Posted by Dr. Pete When you’re a small fish in a sea of competitors, getting noticed by search engines is never easy.

Below is live coverage of the Analytics For Social Media from the SMX East conference.

Below is live coverage of the Ask The Search Engines from the SMX East conference. This coverage is provided by Barry Schwartz of RustyBrick

Mozilla will soon be releasing the newest version of their popular open Web browser, Firefox and will be adding an option for users that prefer to NOT have Google as their default search engine. With Firefox 4 will come the ability to make Microsoft’s Bing you’re go-to choice for conducting searches. Users will be able to very easily access a drop-down menu and change the default from Google to Bing without any other steps.

Below is live coverage of the Industrial Strength PPC from the SMX East conference. This coverage is provided by Sheara Goldenthal of Promediacorp. We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos…

Below is live coverage of the Show Me The Links from the SMX East conference. This coverage is provided by Barry Schwartz of RustyBrick. We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any..

Looking to not only maintain its rank as the “most successful force in display advertising”, Yahoo has a signed a deal to acquire Dapper, a technological platform that assists in display ad creation. The deal that is said to be completed by the fourth quarter this year, will help to make display ad creation and optimization easier and more efficient for their customers.

Google looks to be readying yet another change to its search results. Just spotted an interesting screenshot from the U.K., which shows a full-page preview of the target website, as well as a blue background that highlights the selected site.

I recently wrote a post over at SEOmoz talking about how to forecast key phrase traffic . And when I say traffic, I mean the pool of total searches for one specific key phrase. From this pool comes traffic for paid and natural traffic.

I had an interesting discussion with Jeremy Koch of Pertnear (the guy responsible for 88,000 fans, in 4 weeks, at half price ) to try to answer some questions a lot of businesses have right now about social media marketing: How do we monetize Twitter and Facebook?