Spotlight on Search Interview with Michael Nguyen, SEO Strategist for Shopzilla & Bizrate.com. Helping companies with very, very large web sites increase sales through improved search engine performance takes a unique type of person.

Posted by laura This post was originally in YOUmoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc

Adding real-time search and social search to the mix in the search engine world has created a number of new opportunities for marketers that want to do a better job of reaching customers. With new data sharing announcements happening fairly regularly, it can paint an interesting picture when you lay out the relationships between major social networks and search engines.

Adding real-time search and social search to the mix in the search engine world has created a number of new opportunities for marketers that want to do a better job of reaching customers. With new data sharing announcements happening fairly regularly, it can paint an interesting picture when you lay out the relationships between major social networks and search engines. It’s not unlike the search engine relationship chart from Bruce Clay I remember from several years ago documenting the relationships between Inktomi, Yahoo, Lycos, Alta Vista, Excite, HotBot, Direct Hit/Teoma, Northern Light and even Google.

Posted by randfish Earlier this year, Danny Sullivan of Third Door Media asked me if SEOmoz could put together some data comparing ranking elements of Google against those of Bing to help illustrate the potential biases SEOs might face when optimizing for the two engines. Today at SMX Advanced in Seattle , I presented the following data, compiled by our own Ben Hendrickson with help from the entire SEOmoz engineering team (particularly Phil & Chas on the Linkscape side).

Posted by MichaelC Apache webservers have a really cool and useful little feature called RewriteRule .

Posted by RobOusbey When you’re told that certain visitors can never be converted, you need a new type of conversion – and need to make sure those visitors get the opportunity to convert without it looking like a ’second best’ option. There’s a tactic that I’ve recently seen used in a few very different industries; I wanted to share this with you, as it’s something definitely worth considering for your site and your business.

A couple weeks or so ago, we did an SEO site review session at Google I/O 2010 .

A couple weeks or so ago, we did an SEO site review session at Google I/O 2010 . The video from that session is now live: The video is about an hour long, but I hope it’s a pretty good use of your time if you’re interested in search engine optimization. Enjoy!

Plunging into social media for the first time can be a bit daunting for individuals or businesses. There is a learning curve when it comes to becoming more social online, and it can take a while to learn what works and what doesn’t.