While advertising on social media makes sense for advertisers, the owners of ‘free’ sites like Twitter and Facebook still need to make money. Ad banners have been the answer for many social media sites for a long time. However, banner blindness has created a large problem for advertisers since they are paying for impressions, but *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Posted by Dr. Pete If you’re a Google Analytics fan, you probably already know that Google released a new and incredibly useful featured called Weighted Sort. If you haven’t seen it, here’s a quick example – let’s say you want to know which of your referring sites have the highest bounce rate

One of the tactics I use to generate new links is to review a site’s stats and create a media promotion based on the trends I find. This strategy is not an easy, turn-key linking program but if you’re serious about growing your business as well as your links, it’s one of the best ways to attract *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Here’s a roundup of this morning’s top search headlines and tips from around the Web, sorted by category. Search Industry Nielsen: Microsoft’s Bing Moves to No

Hello my friend and welcome to another ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘ . WOW… what can I say? The head was just a spinning between Google Instant and the LDA Tool fiasco..truly madness

There are two or more threads at the Google Book Search Help forum on the topic of making more books “full view” accessible. Full View is only available for books that are “out of copyright, or if the publisher or…

There are some, not wide spread reports, of a Google PageRank update at WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums. Not everyone is agreeing on this, but there are enough people saying their PageRank values in the Google Toolbar has changed. Some are..

So Google rolls out Instant Search and there are screams and cries that SEO is Dead, but hello did anybody think about the impact on commercial side of search? The sponsored results or Google AdWords? Being that paid results are taking up more and more of the space on Google’s results page, you need to start to think about how this might be changing people’s search behaviours, traffic patterns and potentially opening up new opportunities for your business via AdWords.

International SEO Case Study: Hotels.com While the online travel market has become highly competitive in the United States, there are numerous excellent, untapped opportunities for companies looking to expand internationally. The internet is global and with over 1.5 billion people now connected.

There are some reports via Google Webmaster Help that some webmasters are noticing huge drops in referrals from Google since the Google Instant feature came out. We all know that Google Instant has no impact on the ranking of search..