Very few of us could live without analytics. The data informs )or should inform( nearly every decision we make as SEOs, but all too often we don't use the information effectively enough, or fail to take into account enough information to put us on.

Vivid Entertainment now has a dedicated channel at Google TV - the first official adult content channel to be streamed to television sets via the Google TV application. Millions of searchers should be happy. "Vivid for Google TV gives our fans a.

No doubt Apple will be glad Adobe, the owners of Flash technology, are no longer supporting development of the rich content platform for browsers on mobile devices. The company announced: Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be fo.

When released last April, Bing for iPad was a great app and went well beyond basic search. With the Magic Lasso update in July, it got even better. But it left phone users waiting in the wind. No more. Bing for Mobile has a long-awaited upd.

In support of President Obama's call to help returning U.S. veterans and right before Veteran's Day, Google is promoting a government project - a custom search engine for veteran jobs. The National Resource Directory )NRD( uses Google Custo.

Google, a relatively new player in the TV commercial game, produced five of the top 10 most effective Web TV commercials in 2011, to date. Bing was no slouch, knocking out three of their own that made the list compiled by television advertising au.

How social media is being integrated with the whole of digital marketing is one of the greatest momentums we're now witnessing as marketers. A great example of this can be seen in Jermiah Owyang's presentation with Larry Drebes, unve.

With no CEO and rumors of a sale swirling around, Yahoo is once again in the business news for all of the wrong reasons. While Google and Microsoft have been touted as potential suitors alongside the option of selling the company's Asia.

Google is looking at penalizing ad heavy sites that make it difficult for people to find good content on web pages, Matt Cutts, head of Google's web spam team, said yesterday at PubCon during his keynote session. &r.

When you're building an online reputation, regardless of language, one of the most important things you can do is to use anchor links wisely. An anchor link can be either a text hyperlink or a clickable image, although for marketing purposes.

Microsoft shouldn't make money on Android devices, Google will run Motorola independently, and Apple Siri is a "significant" rival to Google search, according to Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. As usual, Schmidt&r.

So Occupy Wall Street has inspired some action - the creation of the "I'm Getting Arrested" app for Android. "Alert your lawyer, loved ones, etc ... that you are being arrested with a click. I'm Getting Arrested enables anyone, with one click, t.

Trada's new crowdsourced Facebook Ads marketplace is designed to combat ad fatigue using the talent of their design and optimization pool to constantly optimize the best ad and image combinations possible. Facebook optimization experts and d.

The Android Market, Apple iTunes, and CNET were among the earliest sites to began using rich application snippets, which were announced in September. These snippets will be important and includable for any software developer website, software publ.

The reaction to Google+ Pages is mixed, with critics highlighting a number of features that, quite frankly, we expected after Google's repeated assurances that it would be worth the wait. They didn't want to jump the gun and launch t.

When Google rolled out their encrypted search, loss of query data including the search terms was a major complaint from online marketers. Google told them the percentage would only be single digits as it was only applied to people signed into a Go.

A new Google search results page layout for places queries adds significant benefits for users, but poses a real threat to marketers. Google has added a large, graphic display on the right side of SERPs for restaurant, museum, and other local attr.

Putting a new business on the map is never easy. But launching your company during the "Great Recession" makes this a truly amazing YouTube success story. Airbnb was founded in August 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco. The s.

SEO, meet your "news" best friend: public relations. It looks like public relations pros who are "in the know" when it comes to optimizing just got a raise from Google. Last week the search engine giant announced the fres.

[Use "Flow visualisations.png" as article image] Conversion tracking is a must-have. If you can, you should. Simply knowing how many sales you generated for how much spend isn't enough. You need to be able to know which keywords )and better, whi.