At the recent Facebook f8 developer conference, Facebook unveiled two new features: Timeline and Open Graph. Timeline, which is replacing the current profile pages, will highlight important photos, events, and activities.

Welcome to the next search video recap! Matt Cutts did a live Q&A event for 45 minutes on YouTube Live, if you missed it we have the archived version. There were reports of Panda 2.5, those reports are wrong.

When Google rolled out the +1 button it seemed innocuous enough: it allows users to find sites, articles, or videos that their friends like, thus making the web a more social experience. However since its launch, there’s been a widespread brouhaha at the internet marketing water coolers about whether or not its use would influence search results. Although the popular opinion is a resounding “yes”, we were assured by those in charge that this button was not intended to game search engine rankings… until it was

As I’ve learned over the past 16 months, starting your own SEO company can be a challenging, frustrating, educational, and ultimately rewarding experience.  From the ups and downs of acquiring new business to figuring out how to balance client work and business development, one thing is for certain: If you are considering starting your own SEO company, you’re in for quite the ride. The day after my college graduation, I woke up bright and early (read: 10:30 a.m.), sat down at my kitchen table, opened up my laptop, and went to work: Okay, so I hadn’t exactly planned it all out when I made the decision to go forward with it.  But, as you’ll read, I did have a lot going for me, and my strengths aligned well with what are typically the most challenging aspects of starting an SEO company.  I had plenty of opportunity to undertake something as risky as starting a company, plenty of SEO experience under my belt, a solid strategy for growing my business, access to the finances I would need, and a personality that lent itself well to this sort of endeavor. This series analyzes those barriers to entry for starting an SEO consulting firm and my experiences in overcoming those challenges: Opportunity Experience Strategy Finances Personality The 5 Barriers to Entry for Starting an SEO Firm:

When Bing launched deals several months ago its partner was deal aggregator The Dealmap, which was subsequently acquired by Google. That forced Microsoft to turn elsewhere for deals and today, as a result, we’re seeing the launch of a new deals experience on mobile and the PC that pulls in..

At Facebook’s f8 developer conference on Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the Open Graph. Described as a whole new class of apps, Open Graph will allow Facebook users to add activities to their news streams without being bothered by prompts asking for their consent.

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that Google may be scaling down the use of the local 7 pack of Google Maps results for some very local specific queries…

Yesterday was a busy day for Google in Washington, D.C.

Back in July, we reported an issue with Bing sitemaps files being stuck in pending status.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and guests including Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Zuckerberg-doppelgänger Andy Samberg unveiled the third major evolution of Facebook today at the f8 developer conference.