As a search marketer by trade, I spend a large percentage of my time working on search engine optimization and search engine marketing on behalf of clients. Naturally, my team’s focus is mostly directed toward Google, at least in the early stages of optimization. Most of the clients we sign up for SEM, in particular, are running Google AdWords campaigns that are failing to provide much value.

Google Webmaster Tools already has special features for Google News publishers, like a separate view of the news indexing and processing details, as well as news specific errors…

Ever since you’ve been able to get an email address you have been required to sign up using non-accented latin characters.

When you submit a reconsideration request, Google notifies you they received it with a blanket message in Google Webmaster Tools. Now, supposedly, Google will also show you a copy of your submission via the reconsideration request form…

Posted by Laura.Lippay Link exchanges vs. partnerships Six years ago, Yahoo! was called out (on this very blog!) for buying text links

Just when we think authorship and publisher is dead, because Google dropped author images back in June – we see signs of maybe rel=publisher making some headway…

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: For More Accurate Shipping Rates In Google Shopping, Merchant Center Gets Shipping Configuration Tool Google launched new features today to help merchants..

On Friday we reported on a refresh of the local search results, after the major Google Pigeon update a week or so before. Google basically told us they have nothing to say on this and likely will not provide future details on local search algorithm changes.