In August, 188.5 million Americans watched 46.7 billion online content videos, while the number of video ad views totaled 22.8 billion, according to comScore.

A New York crackdown targeted companies who purchased and created fake online business reviews. A total of seven companies offering “reputation enhancement” services were caught in the year-long investigation, along with their clients.

Several SEO companies have agreed to stop publishing fake online reviews, and will also pay penalties ranging from $2,500 to almost $100,000 as part of settlement announced today with the New York attorney general’s office. The AG’s year-long investigation ultimately caught 19 companies…

Just announced today by the New York Times, BlackBerry is reporting that it has reached a deal with a partial owner, Fairfax Financial Services, to go private. The news comes with the agreement that BlackBerry will pay shareholders $9 per share in cash, which equals approximately $4.7 billion. Although no other company acquirers are named […] Author information Kelsey Jones Search & Social Consultant at MoxieDot

Google is making an update to their AdWords Certification Program, requiring you to have a Google Partners account to be certified by Google. Google sent an email to advertisers who are part of the program saying they ned to “Get ready to make the switch to Google Partners…

The Google bar, which appears above the search results and across many of their properties and apps, has a new look.

Many of you may have noticed a little checkerboard in the corner of your Google Analytics screens.

Nearly two years after making one of the biggest changes to secure search that resulted in a steady rise in “(not provided)” data, Google has made all searches encrypted using HTTPS. This means no more keyword data will be passed to site owners

In an interview conducted at SES 2013 in San Francisco, Mika Pearson discusses how BoostCTR helps users optimize ad copy creative. SEJ’s Murray Newlands began the interview by asking Mika what are the key pain points of users that BoostCTR resolves. Hear her response in the view below: Here are some key takeaways from the video: BoostCTR operates […] Author information John Rampton Managing Editor John Rampton is an entrepreneur, full-time computer nerd, PPC guru at Maple North and founder at PPC.org .

Woke up this morning to find SEOs on Facebook and Twitter up in arms about Google changing all queries and usage to the secure https://www.google.com settings which means that in Analytics, the keyword referral data from Google is all but kaput. In essence, various sites are reporting that the [NOT PROVIDED] percentage of organic keyword […] Author information Loren Baker Loren Baker is the Founder of SEJ, an Advisor at Alpha Brand Media and also spends time w/ CopyBlogger. Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn The post Has Google Gone 100% NOT PROVIDED & Secure Search?