A WebmasterWorld thread has a discussion around what these SEOs feel will be the most important ranking factors in 2011. Guess what…

Posted by randfish 2011 is here, and that means it’s time for our biennial search engine ranking factors survey to be renewed. This year, we’re planning something much bigger and, we hope, better. Our plan is to offer a report that provides: Aggregated expert opinions on the importance of factors individually and ranking influencers overall (as with 2009’s version ) Correlation numbers for the factors (on as close to a 1:1 basis comparing data against the question asked to those surveyed) “Causation” numbers on a relative scale derived from our machine learning-based ranking models (with error margins) A representation of the relative chunks of the algorithmic pie by their contribution to the overall algorithm This is, obviously, a huge undertaking for SEOmoz’s team, and we could use your help.

SMX West will feature three jam-packed days with over 60 sessions of cutting-edge content on SEO, paid search, social media marketing, local and mobile search marketing, analytics and more. SMX West is programmed by Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman, the editors of Search Engine Land.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Working On NFC-Based Mobile Payment Service: Report Google has its eyes on a mobile payment service that would allow users to pay for common goods and… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

One of the most advantageous things for Google in having its own internet browser is that it gets to choose your default search engine. This isn’t exactly seen as sketchy — after all, Microsoft has been doing the same thing with Internet Explorer for years. However, while Google’s browser is seeing an astounding rate of growth, Internet Explorer seems to be struggling.

Yahoo, Google, Microsoft… DuckDuckGo.

When looking at the success of the search engines, one can’t simply see how users are treating the platform. A major part of success for any group is how they partner with other companies. For the search engines in the modern era, this means more than web platform developers

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…

The way we think about computing — including productivity, internet access, and entertainment — is seeing a fundamental shift. While the concept of accessing the Internet via tablet or smartphone is incredibly new, it’s growing at an astonishing rate.

There are many resolutions, eat less, stop smoking, win the lottery, you name it. All over the world most new years resolutions are the same, or at least similar