According to a report that comScore released on Sunday, e-commerce holiday sales have now reached $25 billion. That number, which includes the first 39 days of the holiday season, represents a 15% increase over the same time period last year. A combination of strong marketing, free shipping, and attractive offers have enticed shoppers to spend .

After enjoying a hugely successful Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Tablet manufacturers have made it clear that there is space for competitors in the open market for companies other than Apple. The HTC Flyer, BlackBerry PlayBook, and the Kindle Fire amongst other devices entered at price points which in some cases are less than half the price .

Aaron Wall, an SEO consultant, book author, blogger, and the founder/owner of SEO Book, joins us today to discuss the future of SEO. Search Engine Journal: As long as I can remember, I have heard people saying this is the end of SEO. Do you truly feel that if SEOs do not stand up for .

The shutdown of Yahoo Site Explorer brought us QBL, the 10-second-car for Backlink Analysis It's been a while since our last review of the Link Research Tools back in March and I want to thank you guys again for the massive feedback. Since then, a lot has happened in SEO, most recently the shutdown of the .

Ever wonder how Google's "trust" works? Well Google's Matt Cutts gives you some insight. This is not the whole story, but it does give you some great information you should keep in mind. Also, see related videos below. Some videos that are related: They don't want us obsessed??? Really?

Aaron Wall, an accomplished SEO and the founder of SEOBook, posted an informative and somewhat controversial blog post yesterday regarding the display of ads and Google properties within the search results. The blog post contained the following image of a Google search engine results page for the query "HD Monitor": Even though Aaron said he .

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OK, we have discussed great techy gifts for adults and girly girl geek gifts, but we could not leave out the kids. So here are some cool gift ideas for "Geeky" and "Tech" kids )or if you are trying to raise a geek these might be good(. We will go from young children to older .

There's been a lot of fearmongering talk lately about Google's human quality raters and just exactly what they're used for and how their ratings are used internally at Google. Discussion was running rampant at Pubcon where I witnessed several SEOs grill Matt Cutts about the subject, and seems to have spread like wildfire across the .

Twitter says, "It's now easier and faster to see the information that matters most to you". Some of the new features: There is a new profile layout You can Tweet from anywhere with in Twitter )not just your home page( #discover is all about trending, notable stories and videos that are customized to you. @connect .

Flowtown released an infographic called Who's Using Google+ . For me the amount of inactive users is very interesting because I can relate to it. I find Google+ very tedious. It is not fast and simple for me. I am a Twitter addict and I have that down to a science with apps on computers .

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With over 46 million subscribers in 25 countries, LivingSocial is the second largest daily deal company in the world. The company, which is in the midst of a $400 million round of funding, recently closed the first $176 million of the round. The remaining $224 million of funds are expected to close in the "coming .

My search marketing career started in 2003, back when the keyword meta tag rained superior and search engine submissions still counted for something. Back in 2003 if someone asked me if Google would be around in two years I would have laughed. Fast forward to today, and the same question is asked, I'd pause and .

Before starting this article I would like to note that I am specifically talking about Google. The information below might not apply to other search engines. Everybody who is into SEO knows that it is more than just link building and offsite techniques. Sure, links matter the most, but how about your website itself? Onsite .

The popular Flipboard iPad news application finally launched its brand new iPhone app late last night. The Flipboard app, which enables users to create an attractive digital magazine on their iPad or iPhone, imports links that friends have shared on Facebook and Twitter. In addition, the app finds other links from relevant media sources and .

Get out your calenders, time to jot down a webinar or two. Here's what you are looking at this week: Introduction to Keyword Research December 7th, 11am EST Presenter: WordTracker Cost: Free Description: We would like to invite you to a completely free webinar to guide you through the process of effective keyword research with Wordtracker's .

Greetings friends, colleagues, cohorts and compatriots of the SEO universe! Have you signed up for SEOcret Santa yet? The 'Secret Santa' for SEOs all over the world. Last year dozens of SEOs from all over the world signed up. This year more than 60 SEOs have signed up already and they are waiting for YOU! .

Industry research firm comScore released their search engine market share report for the month of October. The report continues to illustrate what consumers already know. Google is dominating search engine market share. With an overwhelming 65.6 percent ownership of the market over second-place Yahoo! search )15.2 percent, respectively( 12 billion searches were conducted on Google .