During a conference call with Google investors in late January, Google CEO Larry Page announced that Google+ had surpassed 90 million users. Although the growth rate for the social network has been phenomenal, Google has unnaturally propelled its growth by automatically creating Google+ accounts for all new Google users. In addition, the company has refused Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

Below is live coverage of the Getting Personal, Part 2: How Google & Bing Personalize With Search History & Geography panel from the SMX West 2012 conference.

On Sunday night many of us were glued to the screen, munching on snacks and gathering with friends for the 84th annual Academy Awards. It was only a year ago that we saw “The Social Network” rake in the acknowledgements, and a year later Facebook is still growing and driving a marketing movement from traditional Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

In the past series of articles, we focused on determining what keywords were already generating business for a web site and then optimizing your existing pages to improve organic results for those keywords. In this and some future articles, we’ll cover adding new content to a website as well… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

I was thinking the other day about all things I have learned after dealing with clients for the last 7 years. Some things can only be learned by dealing with real life experiences. How you run your business and the rules you put in place for your clients is often, unfortunately, learned from bad experiences Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

Below is live coverage of the Getting Personal, Part 1: How Google & Bing Personalize With Social Connections panel from the SMX West conference.

Most people familiar with guest blogging understand its importance as a tactic within a holistic link-building strategy for SEO. Yet few do as much guest blogging as they’d like

Posted by randfish After some wrestling with Amazon's EC2 and the tragic loss of many hard disks therein, we've finally finished processing and have released the latest Linkscape update (previously scheduled for Feb. 14)

As search engine optimizers, we’re always looking for new ways to attract visitors or getting that coveted spot on search engine rankings. In our book, increasing traffic means increasing revenue, and most of us have never really questioned this assumption – at least not until we notice the discrepancy between our traffic volume vs

Search engines are using machine readable structured data for reviews, images. and now videos.