This morning Sozialize, new social media software , founded by Cesar Serna's company, Serna Media, Inc. released its first product to the world, Tweet Pro . The newest in an army of Twitter applications, Tweet Pro is rather unique with its advanced features and the Serna-certified stamp of perfection. "Tweet Pro allows you to quickly and easily find Twitter users who share your same interest by allowing you to search through posted messages and profile information.

A collegue and Search Engine Journal reader emailed me over the weekend, to let me know that the Yahoo Paid Inclusion ) Yahoo Search Submit ( feed for his business, and that of his competitors have been experiencing problems, and dropped from the rankings. Apparently, there is a major shifting going on of Yahoo rankings, which has been documented by members of Digital Point Forums : Yes! I have also noticed Yahoo update results, few of my websites jumped to 1st page!

Putting aside all recent arguments and gossip as per privacy issues )yep, nothing is probably totally free and Google Analytics should be using its )your?( data in some way(, I should confess, I love the tool and use it. I've been compiling the list of advanced Google Analytics tips that open up plenty of possibilities to track and evaluate. Today I am sharing the list and expect you to share yours too!

So, there you go, amidst some tongue-lashing and verbal beating more particulary thrown at Roy Bostock, Yahoo's nominees to the Board of Directors, all of them were re-elected by the stockholders. The stockholders also approve the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as Yahoo's independent registered public accounting firm but rejected the proposed pay-for-superior performance principle for executive compensation,

The Google Webmaster Central Blog posted a YouTube Video of the day in the life of the Google Webmaster Support team. It's a really cool account of the daily routine of the different members of the Google Webmaster Central team. Just when I thought the video couldn't get any cooler, Matt Cutts whips out his iPhone and shows the viewers how he was reading a Search Engine Journal post by Eric Lander on NoFollow and PageRank sculpting . Very cool indeed!

Yahoo is launching the new version of Delicious.com )del.icio.us( today and with or without the dots, the company seems to be moving on with its social bookmarking platform, even without Joshua Schachter )the original founder of del.icio.us who left Yahoo in the Spring( behind the wheel. Delicious was supposed to rebrand about a year ago , but they have finally "dropped the dots" and are now rebranded as Delicious.com instead of del.icio.us. Under Yahoo's wing,

Google and Yahoo spent a combined $1.36 Million last quarter in lobbying according to the Associated Press, with Yahoo spending $630,000 and Google topping off at $730,000.

Google has been given the go ahead to begin their StreetView project in the UK, which will capture images from Google cars with cameras perched on the top, and publish those images on Google Maps. Privacy concerns surround Google StreetView because of photos published of vehicles, license plates, private property and individuals online.

Google has acquired Omnisio , a social video mashup service which lets its users splice and edit online videos found on YouTube, Google Video and Blip.TV, adding balloons and annotations to the videos while also mixing segments together in a remix type setting. Omnisio, a Y Combinator company,

A while ago I did a few posts on checking and monitoring your keyword position in Google with free web-based tools. Unfortunately, the handy tool )SERPArchive( described in one of these articles seems broken now and thus I've been looking for another solution to get updated of your keyword rankings. SheerSEO is one such tool which is free , has a user-friendly interface and, apart from tracking multiple keyword positions both in Google and Yahoo ,

So while Microsoft is redefining its Live Search portal with interactive background images, and a search engine startup is hitting on Google's user privacy policy, Google is the meantime is introducing a new search feature which is aimed at helping users understand how it customized search results.

If you think the Live Search Cashback was a silly program to promote its search engine, Microsoft might be doing unusual again with the redesign of the Live Search portal. Guess what the redesign is all about?- Background images , which according to the Live Search Team was made to "to find the best way to enhance users' sense of discovery, surprise, and delight while balancing engineering realities for a great user experience.

It's been awhile since we last heard of a media company banging on YouTube's doors for some copyright infringement violations. For the past couple of months, YouTube's seems to be operating silently with most of its publicity hype centered on its quest to generate ample revenue visa-vis its huge daily page views. Now, here comes an Italian media company, Mediaset,

An SEJ reader sent us the following SEO question, which which I decided to discuss with our readers: What is an orphan page and dead-end page? What's the difference? How are they harmful for your site? An orphan page is the one that is not linked to by another one of the site )i.e. that cannot be reached from anywhere on the site( and thus cannot be found by a search bot unless it is linked to externally.

More and more sites have fallen victim to hackers recently and some important steps should be taken to )1( secure your site and )2( monitor that your site hasn't been hacked . )1( Previously I have already listed some basic tips on how to secure your site from being hacked : make sure your hosting company is safe and able to handle the situation properly; make sure your CMS )Wordpress( version is up-to-date; check Google's security checklist .

Comparing quotes from financial services is a big market in the UK, as sites which deliver quotes from unsecured loan, car insurance and even pet insurance providers battle for top rankings in both paid search and organic search on Google UK. For an example, search on Google UK for secured loans . A couple of months back, Google.co.uk stepped in and started serving its own quote comparisons, above the normal Google AdWords results,

Adding to the list of Yahoo shareholders who are " furious " about the failed Microsoft-Yahoo deal is billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens who has to sell his Yahoo shares at a loss  because he was tired of waiting for the deal to materialize. Interestingly, Mr. Pickens bought his share last May with the hopes that he would gain from the stock purchase once Microsoft acquires Yahoo at the original price of as much as $41.

To ensure that search engines understand your website structure correctly you should control each page HTTP headers . Your server should handle all requests properly - by this you will both achieve better crawl rate and higher rankings. Understanding HTTP header status codes: I don't want to go into too much details here and describe only what is really important for SEOs.

While I've never been advocative of focusing on such an old and overused SEO technique as keyword density, keyword prominence is something you should always bear in mind. If you handle it right you will achieve: better rankings; higher crawl rate ; better-looking snippets in SERPs )and thus better clickthrough(, etc.

Just a few days before the Yahoo Annual Shareholders' Meeting where the fate of the current Yahoo Board is no longer at stake, here comes its second biggest investor planning on withdrawing their support for the Board. Gordon Crawford of Capital Research and Management was said to be not happy with how both Jerry Yang and Roy Bostock have failed to come to agreement with Microsoft. Unfortunately for Crawford, who owns a 6.5% stake in Yahoo,