The other day, I posted a marketing message on one of my Google+ company accounts for a product I own named ShulCloud (basically a synagogue management software product). The message was about some updates we made to the front end of the web site…

Last night, Yahoo announced Q4 2012 earnings and the earnings report under Marissa Mayer was good.

Posted by David Mihm It’s obviously not uncommon for small businesses to move — fluctuating rents, growth, lifestyle concerns for the business owner or employees, and any number of factors make good reasons to move. However, few business owners understand the Local Search headaches they may be creating for themselves or their customers as a result of a move. Celia Bell , Assistant Director of SCORE’s Austin chapter , is currently experiencing some of those headaches and sent me an email last week to ask for my advice on how to alleviate them.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: BrightLocal’s Local SEO Industry Survey Now Open Local SEOs are being invited to take the Local SEO Industry Survey 2013, which is being organized again..

When Google is able to, it notifies users that someone has come knocking for their information – whether it’s search query history, Gmail messages, documents, photos, or YouTube videos – giving them time to prepare a legal response.

Governments from around the world made 1,858 requests for Twitter data during the second half of 2012. That is compared to the first half when world governments only made 849 requests

You’ve committed yourself to blogging on a consistent basis.  The copy is readable, informative, and rich with important keywords.  You are writing all of the right stuff for your blog, so why isn’t it ranking better?

With Adobe Social – part of the Adobe Marketing Cloud – you can measure how your social media spend impacts your bottom line.

Looks like Google is once again trying to sell local business owners with a Google+ page on the idea that AdWords Express will deliver them more business. Ads are showing up in Google+ pages as a way to “get customers to your Google+ page.”