If you login to Google AdWords using Apple’s latest update to their browser, Safari version 5, you will get a warning from Google. The warning reads: We have detected that you are using an older web browser.

Over the past month there have been 3 major conferences in the new search world: Google I/O , Apple Worldwide Developers Conference , & SMX Advanced .

Over the past month there have been 3 major conferences in the new search world: Google I/O , Apple Worldwide Developers Conference , & SMX Advanced . I attended the first and last but there must have been some cross-up with my invitation to the Apple WWDC

The Google Lat Long Blog announced they have launched Google Property search in the UK at maps.google.co.uk/property. You will also be able to access this via maps.google.co.uk and then by clicking on the “More menu” and selecting “Properties…” Here is a screen shot of the red dots overlaid on the map, symbolizing properties for sale: Google *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above or, in Facebook, by clicking on the “View Original Post” link below. ***

A WebmasterWorld thread has two webmasters claiming Bing is getting much faster at indexing new content than in the past. One said, the speed is almost, if not, similar to Google’s speed of indexing content. Google made this big stink…

A Sphinn thread links to a post named Was The Google Mayday Update A Complete Failure Then?. The blog post goes through examples on how even though the May Day update was suppose to really downgrade the rankings of sites…

Last week I had some great time speaking to Apture representative who encouraged me to go ahead and give their tool a try at SEOSmarty.com . Before I share my experience with you, go ahead and see the service in action at my site (scroll a bit and notice a well-branded bar above the screen allowing you to share the page): The Apture bar allows the user to do the following: Share the page on Twitter and Facebook (these also work as count buttons instantly showing how many times the page has already been shared so far); Share the page via email; Search the web for anything you want without ever leaving the page: The search will open in a tiny pop-up; The search results will open in new tabs Note: one of the latest service update was introducing “ Multiple Site Search ” – which allows you to let users searvh within your network of sites – cool! I shared the tool with a few friends and all of them loved it: the bar really looked both engaging and clutter-free! The script was pre-made for me, so to get the full understanding of the process I decided to go ahead and create the bar for my other site, Sexy Social Media

We have discussed the security risks of local business listing hijackings in the past.  One of the comments made about these security discussions is why do the geo-listing websites like Google, Yahoo, Bing, and up to 60 others insure the security to avoid hijackings?  Of course the question to be asked is why should they provide the security service for a free marketing tool that will benefit the business? Geo-Listing Security Many of these websites do have some level of security built into the process of claiming an existing listing or adding a new listing.  So far, these security processes have included sending a post card to the existing address with a pin code; a computer calling to the business phone number with the pin; or in some cases a manual review by staff working for these geo-listing websites. On May 27th, Google announced that community edits of local business listings was no longer be allowed to go without staff review.  An excerpt of their announcement states: “We recently made a change to Google Maps to require all community edits to be reviewed before they are shown

We have discussed the security risks of local business listing hijackings in the past.  One of the comments made about these security discussions is why do the geo-listing websites like Google, Yahoo, Bing, and up to 60 others insure the security to avoid hijackings?  Of course the question to be asked is why should they provide the security service for a free marketing tool that will benefit the business? Geo-Listing Security Many of these websites do have some level of security built into the process of claiming an existing listing or adding a new listing.  So far, these security processes have included sending a post card to the existing address with a pin code; a computer calling to the business phone number with the pin; or in some cases a manual review by staff working for these geo-listing websites.

It’s safe to say 2009 and 2010 were breakout years for social media. Our last Digital Marketing poll showed 6 of the top 10 tactics as social media complemented by search engine marketing and email.  Slimmer marketing budgets and mass media attention have inspired a rush to many types social media marketing tactics bringing a certain over-optimism about what the social web can do for a company’s bottom line