Over the last decade, search engine marketing has become a multi-billion dollar media channel powerhouse. It currently represents half of the $35B digital marketing budgets in the U.S., and it’s even bigger globally

This week I am doing this video recap from Israel, so please excuse the scenery and the quality of the video. First…

“Reputation matters because your behind is always behind you.”  - Happy Masina – It is simply amazing how many successful people don’t own the website correlating to their name, even lawyers and billionaires. And so few understand that the first few Google SERP entries can best be managed by regular content sharing, participation, and the The post Reputation Matters: The Best Offense Is A Good Defense appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

“Reputation matters because your behind is always behind you.”  - Happy Masina – It is simply amazing how many successful people don’t own the website correlating to their name, even lawyers and billionaires.

Too frequently, PPC managers associate bid strength with quality score or create loose and even mythological relationships. The truth: quality score is derived from a fairly simple set of metrics

Online sales over the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend topped the best sales numbers to date this year.  For the holiday season-to-date, $16.4 billion has been spent online, marking a 16-percent increase over last year.

It is that time of year again, the holidays are here.

10 Crucial Consumer Trends 2013 2013 marks a new year filled with new predictions and trends for consumers.  This new Slideshare presentation from Trendwatching.com provides insight into the top trends ranging from mobile to data mining

There are some business owners stuck in limbo within the Google+ Local verification process. This is not a new bug, but there are many still with this problem…

Twitter’s rocky relationship with third party developers makes headlines again, this time in a case of data access. The microblogging company was sued by PeopleBrowsr, a social networking data analysis company, and appeared in the San Francisco Superior Court on Wednesday, where the judge granted PeopleBrowsr a restraining order compelling Twitter to provide full Firehose The post PeopleBrowsr Takes Twitter to Court over Firehose appeared first on Search Engine Journal .