundry Group

DuckDuckGo

• DuckDuckGo Relaunches With New Visual Design
• DuckDuckGo Sets New Traffic Record, But Stats Show How Dominant Google, Others Are

Enterprise SEM

• Setting Campaign Budgets: Maximizing ROI While Controlling The Risk
• Q4 Reports: Search Advertising Growing In Efficiency
• To Centralize Or Decentralize SEM – That’s The Question
• What The Holidays Tell Search Marketers

Enterprise SEO

• Don’t Fall Into The Made-For-SEO Website Trap
• Large-Scale Content Optimization Tactics For Enterprise Sites
• The Enterprise SEO Guide To Response Codes
• The Ultimate Guide To Enterprise SEO: 25 Things To Know Before You Take The Plunge

Facebook

• Report: Social Media Spending Threatens To Overtake Paid Search Among SMBs
• “Don’t Be Evil” Tool — Backed By Facebook & Twitter — Shows Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Can Go Beyond Google+
• A Proposal For Social Network Détente

Featured

• 4+ Recommendations To Enhance B2B SEO Initiatives
• Google Panda 3.2 Update Confirmed
• Major Entertainment Groups Accuse Google, Bing Of Directing Users To Illegal Content
• Bing Out Of “Betaphase” In Germany, Claims 10 Million Users
• Study: Reviews & Images Drive Clicks In Mobile
• Google+ Growing Your Social Network: Quantity vs. Quality

Features

• Google Fails To Trounce Bing (Again): The Fallacy Of The Superior Search Engine Revisited

Features: Analysis

• Google’s Chrome Page No Longer Ranks For “Browser” After Sponsored Post Penalty
• How Rick Santorum Is Making His “Google Problem” Worse
• 2011: The Year Google & Bing Took Away From SEOs & Publishers
• Google’s Results Get More Personal With “Search Plus Your World”
• Search Engines Should Be Like Santa From “Miracle On 34th Street”
• Google Fails To Trounce Bing (Again): The Fallacy Of The Superior Search Engine Revisited
• To Understand Google Favoritism, Think “If Google+ Were YouTube”
• Google’s SPYW, Kenya Imbroglios An “Ink Blot” Test For Google As Good Or Evil
• The Big Preview Post: Search Engine Land’s SMX West 2012 Search Marketing Conference Comes To San Jose
• Pages With Too Many Ads “Above The Fold” Now Penalized By Google’s “Page Layout” Algorithm
• 130 Experts Speaking at Search Engine Land’s SMX West – Conference Rates Increase Saturday
• A Proposal For Social Network Détente
• Google Panda 3.2 Update Confirmed
• Two Weeks In, Google Says “Search Plus Your World” Going Well, Critics Should Give It Time

Features: General

• Google Fails To Trounce Bing (Again): The Fallacy Of The Superior Search Engine Revisited
• An Interview With A Google Search Quality Rater

Foursquare

• Foursquare Launches “Personalized Search For The Real World”

Google: Acquisitions

• Larry Page “CEO Of The Year” — Investors Business Daily

Google: AdSense

• Class Action Lawsuit Against Google For Ads On Parked Domains Turned Down

Google: AdWords

• Report: Social Media Spending Threatens To Overtake Paid Search Among SMBs
• Google Expands Test Of AdWords That Collect Email Addresses
• Class Action Lawsuit Against Google For Ads On Parked Domains Turned Down
• BBC Report: Google Admits Accepting Illegal AdWords In The UK
• PPC Planning Matrix
• AdGroup-Level Impression Share Metrics Coming To AdWords
• AdWords Gets More Granular With New Mobile Targeting Options
• WSJ: Federal Prisoner Helped U.S. Sting Against Google’s Pharmacy Ads

Google: Analytics

• Justified – Beginning Steps To Proving Your Internet Marketing Point
• Google Changes Definition Of Average Search Ranking Position

Google: Android

• Koreans Accuse Google Of “Obstructing” Antitrust Investigation

Google: Antitrust

• Larry Page “CEO Of The Year” — Investors Business Daily
• Koreans Accuse Google Of “Obstructing” Antitrust Investigation
• Search Engines Should Be Like Santa From “Miracle On 34th Street”
• To Understand Google Favoritism, Think “If Google+ Were YouTube”
• Report: FTC Expanding Anti-Trust Investigation Of Google To Include Google+
• “Don’t Be Evil” Tool — Backed By Facebook & Twitter — Shows Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Can Go Beyond Google+
• A Proposal For Social Network Détente
• FairSearch.org Introduces Anti-Google “Good To Know” Ad Campaign

Google: Business Issues

• Larry Page “CEO Of The Year” — Investors Business Daily
• Class Action Lawsuit Against Google For Ads On Parked Domains Turned Down
• Google: Paid Clicks Up 34% While Cost Per Click Down 8% YoY
• A Proposal For Social Network Détente
• Matt Cutts Convinces Some South Korean Govt. Websites To Stop Blocking Googlebot

Google: Chrome

• Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome
• Google: Yes, Sponsored Post Campaign Was Ours But Not What We Signed-Up For
• Google’s Chrome Page No Longer Ranks For “Browser” After Sponsored Post Penalty

Google: Content Central

• Google Revamps Submit Content Page

Google: Critics

• 2011: The Year Google & Bing Took Away From SEOs & Publishers
• Search Engines Should Be Like Santa From “Miracle On 34th Street”
• To Understand Google Favoritism, Think “If Google+ Were YouTube”
• Google’s SPYW, Kenya Imbroglios An “Ink Blot” Test For Google As Good Or Evil
• “Don’t Be Evil” Tool — Backed By Facebook & Twitter — Shows Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Can Go Beyond Google+
• A Proposal For Social Network Détente
• FairSearch.org Introduces Anti-Google “Good To Know” Ad Campaign
• Major Entertainment Groups Accuse Google, Bing Of Directing Users To Illegal Content
• Two Weeks In, Google Says “Search Plus Your World” Going Well, Critics Should Give It Time
• Matt Cutts Convinces Some South Korean Govt. Websites To Stop Blocking Googlebot

Google: Employees

• Larry Page “CEO Of The Year” — Investors Business Daily

Google: Flight Search

• Google Flight Search Expands, Now Showing More Routes

Google: Google+

• Google’s Results Get More Personal With “Search Plus Your World”
• Google “Search Plus” Impact on Local: Limited So Far
• To Understand Google Favoritism, Think “If Google+ Were YouTube”
• Google’s SPYW, Kenya Imbroglios An “Ink Blot” Test For Google As Good Or Evil
• “Ask On Google+” Links Appearing In Google’s Search Results
• “Don’t Be Evil” Tool — Backed By Facebook & Twitter — Shows Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Can Go Beyond Google+
• A Proposal For Social Network Détente

Google: Legal

• Larry Page “CEO Of The Year” — Investors Business Daily
• Class Action Lawsuit Against Google For Ads On Parked Domains Turned Down
• Koreans Accuse Google Of “Obstructing” Antitrust Investigation
• Google’s SPYW, Kenya Imbroglios An “Ink Blot” Test For Google As Good Or Evil
• Report: FTC Expanding Anti-Trust Investigation Of Google To Include Google+
• Google Blackens Its Logo To Protest SOPA/PIPA, While Bing & Yahoo Carry On As Usual
• WSJ: Federal Prisoner Helped U.S. Sting Against Google’s Pharmacy Ads
• Major Entertainment Groups Accuse Google, Bing Of Directing Users To Illegal Content
• Matt Cutts Convinces Some South Korean Govt. Websites To Stop Blocking Googlebot

Google: Logos

• 2012 New Year’s Day Logos From The Search Industry
• Google Logo Honors Addams Family Creator, Charles Addams
• Google Logo For Nicolas Steno: Father Of Modern Geology
• Google Honors Martin Luther King Jr. Day With “I Have A Dream” Logo
• Google Blackens Its Logo To Protest SOPA/PIPA, While Bing & Yahoo Carry On As Usual
• Google’s 5th “Doodle 4 Google” Contest Opens For K-12 Students
• Google Logo For Largest Observed Snowflake

Google: Maps & Local

• Larry Page “CEO Of The Year” — Investors Business Daily
• The History Of Google Places, All On One Page
• Big Chains Launch “Hulu For Hotels”
• Google Maps Now Highlighting Borders Of Cities, Postal Codes & More
• Nokia Now “Powering” Bing Maps
• Google’s “Find Hotels By Travel Time” Offers Some Of That “Innovation” Google Was Talking About
• Emergency In Your Area? “Public Alerts” On Google Maps Shows Warnings
• Google’s “Trusted Photographers” Turns Business Photos Into A Self-Serve Product
• Study: Reviews & Images Drive Clicks In Mobile
• Google & Bing: We’re Not Involved In “Local Paid Inclusion”

Google: Marketing

• Larry Page “CEO Of The Year” — Investors Business Daily
• Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome
• Google: Yes, Sponsored Post Campaign Was Ours But Not What We Signed-Up For
• Google’s Chrome Page No Longer Ranks For “Browser” After Sponsored Post Penalty

Google: Mobile

• Larry Page “CEO Of The Year” — Investors Business Daily
• Koreans Accuse Google Of “Obstructing” Antitrust Investigation
• December “Explicit” Search Numbers: Bing Now Ahead Of Yahoo
• Google Search App For Android Updated
• Google Swallows Hard, Renews Effort In China
• AdWords Gets More Granular With New Mobile Targeting Options
• Projecting 2012 Google Mobile Revenues: $4 or $6 Billion?
• Study: Reviews & Images Drive Clicks In Mobile

Google: Offers

• Larry Page “CEO Of The Year” — Investors Business Daily

Google: Other

• Google Launches US Election Hub Website

Google: Outside US

• Koreans Accuse Google Of “Obstructing” Antitrust Investigation
• Iran: Google Is A Spying Engine
• Google Swallows Hard, Renews Effort In China
• Google’s SPYW, Kenya Imbroglios An “Ink Blot” Test For Google As Good Or Evil
• Bing Out Of “Betaphase” In Germany, Claims 10 Million Users
• Matt Cutts Convinces Some South Korean Govt. Websites To Stop Blocking Googlebot

Google: Panda Update

• Google Panda 3.2 Update Confirmed

Google: Personalized Search

• Google’s Results Get More Personal With “Search Plus Your World”

Google: Place Pages

• The History Of Google Places, All On One Page

Google: Rich Snippets

• Google Announces “Megasitelinks,” Image Search Improvements & Better Byline Dates

Google: Search Customization

• Google: Ability To Block Sites From Search Results Will Return, But When?

Google: Search Plus Your World

• Google’s Results Get More Personal With “Search Plus Your World”
• Real-Life Examples Of How Google’s “Search Plus” Pushes Google+ Over Relevancy
• Google “Search Plus” Impact on Local: Limited So Far
• “Don’t Be Evil” Tool — Backed By Facebook & Twitter — Shows Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Can Go Beyond Google+
• Two Weeks In, Google Says “Search Plus Your World” Going Well, Critics Should Give It Time

Google: SEO

• Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome
• Google: Yes, Sponsored Post Campaign Was Ours But Not What We Signed-Up For
• Google’s Chrome Page No Longer Ranks For “Browser” After Sponsored Post Penalty
• Google Announces “Megasitelinks,” Image Search Improvements & Better Byline Dates
• 2011: The Year Google & Bing Took Away From SEOs & Publishers
• How To Blackout Your Site (For SOPA/PIPA) Without Hurting SEO
• Google Slows Web Crawlers To Help Blackouts Sites
• Pages With Too Many Ads “Above The Fold” Now Penalized By Google’s “Page Layout” Algorithm
• An Interview With A Google Search Quality Rater
• Google Revamps Submit Content Page
• Google Changes Definition Of Average Search Ranking Position
• Google Panda 3.2 Update Confirmed
• Dear Google: Crappy Results Like This Don’t Give The Impression You Care About Search
• 3 Essential Features For Multinational Content Delivery
• Matt Cutts Convinces Some South Korean Govt. Websites To Stop Blocking Googlebot

Google: Sitelinks

• Google Announces “Megasitelinks,” Image Search Improvements & Better Byline Dates
• “Don’t Be Evil” Tool — Backed By Facebook & Twitter — Shows Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Can Go Beyond Google+

Google: Social Search

• Google’s Results Get More Personal With “Search Plus Your World”

Google: Travel Search

• Big Chains Launch “Hulu For Hotels”
• Google’s “Find Hotels By Travel Time” Offers Some Of That “Innovation” Google Was Talking About

