Apparently not content with its recent search results page makeover, Google appears to be testing a new search interface that locks the top navigation bar, search box, and Google’s vertical search options (images, video, news, etc.) in a fix…

Every Google searcher has seen the in your face Google local results when conducting basic searches that may have local intent. It seems like Google has stepped up the number of queries that they feel should show local results…

Working on the agency side of search for many years has taught me some valuable lessons.

With summer now in full gear, we asked readers of our sister site, Sphinn, to help create a summer reading list last week.

The search engine game has become as much about offering powerful side services as it is about giving the best SERP results. The first half of this month has seen two updated services on Bing: Bing Weather and Bing Finances. The New Weather Tool…

Continuing a long tradition of interviews and insights here at Search Engine Journal, I reached out to Neil Patel last week to get an update on Neil & his KissMetrics project. I’ve known Neil for a long time and have always kept tabs on him after meeting at an SES San Jose in back in 2005.

Google News has announced a loyalty program, offering users badges for using Google News as their the portal for primary news. Starting Friday, but only on the United States version of Google News, Google began letting you earn badges as you read …

To help AdWords users get more accurate feedback on how their ads are performing, Google is adding a new data table option that contrasts the statistics for ads appearing on the top of search with those appearing on the side. The Why and What of…

We had a Google Toolbar PageRank update last month and noticed that Google.com had a PR of 9, whereas Facebook had a PR of 10. Over the weekend, many started noticing Twitter had a PR of 0

I don’t consider myself particularly humble by nature, but it is always surprising to me that a shared piece of advice accumulated over the last 15 years of my career is valued quite as much as it is.  Recently, I was discussing ideas with a colleague who works as a PPC consultant – well above my pay grade – and was shocked to learn that some of the techniques I had been using for years and considered pretty rudimentary we’re actually brand new to him, and extremely valuable.