James Kim, the General Manager of CO.CC posted a complaint about the removal in the Google Webmaster Help forums. James Kim said it is not the “right decision” and thinks Google should take “responsibility for their losses” incurred by the site owners on those domains

The agenda is live, and we’re now accepting submissions to speak at Search Marketing Expo – SMX East 2011, Sept 13-15, 2011 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City

Yahoo Site Explorer, which went live in September 2005 is now going to be shut down by the end of this year…

The Google Merchant Blog announced “important changes to Google Product Search feed specification & policies.” These changes go into affect September 22, 2011 and if you are not compliant, you will find your products missing from Google Product Search. To see the changes, you can… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

With the launch of Google’s latest much-hyped social network, companies lucky to get an invite were quick to jump on the bandwagon, only to find their profiles closed down a week later. The reason? Google engineers are asking businesses for patience, saying they want to test the waters with individual users before diving into the murky ocean of brand advertising and digital marketing

We continue our (hopefully inspiring and motivational) series featuring successful self-made entrepreneurs . The first interview was with Kyle James, founder of Rather-Be-Shopping . And today we are interviewing Andrew Kardon, co-founder and co-owner of JoeShopping.com, an innovative free shopping tool

There are complaints in the Google Web Search Help forums that Google removed the similar link found near the cache link in the search results.

Social media is all around us. Whether you’re a small company or a large corporation, there is a good chance you are partaking in the social media phenomena that has gripped the world in recent years. That being said, companies cannot just wing it when it comes to social media

A study from BrightEdge examining the prevalence of social plugins on the home pages of major sites shows that Facebook is still the most dominant social button on the web. Google +1, however, is growing quickly, having seen a 28 percent increase …

Last week Google bought a company called Punchd (first reported by TechCrunch).