Google: Web Search

• Google Announces “Megasitelinks,” Image Search Improvements & Better Byline Dates
• Real-Life Examples Of How Google’s “Search Plus” Pushes Google+ Over Relevancy
• To Understand Google Favoritism, Think “If Google+ Were YouTube”
• Google: Ability To Block Sites From Search Results Will Return, But When?
• Pages With Too Many Ads “Above The Fold” Now Penalized By Google’s “Page Layout” Algorithm
• An Interview With A Google Search Quality Rater
• “Ask On Google+” Links Appearing In Google’s Search Results
• “Don’t Be Evil” Tool — Backed By Facebook & Twitter — Shows Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Can Go Beyond Google+
• Google Search Showing Results For Punctuation Marks
• Google Changes Definition Of Average Search Ranking Position
• Google Panda 3.2 Update Confirmed
• Dear Google: Crappy Results Like This Don’t Give The Impression You Care About Search
• Two Weeks In, Google Says “Search Plus Your World” Going Well, Critics Should Give It Time

Google: Webmaster Central

• 2011: The Year Google & Bing Took Away From SEOs & Publishers
• Google Webmaster Tools Adds Useful Download Options
• Google Revamps Submit Content Page
• Google Changes Definition Of Average Search Ranking Position
• Google Panda 3.2 Update Confirmed
• Now Test Your Sitemaps Before Submitting Them To Google

Google: YouTube & Video

• Dear Google: Crappy Results Like This Don’t Give The Impression You Care About Search

How To

• How To Improve Site Credibility Through Search & Social Media
• 5 Questions To Streamline Your Keyword Research
• Justified – Beginning Steps To Proving Your Internet Marketing Point
• 12 Steps To Optimize A Webpage For Organic Keywords

How To: Analytics

• Justified – Beginning Steps To Proving Your Internet Marketing Point

How To: Mobile Marketing

• How To Improve Mobile Commerce SEO Using JQM

How To: SEM

• PPC Planning Matrix

How To: SEO

• How To Improve Site Credibility Through Search & Social Media
• 5 Questions To Streamline Your Keyword Research
• 12 Steps To Optimize A Webpage For Organic Keywords

How To: Social Media Marketing

• How To Improve Site Credibility Through Search & Social Media

How To: Twitter

• How To Track U.S. Congress Members’ Tweets

In House Search Marketing

• 5 In-House Search Marketing Game Changers In 2011
• Google Fails To Trounce Bing (Again): The Fallacy Of The Superior Search Engine Revisited
• How To Build A “Navy Seal 6 Team” Of Search Marketers

Infographics

• Infographic: Search & Call Tracking
• Infographic: How Much Does SEO Cost?

Intermediate

• How To Improve Site Credibility Through Search & Social Media

Keywords & Content

• 5 Questions To Streamline Your Keyword Research
• Rich Snippets & Learning To Love Not Being #1
• 12 Steps To Optimize A Webpage For Organic Keywords

Legal: Censorship

• Google To Join Anti-SOPA “Blackout Day” With Home Page Protest
• Google Blackens Its Logo To Protest SOPA/PIPA, While Bing & Yahoo Carry On As Usual

Legal: Copyright

• Google To Join Anti-SOPA “Blackout Day” With Home Page Protest
• Major Entertainment Groups Accuse Google, Bing Of Directing Users To Illegal Content

Legal: General

• Class Action Lawsuit Against Google For Ads On Parked Domains Turned Down
• Google To Join Anti-SOPA “Blackout Day” With Home Page Protest

Legal: Regulation

• Google To Join Anti-SOPA “Blackout Day” With Home Page Protest
• Google Blackens Its Logo To Protest SOPA/PIPA, While Bing & Yahoo Carry On As Usual
• WSJ: Federal Prisoner Helped U.S. Sting Against Google’s Pharmacy Ads
• FairSearch.org Introduces Anti-Google “Good To Know” Ad Campaign

Link Building

• Link For The Real World, Not Just Your Site

Link Building: General

• 2011: The Year Google & Bing Took Away From SEOs & Publishers
• Link For The Real World, Not Just Your Site
• Link Building Tool Review: WordTracker Link Builder

Link Week

• Link Building Tool Review: Ontolo
• Link For The Real World, Not Just Your Site
• Linking Strategies For Google Plus Your World
• Infographics: Why They Fail For Link Building
• Link Building Tool Review: WordTracker Link Builder

Local Search

• Predictions For Local Search In 2012 – Year Of The Dragon
• Simplicity Is Key To Converting Local Consumers To Customers
• Google Plus Connections Are The New Link
• 10 Basic Bing Local Optimization Tips

Microsoft: adCenter

• Search Alliance Begins First AdCenter Testing In Europe
• PPC Planning Matrix
• Bing Out Of “Betaphase” In Germany, Claims 10 Million Users

Microsoft: Bing

• Bing Tests New Bottom Home Page Bar
• Nokia Now “Powering” Bing Maps
• Bing’s New Ad Campaign: Bing Is For #Doing
• Major Entertainment Groups Accuse Google, Bing Of Directing Users To Illegal Content
• Yandex Joins Bing, Yahoo In Using Nokia-Navteq Map Data

Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local

• Bing Makes Driving Directions Twice As Fast
• Nokia Now “Powering” Bing Maps
• 10 Basic Bing Local Optimization Tips
• Google & Bing: We’re Not Involved In “Local Paid Inclusion”

Microsoft: Bing Mobile

• Nokia Now “Powering” Bing Maps

Microsoft: Bing Webmaster Tools

• 2011: The Year Google & Bing Took Away From SEOs & Publishers

Microsoft: Marketing

• 2012 New Year’s Day Logos From The Search Industry
• Bing’s New Ad Campaign: Bing Is For #Doing

Microsoft: Mobile

• Nokia Now “Powering” Bing Maps

Microsoft: Outside US

• Bing Out Of “Betaphase” In Germany, Claims 10 Million Users

Microsoft: Partnerships

• Bing Out Of “Betaphase” In Germany, Claims 10 Million Users

Mobile Search

• How To Improve Mobile Commerce SEO Using JQM
• 6 Mobile Search Optimization Trends For 2012
• 10 Search & Social Resolutions For A Very Mobile 2012
• How To Achieve Mobile Search Ranking Clarity
• What You Need To Know About Targeting iPad & Tablet Searchers

Multinational Search

• Can New Multilingual Markup Create Advantages For Big Brand Optimisation?
• Will Yahoo Remain A Global Player Under Scott Thompson?
• A New Year, New Markets & New Keywords
• Did International Markets Cause Google’s Loss Of Love On Wall Street?
• 3 Essential Features For Multinational Content Delivery

Paid Search

• How Savvy Is Your AdWords Account? 7 Areas To Audit
• Tips For Managing Negative Keywords In PPC Campaigns
• Paid Search: The Bright-Line Divide
• 10 Form Optimization Tips For Landing Pages
• 8 Quick Ways to Increase Your AdWords CTR

Panda Update News

• Google Panda 3.2 Update Confirmed

Search & Analytics

• How Much Is A Click Really Worth?
• Justified – Beginning Steps To Proving Your Internet Marketing Point
• How America’s Search Trends From 2011 Makes Google+ Stand Out
• Report Affirms Strong Q4 Search Growth In 2011, Offers Additional Insights

Search & Conversion

• Four Things You Can Do With Inconclusive Split Tests
• When A/B Testing Prices, Proceed With Caution

Search & Display

• The New Era Of Display: 5 Reasons Search Marketers Should Care
• Understanding Keywords In Search Retargeting
• 2012 Is The Year To Cut Your Site Retargeting Budget

Search & Retail

• 2012: The Year Of The Independent Search Marketer?
• Increase Retail Sales From Mobile Devices In 2012
• 3 Keys To Online Retail In 2012: Doing More With Less

Search & Social

• Optimize Facebook Open Graph Tags: They Are the 50%
• How To Improve Site Credibility Through Search & Social Media
• Google+ Growing Your Social Network: Quantity vs. Quality

Search & Society: General

• How Rick Santorum Is Making His “Google Problem” Worse
• Ask.com Has The Most Long-Winded Searchers, Report Says

Search & Usability

• 10 Search & Website Usability New Year Resolutions for 2012
• Website Usability 101 For SEO Professionals

Search Ads: General

• Report: Social Media Spending Threatens To Overtake Paid Search Among SMBs

Search Engines: Government Search Engines

• Google Launches US Election Hub Website
• A Roundup Of New U.S. Government Search Tools

Search Engines: Location / Checkin Services

• Foursquare Launches “Personalized Search For The Real World”

Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines

• Foursquare Launches “Personalized Search For The Real World”

Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines

• How To Improve Mobile Commerce SEO Using JQM

Search Engines: Other Search Engines

• Yandex Joins Bing, Yahoo In Using Nokia-Navteq Map Data

Search Engines: People Search

• How To Track U.S. Congress Members’ Tweets

Search Engines: Real Time Search

• How To Track U.S. Congress Members’ Tweets

Search Engines: Travel Search Engines

• Google Flight Search Expands, Now Showing More Routes
• Big Chains Launch “Hulu For Hotels”

Search Engines: Wolfram Alpha

• Wolfram|Alpha Scores Again With Rich NFL Data

Search Engines: Yandex

• Yandex Joins Bing, Yahoo In Using Nokia-Navteq Map Data

Search In Pictures

• Search In Pics: Google Bumper Sticker, Knitted Android Sleeve & Yahoo’s CEOs
• Search In Pics: Google Cockroach, Cutts With Horse Mask & Google Beer Pong
• Search In Pics: Google Boxers, 90+ Million Google+ & Gundotra Google+ Cadbury Bar
• Search In Pics: David Beckham At Google, Google’s Moscow Office & Bing Bar

Search Marketing

• Report Affirms Strong Q4 Search Growth In 2011, Offers Additional Insights

Search Marketing Toolbox

• PPC Planning Matrix
• AdGooroo Trademark Insight Tool Makes Infringement Monitoring A Breeze

Search Marketing: Mobile

• How To Improve Mobile Commerce SEO Using JQM
• Reports: Mobile Search Impressions Explode, CTRs Beat PC
• 10 Search & Social Resolutions For A Very Mobile 2012
• What You Need To Know About Targeting iPad & Tablet Searchers

Search Marketing: Multinational

• Did International Markets Cause Google’s Loss Of Love On Wall Street?

Search Marketing: Search Term Research

• Ask.com Has The Most Long-Winded Searchers, Report Says

Search Month

• Search Month: December 2011 Search News, In Review

SEM Industry: Conferences

• Attend SMX West for What Works and What’s New in Search Engine Marketing – Feb. 28 to March 1
• Keep Pace with Changes in Search Marketing: Attend SMX West, Feb. 28-Mar. 1 in San Jose
• Keep Pace with Search Marketing Changes – Attend SMX West
• 130 Experts Speaking at Search Engine Land’s SMX West – Conference Rates Increase Saturday
• Search Engine Land’s SMX West Conference Rates Increase Saturday – Register Now!
• Pass Options for SMX West – Sessions, Networking and More

SEM Industry: General

• Trada Secures Additional $9M In Funding From Google Ventures & Foundry Group
• 2011: The Year Google & Bing Took Away From SEOs & Publishers
• An Interview With A Google Search Quality Rater
• Infographic: How Much Does SEO Cost?

SEM Industry: Stats

• Infographic: How Much Does SEO Cost?

