Do you ever wonder why some traffic makes you money and other traffic doesn’t? The answer is so obvious that it’s a proverb: Not all traffic is created equal. Let’s take that old saying apart to see if it can deliver a return on investment for you.

Google released a video of a “look under the hood of search” and an explanation of “How Google makes improvements to its search algorithm.” Truth is, although the video is very sharing and really fun to watch…

Has someone added you on Google+ but you have no clue who they are, or you really just don’t want to be associated with them? Now you can ignore or block them, Google engineer Olga Wichrowska has announced. When you ignore somebody, which …

Google has released version 9.5 of its free desktop software for managing AdWords campaigns, adding support for campaign experiments and location extensions, among other recent enhancements to the AdWords web interface. Users can now manage their campaign experiments on the AdWords Editor,…

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. GooglePoly: Zoogle: Google’s Adam Lasnik: Google + Pins: Matt Cutts… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

It comes as no surprise that social networking is one of the top online activities, exceeded only by email and search according the Pew Internet Project. The most noteworthy finding of a new Pew report on social networking is that its growth is most pronounced among older Americans: The frequency… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

There have been a lot of Google+ updates this week, but by far the most exciting update is this latest update to the Google +1 button which makes content sharing more like Facebook, but ultimately, more useful as a content curation tool for your d…

This week in search, I covered how Google’s Panda update is leading to the great content purge on the web. Google News is no longer crawling under GoogleBot-News

Big news today from the BlueGlass camp! We’ve secured Jeremy “ShoeMoney” Schoemaker to the speaker lineup for BlueGlass TPA ! Jeremy will be sitting on the “Blog & News Optimization: How Publishers Can Dominate Google & Beyond” Panel with Brian Clark of Copyblogger  and discussing killer techniques for bloggers & publishers to build traffic, links and BUSINESS via their content strategies.

It appears Google is testing a new type of rich snippet for displaying listings. I reported this at the Search Engine Roundtable and included a few pictures from various sources. The rich snippet, which is not yet confirmed by Google, seems to show real estate listings as well as possibly…