One of the main features analytics junkies have been waiting for in the new Google Analytics interface was the ability to schedule out PDF formatted analytics reports. That feature seems to have been quietly added recently…

SES New York attendees learned more of the latest tools, trends, and strategies in sessions covering SEO, paid search, landing page optimization, mobile, social, and more. Here’s a roundup of Day 2 live blogging and coverage of SES New York 2012.

Posted by randfish Buenos Dias, marketers! Today's an exciting day! We're thrilled to announce the launch of the 2012 SEOmoz Industry Survey . It's been 2 long years since our last survey , which had more than 10,000 respondents from around the world and produced some of the most detailed public information ever assembled about the growing fields of SEO, social media, content, and organic/inbound marketing. This year's survey is projected to take about 20 minutes to complete (I took it twice and the first time took me ~18 minutes), and it's slightly more detailed than 2010's.

The popular Firefox browser is on track to use a secure method of searching Google by default, a change that will help prevent potential “eavesdropping” of what people are searching for. It will also further reduce the ability for publishers to know how people find their sites in Google..

I spotted a post by an Israeli Facebook complaining Siri won’t give him directions in Israel.

Googler, Susan Moskwa posted some interesting nuggets of information around language based optimization and geo-specific information and how Google handles certain elements of it on her Google+ page.

A year and a half ago, changes to Microsoft’s adCenter interface appeared maybe once or twice a quarter. This year, stay tuned for monthly updates bringing everything from Broad Match Modifier, a desktop version for the Mac, a special version for small businesses, and more integrated… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Understanding the way that search engines like Google and Bing crawl your sites for duplicate content is not always easy to follow.  What exactly are the rules, and what are the ramifications for not following the rules? This presentation by a group of industry experts focused on gaining an understanding of how search engines read your content, as well as what steps you can take to avoid penalization for your content. Peter van der Graff: Redirecting Duplicate Content We always assume that Google knows best, but is that necessarily true?  According to Peter finding a formula that works 100% of the time is no easy task.  He opened up with a great example “If you have a 301 redirect and you tell Google to go left, they’ll probably go right.”  You could end up implementing a 301 redirect and when you request the location a cached version of the site may still appear instead of the redirect you intended.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New Ad Status Info Added To AdWords Google is providing AdWords users with a new way to figure out whether their ads are approved, or not, and why.