SEO – Search Engine Optimization

• Don’t Fall Into The Made-For-SEO Website Trap
• 3 Essential Features For Multinational Content Delivery

SEO: Blocking Spiders

• How To Blackout Your Site (For SOPA/PIPA) Without Hurting SEO
• Google Slows Web Crawlers To Help Blackouts Sites

SEO: Duplicate Content

• How To Blackout Your Site (For SOPA/PIPA) Without Hurting SEO

SEO: General

• 2011: The Year Google & Bing Took Away From SEOs & Publishers
• An Interview With A Google Search Quality Rater
• 3 Essential Features For Multinational Content Delivery

SEO: Host Crowding & Clustering

• 3 Essential Features For Multinational Content Delivery

SEO: Local

• Report: Social Media Spending Threatens To Overtake Paid Search Among SMBs

SEO: Mobile Search

• How To Improve Mobile Commerce SEO Using JQM
• 6 Mobile Search Optimization Trends For 2012
• 10 Search & Social Resolutions For A Very Mobile 2012
• What You Need To Know About Targeting iPad & Tablet Searchers

SEO: Spamming

• Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome
• Google: Yes, Sponsored Post Campaign Was Ours But Not What We Signed-Up For
• Google’s Chrome Page No Longer Ranks For “Browser” After Sponsored Post Penalty

SEO: Submitting & Sitemaps

• Now Test Your Sitemaps Before Submitting Them To Google

SMX & SMN Alerts

• Attend SMX West for What Works and What’s New in Search Engine Marketing – Feb. 28 to March 1
• Last Call To Speak At SMX West
• Keep Pace with Changes in Search Marketing: Attend SMX West, Feb. 28-Mar. 1 in San Jose
• Two webcasts next week: “The Buyers’ Journey,” and “Content, Freshness and SEO for Large Sites”
• Keep Pace with Search Marketing Changes – Attend SMX West
• Webcasts next week: Social Media Analytics (Wed) + Pay Per Call Advertising (Thurs)
• 130 Experts Speaking at Search Engine Land’s SMX West – Conference Rates Increase Saturday
• Search Engine Land’s SMX West Conference Rates Increase Saturday – Register Now!
• Mobile Search: The Agency Opportunity – SMN Tuesday, Jan. 31
• Pass Options for SMX West – Sessions, Networking and More

Stats

• Report Affirms Strong Q4 Search Growth In 2011, Offers Additional Insights

Stats: comScore

• December “Explicit” Search Numbers: Bing Now Ahead Of Yahoo

Stats: General

• Infographic: Search & Call Tracking
• Report: Search Ad Spend To Rise 27% In 2012

Stats: Popularity

• December “Explicit” Search Numbers: Bing Now Ahead Of Yahoo
• Reports: Mobile Search Impressions Explode, CTRs Beat PC
• DuckDuckGo Sets New Traffic Record, But Stats Show How Dominant Google, Others Are
• Bing Out Of “Betaphase” In Germany, Claims 10 Million Users

Stats: Relevancy

• Dear Google: Crappy Results Like This Don’t Give The Impression You Care About Search

Stats: Search Behavior

• Reports: Mobile Search Impressions Explode, CTRs Beat PC
• Ask.com Has The Most Long-Winded Searchers, Report Says
• Report Affirms Strong Q4 Search Growth In 2011, Offers Additional Insights
• Study: Reviews & Images Drive Clicks In Mobile

Stats: Size

• Reports: Mobile Search Impressions Explode, CTRs Beat PC
• Report Affirms Strong Q4 Search Growth In 2011, Offers Additional Insights
• Bing Out Of “Betaphase” In Germany, Claims 10 Million Users

Stats: Spend Projections

• Q4 Reports: Search Advertising Growing In Efficiency
• Report: Search Ad Spend To Rise 27% In 2012

Twitter

• “Don’t Be Evil” Tool — Backed By Facebook & Twitter — Shows Google’s “Search Plus Your World” Can Go Beyond Google+

Twitter: Business Issues

• A Proposal For Social Network Détente

Twitter: Search

• How To Track U.S. Congress Members’ Tweets

Yahoo: Business Issues

• It’s Official: PayPal President Scott Thompson The New Yahoo CEO
• Yahoo’s Co-founder Jerry Yang Resigns

Yahoo: Employees

• It’s Official: PayPal President Scott Thompson The New Yahoo CEO
• Yahoo’s Co-founder Jerry Yang Resigns

Yahoo: General

• It’s Official: PayPal President Scott Thompson The New Yahoo CEO

Yahoo: Maps & Local

• Yandex Joins Bing, Yahoo In Using Nokia-Navteq Map Data

Yahoo: Mobile & Go

• It’s Official: PayPal President Scott Thompson The New Yahoo CEO

Yahoo: Outside US

• Bing Out Of “Betaphase” In Germany, Claims 10 Million Users

Yahoo: Partnerships

• It’s Official: PayPal President Scott Thompson The New Yahoo CEO
• Search Alliance Begins First AdCenter Testing In Europe
• Bing Out Of “Betaphase” In Germany, Claims 10 Million Users

Yahoo: Search

• It’s Official: PayPal President Scott Thompson The New Yahoo CEO

Yahoo: Search Ads

• Search Alliance Begins First AdCenter Testing In Europe
• Bing Out Of “Betaphase” In Germany, Claims 10 Million Users

Yahoo: Site Explorer

• 2011: The Year Google & Bing Took Away From SEOs & Publishers

Top News

• Domain Seizures, De-Indexing And Censorship: Nevada Judge Dramatically Exceeds Limits Of His Authority
• Google: Parked Domains, Scraper Sites Targeted Among New Search Changes
• Yahoo Deletes 75,000 Associated Content Articles, Moves Rest To New Yahoo Voices Site
• Why Siri Can’t Find Abortion Clinics & How It’s Not An Apple Conspiracy
• The Right Stuff: Heavy Duty Real-Time Airline Flight Tracking Tools
• Bing Becomes Hub Of Microsoft’s New Xbox Experience
• Google Adds Graphical Math Calculator To Search Results
• Report: Google Controls 44 Percent Of Global Online Advertising
• Verizon Blocks Google Wallet, AT&T Likely To Do The Same
• Google Quality Raters Can’t Cause Site To Drop In Rankings
• FindTheBest Succeeds Where Google Squared Failed
• Survey Says SEO The Single Most Important Marketing Channel For SMBs
• Report: IAC Is Google’s Biggest Ad Spender, According to Kantar
• Foursquare Hires Sr. Google Engineer For Search-Related Efforts
• Paid Search Drives $6 In Local Sales For Every $1 In Online Sales — Study
• Search Engine Land Turns Five & Gains A Sibling Site: Marketing Land
• Banned Holiday Deal Sites Return To Bing
• Domain Name Matters: Searchers Pick Brand Over Quality, Study Finds
• Google Buys Clever Sense: An Answer To Siri?
• Google Tests Its Hotel Finder As A New Comparison Ad Atop Search Results
• Search Trumps Social For Local Business Information
• Google’s Holiday Gift To Webmasters: No Panda Updates Till Next Year
• Google Adds Author Stats To Webmaster Tools
• Bing, Yahoo Now Neck & Neck In US Search Market Share
• Google & Bing Have “Won A Major Victory” Over Content Farms, Study Says
• If It Looks Like Google Sitelinks Have Expanded, It’s Just Your Imagination
• Google Removes Author: Search From Google News
• US Senators Call For FTC Investigation Into Google’s Search Results
• Google, Mozilla Renew Firefox Search Deal For 3 More Years
• RIAA Scolds Google, Wants Search Algorithm Changed To Fight Online Piracy
• Dear Congress: It’s Not OK Not To Know How Search Engines Work, Either
• Hitwise: “Facebook” Was 4 Of Top 10 Search Queries In 2011
• Blekko Expands: Bigger Index, More Slashtags & New Design
• For “Define An English Person,” Google Suggests The C-Word
• Bing’s Travel Search & Kayak Favoritism Angers No One, While Google’s Gets Headline Attention From WSJ
• Google Sued By buySAFE Over Trusted Stores Program
• Google Instant Costs Google $65,000 In France
• More People Now Using Mobile Apps Than Browser — comScore
• Welcome Back CO.CC To Google

About Search Engine Land

• Search Engine Land Turns Five & Gains A Sibling Site: Marketing Land
• Thanks for Taking Our Search Engine Land Survey; We Have a Winner!

All Things SEO

• Do As I Say, Not As I Do: A Look At Search Engines & SEO Best Practices
• An SEO Playbook For 2012
• Google Authorship Rich Snippets – Is Google Promoting Authors Or Google+?
• The Most Popular SEO Posts Of 2011
• Where To Get Citations For Local SEO

AOL

• AOL In 2011: Charlie Sheen #Winning Over Other Celebrities

AOL: General

• AOL In 2011: Charlie Sheen #Winning Over Other Celebrities

Apple

• More People Now Using Mobile Apps Than Browser — comScore

Apple: Siri

• Why Siri Can’t Find Abortion Clinics & How It’s Not An Apple Conspiracy
• Google Buys Clever Sense: An Answer To Siri?

B2B Search Marketing

• Should You Expect Sales-Ready-Leads From Search?
• Preparing For A New Era Of B2B SEO
• 5 B2B Search Engine Marketing Resolutions For 2012

Baidu

• Chinese Search Engine Baidu Will Spend A Half-Billion Dollars To Train SEOs & Get Small Businesses Online
• US Gov’t Takes Baidu Off The “Notorious Markets” Black List

Beginner

• A Beginners Guide To Finding Ad Placements & Fine Tune Conversions With Analytics Data
• Where To Get Citations For Local SEO

Blekko

• Blekko Expands: Bigger Index, More Slashtags & New Design
• How To Track Emerging Search Engine Blekko In Web Analytics Systems

Business Issues: Acquisitions & Investments

• Acquisio Acquires ClickEquations & Partners With Channel Intelligence

Columns

• Google Authorship Rich Snippets – Is Google Promoting Authors Or Google+?

Content Farms

• Yahoo Deletes 75,000 Associated Content Articles, Moves Rest To New Yahoo Voices Site
• Google & Bing Have “Won A Major Victory” Over Content Farms, Study Says

Enterprise SEM

• How To Turn Challenger Brands Into Market Leaders Using Efficiencies In Large Scale SEM
• From The Experts: Enterprise-Level PPC Campaign Management
• Digital Marketing Trends To Watch Out For In 2012

Enterprise SEO

• Keys To Engagement, User Generated Content & SEO

Facebook

• Facebook Ranked #3, Google #5 For Best Places To Work
• Search Trumps Social For Local Business Information
• Free Speech Battle In India: Google, Facebook Summoned By Court Over “Inflammatory Images”

Featured

• Google, Mozilla Renew Firefox Search Deal For 3 More Years
• Dear Congress: It’s Not OK Not To Know How Search Engines Work, Either
• Hitwise: “Facebook” Was 4 Of Top 10 Search Queries In 2011
• The Most Popular SEO Posts Of 2011
• For “Define An English Person,” Google Suggests The C-Word
• Bing’s Travel Search & Kayak Favoritism Angers No One, While Google’s Gets Headline Attention From WSJ

Features: Analysis

• Domain Seizures, De-Indexing And Censorship: Nevada Judge Dramatically Exceeds Limits Of His Authority
• Google: Parked Domains, Scraper Sites Targeted Among New Search Changes
• Why Siri Can’t Find Abortion Clinics & How It’s Not An Apple Conspiracy
• Google Braces For Early 2012 (400-Page) EU Antitrust Report
• Academic, But Valuable: A Free Alert Service
• Banned Holiday Deal Sites Return To Bing
• Dear Congress: It’s Not OK Not To Know How Search Engines Work, Either
• For “Define An English Person,” Google Suggests The C-Word
• Bing’s Travel Search & Kayak Favoritism Angers No One, While Google’s Gets Headline Attention From WSJ

Features: General

• For The Holidays, Google Has NORAD Tracks Santa & Bing Has Magical Holiday Calendar
• The Right Stuff: Heavy Duty Real-Time Airline Flight Tracking Tools
• Google’s Let It Snow Easter Egg
• Are You A Search Geek? Test Your Mettle with this Contest – and Win Two Tickets to SMX West!

Foursquare

• Foursquare Hires Sr. Google Engineer For Search-Related Efforts

Google

• Google Zeitgeist 2011: Rebecca Black, Lego Alien & Steve Jobs

Google: +1

• Google +1 Button Hides In Search Results

Google: Acquisitions

• Google Buys Clever Sense: An Answer To Siri?

