The Google AdWords Help forum announced adding a new forum to the Google AdWords Help area named the Small Business Corner. AdWords representation, Bindu, said in a Google AdWords Help thread: Today, we’re very happy to announce that we are…

Yesterday, August 15th, was India’s independence day. Google had a beautiful logo up for the day, it was animated and done very well

Ontolo guys we have interviewed once at SEJ always bring in some cool news and tools. This time they have partnered with Darren Shaw of Whitespark to launch a great local link building tool: Local Citation Finder First, about the process which is automated through that tool: here’s a post by Darren that details the steps taken to find local citations, in a word: Identify your local competitors (by probably just searching for your main keyword + territory) Identify local “footprints” (say, local phone numbers as it is demonstrated in the post); Search Google using each of the footprints; Identify “co-citation” (unique domains that have listed several of those footprints); Check the unique results as well (those that only mentioned one of the footprint)

We have a nice amount of special doodles and logos from the weekend. Many are happy logos, but some are sad. Let me share the happy ones with you first

Link builders have been telling you to add all sorts of links to your link profile, from straightforward text links in content to image links, using nofollow when necessary (or accepting it when there’s no other alternative) and even seeking out some links that aren’t keywordized (such as your site name or URL.) Those are the kinds of links that are actively sought, but then there are the passive links that can sometimes be even better in many ways. Linkbait links, in particular, have been in our heads for ages now, as if they’re done properly, they can be some of the best links that you’ll ever get. Linkbait is definitely difficult to do well, in my opinion, because the potential for failure and backlash is there, as is the knowledge that you may invest time and money into something that doesn’t bring you a single link.

I started interviewing people in the search marketing industry long ago (inspired by Aaron Wall ) as a way to provide access to search marketing practitioners, pundits and employees at search engines. Beginning in 2005 with this interview with  Brett Tabke from WebmasterWorld & Pubcon, interviews with search marketing types have been posted here covering a variety of search marketing topics. The search engine marketing industry changes often, so it’s pretty interesting to see some of the predictions made in some of those older interviews. Below are 10 more recent SEO interviews from client side practitioners or search engine employees that you can get a lot of value from in terms of understanding how facilitating SEO works in organizations, SEO and social media, resources, tools and specific SEO tips

Many small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) are awakening to the marketing potential found in Facebook’s massive audience, and have begun developing their Facebook pages to promote their companies. While posting status updates is a great way to engage with your customers, there are some ways to kick them up a notch to expand your promotional potential, and *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Posted by randfish The team at SEOmoz has been hard at work this week, smoothing out a lot of the initial bumps we’ve seen with our beta launch of the new web app .

Posted by Paddy_Moogan Following on from my debut SEOmoz blog post on How to Get Links in Tough Industries , I wanted to go into a bit more detail about the processes you can use to find people who are likely to link to you.

Google has just released a new version of its Chrome Browser beta build – this time with some nice new features that makes the Chrome experience even better.