It’s being reported this morning that Google is buying a “social calendar” for mobile devices called Plannr (we’re back to the heady vowel-free days).

My last article on Integrating Search into the Localization Process prompted a few emails from people asking what other areas are important to the process, and how they can integrate them into the SEO process. My recommendation has always been to develop a search council or search center of excellence (COE) that fosters *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Marketers like formulas and what better metaphor for successful online marketing with blogs than a recipe? At the upcoming BlogWorldExpo conference in Las Vegas, I’ll be giving my recipe for success using Social Media and SEO in two ways: First , I’ll be doing a solo presentation on Social Media SEO , giving bloggers a tested methodology for making the most of their content and social networks. This presentation will focus on the value of combining SEO best practices with social media marketing to amplify the reach and traffic for blogs.

Xmarks, the popular browser bookmark synchronization service, is going to shut down on January 10, 2011. Xmarks is a free service that saves your bookmarks across different browsers and different computers, and currently boasts about two million users

Search Marketing Expo – SMX East begins next Monday at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. Register for your All Access pass and get 3 days of exception content and invaluable industry connections for only $1395. Conference chairs Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman, and the all-star SMX programming team, have developed a comprehensive agenda *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Posted by randfish During my first few years in the SEO field, half of the sites I’d visit – those my SEO brethren in the forums or over email owned – were what today we’d probably call “over-optimized.” They tended to have features like: Keyword after keyword stuffed into the title element of every page Overly-lengthy and keyword rich URL strings Page filled with “SEO’d” content that was never intended to be a focus for visitors Backlink profiles that lacked a single high-quality, “editorial”

Google turns 12 today. Which, in human terms, means it is almost teenager! Which also means that there are high school kids who have grown up with Google their entire lives.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

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….

SEO continues to have an increased impact on journalists, as news writers and editors are being encouraged to learn SEO tactics and incorporate them into headlines and articles published online.