Google: AdWords

• Report: IAC Is Google’s Biggest Ad Spender, According to Kantar
• Google Tests Its Hotel Finder As A New Comparison Ad Atop Search Results
• Canonical Form: The Hidden Keywords In Paid Search

Google: Android

• More People Now Using Mobile Apps Than Browser — comScore

Google: Antitrust

• Google Braces For Early 2012 (400-Page) EU Antitrust Report
• Banned Holiday Deal Sites Return To Bing
• US Senators Call For FTC Investigation Into Google’s Search Results
• Dear Congress: It’s Not OK Not To Know How Search Engines Work, Either
• Bing’s Travel Search & Kayak Favoritism Angers No One, While Google’s Gets Headline Attention From WSJ

Google: Browsers

• Google, Mozilla Renew Firefox Search Deal For 3 More Years

Google: Business Issues

• Facebook Ranked #3, Google #5 For Best Places To Work
• Google Sued By buySAFE Over Trusted Stores Program

Google: Critics

• US Senators Call For FTC Investigation Into Google’s Search Results
• RIAA Scolds Google, Wants Search Algorithm Changed To Fight Online Piracy
• Dear Congress: It’s Not OK Not To Know How Search Engines Work, Either
• Free Speech Battle In India: Google, Facebook Summoned By Court Over “Inflammatory Images”
• Bing’s Travel Search & Kayak Favoritism Angers No One, While Google’s Gets Headline Attention From WSJ

Google: Employees

• Facebook Ranked #3, Google #5 For Best Places To Work
• New Dilbert Comic Mocks Google Employee 20% Time

Google: Flight Search

• Bing’s Travel Search & Kayak Favoritism Angers No One, While Google’s Gets Headline Attention From WSJ

Google: Images

• Google Images Carousel For Tablets & Better Movie Results For Phones

Google: Instant

• Google Instant Costs Google $65,000 In France

Google: Legal

• Google Braces For Early 2012 (400-Page) EU Antitrust Report
• US Senators Call For FTC Investigation Into Google’s Search Results
• RIAA Scolds Google, Wants Search Algorithm Changed To Fight Online Piracy
• Free Speech Battle In India: Google, Facebook Summoned By Court Over “Inflammatory Images”
• Google Sued By buySAFE Over Trusted Stores Program
• Google Instant Costs Google $65,000 In France

Google: Logos

• Google Logo Honors Diego Rivera’s Mural Paintings
• The Robert Noyce Google Microchip Logo
• Google Revamps The Google Doodles (Logos) Directory
• Google’s Let It Snow Easter Egg
• Google Adds Christmas & Hanukkah Decorations To Search Results
• Google’s 2011 Happy Holidays Logo: Dancing Christmas Lights & Jingle Bells

Google: Maps & Local

• Google Makes Flight Search Results Better Looking, More Useful
• Dominate Multinational Google Place Listings With Microformats & Display Ads
• Google Drops Tele Atlas & Uses Their Own Maps Data For UK Maps
• Google Buys Clever Sense: An Answer To Siri?
• Search Trumps Social For Local Business Information

Google: Marketing

• For The Holidays, Google Has NORAD Tracks Santa & Bing Has Magical Holiday Calendar

Google: Mobile

• Verizon Blocks Google Wallet, AT&T Likely To Do The Same
• Google Images Carousel For Tablets & Better Movie Results For Phones
• Google Buys Clever Sense: An Answer To Siri?
• Search Trumps Social For Local Business Information
• Googlebot Identifies Smartphone Content With New User-Agent
• 5 SEO Tips To Get Mobile Apps Ranked In SERPs

Google: News

• Google Removes Author: Search From Google News
• Google News Brings Back Search The Web Option

Google: Offers

• Infographic: Daily Deals Bring New Customers, Repeat Business Harder

Google: OneBox, Plus Box & Direct Answers

• Google Adds Graphical Math Calculator To Search Results

Google: Other

• Google Tests Its Hotel Finder As A New Comparison Ad Atop Search Results

Google: Other Ads

• Google Tests Its Hotel Finder As A New Comparison Ad Atop Search Results

Google: Outside US

• Google Braces For Early 2012 (400-Page) EU Antitrust Report
• Google’s New Multilingual Markup Signals New Issues Of Concern For Global SEOs
• Free Speech Battle In India: Google, Facebook Summoned By Court Over “Inflammatory Images”
• Google Instant Costs Google $65,000 In France

Google: Panda Update

• Google’s New Multilingual Markup Signals New Issues Of Concern For Global SEOs
• Google’s Holiday Gift To Webmasters: No Panda Updates Till Next Year

Google: Parodies

• New Dilbert Comic Mocks Google Employee 20% Time

Google: Partnerships

• Google, Mozilla Renew Firefox Search Deal For 3 More Years

Google: Rich Snippets

• Google Releases Ten Videos On Rich Snippets
• Google Removes Author: Search From Google News

Google: SEO

• Google: Parked Domains, Scraper Sites Targeted Among New Search Changes
• Google Adds New Link Element Markup For Multilingual Content
• Dominate Multinational Google Place Listings With Microformats & Display Ads
• Google Quality Raters Can’t Cause Site To Drop In Rankings
• Survey Says SEO The Single Most Important Marketing Channel For SMBs
• Google’s Holiday Gift To Webmasters: No Panda Updates Till Next Year
• Google Adds Author Stats To Webmaster Tools
• Googlebot Identifies Smartphone Content With New User-Agent
• Google & Bing Have “Won A Major Victory” Over Content Farms, Study Says
• Google Releases Ten Videos On Rich Snippets
• Welcome Back CO.CC To Google

Google: Sitelinks

• If It Looks Like Google Sitelinks Have Expanded, It’s Just Your Imagination

Google: Suggest

• Google Instant Costs Google $65,000 In France

Google: Travel Search

• Bing’s Travel Search & Kayak Favoritism Angers No One, While Google’s Gets Headline Attention From WSJ

Google: Trends

• Google Zeitgeist 2011: Rebecca Black, Lego Alien & Steve Jobs

Google: URL Shortener

• 5 SEO Tips To Get Mobile Apps Ranked In SERPs

Google: User Interface

• Google +1 Button Hides In Search Results
• Google’s Let It Snow Easter Egg
• Google Adds Christmas & Hanukkah Decorations To Search Results

Google: Voice Search

• Google Buys Clever Sense: An Answer To Siri?

Google: Wallet

• Verizon Blocks Google Wallet, AT&T Likely To Do The Same

Google: Web Search

• Google: Parked Domains, Scraper Sites Targeted Among New Search Changes
• Google Makes Flight Search Results Better Looking, More Useful
• Google Adds Graphical Math Calculator To Search Results
• Report: Google Controls 44 Percent Of Global Online Advertising
• Austria? That’s Not A Country, Says Google: Australia’s A Country
• Google +1 Button Hides In Search Results
• Google’s Holiday Gift To Webmasters: No Panda Updates Till Next Year
• Google Zeitgeist 2011: Rebecca Black, Lego Alien & Steve Jobs
• Google’s Let It Snow Easter Egg
• Welcome Back CO.CC To Google

Google: Webmaster Central

• Google Adds New Link Element Markup For Multilingual Content
• Google’s New Multilingual Markup Signals New Issues Of Concern For Global SEOs
• Google Adds Author Stats To Webmaster Tools
• Welcome Back CO.CC To Google

Google: YouTube & Video

• Report: Google Controls 44 Percent Of Global Online Advertising

Groupon

• Infographic: Daily Deals Bring New Customers, Repeat Business Harder

How To

• A Beginners Guide To Finding Ad Placements & Fine Tune Conversions With Analytics Data
• Where To Get Citations For Local SEO

How To: Analytics

• A Beginners Guide To Finding Ad Placements & Fine Tune Conversions With Analytics Data
• How To Track Emerging Search Engine Blekko In Web Analytics Systems

How To: Mobile Marketing

• Tips For Optimizing Content In Mobile Commerce SEO
• 5 SEO Tips To Get Mobile Apps Ranked In SERPs
• SEO Considerations For Google Mobile Search In 2012

How To: PPC

• How To Turn Challenger Brands Into Market Leaders Using Efficiencies In Large Scale SEM

How To: SEO

• Where To Get Citations For Local SEO

In House Search Marketing

• What Brands Need To Know About Google+ AdWords Social Extensions
• A Letter From Santa To The Search Community

Infographics

• Infographic: NYC & LA Tops For SEO Jobs & Salaries By Specialty
• Infographic: Daily Deals Bring New Customers, Repeat Business Harder

Legal: Censorship

• Free Speech Battle In India: Google, Facebook Summoned By Court Over “Inflammatory Images”

Legal: Copyright

• Domain Seizures, De-Indexing And Censorship: Nevada Judge Dramatically Exceeds Limits Of His Authority
• The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Stalls In Congress
• RIAA Scolds Google, Wants Search Algorithm Changed To Fight Online Piracy
• US Gov’t Takes Baidu Off The “Notorious Markets” Black List
• Free Speech Battle In India: Google, Facebook Summoned By Court Over “Inflammatory Images”

Legal: Crawling & Indexing

• Banned Holiday Deal Sites Return To Bing

Legal: General

• Domain Seizures, De-Indexing And Censorship: Nevada Judge Dramatically Exceeds Limits Of His Authority
• US Gov’t Takes Baidu Off The “Notorious Markets” Black List

Legal: Regulation

• Domain Seizures, De-Indexing And Censorship: Nevada Judge Dramatically Exceeds Limits Of His Authority
• Google Braces For Early 2012 (400-Page) EU Antitrust Report
• The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Stalls In Congress
• US Senators Call For FTC Investigation Into Google’s Search Results
• US Gov’t Takes Baidu Off The “Notorious Markets” Black List
• Free Speech Battle In India: Google, Facebook Summoned By Court Over “Inflammatory Images”

Legal: Security

• The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Stalls In Congress

Legal: Trademarks

• Domain Seizures, De-Indexing And Censorship: Nevada Judge Dramatically Exceeds Limits Of His Authority

Link Building

• Link Building Tool Review: Majestic SEO

Link Building: General

• Link Building Tool Review: Majestic SEO

Link Building: Link Bombs

• For “Define An English Person,” Google Suggests The C-Word

Link Week

• ‘Tis The Season For Link Baiting
• Link Building Tool Review: Majestic SEO
• A Few Link Building Predictions For 2012
• 9 New Year’s Resolutions For Link Building In 2012

Local Search

• How To Use Pinterest For Local SEO
• Five Steps To Capturing Mobile Customers In 2012
• Top 50 Citation Sources For UK & US Local Businesses
• Mobile: The Ghost Of Future Local SMB Marketing

Microsoft: adCenter

• Canonical Form: The Hidden Keywords In Paid Search

Microsoft: Bing

• Bing Becomes Hub Of Microsoft’s New Xbox Experience
• Two New Bing UI Tests Spotted
• Banned Holiday Deal Sites Return To Bing
• Google & Bing Have “Won A Major Victory” Over Content Farms, Study Says

Microsoft: Bing SEO

• Banned Holiday Deal Sites Return To Bing
• Google & Bing Have “Won A Major Victory” Over Content Farms, Study Says

Microsoft: Bing Travel

• Bing’s Travel Search & Kayak Favoritism Angers No One, While Google’s Gets Headline Attention From WSJ

Microsoft: Bing User Interface

• Two New Bing UI Tests Spotted

Microsoft: Bing Voice Search

• Bing Becomes Hub Of Microsoft’s New Xbox Experience

Microsoft: Marketing

• For The Holidays, Google Has NORAD Tracks Santa & Bing Has Magical Holiday Calendar

Mobile Search

• Tips For Optimizing Content In Mobile Commerce SEO
• Seven Mobile SEO Myths Exposed
• 5 SEO Tips To Get Mobile Apps Ranked In SERPs
• SEO Considerations For Google Mobile Search In 2012

Multinational Search

• Dominate Multinational Google Place Listings With Microformats & Display Ads
• Google’s New Multilingual Markup Signals New Issues Of Concern For Global SEOs
• Year-End Review Of Your Multilingual Programs

Paid Search

• Remarketing Strategies For The Holiday Season
• 7 Things On My Google AdWords Wishlist For Santa
• How Would You Create The Perfect Search Engine?
• Canonical Form: The Hidden Keywords In Paid Search

Panda Update News

• Google & Bing Have “Won A Major Victory” Over Content Farms, Study Says

Panda Update Winners & Losers

• Yahoo Deletes 75,000 Associated Content Articles, Moves Rest To New Yahoo Voices Site
• Google & Bing Have “Won A Major Victory” Over Content Farms, Study Says

Search & Analytics

• Search Campaign Optimization Through Touchpoint Analysis
• The Search Marketer’s Dilemma: Reporting Vs. Optimizing
• A Beginners Guide To Finding Ad Placements & Fine Tune Conversions With Analytics Data
• It’s All About Data: Our Most Popular Analytics Posts In 2011
• How To Track Emerging Search Engine Blekko In Web Analytics Systems

Search & Conversion

• Blogs, Volcanoes, & Your Conversion Rate Calculation
• The Infinite Funnel Of Search To Sale
• Do Your 2012 Resolutions Include Increasing Conversion Rates?

