The annual study of Fortune 500 company blogs and social media use by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has been published for 2013 indicating the largest increase in corporate blogs since 2008. Other statistics from the report: 77% of Fortune 500 companies have at least one Twitter account Consumer Food Products and Specialty Retailers lead with Twitter adoption Facebook, Google and Starbucks have the largest Twitter following with a combined 20,000,000 Twitter followers 69% of Fortune 500 companies have a Facebook fan page Facebook, Coca Cola and Walt Disney have the largest Facebook following with a combined 300 million fans 69% of Fortune 500 companies have a YouTube account 9% of Fortune 500 companies have a Pinterest account 35% of Fortune 500 companies have an active Google+ account.

Today is the 95th birthday of Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa and 1993 Nobel Peace Prize winner, to name just a couple titles. Even the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed Mandela’s birthday, 18 July, as “Mandela Day”…

(Image Courtesy: www.fotolia.com) Google’s release of their feature, Google Knowledge Graph, served as a dawn for an easier search on the most powerful search engine of the world. Google once again made a huge leap over its competitors last year.With it, you can get much quicker access to the information that you are looking for Author information Hardy Desai Hardy is a SEO specialist at Supple Solutions, writes about social media, web design and all online marketing trends on Supple’s blog.

A new international SEO initiative is an exciting undertaking, but can be a daunting task when you take locations, languages, and many other factors into account.

A Google Web Search Help thread has complaints about a recent bug on the Google Advanced Search page. By the bottom area where it says “You can also…”..

On today’s quarterly earnings call, Google CEO, Larry Page, addressed Enhanced Campaigns and noted that nearly three quarters of AdWords campaigns have migrated. Page said: “… we want to make advertising super simple for customers. Online advertising had developed in very device…

Google Analytics now is showing a new advertising section under AdWords for Enhanced Campaigns. As you know…

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…