Yahoo has closed its web directories in four countries, and it seems no one noticed. It happened back in December, and Yahoo is now redirecting those directories to the country-specific web search pages. Sean Carlos dropped us a note about his blog post today on Antezeta.com, and we got this confirmation from Yahoo: As part of *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above or, in Facebook, by clicking on the “View Original Post” link below

A week to the day after releasing its new AdWords Analyze Competitors feature, Google is once again launching a new tool – Google Commerce Search 2.0., the newest version of its tailor-made search engine for retailers. Click to read the rest of this post…

Canonicalization sounds like a process for recognizing sainthood, or maybe a training course in aiming large projectile weapons. But it’s actually one of the most important aspects of organic SEO. Good canonicalization means search engines crawl more pages of your site; it means that link authority and PageRank get consolidated, so you have a stronger *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above or, in Facebook, by clicking on the “View Original Post” link below.

Google has just added a  new option to Google Maps UK which could be useful if you’re property hunting in the UK. This new option called “Properties”, gives you a little red dot on Google Maps which display every house or flat for sale or rent

Time is ticking down to register for the BlueGlass LA online marketing conference, which is proving to be one of the most important marketing events of the decade. BlueGlass LA , a collaborative effort of Search & Social (SEJ), 10e20 and Tony Adam of MySpace will be a bit of a different approach to an online marketing conference.

AOL has confirmed in an SEC filing this morning that it has sold its ailing social site Bebo to digital media investors Criterion Capital Partners . Although the value of the deal was not disclosed, reports have the price tag at a mere $10 million although AOL had forked out a hefty $850 million to acquire the company in March 2008

A WebmasterWorld thread points to a recent presentation video by Yahoo and Microsoft of the transition timelines for Bing to begin powering Yahoo on both the organic and paid side of search. Did you know that Bing is already or..

At the OMMA Video event this week, MediaPost columnist Steve Smith called the Gulf Oil Spill Tracker created by PBS NewsHour the “biggest online video of the year.” He added, “”There is no better example of the power that online video has.” Click to read the rest of this post…

Earlier this week, we reported that Google would fix the soft-404 errors that were inaccurate showing up in the new 404-like reports within Webmaster Tools.

The evolution of search and social, and more broadly the interaction of the public at large with the internet and the available media online, is naturally of huge interest to all those that offers services in the industry. As search engines continue to evolve and social media stretches its own boundaries, this set-up really tests the agility of a companies offering.  I’m predominantly working with clients, who are looking to harness their assets for greater visibility online, and maintain and develop channels that work commercially with them as a brand. Now my title makes me an SEO specialist but in all honesty, I keep on thinking that the remit of ‘search engine optimisation’ is really being tested – especially as there is far too much cross-over with other channels…maybe something along the lines of an organic visibility specialist / earned media specialist would be a better way of describing what we do as SEO’s?  The future of SEO in my mind, given whatever budget, needs to promote access to the optimisation of all media and marketing channels for organic visibility…and shouldn’t be restricted to only websites and link-building