Nothing irritates me more than a site not working on my iPad. I use my iPad for fun and to get away from all the responsibilities that come with my laptop. I don't check email and I try really, really hard to not check Twitter. My husband, my son and I all have iPads and we all use them daily.

Is it just me or has Google's panda update become the scapegoat for poor SEO? It seems like every day I come across an article where some website I've never heard of is blaming Panda for a loss of traffic/revenue/rankings and crying about how Google is unfair. If you are thinking about calling the New York Times or complaining to congress about your site's rankings, STOP. It is NOT Google's fault your site isn't useful.

Embed this on your site Source: Infographic: Porn vs The Internet [NSFW] In the early 2000′s, the media made a meal out of how the pornography industry had been taken to a new level in terms of reach, revenue and types of "entertainment", thanks to the advent of the world wide web. In fact internet marketers owe the porn industry for being first to successfully adopt now-everyday technologies such as geo-location, videostreaming and e-commerce to name a few.

Groupon has announced plans to go public the first week in November. Although the Chicago-based deal giant had initially expected the IPO to be based on a $20 to $25 billion valuation, the projected valuation is now much lower. Groupon is planning to sell 30 million shares, which represent less than five percent of the company, at a price point of $16 to $18 per share. The IPO is expected to raise approximately $478.8 million and implies a value of $10.1 billion to $11.

FlowTown.com released an infographic called Social Advertising Reaching New Heights . I found the social objectives to be a solid representation of the different goals businesses should be examining when engaging in social media. If you are new to social media check out the measurement tools that are mentioned.

OK, I am not sure if videos are ever put on SEJ; I am new at this job. However, I had to post this one because Matt Cutts actually discusses how SEOs help clients, gives great examples and says some amazing things. Quotes: " Search engines are not as smart as people yet ." " Search engine optimization can be a valid way to help people find what they are looking for via search engines ." " There are many many,

According to recent reports, Google is exploring the possibility of financing an acquisition of Yahoo's core products. Although Google has reportedly held early discussions with two-private equity firms, they have not yet presented a formal offer; it remains to be seen whether or not they will present a bid. Yahoo, which has an audience of over 700 million unique monthly visitors, has attracted the attention of many potential buyers over the last several months.

I went against everything I know as a social SEO person a few weeks ago. It may be a cardinal sin of social media marketing and blogging, but I decided to close the comments on my company's internet marketing blog . I had been trying to find a way to better manage the commenting process on that blog for a while. It had been getting so many spam comments everyday )anywhere from several hundred a thousand(,

SEO for e-commerce sites is like playing on a teeter-totter with all the kids at the playground, and search engines are the fulcrum. Whether the site is geared toward lead generation or B2C sales, the goal of most e-commerce SEO campaigns is to stomp the competition in organic search rankings. Emerging technologies have brought forth microdata with the release of HTML5. The concept of microdata is a new for SEO professionals,

Yesterday, Gmail, which has over 260 million people using the free email service worldwide, accidentally released a video that details upcoming product changes. Although the original YouTube video is no longer viewable, a copy of the video has been uploaded. Jason Cornwell, a user experience designer for Google, says the following in the video: "We've been hard at work to update Gmail with a new look.

On Monday, October 17th, Apple announced that over twenty five million customers have made the iOS 5 update. For reference, iOS5 was released on October 12th, only five days prior to the announcement. The iOS5 update features all sorts of new additions like the Notification Center, iMessage, and Newsstand. To investigate this, Chitika Insights analyzed traffic from within the Chitika Inc. online advertising network to see the level of iOS5 impact.

There were some fantastic and very important articles around the web this week. Here are some of our favorites. Happy reading!

Earlier today, Facebook and the U.S. Labor department announced a new program to help unemployed workers find jobs. The program, which is called The Social Jobs Partnership, will seek to leverage the power of social media to connect unemployed workers with jobs. Marne Levine, Facebook's VP of Global Public Policy, released a statement that said the following of the new program: "Facebook is about connecting people so that they can share what's important to them,

Brafton Infographic: Why Content for SEO? explores how content is key to search engine visibility. They also have a related post which breaks down each area of the infographic. I like this stat - " 76% of marketers who have strategic SEO campaigns in place invest in content creation.

Dropbox, which enables users to easily store and share documents, photos, videos, and other files, recently announced they closed a $250 million round of Series B funding. The popular file sharing and storage service has over 45 million users that collectively save one billion files every three days and a reported $4 billion valuation. Index Ventures led the $250 million round of financing, which also included participation from nine other investors including Sequoia Capital,

Quality score is Google's way of calculating each of your keywords importance to what you're doing. It measures how relevant your keyword is to your ad text, to a users search query, your landing page, how fast your website loads, what keywords are on your landing page and a variety of other factors. The following are 8 tips to help you improve your quality scores and get more conversions. If you would like to know more about PPC, check out all our articles here.

I contacted Dennis and asked him what he thought because after working at Ebay for nearly 10 years I know referral data had to be important to him. Dennis on Google Analytics As has been said already by others online, these changes will have a large effect on how marketeers will be able to track their success online )I would recommend the views of Yoast on SEObook for reading (. I won't go into this at this time, as it will be a duplicate insight.

Here are some articles we found after the big GA announcement about referral data from searches not being available from those logged in to Google. If you see any other articles this week please let us know and we will add them.

News - Google, in an effort to secure better user privacy, is effectively turning the lights out on signed-in Google Account users in Google Analytics as well as other analytics packages. And, true to Google nature, this change doesn't affect Paid Search, just organic. The Double Standard Google makes the double standard seem easy. Paid search )PPC( is also personalized to the user's search history and IP address. But, true to Google's nature,

Skyrocket SEO surveyed 420 participants worldwide on which SEO tools they use and what they use them for. if you are not sure which tools to use or you want to find some extras this survey could be very helpful.