Recently, we have been talking a lot about video sitemaps and how important they are becoming in your Google optimization efforts. Here is one more tidbit for you on video sitemaps

Often a company will hire a third party search marketing company to handle their Google everything. That includes making sure they are listed and verified in Google Maps/Places.

Google has finally given their real time search results a home at google.com/realtime. We kind of saw this coming when we reported that Google Alerts added updates to the type list

As of right now, Google has removed all Yelp reviews from its Places feature. Even though the local reviews website’s snippets will no longer be appearing in the Google Places results, relevant results can be found in the “more about this place” section – which is the last section on the Places page

Digg , the user-powered social news website, has released its new version – Digg 4. If you are not familiar with exactly what Digg is, here’s the long and short of it. Created in 2004 Digg allows users to post links to stories they find interesting to share with other members of the site

Not only did Google implement real-time searching into their engine, but now they are putting a little muscle under its hood. They gave the new feature its own URL (moving it from the “updates” sidebar) and some new tools to help your search experience flow more smoothly: Geographic refinement – this feature lets you choose where you would like to see results from. Conversation view – allowing you to search through an entire conversation thread

Do your web pages, graphic images, and videos effectively communicate aboutness to both web searchers and search engines?

Posted by randfish Today I’m happy to announce that we’ve just updated Linkscape’s web index (which also powers Open Site Explorer and the metrics via the mozBar ) with fresh link data. You should see some bright shiny links we’ve found from late July to early August in this index (e.g

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web….

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yelp Unlikely To Come Back To Google Places Earlier today it was reported that Yelp’s content had been removed from Google Places — though not from Google.com results. What’s going on exactly