YouTube is a powerful social engine for users, but what are the best ways for marketers to channel that energy for their brands?

A Swiss Army Knife is an amazing tool. Besides its function as a knife, it can do so much more – it’s a corkscrew, can opener, bottle opener, tweezers, wire stripper, key ring, and more! Yet like many multi-purpose tools, most of its capabilities go untapped. The same can be said about analytics.

Facebook is turning out to be a major video destination although it’s not what the social site is best known for.

Posted by randfish This past week during the SMX

There are several webmasters complaining in Google Webmaster Help and WebmasterWorld that Google has stopped crawling their site’s as of yesterday morning. Some say the crawling has not stopped completely, but rather dipped to a tiny fraction of the crawl…

We have talked about reciprocal links dozens, maybe hundreds, of times here already. However, a new thread at WebmasterWorld tries to understand the issue, if any with them.

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If you are relatively new to PPC marketing , it’s a good idea to consider taking an online course. There are quite a few of these courses being offered, and unlike your typical blog entry or news article, they provide a comprehensive overview of paid search advertising. Another benefit is that many of the courses offer a certification exam

Arguing forcefully that it’s necessary to protect privacy, the “Article 29 Working Party” of the European Parliament has been trying to get search engines to cut their data retention (IP addresses/cookies) to six months. Microsoft some time ago said it would comply; Google however said it would not and that it needs to store data *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above or, in Facebook, by clicking on the “View Original Post” link below

Arguing forcefully that it’s necessary to protect privacy, the “Article 29 Working Party” of the European Parliament has been trying to get search engines to cut their data retention (IP addresses/cookies) to six months. Microsoft some time ago said it would comply; Google however said it would not and that it needs to store data *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above or, in Facebook, by clicking on the “View Original Post” link below.