We have been watching Stumbleupon a lot lately as it continues to roll out minor changes to the site. Just last week, Kairay Media pointed out how the Social Networking site added search capabilities to segments of the site, like user  search to find your friends in Stumbleupon.

A couple weeks back, Google annouced new standards for mobile website design. Among the practices identified on their help pages, responsive design has been singled out as the best option from a search perspective

In a previous article, I covered 3 Common PPC Ad Copy Flops.

Cision recently published a list of top PR & Marketing blogs which is timely, because having worked in both worlds for 11 years plus, I’ve seen the convergence accelerated by shifts in technology and consumer behaviors. In the list, Cision published an influence score to sort the blogs (TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog is sandwiched between Chris Brogan and Jason Falls at #2) and it made me wonder about their influence when it comes to search. Most bloggers say they know what SEO is and some even profess to engage in SEO best practices, but I thought it would be interesting to do a simple analysis of the top 10 on the list to see what their referring organic keyword and inbound link profiles looked like.

There are dozens of complaints in the Google Web Search Help forums where users who are based outside of the United States are being forced to use their country specific TLDs. For example, users in Germany are forced to go to Google.de…

Are Panda and Penguin monkeying with your organic rankings? Is low quality score limiting your paid search results? Does your social media presence really translate into more traffic… and customers?

Looking for a new tool that will help you get the most out of your SEO campaigns?  Consider any of the following programs that we use at Single Grain in order to maximize the efficiency of our SEO activities and our general productivity: Keyword Research Tool #1 – Google Adwords Keyword Research Tool Although the

Dissecting the shady link building tactics one site used offers further evidence that old link building tricks that worked for years are no longer a long-term strategy for top search rankings on Google.

Google helped announce on Google+ that the Google Top Contributors are running weekly hangouts to help webmasters with webmaster related issues as it related to Google search. The hangouts run every Friday from 11am-12pm PST..

Google has released data from its latest Transparency Report covering censorship and content removal requests. The report features separate presentations of copyright-based removal requests and government requests