Being automatically updates once a page is changed opens up a wealth of )probably missed( opportunities: Make sure your own page is save from hackers' attack : receive email alerts once a hacker adds any illegitimate links or text on your page; Keep track of new comments )an alternative to services like Co.

Google is officially rolling its Search Suggest feature which has been in Google labs for quite some time now. Google Search Suggest works similarly with the "Did you mean" feature that we often get when we enter a seemingly odd/misspelled search term which the Google engine finds incorrect. Only this time, the suggestion is done real-time.

Very often, especially with huge dynamically driven or user-generated websites, you might feel you have some indexing problems, i.e. Google doesn't seem to dig your site as deep as you want it to.

I really do not do many speaking engagements on SEO and search marketing, but plan to in the immediate future )the next speaking and moderator sessions are planned for the ScarySEO mini-Con in Florida(. Back in June I did have the chance to speak at the South Florida MeetUp on Link Building which was hosted by AgencyWeb . The MeetUp consisted of about 50 search marketing professionals and webmasters who were interested in enhancing their link building.

As you may already know or heard, the interest in mobile is one of the hottest topics for online marketers. Technology from the iPhone, Blackberry and other phones are making it a lot easier for users to browse the web through their phones. According to Opera, State of the Mobile Web , mobile use increased by 16% in June over past months and that number will continue to increase.

Yahoo link: operator )and URL analysis in Yahoo! SiteExplorer( is the best method currently at our disposal to conduct backlink analysis and to evaluate either your own or your competitors' link building tactics. Yet the tool is not perfect. Some essential tool drawbacks )many of them covered already at SEOmoz ( we come across include: Yahoo! link: search results are impossible to sort and filter )e.g. by linking domain(; Yahoo!

Google is introducing some improvements on the way it gives Ad units a corresponding Quality Score. This improvements are follow-ups to the most recent changes that Adwords has introduced such as the guidelines on slow loading Ad Landing Pages . These improvements specifically relates to calculation of Quality Score at the time of each search query, phasing out marking keywords with "inactive for search" and the replacement of "minimum bid" with "first page bid.

As expected Google once again is dominating the July search share data from comScore . Google got 61.9% of the total core search rankings for July followed by Yahoo with 20.5%, Microsoft with 8.9%, Ask Network with 4.5% and AOL 4.2%. Comparing it with June data, Both Yahoo and Microsoft are at the lost side with - .4 and -.3 point changes. While Google gained 4 notches comparing its July achivement with June's data.

Among the webmaster tools available for us to tweak our sites settings for SEO purposes, Yahoo's Site Explorer is the most underated. It is not as popular as Google's Webmaster Tools and as not as noisy as Live Search Webmaster Center lately. Until now, as Yahoo is rolling out a new interface for its Site Explorer tool. Apparently this new look is in preparation for bigger things to come for this Yahoo webmasters' tool.

The tools I am listing today are not for daily use. I personally play with them once in a while if I want to get a really profound understanding of )top ten( search results. 1. Map out how Google and Yahoo search results are linked to each other: Yahoo vs. Google tool identify "authority" sites that do )similarly( well in both the search engines; get more in-depth competition research .

If you need to keep track of all latest news, rumors and )educated( theories behind Google penalties , you should frequent WebmasterWorld forum of course.

Vertical search seems to have been put on the back burner for many search marketers. With new buzz words like "Social Media" and "Local/Mobile Targeting", who could blame them? But let's not be so quick to forget about tried and true relevancy for shinny new promises. While vertical search may not be for every brand or market, if it fits, it can be your very best friend. At the vertical search session here in San Jose,

I am here at the first session of the day, yes i am up on time after the Google Dance! We have Rebecca Lieb, Contributing Editor, ClickZ moderating this morning. The first speaker this morning is Amanda Watlington, Owner, Searching for Profit Amanda starts it off by saying that blogs are now not only used just for your organic search play but has grown to be so much more.

There's a couple of interesting things to note in the July search share ranking released by Nielsen-Online . But first, yes as expected Google once again leads the pack garnering around 4.8 billion searches of the total 8 billion searches conducted for July in the U.S. What so interesting about this figure is the fact that Google has registered a 16% year-to-year growth.

H1 - H6 elements " briefly describe the topic of the section they introduce ". They form a page HTML semantic structure that can " be used by user agents, for example, to construct a table of contents for a document automatically ". Header tags will not dramatically effect the page rankings, of course, but the correct usage of the elements will " reinforce " other on-page factors and structure the contents of a document.

Last week Rand posted a brilliant linkbuilding tip that involved taking SEO advantage of mistyped/ misspelled domains. Putting aside black / white hat discussion, I am giving the list of domain typo generators for your advantage: 1. DomainTools Domain Typo Generator offers a variety of options: " TLD view " shows the list of domain typos and a top level domain map with registration status )available, available )previously registered(, registered )active website(,

Google Webmaster Central has added a new feature that aims to make website visitors'  encounter with the perennial problem and most dreaded 404 "Not found" page a more pleasant if not useful experience. Although there has been manual work-around to solve this problem, mostly by editing the 404 php pages and customizing it to direct users to other parts of a site, it has been a tedious process, until now.

Latest report from the American Customer Satisfaction Index published by the University of Michigan shows Google topping the list of search and portal companies customer satisfaction survey. Based on interviews conducted on 3,000 customers, Google got 87% customer satisfaction rating for 2008. This score registered a 10.3% change from last year. Interestingly, Yahoo which occupied the top spot in 2007's survey now trails Google at the number 2 spot.Microsoft, Ask.com,

Finally six months after its launch, Yahoo! Buzz is now open to the public. The announcement follows several months of beta testing the service to selected sites, including the SE Journal. Yahoo claims that Buzz now has around 5 million users and sites which were selected to implement the content voting system has indicated increase in traffic since they embed the Buzz button on their site.

We are sitting in on the Everything But Google: Alternative Search Marketing Options panel. Andrew Goodman is moderating the panel this afternoon. Were going to start off the panel with Sage Lewis, Search Engine Watch Expert & President of Sagerocks.com. Sage talks about how there is more media to buy now than ever before, but there is not more money to spend and that there is a larger risk envolved if you don't know what you are doing.