Search & Display

• 4 New Year’s Resolutions Every Digital Marketer Can’t Live Without
• Search Retargeting: Delivering Bargains For Search Marketers In High CPC Verticals
• Fixing The Agency Disconnect Between Search & Display Buyers

Search & Retail

• Social-Local-Mobile Tactics Drive Retail Success
• How To Get A 30% Increase In CTR With Structured Markup

Search & Social

• 21 Types Of Social Content To Boost Your SEO
• Why You Need Google+ Business Pages For Online Reputation Management
• The Most ‘Liked’ Search & Social Posts Of 2011

Search & Society

• Hitwise: “Facebook” Was 4 Of Top 10 Search Queries In 2011

Search & Society: General

• AOL In 2011: Charlie Sheen #Winning Over Other Celebrities
• 2011 Yahoo! In Review: Top US Searches In 30 Categories
• Why Siri Can’t Find Abortion Clinics & How It’s Not An Apple Conspiracy
• Austria? That’s Not A Country, Says Google: Australia’s A Country
• The Simpsons: In The Future, Google Enslaves Half The World (But Lisa Still Likes It)
• Google Zeitgeist 2011: Rebecca Black, Lego Alien & Steve Jobs
• Hitwise: “Facebook” Was 4 Of Top 10 Search Queries In 2011
• For “Define An English Person,” Google Suggests The C-Word

Search & Usability

• Why User Experience Design Needs Search Engine Marketing
• What Is Your SEO Archiving Plan?

Search Engines: Academic Search Engines

• Academic, But Valuable: A Free Alert Service

Search Engines: Deals & Coupon Search Engines

• Infographic: Daily Deals Bring New Customers, Repeat Business Harder

Search Engines: Location / Checkin Services

• Foursquare Hires Sr. Google Engineer For Search-Related Efforts
• Search Trumps Social For Local Business Information

Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines

• Foursquare Hires Sr. Google Engineer For Search-Related Efforts
• Search Trumps Social For Local Business Information
• Yelping In The Beemer: Review Site Inks Deal With BMW

Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines

• 5 SEO Tips To Get Mobile Apps Ranked In SERPs

Search Engines: Other Search Engines

• The Right Stuff: Heavy Duty Real-Time Airline Flight Tracking Tools
• FindTheBest Succeeds Where Google Squared Failed

Search Engines: Santa Tracker

• For The Holidays, Google Has NORAD Tracks Santa & Bing Has Magical Holiday Calendar
• Where’s Santa Claus? The 2011 Santa Tracker List, From NORAD To Your Phone!

Search Engines: Shopping Search Engines

• FindTheBest Succeeds Where Google Squared Failed

Search Engines: Travel Search Engines

• Google Makes Flight Search Results Better Looking, More Useful
• The Right Stuff: Heavy Duty Real-Time Airline Flight Tracking Tools
• Bing’s Travel Search & Kayak Favoritism Angers No One, While Google’s Gets Headline Attention From WSJ

Search Features: Cars

• Yelping In The Beemer: Review Site Inks Deal With BMW

Search In Pictures

• Search In Pics: The Google Potion, Front Row Blogging & Movember
• Search In Pics: Google Guinness World Records, Gingerbread Chrome & Google Shoes
• Search In Pics: Google Keg, Panda Bread & Lego High Heels
• Search In Pics: Google Snow, Yahoo Decorations & Google Menorah

Search Marketing: General

• Paid Search Drives $6 In Local Sales For Every $1 In Online Sales — Study

Search Marketing: Landing Pages

• Paid Search Drives $6 In Local Sales For Every $1 In Online Sales — Study

Search Marketing: Local Search Marketing

• Paid Search Drives $6 In Local Sales For Every $1 In Online Sales — Study
• Mobile: The Ghost Of Future Local SMB Marketing

Search Marketing: Mobile

• Tips For Optimizing Content In Mobile Commerce SEO
• Seven Mobile SEO Myths Exposed
• Googlebot Identifies Smartphone Content With New User-Agent
• 5 SEO Tips To Get Mobile Apps Ranked In SERPs
• Mobile: The Ghost Of Future Local SMB Marketing

Search Marketing: Shopping Search Marketing

• Tips For Optimizing Content In Mobile Commerce SEO
• Paid Search Drives $6 In Local Sales For Every $1 In Online Sales — Study

SEM Industry: Acquisitions

• Acquisio Acquires ClickEquations & Partners With Channel Intelligence

SEM Industry: Community

• Movember SEO Moustache Competition Raises $17,000 For Cancer Research

SEM Industry: Conferences

• Last Call – SMX Social Media Marketing Starts Monday in Scottsdale, AZ
• SMX West Super Early Bird Rates Expire Next Week – Register Now, Save Up to $400
• SMX West Super Early Bird Rates Expire Soon – Register Now, Save $400
• SMX Israel Returns To Jerusalem On January 15, 2012
• Search Engine Land’s SMX West Agenda Now Available – Super Early Bird Rates Expire this Week!
• Thanks for Taking Our Search Engine Land Survey; We Have a Winner!
• Search Engine Land’s SMX West Super Early Bird Rates Expire Saturday – Register Now & Save!
• Are You A Search Geek? Test Your Mettle with this Contest – and Win Two Tickets to SMX West!
• Want To Speak @ SMX West? Here’s How
• Share the Experience: Send Your Team to SMX West…and Save
• Get Proven SEM Tactics at SMX West – Register Before January 21 for Early Bird Rates

SEM Industry: Stats

• Infographic: NYC & LA Tops For SEO Jobs & Salaries By Specialty

SEM Tools: Links

• Link Building Tool Review: Majestic SEO

SEM Tools: Web Analytics

• How To Track Emerging Search Engine Blekko In Web Analytics Systems

SEO – Search Engine Optimization

• Keys To Engagement, User Generated Content & SEO
• Survey Says SEO The Single Most Important Marketing Channel For SMBs

SEO: Duplicate Content

• Google: Parked Domains, Scraper Sites Targeted Among New Search Changes

SEO: General

• Survey Says SEO The Single Most Important Marketing Channel For SMBs

SEO: Host Crowding & Clustering

• Google: Parked Domains, Scraper Sites Targeted Among New Search Changes

SEO: Local

• Survey Says SEO The Single Most Important Marketing Channel For SMBs

SEO: Mobile Search

• Tips For Optimizing Content In Mobile Commerce SEO
• Seven Mobile SEO Myths Exposed
• Googlebot Identifies Smartphone Content With New User-Agent
• 5 SEO Tips To Get Mobile Apps Ranked In SERPs
• SEO Considerations For Google Mobile Search In 2012

SEO: Spamming

• Google: Parked Domains, Scraper Sites Targeted Among New Search Changes
• Welcome Back CO.CC To Google

SMX & SMN Alerts

• Last Call – SMX Social Media Marketing Starts Monday in Scottsdale, AZ
• How to Market to the ‘Invisible’ 70% – SMN Webcast next Tuesday
• SMX West Super Early Bird Rates Expire Next Week – Register Now, Save Up to $400
• SMX West Super Early Bird Rates Expire Soon – Register Now, Save $400
• Google’s Recent Algorithm Changes: SMN Webcast next Thursday
• Search Engine Land’s SMX West Agenda Now Available – Super Early Bird Rates Expire this Week!
• Thanks for Taking Our Search Engine Land Survey; We Have a Winner!
• Search Engine Land’s SMX West Super Early Bird Rates Expire Saturday – Register Now & Save!
• Are You A Search Geek? Test Your Mettle with this Contest – and Win Two Tickets to SMX West!
• Share the Experience: Send Your Team to SMX West…and Save
• Get Proven SEM Tactics at SMX West – Register Before January 21 for Early Bird Rates

Stats: comScore

• Bing, Yahoo Now Neck & Neck In US Search Market Share
• More People Now Using Mobile Apps Than Browser — comScore

Stats: General

• Survey Says SEO The Single Most Important Marketing Channel For SMBs

Stats: Hitwise

• Hitwise: “Facebook” Was 4 Of Top 10 Search Queries In 2011

Stats: Popularity

• Survey Says SEO The Single Most Important Marketing Channel For SMBs
• Google Zeitgeist 2011: Rebecca Black, Lego Alien & Steve Jobs
• Bing, Yahoo Now Neck & Neck In US Search Market Share
• Hitwise: “Facebook” Was 4 Of Top 10 Search Queries In 2011

Stats: Search Behavior

• Domain Name Matters: Searchers Pick Brand Over Quality, Study Finds

Stats: Size

• More People Now Using Mobile Apps Than Browser — comScore

Stats: Spend Projections

• Report: Google Controls 44 Percent Of Global Online Advertising
• Report: IAC Is Google’s Biggest Ad Spender, According to Kantar

Toolbars & Add-Ons: Firefox Browser

• Google, Mozilla Renew Firefox Search Deal For 3 More Years

Twitter

• Live Blogging the Twitter Event: Easier Discovery, Enhanced Profiles, More Direct Challenge To Facebook
• Search Trumps Social For Local Business Information

Yahoo

• 2011 Yahoo! In Review: Top US Searches In 30 Categories

Yahoo: Business Issues

• Yahoo’s Bay Bridge Billboard Removed After 12-Year Legacy

Yahoo: Images

• Yahoo Image Search Adds Social Sharing & Continuous Scrolling

Yahoo: Marketing

• Yahoo’s Bay Bridge Billboard Removed After 12-Year Legacy

Yahoo: Voices

• Yahoo Deletes 75,000 Associated Content Articles, Moves Rest To New Yahoo Voices Site

Yelp

• Yelping In The Beemer: Review Site Inks Deal With BMW

Top News

• Do You Have Duplicate Content Issues Across Domain? Google Will Now Alert You
• Google Unveils Ad Preferences Center For Search And Gmail Ads
• Google Creates “GoMo” Portal To Help You Mobilize
• Google Can Now Execute AJAX & JavaScript For Indexing
• SEO Beats PPC & Social Media For Generating Leads, New Industry Report Says
• Keyword “Not Provided” By Google Spikes, Now 7-14% In Cases
• UPDATED: Google Officially Rolls Out Ads At The Bottom Of Search Results
• Study: Bing More “Biased” Than Google; Google Not Behaving Anti-Competitively
• Google Search Algorithm Change For Freshness To Impact 35% Of Searches; Twitter Firehose Remains Off
• Euclid Offers “Google Analytics For The Real World”
• Eric Schmidt Tells Congress That Google Doesn’t Have ‘Separate Products & Services’
• Rhetoric vs. Reality: Schmidt Plays Up Mobile Competition In Written Senate Testimony
• Google+ Pages Now Open For Businesses, Brands, Places & More
• Confirmed: Google Testing New “Sources” Display In Search Results
• Brands & News Sites Among Winners From Google’s Freshness Algo Update, Report Says
• A Look At Google+ Direct Connect For Google+ Pages
• Google+ Pages For Businesses: The AdWords Impact
• Twitter, Mozilla Strike Deal That Bakes Twitter Search Into Firefox 8 Search Box
• Google May Penalize Ad Heavy Pages
• Mobile Will Be 22 Percent Of Search Revs Next Year — Report
• Google Acquires Katango ‘Magicians’ To Improve Google+ Circles
• Eye-Tracking In Google Maps: Study Shows Value Of No. 1 Ranking & Social Content
• Google Leads In Search Engines’ Efforts To Woo TV Viewers
• Bing Launches “Editors’ Picks”
• Improved Snippets, Rank Boost For “Official” Pages Among 10 New Google Algorithm Changes
• Recent Google+ Posts & “Add To Circles” Buttons Are Coming To Google’s Search Results
• New on Google Analytics Landing Pages Report – Measuring Success
• With Holidays Near, Yahoo Upgrades Its Shopping & Recipe Search Results
• Foursquare Redesign Creates Expanded Opportunities For Users, Advertisers
• Google+ Badge Tool Now Makes Facepile-Style Badges, +1 Counts To Be Consolidated
• Google Takes On iTunes, Amazon With New Music Store
• First Impressions: Galaxy Nexus Android 4.0 Smartphone
• Despite New Rules, Google Product Search Merchants Not Providing Accurate Tax & Shipping Costs
• Google+: Brands Rush In Where Consumers Fear To Tread
• Yahoo Site Explorer Closing Down Monday, November 21st
• “Minor” Google Panda Update On November 18th
• The Dealmix Promotes Search As A Differentiator
• Google News Spotlight Now Spotlights Your Friends & Stories They +1
• Oops, She Did It — Britney Spears Beats Larry Page As Most Popular On Google+
• Microsoft Swaps Daily Deals Brand: It’s Now “MSN Offers”
• Is Google+ Beginning To Integrate Into Google Places?
• Happy Thanksgiving Logos From Google, Yahoo, Bing & More
• The Big Roundup: Finding Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals & Specials
• Google+ Is Slowly Invading Google’s Main Search Results
• Record-Breaking Black Friday Paves Way For $1 Billion Cyber-Monday
• Google Presents The Evolution Of Search In Six Minutes
• Google Acknowledges Bug in AdWords Keyword Tool
• Google Maps The Great Indoors (Android Only)
• Facebook Downplays Significance Of FTC Privacy Settlement
• Bing Bans Holiday Deals Sites, Including One By Group That Created Cyber Monday
• New “Save To Foursquare” Button Reaches Into The Real World

