About 40% of mobile searches on Google have local intent, and that number is only growing. Mobile consumers are relying on their mobile devices to search for local products and services. This presents a major opportunity for local businesses.

5 Types of Social Media Strategies Social media is not a magic bullet. It’s an enabler. Social media won’t make an antisocial brand suddenly social.

Posted by Virgil This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Everybody has probably already realized that there is almost no data that we cannot get.

As more marketers jump on the bandwagon before learning all of the ins and outs of retargeting, the result is a lot of easily correctable mistakes.

This year will be fueled with continued growth around usage and demand. For brands, that means staying sharp on three key trends: the growth of connected devices, valuation of offline conversion metrics and diversifying PPC budgets outside Google.

A Google Web Search Help forum thread reports a possible bug with Google’s handling of European dates in their search by date feature. In the screen shot below, you see I am entering a date range of 31.12.2002 or December 31, 2002 through 31.12.2003 or December 31..

A WebmasterWorld thread asks how long does it typically take Google to index a brand new web site that has awesome content…

Posted by AndrewDumont Partnership is such an ubiquitous term. Each circumstance comes with a broad set of definitions. Depending on the context and company, a partnership can take on nearly every imaginable form.

It looked like a screwup. If you searched for [google] on Bing, you saw Deep Links to Facebook, eBay and Craigslist underneath the main search result for Google. So, in my article earlier today, I called it a “strange bug” in Bing’s search results

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Baidu Testing Facial Recognition Search; Similar To Google’s “Search By Image” The most popular search engine in China, Baidu, is reportedly…