Russian search engine Yandex has introduced geo-targeted ads to its business directory. Based on what users are searching for, Yandex will highlight the location of local and small businesses in Yandex’s map and search results

A WebmasterWorld thread has a bunch of SEOs and Webmasters complaining about a recent and significant drop in traffic from Google. These reports all come from webmasters who have had stable rankings in Google and stable traffic from Google for years.

Microsoft announced second quarter profits yesterday, which beat Wall Street’s expectations.

There’s an old adage that recommends that you “fish where the fish are.” Well, President Barack Obama was answering questions on YouTube yesterday while Vice President Joe Biden was tacking questions on Yahoo Answers. Do you think they know something that marketers should know about where the fish are? Click to read the rest of this post…

LinkedIn officially launched on May 5, 2003 with a total of 4,500 members in the first month. Known mostly as a business social network, LinkedIn has been adopted globally with nearly 2 billion people searches in 2010 and over 90 million users in January 2011.

Urim is a smart FireFox addon with great potential.

Next time you’re using Chrome and get one of your new Gmail message notifications , you might notice another new addition when you visit your inbox: a display ad. Click to read the rest of this post…

Posted by invseo This post was originally in YOUmoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. In the past few months, I have been watching a very unsettling trend unfold in very competitive ecommerce search results on Google

Ever since Google launched their new image search interface last year, there have been complaints of blank images being displayed in the search results.