About Search Engine Land

• Search Engine Land Gets Sister Site: Marketing Land Arrives Next Month
• Please Take Search Engine Land’s Audience Survey

Advanced

• SEO Best Practices For HTML5: Truths, Half-Truths & Outright Lies
• How To Terrify Executives Into Linkbuilding

All Things SEO

• The Clickthrough Rate Equation In Organic Search, Part Two
• How Celebrity & Authority Change Link Building In SEO
• The Art Of The Follow-Up Post In News & Article Publishing
• SEOnomics: A New Way Of Thinking About SEO For Business

Apple

• Record-Breaking Black Friday Paves Way For $1 Billion Cyber-Monday

Apple: Siri

• Siri, Are You Taking Over Mobile Search?
• Trapit Aims To Be Your Search “Personal Assistant”
• Siri, Search & The Abortion Controversy

Ask

• Searching For Answers On Ask.com In 2011

Ask: General

• Google’s Halloween Logo Made Up Of 6,000 Pounds Of Pumpkins
• Happy Thanksgiving Logos From Google, Yahoo, Bing & More

Ask: Video

• Key Microsoft Executive Yusuf Mehdi Leaves Bing Division For XBox

B2B Search Marketing

• Redefining B2B Search Engine Marketing KPIs In Wake Of Google Encrypted Search
• B2B SEO: 4 Quick Tips To Make Your Content Model Fresh
• 4 Recommendations For Benchmarking B2B Social Media Performance This Year

Beginner

• How To Canonicalize URLs As Backlinks In Local Search & Online Business Directories
• How To Analyze Your Content Performance In Google Analytics
• A Beginner’s Guide To Setting Goals In Google Analytics
• How To Prioritize Keywords For Optimization Based On Organic Competition

Business Issues: Acquisitions & Investments

• Adobe To Acquire Digital Marketing Agency Efficient Frontier

Facebook

• Facebook’s Zuckerberg To Charlie Rose: “We Just Do One Thing”
• Now It’s Facebook’s Turn For 20 Years Of FTC Privacy Audits
• Google+: Brands Rush In Where Consumers Fear To Tread
• New European Law ‘Targets’ Personalized Ad Targeting On Facebook
• Facebook Downplays Significance Of FTC Privacy Settlement

Featured

• How To Get Started With YouTube Promoted Video
• Bing Bans Holiday Deals Sites, Including One By Group That Created Cyber Monday

Features: Analysis

• Study: Bing More “Biased” Than Google; Google Not Behaving Anti-Competitively
• Google Search Algorithm Change For Freshness To Impact 35% Of Searches; Twitter Firehose Remains Off
• Google Offers Goes National, Still Makes Me Feel Excluded
• Eric Schmidt Tells Congress That Google Doesn’t Have ‘Separate Products & Services’
• The Alphabet of Google+ Direct Connect
• Eye-Tracking In Google Maps: Study Shows Value Of No. 1 Ranking & Social Content
• First Impressions: Galaxy Nexus Android 4.0 Smartphone
• Despite New Rules, Google Product Search Merchants Not Providing Accurate Tax & Shipping Costs
• Google+: Brands Rush In Where Consumers Fear To Tread
• Bing Bans Holiday Deals Sites, Including One By Group That Created Cyber Monday

Features: General

• Do You Have Duplicate Content Issues Across Domain? Google Will Now Alert You
• Social Tracking Integrations For Google Analytics
• Photo Tour: Grand Opening Of Google LA
• Google+ Pages Now Open For Businesses, Brands, Places & More
• Confirmed: Google Testing New “Sources” Display In Search Results
• Brands & News Sites Among Winners From Google’s Freshness Algo Update, Report Says
• Up Close With Creating & Managing Google+ Pages
• Google+ Badge Tool Now Makes Facepile-Style Badges, +1 Counts To Be Consolidated
• The Confusing World Of Sharing Songs From Google Music To Google+
• Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Search Engine? Bing’s New TV Ads Have A Ranking/Bass Stop-Motion Flavor
• Social Media Tactics That Work – Next Monday in Scottsdale, AZ

Foursquare

• Foursquare Redesign Creates Expanded Opportunities For Users, Advertisers
• Infographic: Black Friday As Seen Through Foursquare Check-Ins
• New “Save To Foursquare” Button Reaches Into The Real World

Google & China

• Fastest Growth For Baidu, Second Place For Yandex & Google Is The Runner Up?

Google: +1

• Google+ Pages For Businesses: The AdWords Impact
• Google+ Badge Tool Now Makes Facepile-Style Badges, +1 Counts To Be Consolidated
• Google News Spotlight Now Spotlights Your Friends & Stories They +1
• Cadbury’s Brin & Page Google +1 Chocolate Bars

Google: Accounts & Profiles

• Journalists Get Their Profiles Featured In Google News … Their Google+ Profiles, That Is

Google: Acquisitions

• Google Acquires Katango ‘Magicians’ To Improve Google+ Circles

Google: AdSense

• No Looking Back for AdSense Users: Interface Change Becomes Permanent

Google: AdWords

• Google Revamps AdWords Location Targeting Tool
• Google Unveils Ad Preferences Center For Search And Gmail Ads
• Google Creates “GoMo” Portal To Help You Mobilize
• UPDATED: Google Officially Rolls Out Ads At The Bottom Of Search Results
• Rhetoric vs. Reality: Schmidt Plays Up Mobile Competition In Written Senate Testimony
• Google+ Pages For Businesses: The AdWords Impact
• Infographic: How Do Google AdWords Work?
• Google Working With U.S. Treasury Department To Shut Down AdWords Mortgage Scams
• Google Acknowledges Bug in AdWords Keyword Tool
• AdWords Unveils New Top-Of-Page Bidding Options

Google: Analytics

• Keyword “Not Provided” By Google Spikes, Now 7-14% In Cases
• Social Tracking Integrations For Google Analytics
• Euclid Offers “Google Analytics For The Real World”
• New on Google Analytics Landing Pages Report – Measuring Success
• A Beginner’s Guide To Setting Goals In Google Analytics

Google: Android

• Google Checkout Is Dead, Long Live Google Wallet
• First Impressions: Galaxy Nexus Android 4.0 Smartphone
• Record-Breaking Black Friday Paves Way For $1 Billion Cyber-Monday
• Google Maps The Great Indoors (Android Only)

Google: Antitrust

• Study: Bing More “Biased” Than Google; Google Not Behaving Anti-Competitively
• Eric Schmidt Tells Congress That Google Doesn’t Have ‘Separate Products & Services’
• ShopCity: Latest Publisher To File Antitrust Complaint Against Google
• Bing Bans Holiday Deals Sites, Including One By Group That Created Cyber Monday

Google: Business Issues

• Study: Bing More “Biased” Than Google; Google Not Behaving Anti-Competitively
• Google Announces Shutter Of Knol, Gears, Search Timeline & More

Google: Cars

• Google X: A Secret Lab Where Google Plays With Crazy Ideas & Robots

Google: Checkout

• Google Checkout Is Dead, Long Live Google Wallet

Google: Critics

• Eric Schmidt Tells Congress That Google Doesn’t Have ‘Separate Products & Services’
• Rhetoric vs. Reality: Schmidt Plays Up Mobile Competition In Written Senate Testimony

Google: Employees

• Infographic: It’s Quite A Job To Get Hired By Google
• Cadbury’s Brin & Page Google +1 Chocolate Bars

Google: Gears

• Google Announces Shutter Of Knol, Gears, Search Timeline & More

Google: General

• Google Presents The Evolution Of Search In Six Minutes

Google: Gmail

• Google News Spotlight Now Spotlights Your Friends & Stories They +1

Google: Google+

• Journalists Get Their Profiles Featured In Google News … Their Google+ Profiles, That Is
• Google+ Gets YouTube Integration & Official Chrome Extension
• Google+ Pages Now Open For Businesses, Brands, Places & More
• Up Close With Creating & Managing Google+ Pages
• A Look At Google+ Direct Connect For Google+ Pages
• Google+ Pages For Businesses: The AdWords Impact
• The Alphabet of Google+ Direct Connect
• Google Acquires Katango ‘Magicians’ To Improve Google+ Circles
• Recent Google+ Posts & “Add To Circles” Buttons Are Coming To Google’s Search Results
• Third Party Page Management Comes To Google+
• Google+ Badge Tool Now Makes Facepile-Style Badges, +1 Counts To Be Consolidated
• Report: Google+ Sees Its 3rd Largest Week Since Launch
• Google+: Brands Rush In Where Consumers Fear To Tread
• Google+ Expands Search Options, Adds Trending Topics To Search Results
• Google News Spotlight Now Spotlights Your Friends & Stories They +1
• Google Announces Shutter Of Knol, Gears, Search Timeline & More
• Oops, She Did It — Britney Spears Beats Larry Page As Most Popular On Google+
• Barack Obama Joins Google+, White House Itself Still Not There
• Is Google+ Beginning To Integrate Into Google Places?
• Google + Thanksgiving Day TV Commercial
• Google+ Is Slowly Invading Google’s Main Search Results

Google: Images

• Improved Snippets, Rank Boost For “Official” Pages Among 10 New Google Algorithm Changes

Google: Knol

• Google Announces Shutter Of Knol, Gears, Search Timeline & More

Google: Labs

• Google X: A Secret Lab Where Google Plays With Crazy Ideas & Robots

Google: Legal

• Eric Schmidt Tells Congress That Google Doesn’t Have ‘Separate Products & Services’
• Rhetoric vs. Reality: Schmidt Plays Up Mobile Competition In Written Senate Testimony
• ShopCity: Latest Publisher To File Antitrust Complaint Against Google
• SEMPO To Feds: Hands Off Google
• Google Working With U.S. Treasury Department To Shut Down AdWords Mortgage Scams

Google: Logos

• Google’s Halloween Logo Made Up Of 6,000 Pounds Of Pumpkins
• Marie Curie Google Logo
• Google’s 2011 Veterans Day Logo
• Google’s Louis Daguerre Logo
• Google Does Thanksgiving Logo Early, First Ever One Sharable On Google+
• Happy Thanksgiving Logos From Google, Yahoo, Bing & More
• Google’s Mark Twain Birthday Logo Features Tom Sawyer Getting Out Of Painting That Fence

Google: Maps & Local

• New Look for Places Results On Google.com
• Google Revamps AdWords Location Targeting Tool
• Google Raises Local Search Stakes With New Places SERP
• Rhetoric vs. Reality: Schmidt Plays Up Mobile Competition In Written Senate Testimony
• Google Expands Offers To Five New Markets
• Eye-Tracking In Google Maps: Study Shows Value Of No. 1 Ranking & Social Content
• The Dealmix Promotes Search As A Differentiator
• Is Google+ Beginning To Integrate Into Google Places?
• The Big Roundup: Finding Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals & Specials
• Google Maps The Great Indoors (Android Only)

Google: Marketing

• Google Leads In Search Engines’ Efforts To Woo TV Viewers
• Google + Thanksgiving Day TV Commercial

Google: Mobile

• Google Creates “GoMo” Portal To Help You Mobilize
• Smartphones Now Over 50 Percent For Under 44 Crowd
• Mobile Traffic To Retail Sites To Hit 15% During Holiday ’11
• Rhetoric vs. Reality: Schmidt Plays Up Mobile Competition In Written Senate Testimony
• Google Expands Offers To Five New Markets
• Mobile Will Be 22 Percent Of Search Revs Next Year — Report
• Do You Know Google’s Official Stance On Mobile Search & SEO?
• Google Checkout Is Dead, Long Live Google Wallet
• Google Search For iPad Updated With New Features
• Google Adds Mobile App Search Tool
• The Big Roundup: Finding Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals & Specials
• Record-Breaking Black Friday Paves Way For $1 Billion Cyber-Monday
• Google Maps The Great Indoors (Android Only)

Google: Music

• Google Takes On iTunes, Amazon With New Music Store
• The Confusing World Of Sharing Songs From Google Music To Google+

Google: News

• Journalists Get Their Profiles Featured In Google News … Their Google+ Profiles, That Is
• Google News Spotlight Now Spotlights Your Friends & Stories They +1

Google: Offers

• Google Expands Offers To Five New Markets

Google: Other

• ‘Think Insights’: Google’s New Research Hub Offers Data Porn For Marketers
• Google X: A Secret Lab Where Google Plays With Crazy Ideas & Robots
• Cadbury’s Brin & Page Google +1 Chocolate Bars

Google: Outside US

• Fastest Growth For Baidu, Second Place For Yandex & Google Is The Runner Up?

