If you're still trying to get a ticket to the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit, you must act fast! We've had contests going on all this week to give you a chance for a free pass: VIP package , Twitter and Youtube . Here's another contest for you to enter! We want to know how you got into Internet Marketing. Was it through a friend? Was it a news article that captured your attention?  How about a random opportunity? Make it as interesting as possible.

Not so long ago twitter added nofollow to when you mention someone using @ However they also added a small popup which provides extra information. This popup is only shown when you are logged in. Quite useful to easily see their bio and activity. That way you can decide much faster if you want to follow someone. But to show how much twitter thinks things through when implementing something new. Here is a weird anomaly.

When I got home on Friday I started to put the mac away for the night and just relax, but for some reason I decided to check some email and see what was happening on Twitter. Boy, was I glad I did that. On Twitter, Brad Gosse )his last name rhymes with boss( had a tweet that really caught my attention, "Google Algorithm Updates http://su.pr/ADk8o7 ". The link took me to his website where a video was posted: Needless to say I went right out and picked up a copy.

Most of us know )and use( Google's synonym operator [~term] What it basically does is instructs Google to include more synonyms in the search results and use the bold font for them )Google uses synonyms for generating search results anyway but this operator makes it focus on the synonyms(. I mentioned the operator many times to emphasize how useful it might turn for keyword research - the operator comes particularly handy when used before some most generic terms. Besides,

Yahoo has just rolled out a pretty useful feature of  its Yahoo! Contacts service. This feature, if you're willing to share information with your friends and business contacts will ensure that your friends always gets your latest contact details and information without making them do anything. But that is if you allow them to. The cool thing is that if you share your personal information with them, the next time you change your Yahoo contacts details,

Encouraging Tweets of the current page has become one of the most powerful ways to attract extra traffic and help viral effect. Tweetmeme button is probably the most popular way to do that, however more and more often I come across blogs that use a similar one provided by Topsy. So what's the difference between the two Twitter buttons?

The Droid from Verizon has actually outsold the original iPhone in their respective first 74 days of launching. The iPhone sold its first million units at the 74 day point and according to Flurry in that same time span, the Droid )aka Motorola Sholes(, sold just over a million by 50,000 units. This is a comparison of just one Android phone to the one iPhone model a year, nevermind combining the over 100 Android phones coming to market this year alone.

There have been a number of instances over the last year or two where I or people I know have taken on projects from another SEO consultant or agency.  In these cases, I've seen the transition of accounts from one party to another create their own spectrum; where the incumbent ranges from hugely helpful to less much than so. With this in mind,

Hey everyone!! It's that time of the year again for the Spring Summi t and we have some great contests going on! With the success of our Twitter #team contest )which is currently going on until midnight(, we decided to roll out ANOTHER contest today. If you're interested in winning a free ticket, then try your luck on this one! It'll be fun. Contest details and the video to post a response to can be found here: Contest Video . On this,

Yahoo is beefing up its Sports content site as it acquires social sport startup Citizen's Sports .  In case you're not aware, Citizen's Sports are responsible for the popular Fantasy Sports Game in Facebook. By acquiring Citizen's Sports, Yahoo hopes to strenghten its social strategy of enriching,

Google continues to shower mobile phones running its Android OS including its own Nexus One phone with great features one after another. Previously it just made the cool Gesture Search available for all phones running Android OS version 1.5+.  And now,   Google Maps for Mobile has just been updated to version 4.1. The first new feature that has been added to the latest version of Google Maps for Mobile is search n' swipe. First,

Interacting between both students and faculty is convenient and easy with the Market Motive social media course I am taking. I know some of you are reading this thinking "I would hope people would be interacting within in a social media class because after all, isn't that where the social part comes from." Let's not jump to judging and assume that everyone who enrolled is familiar with social networking.

You have heard of Team Jolie and Team Aniston. You have picked sides with Team Edward or Team Jacob. Now it is time to make your own team. Today, gather up everyone you know and get them on Twitter. Get as many people as you can to be on your team. Have them tweet your team name , twitter name , and the hashtag #ssss . We will count the total number of tweets that you get when we stop the contest at midnight )12 a.m. EST( today.

In the wake of Google's new PPC service, there has been speculation that the new service is simply a version of Remarketing . After touching upon the new service in Beyond Google PPC in 2010 , Search Engine Journal has since had the opportunity to further investigate the system.  From the specifics of Remarketing and industry-related advantages, to beta previews and specifics of its configuration, explore all of the facets of Remarketing . What is Remarketing?

In spite of all the claims that Blogging is dead, the numbers show Blogs are still a great way to get your message out there and to gain exposure and credibility in your industry. We'll get started with some interesting stats on "The State of the Blogosphere" and then I'll share some tips and advice for Blogging your way to more traffic, exposure and revenue. All of the stats are courtesy of " 2009 State of the Blogosphere by Technorati " More than 133,000,

Like on-page linked text analysis in general, identifying grey areas like hidden links )and text( should be an important and thoroughly considered step. You will want to research hidden links: )!( When you need to diagnose a recently hacked site; )!( When you need to test a web design )some hidden text may be totally innocent and only appear illegal(; )!( When you need to identify the reason of the possible penalty; )!

It's been awhile since we last heard anything from Google AdSense. Although it may be starting to lose its luster among website publishers, I would like to think that there are still tons of sites which relied on it to earn some extra bucks.  Anyway, the Inside AdSense blog just announced that AdSense publishers will now have access to Google-certified ad network. This was previously allowed only for U.S.  and Europan publishers.

If you're fond of searching for great images and photos available on the web, most often you'd probably encounter search results which don't give you the option for more sizes available for those images. The folks at Microsoft Bing knew this and so they are rolling out a new feature of  Bing image search which actually lets you find other available sizes of images.

Facebook has just rolled out a new feature for its site-wide search box - search suggestion. This is is similar to the search suggestion features offered by major search engines wherein various search terms are suggested via a drop-down menu, as you type the first few letters of your search query. According to the Facebook blog , this new feature is aimed at helping Facebook users to quickly find and connect with people, pages, groups,

Have you ever wanted to attend a premier industry event as a VIP, get inside secrets from industry leaders, and get treated like a rockstar ? Well this week Search & Social are giving you several ways to make this a reality. For the launch of the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit )formerly known as IM Spring Break(, the organizers are giving you all kinds of ways to attend the event on their dime. The biggest one is going to be VIP package to the event.