Posted by RobOusbey I’ve written before about running competitions for link building , but given the increasingly important role of Twitter in online marketing and SEO, it’s time to address a popular mechanic: Twitter competitions.

Google Doodle logos are popping up in various Google sites around the world.

Here’s a recap of this week’s columns and news stories for the week of April 17 to 23, as reported by Search Engine Watch . Click to read the rest of this post…

Today is both Earth Day and Good Friday and while no search engines have a special logo for Good Friday, many do for Earth Day. Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL, Ask.com and others have special logos for the special day..

I received an email this morning from the Google Video team explaining how to transfer my videos from their hosting to YouTube and that the closing of this product on April 29 will not be happening. The email was a followup to a previous one detailing how to download the videos to my computer. Apparently a large number of users had asked Google for a quick way to transfer them to YouTube.

The Google Analytics Blog announced that the new version of Google Analytics: Version 5 is now available to everyone.

Google is offering some tips for optimizing your AdWords campaigns for the Easter holiday this coming Sunday. AdWords representative, Mini, offered up these tips on Good Friday. The tips include keyword ideas, ad text creatives, biding and budgeting…

Google News announced that the home page is now more personalized for those who are logged in to Google while using it. Google added two new sections..

In 2009 Yahoo made a big splash in the industry by saying they will only hold on to search data for 90 days. It was a very short amount of time to retain search queries but Yahoo did it. Now Yahoo is reversing that decision and upping it from 3 months to 18 months…