Our Search Marketing Expo Advanced show out in Seattle is now complete. The two-day advanced search marketing conference had tons of wonderful content, speakers and tips.

On the heels of acquiring Nine By Nine Blue along with their search analytics Blueprint software, digital and search marketing firm RKG announced today a new SEO predictive forecasting tool to be added to the Blueprint software suite. In addition to the newly added SEO  solution, RKG is launching a… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Last night at SMX Advanced, Matt Cutts announced that now most Google Webmaster Tools notifications will contain example URLs with specific examples of what is wrong with your site…

At SMX Advanced tonight, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts announced that if you have the same or less ads than Google does in their search results, then you are safe from their top heavy algorithm. In short, if your ad to organic ratio is the same or less than what you see in Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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…

An important element in any SEO campaign is the ability to adjust strategy based on actual results. Tracking the right data is essential not only to show the value of the investment and effort in a campaign but also to help refine the campaign for even better results. In order to implement results-based actions within an SEO Author information Marc Purtell Head of SEO at MediaWhiz Marc Purtell is director of SEO at performance marketing agency Media Whiz and its SEO ingredient service, TLA

Google has reached an agreement to acquire navigation app maker Waze in a deal believed to be valued upwards of $1 billion, beating out rivals Facebook and Apple, which were also rumored to be mulling a bid for the startup.

image credit: shutterstock In a perfect world every SEO client would be extremely engaged – you’d have on-page and technical recommendations implemented immediately, they’d make internal experts and resources available for any brilliant content idea you have, and your point of contact would respond to all of your emails immediately. In the real world, of course, this is Author information Tom Demers Tom is a co-founder and managing partner at Measured SEM, a search engine marketing consulting firm that offers a variety of  search engine marketing services  including paid search management and search engine optimization (SEO) to businesses of varying sizes in various industries

The Google Bomb is back! Searching for [miserable failure] in Google now returns George W. Bush’s knowledge graph in the search results. The Google Bomb first became popular back in 2004 when Google and some other search engines ranked George W.

Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts has announced that a new ranking update, one that targets spammy queries is now live. Separately, Google is warning that if you have a bad mobile website, your search rankings will soon be hurting.