SEOCentro Latest SEO & search engine blog news articles and feeds. http://www.seocentro.com/ SEOCentro - Latest SEO News http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28020 (This is a long post and the author accepts no responsibility for any damage caused to your scrolling finger.) The largest search marketing show in Europe is heading back to London 15 - 19 February. And it's jam packed with a mixture of classic sessions, new sessions, top rated speakers, and new talent. As a parent, I know it's never fair to say one of your kids is your favorite. They're all your favorite. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Watch Blog Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:33:09 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28019 Instant Answers and Visual Search galleries are given the winter games treatment. Click to read the rest of this post. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Watch Blog Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:33:08 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28018 The most popular video game franchise of all time is heading to Facebook. The end result probably won't boast the lifelike graphics and complicated controls to which longtime fans have become accustomed, but Peter Moore, the president of EA Sports, has promised that some sort of "Madden NFL" tie-in will occur. "You'll see us on Facebook going forward," he said in an interview with Bloomberg . Unfortunately without giving too many more particulars. Still, Search Engines News SEO News WebProNews Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:33:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28017 This morning, Reprise Media released our 6th annual Search Marketing Scorecard on the Super Bowl , which ranks Super Bowl advertisers based on the level of integration between their television commercials and presence in search and social media â€"measuring how prepared each brand was to capture the demand created by their Super Bowl advertising investment.  The Search Marketing Scorecard is the longest-running study of its kind. Search Engines News SEO News Search Views Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:20:43 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28016 by Mike Krumboltz There are troublemakers and then there are troublemakers. The first group rolls through stop signs. The second type spends their spare time planning to overthrow the government. Should you fall into the second category and happen to live in South Carolina, you'll find you'll have to register with the very government you plan to overthrow. Adding insult to injury, subversives also have to pay a $5 fee, or face a fine of $25,000 and a decade in jail. Search Engines News SEO News Yahoo! Buzz Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:15:09 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28015 Google is rumored to be working on a Facebook/Twitter-like feature for Gmail. According to the Wall Street Journal , who cites "people familiar with the matter", the feature, which would "make it easier and faster" to share status updates may launch as soon as this week. As I've written about a number of times, Google is really one big social network with a bunch of features, and integration is the key to harnessing that social power. Search Engines News SEO News WebProNews Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:14:41 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28014 Action contrasts rhetoric since Google ultimatum. Click to read the rest of this post. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Watch Blog Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:57:07 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28013 In many ways, the last traces of the 2009 holiday season have disappeared - you won't find many decorations up, presents out, or leftovers refrigerated (we hope). comScore's just released a report concerning the mobile market, though, and the stats are well worth examining. comScore's report covers the changes that occurred between September and December of last year. During that time, RIM stayed on top in terms of smartphone platforms, but it lost a little bit of ground. Search Engines News SEO News WebProNews Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:27:18 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28012 After failing to acquire Twitter, will Google now compete? Click to read the rest of this post. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Watch Blog Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:21:03 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28011 by Mike Krumboltz Remember those quizzes you had on the state capitals back in junior high? Oh, the pressure! The temptation to write "Pierre, Olympia, Dover, Albany" on the inside of your hand was overwhelming, wasn't it? But you resisted. Maybe Sarah Palin should have done the same. The former vice presidential candidate seems to have been caught using curious crib notes during an interview this past weekend at the high-profile Tea Party Convention in Nashville. Search Engines News SEO News Yahoo! Buzz Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:21:01 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28010 comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry over the three month period between September and December 2009. The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms in the U.S. according to their share of current mobile subscribers age 13 and older, Search Engines News SEO News comScore Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:51:48 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28009 Get ready for the "Bring Back the Old Facebook" groups. Click to read the rest of this post. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Watch Blog Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:22:38 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28008 by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Bourbon Street cam (Searches increased by +3,137%). If you can't be in New Orleans to celebrate the Super Bowl victory in person, you can always watch from afar. Kim Kardashian (+761%). The reality star said that watching her running back beau Reggie Bush win the Super Bowl was like "everything you see in a movie." Except, real! Focus on the Family (+750%). Search Engines News SEO News Yahoo! Buzz Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:22:16 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28007 Is social media better than a 60-second ad spot that costs around $3 million. Pepsi thinks so which is why they chose to launch a viral campaign at RefreshEverything.com instead of advertising in the Super Bowl this year. Pepsi plans to give away $20 million in grant money to fund projects in various categories. People can go there now to submit ideas and vote on other ideas. From the Yahoo News article : The problem, say marketing experts, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:09:59 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28006 As WebProNews reported , Mullen and Radian6 partnered to launch BrandBowl2010 , a Twitter/Super Bowl event that allowed users to see near real-time ratings of the Super Bowls commercials. The two companies have now released the results. They determined that Doritos was the most effective brand to advertise during the Super Bowl, and that Budweiser Select55 was the least effective. The results were determined from 98,656 Tweets collected. Search Engines News SEO News WebProNews Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:41:25 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28005 Recently I've read one of those awfully misguided anti-SEO posts. It linked to another blog post called SEO FAQ . It wasn't an actual SEO FAQ though. It was just another awfully misguided blog post from a guy I have never heard of before and who only reveled in the attention he got from displaying his ignorance. People got angry as usual in such cases of blatant provocation and disregard. Search Engines News SEO News SEOptimise Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:06:06 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28004 Were T-4.5 days from the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics Games. Who are you excited to see flying down the mens downhill course or dancing across the ice? Will you be rooting for your homeland or just your favorite event? Do you know anyone crazy enough to get on one of those luge sleds? Making the trip to Canada or are you planning on enjoying the games from the comfort of your own home? With only a few days before the games begin, its time to get prepared. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:06:03 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28003 Over the past weeks, I've come across a few highly valuable and inspiring articles on using Gmail filters as well Outlook rules for better productivity. This actually goes about organizing your email more effectively in order to do your job better and faster. This prompted me to optimize my SEO process using email filtering to a achieve higher productivity. Just an hour or so of playing resulted in quite a few cool tips I am thrilled to share on SEJ: 1. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:42:16 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28002 A little less than a month ago, Google announced that it might shut down Google.cn and its offices in China. The search giant may not be giving up on the country entirely, however, as a new report has indicated that it's part of a group attempting to invest in a large Chinese media and advertising company. According to George Chen and Melanie Lee , Disney is leading a consortium that includes Google, Search Engines News SEO News WebProNews Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:36:29 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=28001 Worldwide mobile data bandwidth usage increased by 72 percent in the second half of 2009, according to a new report by Allot Communications. Applications such as YouTube and Skype are driving this continued momentum in mobile broadband growth. APAC leads the growth with 86%; EMEA posted 70% growth and the Americas 59%. The report found video to be the single most influential factor driving the need for increased mobile network capacity. Search Engines News SEO News WebProNews Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:36:29 GMT