Editor’s Note: Richard Kirk, Head of SEO at Performics, took issue with Gareth Owen’s (Head of SEO at Steak) recent column on Search Engine Watch and asked if he could post a rebuttal. Given this is a thorny issue that really has divided the indus..

Do SEO professionals use eyetracking usability studies as a link-juice fad? Can eyetracking tests yield useful information about Web searchers?

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. Yahoo Octoberfest: Angry Birds At Google: Yahoo Basketball: Google +… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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.

I have not done the video in about three weeks due to holidays, but I am back and here is the recap of 3 weeks of news all in 10 minutes.

Former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz will be remembered mainly as a cost cutter who outsourced numerous functions to third parties.

For those of you who read my columns regularly, you know that I’m fascinated with watching the paid search industry develop. Having been one of the lucky ones who fell into this marketing niche early on, I’ve seen it grow from a little seedling into a giant oak. In fact, one of the major draws Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

The first login to a Google Analytics account can be daunting. There are so many things to see, and so many different ways to tweak data, that deciding which are the most important metrics to watch can be an insurmountable decision. Ultimately, in my opinion, you are the only one who can decide..

New Relic, a company that measures and manages the performance of Web applications, recently released the results of a study that examined the performance differences between mobile Safari on iOS 4 and iOS 5 on same model iPhones. The study concluded that the Safari browser loads pages three times faster on iPhones with iOS 5 than the Safari browser on iPhones with iOS 4. New Relic came to their conclusions using two testing methods

A WebmasterWorld thread has one webmaster who claims that the Panda 2.5.2 update which happened around October 14th was more about Google’s link algorithm being a bit buggy.