Google: Panda Update

• “Minor” Google Panda Update On November 18th
• Bing Bans Holiday Deals Sites, Including One By Group That Created Cyber Monday

Google: Place Pages

• Is Google+ Beginning To Integrate Into Google Places?

Google: Privacy

• Google Announces “_nomap” WiFi Opt-out Option, Wants Other Location Providers To Go Along

Google: Product Search

• Despite New Rules, Google Product Search Merchants Not Providing Accurate Tax & Shipping Costs
• The Big Roundup: Finding Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals & Specials

Google: Real Time Search

• Google+ Expands Search Options, Adds Trending Topics To Search Results

Google: Rich Snippets

• Journalists Get Their Profiles Featured In Google News … Their Google+ Profiles, That Is

Google: Search Customization

• Google Announces Shutter Of Knol, Gears, Search Timeline & More

Google: SEO

• Google Can Now Execute AJAX & JavaScript For Indexing
• Google’s Definitive Cloaking Video
• Google Search Algorithm Change For Freshness To Impact 35% Of Searches; Twitter Firehose Remains Off
• Brands & News Sites Among Winners From Google’s Freshness Algo Update, Report Says
• Google May Penalize Ad Heavy Pages
• Improved Snippets, Rank Boost For “Official” Pages Among 10 New Google Algorithm Changes
• Google Quality Raters Can Rate Your Site Without Seeing It
• “Minor” Google Panda Update On November 18th

Google: Social Search

• How To Find Local Influencers On Google Plus
• Facebook Comments Now Being Indexed By Google

Google: Street View

• Google Announces “_nomap” WiFi Opt-out Option, Wants Other Location Providers To Go Along

Google: Suggest

• The Alphabet of Google+ Direct Connect

Google: Think With Google

• ‘Think Insights’: Google’s New Research Hub Offers Data Porn For Marketers

Google: User Interface

• Google Tests New Drop Down Navigation Bar From Google + Logo
• VIDEO: Google’s “Do A Barrel Roll” Search Is Latest Easter Egg
• Confirmed: Google Testing New “Sources” Display In Search Results
• Google+ Is Slowly Invading Google’s Main Search Results
• Google’s New Black Menu Bar Is Now Google’s Old Black Menu Bar

Google: Wallet

• Google Checkout Is Dead, Long Live Google Wallet

Google: Web Search

• Google Search Algorithm Change For Freshness To Impact 35% Of Searches; Twitter Firehose Remains Off
• VIDEO: Google’s “Do A Barrel Roll” Search Is Latest Easter Egg
• Rhetoric vs. Reality: Schmidt Plays Up Mobile Competition In Written Senate Testimony
• Confirmed: Google Testing New “Sources” Display In Search Results
• Brands & News Sites Among Winners From Google’s Freshness Algo Update, Report Says
• Improved Snippets, Rank Boost For “Official” Pages Among 10 New Google Algorithm Changes
• Responding To Complaints, Google Adds Verbatim Search Results
• “Minor” Google Panda Update On November 18th
• Google Search For iPad Updated With New Features
• Google Adds Mobile App Search Tool
• Google+ Is Slowly Invading Google’s Main Search Results
• Google Presents The Evolution Of Search In Six Minutes
• Google’s New Black Menu Bar Is Now Google’s Old Black Menu Bar

Google: Webmaster Central

• Do You Have Duplicate Content Issues Across Domain? Google Will Now Alert You

Google: YouTube & Video

• YouTube Passes 20 Billion Video Views In One Month
• How To Get Started With YouTube Promoted Video

How To

• How To Canonicalize URLs As Backlinks In Local Search & Online Business Directories
• SEO Best Practices For HTML5: Truths, Half-Truths & Outright Lies
• How To Terrify Executives Into Linkbuilding
• How To Analyze Your Content Performance In Google Analytics
• How To Prioritize Keywords For Optimization Based On Organic Competition

How To: Analytics

• How To Analyze Your Content Performance In Google Analytics
• A Beginner’s Guide To Setting Goals In Google Analytics

How To: Links

• How To Canonicalize URLs As Backlinks In Local Search & Online Business Directories
• How To Terrify Executives Into Linkbuilding

How To: SEO

• SEO Best Practices For HTML5: Truths, Half-Truths & Outright Lies
• How To Prioritize Keywords For Optimization Based On Organic Competition

How To: Site Search

• How To Search Anywhere From The Firefox Search Bar

How To: Social Media Marketing

• Up Close With Creating & Managing Google+ Pages
• How To Get Started With YouTube Promoted Video

In House Search Marketing

• Annual Budgeting Guide For The In-House Marketer
• How To Terrify Executives Into Linkbuilding
• Six Ways Online Retailers Can Better Optimize Listings For Amazon

In The Trenches

• PPC Shop Tools: The Permutator

Industrial Strength

• 3 Tips Key To 2011 Holiday Advertising
• How To Use Rich Snippets, Structured Markup For High Powered SEO
• SEO Best Practices For HTML5: Truths, Half-Truths & Outright Lies
• How To Build & Manage Enterprise Search Marketing Teams
• How To Get Started With YouTube Promoted Video

Infographics

• Infographic: The Top Three US Search Engines
• Infographic: Digital Marketer Views On SEO, PPC & Social Media
• Infographic: Social, Local & Mobile, SoLoMo By The Numbers
• Infographic: How, When & Where People Share Content
• Infographic: How Do Google AdWords Work?
• Infographic: QR Code Trends
• Infographic: Tips To Avoid Shopping Cart Abandonment
• Infographic: Black Friday As Seen Through Foursquare Check-Ins
• Infographic: Online Holiday Shopping Trends
• Infographic: It’s Quite A Job To Get Hired By Google

Keywords & Content

• Organic Keywords: The First Step In Search Engine Optimization
• Content Marketing Essentials: Tactical Advice From A To Z
• Why Do Search Engines, Keyword Research & SEO Really Matter?
• How To Prioritize Keywords For Optimization Based On Organic Competition

Legal

• Feds Shut Down Mortgage Scammers on Bing/Yahoo

Legal: Crawling & Indexing

• Bing Bans Holiday Deals Sites, Including One By Group That Created Cyber Monday

Legal: General

• Rhetoric vs. Reality: Schmidt Plays Up Mobile Competition In Written Senate Testimony

Legal: Privacy

• Now It’s Facebook’s Turn For 20 Years Of FTC Privacy Audits
• Google Announces “_nomap” WiFi Opt-out Option, Wants Other Location Providers To Go Along

Legal: Regulation

• Rhetoric vs. Reality: Schmidt Plays Up Mobile Competition In Written Senate Testimony
• Now It’s Facebook’s Turn For 20 Years Of FTC Privacy Audits
• SEMPO To Feds: Hands Off Google

Link Building

• Link Building Tool Review: SEO Book
• How To Terrify Executives Into Linkbuilding

Link Building: General

• Link Building Tool Review: SEO Book
• How To Terrify Executives Into Linkbuilding

Link Week

• How To Canonicalize URLs As Backlinks In Local Search & Online Business Directories
• Is Pinterest The Next Great Place To Get Links & Social Mentions?
• Link Building Tool Review: SEO Book
• Thoughts On Random Link Spikes & The Events That Create Them
• Manual Link Building Is Hard, But There Are No Shortcuts To Value

Local Search

• How To Find Local Influencers On Google Plus
• 9 Common Ways To Bork Your Local Rankings In Google
• 3 Simple Steps To Get Siri & Her Friends To Talk Up Your Local Business
• How Google Panda & Places Updates Created A Rollercoaster Ride For IYP Traffic
• 5 Tips For Responding To Negative Customer Reviews Online

Microsoft: adCenter

• Yahoo & Microsoft Proceeds With Search Ad Transition In 2012
• AdCenter Releases Support For Negative Exact Match Today
• Feds Shut Down Mortgage Scammers on Bing/Yahoo

Microsoft: Bing

• Google’s Halloween Logo Made Up Of 6,000 Pounds Of Pumpkins
• Bing Marries Native App, HTML5 In Upgraded Mobile Version
• Study: Bing More “Biased” Than Google; Google Not Behaving Anti-Competitively
• Bing Central: Bing’s New Self-Promotional User Hub
• Yahoo & Microsoft Proceeds With Search Ad Transition In 2012
• Key Microsoft Executive Yusuf Mehdi Leaves Bing Division For XBox
• Google Leads In Search Engines’ Efforts To Woo TV Viewers
• Bing Launches “Editors’ Picks”
• Feds Shut Down Mortgage Scammers on Bing/Yahoo
• Microsoft Swaps Daily Deals Brand: It’s Now “MSN Offers”
• Happy Thanksgiving Logos From Google, Yahoo, Bing & More
• The Big Roundup: Finding Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals & Specials
• Bieber Tops Bing’s List Of Most Popular Searches In 2011
• Bing Bans Holiday Deals Sites, Including One By Group That Created Cyber Monday

Microsoft: Bing Central

• Bing Central: Bing’s New Self-Promotional User Hub

Microsoft: Bing Entertainment

• Microsoft Swaps Daily Deals Brand: It’s Now “MSN Offers”

Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local

• Bing Maps Expands Sharing, Editing Options
• Google Maps The Great Indoors (Android Only)

Microsoft: Bing Mobile

• Bing Marries Native App, HTML5 In Upgraded Mobile Version
• Google Maps The Great Indoors (Android Only)

Microsoft: Bing SEO

• Bing Bans Holiday Deals Sites, Including One By Group That Created Cyber Monday

Microsoft: Bing Shopping & Cashback

• The Big Roundup: Finding Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals & Specials

Microsoft: Bing Social Search

• Microsoft’s Socl.com Is Alive & Well & Turning Search Results Into Social Content

Microsoft: Bing Webmaster Tools

• Bing Webmaster Tools Expand Crawl Details, Offers URL Normalization Tips & More

Microsoft: Business Issues

• Yahoo & Microsoft Proceeds With Search Ad Transition In 2012
• Key Microsoft Executive Yusuf Mehdi Leaves Bing Division For XBox

Microsoft: Employees

• Key Microsoft Executive Yusuf Mehdi Leaves Bing Division For XBox

Microsoft: Marketing

• Google Leads In Search Engines’ Efforts To Woo TV Viewers
• Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Search Engine? Bing’s New TV Ads Have A Ranking/Bass Stop-Motion Flavor

Microsoft: Other

• Microsoft’s Socl.com Is Alive & Well & Turning Search Results Into Social Content
• Microsoft Swaps Daily Deals Brand: It’s Now “MSN Offers”

Microsoft: Other Search

• Microsoft’s Socl.com Is Alive & Well & Turning Search Results Into Social Content

Mobile Search

• Siri, Are You Taking Over Mobile Search?
• Do You Know Google’s Official Stance On Mobile Search & SEO?
• Give Thanks Google Hasn’t Secured Mobile Search Data – Yet

Multinational Search

• Fastest Growth For Baidu, Second Place For Yandex & Google Is The Runner Up?
• 5 Ways To Improve Your International SEO Strategy
• 6 Tips For Reducing The Impact Of Duplication For Global Websites
• 8 Tips To Build Successful International SEM Campaigns
• International SEM: Important Lessons In Understanding The True Nature Of Keywords

Paid Search

• 7 Quick Wins For High Converting PPC Landing Pages
• Are You Creeping Out Your Customers With Remarketing?
• Brand Ad Cannibalism: A Tale Of Two Tests
• Using PPC Run Charts To Identify Problems & Opportunities
• Thinking Beyond Typical PPC Landing Pages

Panda Update News

• “Minor” Google Panda Update On November 18th

Search & Analytics

• Data Shows Retailers Need To Pace Spend To Maximize Black Friday Performance
• How To Measure The True Return On Your Ad Spend
• How To Analyze Your Content Performance In Google Analytics
• A Beginner’s Guide To Setting Goals In Google Analytics

Search & Conversion

• Rethinking The Marketing Technology Gap To Improve Performance
• 8 Ways Landing Pages Are Like A TV Sitcom
• 5 Tips To Improve Conversions For B2B Sites
• A Visit From Saint Click & Landing Pages In 2012

Search & Display

• The Industry Speaks On The Overlap Between Search & Display
• Search Retargeting: 4 Tips To Use Recency To Drive Performance
• Search Vs. Display: Which Will Come Out On Top In 2012?

