After 13 years, the Google Friends Newsletter has been retired. The first newsletter was sent out by Google co-founder, Larry Page on April 29, 1998

Yahoo has sent out an update stating they are migrating the organic results for Yahoo’s European properties to Bing’s search index this Wednesday, August 3, 2011.

Google + launched just about a month ago and early on, it was all the internet was talking about.

A new study released today by Roost, a technology company that helps companies with social media, determined that: “…only 15 percent of the average local business’ fans are actually in the city where the business is located.” This data was uncovered using proprietary scorecards… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Back in June ICANN began a new program for domain naming that amounts to a “game changer” for many Internet engaged companies.

Last month, I introduced the idea that QR codes could disrupt your URL strategy.

Google’s recent act of removing 3rd party reviews and citations from Google Places has had many local businesses and SEOs scrambling to review their local search strategies. As the dust settles on these changes, it appears that while the content may have gone from view it is still being captured… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

For everything there is a season, a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to build links.

When people talk “Agile SEO”, they normally discuss the benefits of a procedural department-wide shift to the agile framework, or the development of technical tools to approach SEO problems with more of a programmers mindset . These are both great tactics, but aren’t immediately actionable. At SeatGeek , we’ve taken inspiration from agile software development to model a longtail strategy that works and can be implemented immediately with only content creators and a Google Analytics account

It’s easy for online marketers to become distracted by the search engines and forget the real reason they’re doing SEO in the first place: the customer. Customer demand is the driving force behind search and must be the foundation for …