Bloomberg is reporting that Google will formally announce a mobile payments service later this week. The service will reportedly be offered initially through US carrier Sprint. The service will be initially available in five US cities: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington,..

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How To Fix Common Analytics Mistakes In Multinational eCommerce SEO One of the major headaches in multinational campaigns is solving the many web analytics issues… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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One of the major headaches in multinational campaigns is solving the many web analytics issues thrown up as a result of operating across multiple subdomains, in multiple languages. Part of the problem is technical, but probably the most difficult issue you’ll encounter is actually maintaining… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

There is an outstanding thread developing at WebmasterWorld on the topic of social search ranking factors versus content ranking factors. The discussion is fairly thought provoking..

This is the fourth and final installment of our Link Building Blueprint series, as a refresher here are the first three posts: Part 1 – A Link Building Blueprint: The Foundation Part 2 – Utility Linking Part 3 – Proven Ways to Use Content to Attract Links Our blueprint has, up to this…

It is no secret that both Google and Bing want you to report search spam to them and people do it. It helps them both manually and algorithmically tailor their search ranking algorithms to be better quality…

This morning Microsoft officially unveiled “Mango,” its anticipated Windows Phone update with a dizzying array of upgrades and new features and developer tools. Microsoft emphasized the speed of its mobile browser, a range of new local search capabilities, Bing Vision (visual search… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

From the Google Doodle that supposedly promoted Saudi women to remove their veils, to the Facebook page and YouTube video supporting their protests to be able to drive, it seems many Saudi Arabians see parts of the web as agents for change they do…

So last month, I posted an article here entitled “You think YOU have a duplicate content problem?” where I described a duplicate content nightmare of epic proportions.  Essentially, I found a site with hundreds of replications of every page on the site, and outlined steps I was going to need to task to the developers to fix it. Well since that time, I did some more digging, in order to provide the full tasking plan for implementation.  And found that the problem was MUCH worse than my original assessment even had.  Stupid worse