There have been some criticism around the new Google Keyword Planner. One such critique is that the old keyword tool had an option for “only show ideas closely related to my search terms.” But keyword planner didn’t seem to have that specific option..

For many of us, something just won’t get done the way we want it done unless we do it ourselves. SEO, unfortunately, can easily fall into this category

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wants to bring 5 billion more people online. To accomplish this, he has launched a new initiative through Internet.org that is designed to help people in poorer areas get access to the Internet.

Google is bringing skippable video ads to online games.

Remember, Google acquired Waze, the awesome user generated mapping software company…

Moz published a story yesterday showing a high correlation between Google +1s and Google’s search rankings. Shortly after, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, went over to Hacker News and debunked it. He said, +1s do not have any impact on search rankings at Google.

Posted by Aleyda Solis One of the most frequent questions I get is about the tools that I use for international SEO, and although I included most of them in my international SEO presentation at MozCon , since I didn’t had the time to focus on them, I would like to share how I use them to support my international SEO activities. There are tools to support every part of your journey, including identifying the potential, targeting an international audience, optimizing and promoting the websites, earning international popularity, and measuring and achieving benefit with the international SEO process.

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

A couple friends have recently had security scares with their Gmail account where they were worried that their accounts might have been hacked. I was emailing one of them about how to make sure that your account is safe, and I realized it might be handy to post this on my blog as well. Here’s the email that I just wrote to a friend: Here’s what I’d do: – change your password (make sure you’re on google.com when you change your password) – check for any strange activity

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, refuted the latest Moz study that claimed to show a correlation between Google +1′s and high search engine rankings. According to Cutts, correlation does not equal causation. Cutts responded on a Hacker News thread by saying: Just trying to decide the politest way to debunk the idea that more […] Author information Matt Southern Matt Southern is a marketing, communications and public relations professional