Just a quick update to inform you that if you're using Google's product search , whether on your computers or mobile devices such as iPhone or Android phones, you can now check whether a particular product is in stock on a store nearby. You can check out the product's availability by clicking on the "blue dot" included in the search results. This is particularly useful if you're out on the street and saw something which you might want to buy.

I have been enrolled in the Market Motive social media online course for close to two months now.  Each week I have been given a social media topic and have been responsible for viewing a certain number of films which go into detail about the topic being taught.  There have been a wide range of social media topics such as a week dedicated to Twitter and another dedicated to Youtube. Personally,

I am very happy to announce the countdown to Search & Social Spring Summit 2010, the official search marketing and social media conference of Search Engine Journal! Search & Social Spring Summit 2010 is the second annual conference from Search & Social, the team behind Search Engine Journal, DailySEOTip, IMBroadcast and various other search marketing projects.

For those of you that do not know Chuck , he has a great deal of experience with geo games as well and other geo apps, local search and marketing, and is not only a marketer but a heavy engaged user of all the services he talks about. I wanted to interview him about businesses using local social networks such as FourSquare, )because he is a very active user( and help share some insight to those business owners wondering how to use.

Sentiment analysis is something very new and immature. Sentiment analysis allows you to identify general attitudes towards your brand )or a product(. The goal of sentiment analysis is to assign a given social media comment with a degree of association to three basic categories: positive, negative or neutral. 1. Social Mention Social mention is always my first choice when it comes to the sentiment analysis.

Whether you work in-house or take on several clients, there are going to be projects that make you cringe and projects that feel good to work one. A lot of this depends on the project manager and/or client. Here are some things to look out for when deciding if a project is for you: Enthusiasm. When a client is enthusiastic about driving traffic to their web site and all the possibilities that can occur because of that traffic, it general means that they get it.

ComScore has just released its February search engine rankings data. And while there's nothing new in terms of who is on top, who gained and who lost, what's surprising about it is that among all the online properties where searches are conducted other than the five major search engines, Facebook gained a significant amount of searches in February. Yes, it seems that more search activities are happening on Facebook lately.

With the ever growing site traffic of  of  YouTube mobile site, it is not surprising that  Google will take advantage of this to serve advertisements.  In 2009, YouTube mobile's site traffic increased by 160%. You can just imagine how good this site traffic will be in terms of potential for more ad clicks and brand campaign awareness. So, YouTube has started serving ads , particularly banner ads on its mobile site's home, search and browse pages.

While you are pondering on the points made by Todd about online retirement , here's a worthwile albeit healthy activity that you may want to consider - biking. And to help you navigate your way through U.S. cities on your bike, Google has just added useful biking directions and bike trail data to Google Maps. Google has been gathering these bike trail data for quite some time now and now that they've gathered as much data as possible,

A lot of today's top copywriters got their start in direct mail, broadcasting and catalog pieces.  Back then, the medium was strictly rooted in the "Push" era â€" we shovel out the content, you take it all in and buy this widget. When the web started coming of age, people realized that they didn't have to "take it all in" â€" they could comparison shop, read reviews and judge ratings.  Even in the last few years we've gained the ability to ask friends,

Xmarks is one of those FireFox plugins that I've been using for ages. I mentioned it in my one of the first FireFox tool overviews and I still find it awesome. With some )arguably( great "social" features added Xmarks has turned a cool search engine as well. I find it quite relevant and precise. Sure, the database is not as huge as Google's but what it currently has is the best of the best.

"Burningly it came on me all at once, This was the place! those two hills on the right, Crouched like two bulls locked horn in horn in fight; While to the left, a tall scalped mountain' Dunce, Dotard, a-dozing at the very nonce, After a life spent training for the sight!" Robert Browning "Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came" I'm sure you've all heard it before.

I pretty much remember when talks about Google launching its own store for web apps started circulating before.  But Google remained mum about it until now.  The Google Apps Marketplace has been launched and is now open for business. So what's this all about really?  According to the Official Google Blog , the Google Apps Marketplace is a new online store for integrated business apps. It will allow Google Apps customers to easily discover,

Welcome to another edition of ' 7 Days of Search and Social ' - so, how are we now? Last week was a pretty busy one out in the trenches, especially considering that SMX was on )generally slows the blogging world(. I do suggest looking into today's top story as it's one that seems to have slipped by the radar' interesting stuff. I am now in the second year of publishing these weekly roundups. I hope yer all enjoying them! So let's git r done!

A topic that has been discussed extensively by some people in the SEO community is the notion that having a W3C compliant web site is either critical to SEO or it's not.  Most recently, Edward Lewis and I debated back and forth on Twitter, with Edward holding firm to his long-standing position that compliance is necessary and me taking the stand that 100% compliance is not necessarily a factor in ranking.

Recently the company I worked for made a big decision to rebrand and with it came the dreaded domain name change. We are also having a new website being built so another SEO favourite URL's. This article will share my leanings from my sleepless nights and epic amount of research into making sure it didn't go wrong. After my research I decided to not listen to what I read and decided to change our domain name and page paths all in one hit.

One of the most advanced and usable features inside SEJ tools is its SERP tracker. The benefits of the tool include: )!( The tool is easy to use and configure; )!( The tool is organically integrated with all other tools inside which makes adding terms to tracker simple and fun; )!( The tool generates pretty and well-organized reports; etc.

How does searching on your TV using Google sounds like to you? Isn't it enough that Google has conquered the web and the mobile devices and now it wants to try its luck on TV sets as well? According to a WSJ report , Google has been testing out a new   TV search service in cooperation with the second satellite provider in the U.S. - Dish Network. The TV search service will apparently let you search TV shows and web video including  YouTube.  Now,

Studying the front page of Digg or Reddit can give you some pretty decent insight into what kinds of content is worthy of the communities votes.  However, it's nothing compared to what you can learn by reading and being an active member of the "social" part of social media: the comments.  If you're looking for insights into the "algorithms" of your favorite social news & bookmarking sites, this is your pay dirt.

It is not really often that I am actually impressed by the tool )this is because I come across 2-3 new ones weekly so it is not really easy to surprise me already(. But today's one is truly awesome. AlertRank is a free web-based tool that helps to make sense of your Google alerts. Most of us use Google Alerts to keep an eye on our keyword or brand mentions but few of us are actually satisfied with the tool' Until you try AlertRank.