Search & Retail

• How To Leverage Structured Markup To Create E-Commerce Web Portals
• Champagne Or Boone’s Farm? 3 Things That Will Determine Your Holiday Search Success

Search & Social

• Learn To Control Your Message With Social Sharing & Open Graph
• What Businesses & Brands Can Use Google Plus Pages For Now
• Making PPC & Social Media Work Together Seamlessly
• Freshness Update + Social Media = Happy Users

Search & Society

• Bieber Tops Bing’s List Of Most Popular Searches In 2011
• Searching For Answers On Ask.com In 2011

Search & Society: General

• Dexter Dings SEO: Why Do Hollywood Writers Keep Giving Search Engine Optimization A Bad Name?
• Bieber Tops Bing’s List Of Most Popular Searches In 2011
• Searching For Answers On Ask.com In 2011

Search & Usability

• Why Blending Usability & SEO Really Matters
• User-Centered Or Usage-Centered Design: Which Is Better For SEO?

Search Ads

• Adobe To Acquire Digital Marketing Agency Efficient Frontier

Search Ads: Behavioral Targeting

• The Industry Speaks On The Overlap Between Search & Display

Search Ads: General

• The Industry Speaks On The Overlap Between Search & Display
• Search Retargeting: 4 Tips To Use Recency To Drive Performance

Search Ads: Video

• How To Get Started With YouTube Promoted Video

Search Engines: Baidu

• Fastest Growth For Baidu, Second Place For Yandex & Google Is The Runner Up?

Search Engines: China Search Engines

• Fastest Growth For Baidu, Second Place For Yandex & Google Is The Runner Up?

Search Engines: Deals & Coupon Search Engines

• The Dealmix Promotes Search As A Differentiator

Search Engines: Location / Checkin Services

• Euclid Offers “Google Analytics For The Real World”
• Foursquare Redesign Creates Expanded Opportunities For Users, Advertisers

Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines

• Report: 32 Percent Of Users Do 5+ LoMo Searches Per Month
• Foursquare Redesign Creates Expanded Opportunities For Users, Advertisers
• The Dealmix Promotes Search As A Differentiator
• The Big Roundup: Finding Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals & Specials

Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines

• Do You Know Google’s Official Stance On Mobile Search & SEO?
• Report: 32 Percent Of Users Do 5+ LoMo Searches Per Month
• The Big Roundup: Finding Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals & Specials

Search Engines: News Search Engines

• Trapit Aims To Be Your Search “Personal Assistant”

Search Engines: Outside USA

• Fastest Growth For Baidu, Second Place For Yandex & Google Is The Runner Up?
• International SEM: Important Lessons In Understanding The True Nature Of Keywords

Search Engines: Personalized Search Engines

• Trapit Aims To Be Your Search “Personal Assistant”

Search Engines: Shopping Search Engines

• Six Ways Online Retailers Can Better Optimize Listings For Amazon

Search Engines: Travel Search Engines

• Wolfram Alpha Offers New Twist On Flight Search: Literal Answers To What Planes Are Overhead

Search Engines: Video Search Engines

• How To Get Started With YouTube Promoted Video

Search Engines: Wolfram Alpha

• Wolfram Alpha Offers New Twist On Flight Search: Literal Answers To What Planes Are Overhead

Search Engines: Yandex

• Fastest Growth For Baidu, Second Place For Yandex & Google Is The Runner Up?

Search Features: Search By Voice

• Siri, Are You Taking Over Mobile Search?

Search In Pictures

• Search In Pics: Chrome Beer, Bing Energy Drink & Yahoo’s Halloween
• Search In Pics: Android Wedding, Yahoo Security & Google Clouds

Search Marketing: General

• SEO Beats PPC & Social Media For Generating Leads, New Industry Report Says
• Euclid Offers “Google Analytics For The Real World”

Search Marketing: Local Search Marketing

• How To Canonicalize URLs As Backlinks In Local Search & Online Business Directories
• Euclid Offers “Google Analytics For The Real World”

Search Marketing: Mobile

• Siri, Are You Taking Over Mobile Search?
• Euclid Offers “Google Analytics For The Real World”
• Infographic: QR Code Trends

Search Marketing: Shopping Search Marketing

• Infographic: Tips To Avoid Shopping Cart Abandonment

SEM Industry: Conferences

• See Who’s Speaking at SMX Social Media Marketing – Rates Increase Next Week, Register Now!
• SMX West 2012 Registration Open – Best Rates Available Now, Save $400
• 6 Days to Save on SMX Social Media Marketing – Register Now!
• Search Engine Land’s SMX Social Media Marketing Show Rates Increase Saturday – Register Now!
• SMX West Workshops Announced for February 27 – Best Rates Available Now
• Wanted: Session Ideas For SMX West
• Organic, Paid & Owned Social Media Tactics – Master Them at SMX Social Media Marketing
• SMX Social Media Marketing Kicks Off in 2 Weeks – Secure Your Spot Today!
• Social Media Tactics That Work – Next Monday in Scottsdale, AZ
• Free and Paid Tactics for Google+, Facebook and Twitter – SMX Social Media Marketing Starts Next Monday! December 5-6 in Scottsdale, AZ

SEM Industry: General

• SEO Beats PPC & Social Media For Generating Leads, New Industry Report Says

SEM Industry: Stats

• SEO Beats PPC & Social Media For Generating Leads, New Industry Report Says
• Infographic: Digital Marketer Views On SEO, PPC & Social Media

SEM Tools: Links

• Majestic OpenApps – An Easier Way To Access Majestic SEO Data
• Link Building Tool Review: SEO Book

SEM Tools: PPC

• PPC Shop Tools: The Permutator

SEO: Blocking Spiders

• Google Can Now Execute AJAX & JavaScript For Indexing

SEO: Cloaking & Doorway Pages

• Google’s Definitive Cloaking Video

SEO: Duplicate Content

• Do You Have Duplicate Content Issues Across Domain? Google Will Now Alert You

SEO: Flash

• Google Can Now Execute AJAX & JavaScript For Indexing

SEO: Mobile Search

• Siri, Are You Taking Over Mobile Search?
• Do You Know Google’s Official Stance On Mobile Search & SEO?

SMX & SMN Alerts

• Content Strategy Tuesday, Improve Paid Search on Thursday – Webcasts this week
• See Who’s Speaking at SMX Social Media Marketing – Rates Increase Next Week, Register Now!
• SMX West 2012 Registration Open – Best Rates Available Now, Save $400
• 6 Days to Save on SMX Social Media Marketing – Register Now!
• Search Engine Land’s SMX Social Media Marketing Show Rates Increase Saturday – Register Now!
• SMX West Workshops Announced for February 27 – Best Rates Available Now
• Wanted: Session Ideas For SMX West
• Organic, Paid & Owned Social Media Tactics – Master Them at SMX Social Media Marketing
• SMX Social Media Marketing Kicks Off in 2 Weeks – Secure Your Spot Today!
• Future of the Search Agency; PPC Growth in 2012 – SMN Webcasts Next Week
• Social Media Tactics That Work – Next Monday in Scottsdale, AZ
• Free and Paid Tactics for Google+, Facebook and Twitter – SMX Social Media Marketing Starts Next Monday! December 5-6 in Scottsdale, AZ

Social Media Marketing

• See Who’s Speaking at SMX Social Media Marketing – Rates Increase Next Week, Register Now!
• Infographic: How, When & Where People Share Content
• Survey: Most Use Social Media To Keep In Touch, Not To Follow Celebrities Or Find Dates

Stats: comScore

• Smartphones Now Over 50 Percent For Under 44 Crowd
• Mobile Traffic To Retail Sites To Hit 15% During Holiday ’11
• Search Engine Market Share Remains Steady In October, comScore Says
• YouTube Passes 20 Billion Video Views In One Month

Stats: General

• Smartphones Now Over 50 Percent For Under 44 Crowd
• Infographic: Social, Local & Mobile, SoLoMo By The Numbers
• Infographic: How, When & Where People Share Content
• Infographic: Online Holiday Shopping Trends

Stats: History

• Google Presents The Evolution Of Search In Six Minutes

Stats: Hitwise

• Hitwise: Bing-powered Search Share Inches Up; One-Word Queries Also Rising

Stats: NetRatings

• Smartphones Now Over 50 Percent For Under 44 Crowd
• Mobile Traffic To Retail Sites To Hit 15% During Holiday ’11

Stats: Popularity

• Infographic: The Top Three US Search Engines
• Search Engine Market Share Remains Steady In October, comScore Says
• Hitwise: Bing-powered Search Share Inches Up; One-Word Queries Also Rising
• YouTube Passes 20 Billion Video Views In One Month

Stats: Search Behavior

• Mobile Will Be 22 Percent Of Search Revs Next Year — Report
• Eye-Tracking In Google Maps: Study Shows Value Of No. 1 Ranking & Social Content
• Report: 32 Percent Of Users Do 5+ LoMo Searches Per Month
• Hitwise: Bing-powered Search Share Inches Up; One-Word Queries Also Rising

Stats: Size

• Smartphones Now Over 50 Percent For Under 44 Crowd

Stats: Spend Projections

• SEO Beats PPC & Social Media For Generating Leads, New Industry Report Says
• Infographic: Digital Marketer Views On SEO, PPC & Social Media
• Mobile Will Be 22 Percent Of Search Revs Next Year — Report

Toolbars & Add-Ons

• How To Search Anywhere From The Firefox Search Bar

Toolbars & Add-Ons: Firefox Browser

• Twitter, Mozilla Strike Deal That Bakes Twitter Search Into Firefox 8 Search Box

Twitter

• Twitter Begins To Roll Out The ‘Activities’ Tab To The Masses

Twitter: Business Issues

• Twitter, Mozilla Strike Deal That Bakes Twitter Search Into Firefox 8 Search Box

Twitter: Search

• Twitter, Mozilla Strike Deal That Bakes Twitter Search Into Firefox 8 Search Box

Yahoo: Business Issues

• Yahoo Product Runway: Livestand And IntoNow

Yahoo: Display Ads

• Yahoo Product Runway: Livestand And IntoNow

Yahoo: General

• Google’s Halloween Logo Made Up Of 6,000 Pounds Of Pumpkins
• Yahoo Product Runway: Livestand And IntoNow

Yahoo: Legal

• Feds Shut Down Mortgage Scammers on Bing/Yahoo

Yahoo: Marketing

• Happy Thanksgiving Logos From Google, Yahoo, Bing & More

Yahoo: Mobile & Go

• Yahoo Product Runway: Livestand And IntoNow

Yahoo: Search

• Yahoo & Microsoft Proceeds With Search Ad Transition In 2012
• With Holidays Near, Yahoo Upgrades Its Shopping & Recipe Search Results

Yahoo: Search Ads

• Yahoo & Microsoft Proceeds With Search Ad Transition In 2012

Yahoo: Shopping

• With Holidays Near, Yahoo Upgrades Its Shopping & Recipe Search Results

Yahoo: Site Explorer

• Yahoo Site Explorer Closing Down Monday, November 21st

Yahoo: User Interface

• With Holidays Near, Yahoo Upgrades Its Shopping & Recipe Search Results

Advanced

• The Highs & Lows Of Search Retargeting: Version 3.0 Is Here Already

All Things SEO

• The Clickthrough Rate Equation In Organic Search
• How To Take Your Keyword Research To A Higher Level
• The Growing Need For SEO In Political Campaigns
• How To Devise A Psychology Based SEO Strategy

AOL: MapQuest

• Mapquest Debuts New Local-Social Mapping Site “MQ Vibe”

AOL: Mobile

• Mapquest Debuts New Local-Social Mapping Site “MQ Vibe”

Apple

• Apple Delivers iPhone 4S With Siri Voice “Assistant,” Disappoints On iPhone 5
• With New Siri Promised For iPhone 4S, Apple Pulls Existing Siri From App Store
• How Siri Patches Up The iPhone’s Voice Search Weakness Vs. Android
• Apple’s Steve Jobs Has Died
• Steve Jobs Searches Spiked At Google
• Tweets About Steve Jobs Spike But Don’t Break Twitter Peak Record
• Android Has More Market Share, But Apple’s iOS Sends More Traffic
• “Grand Theft” Android: Jobs Bio Reveals Intense Anger At Google, But Didn’t Block Search Deals
• Apple Maps Inevitable As Company Acquires 3D Mapper C3

Apple: Siri

• Why Siri + Yelp = Useless Google Maps On The iPhone 4S
• Head To Head: Siri Vs. Google Voice Actions
• Stephen Colbert Gets His Siri On
• Not Just Google: Siri Searches Bing And Yahoo Too
• Siri, Are You Taking Over Mobile Search?