Mocality, a Kenyan company that maintains an online directory and provides services for 170,000 businesses, recently accused Google of using their database in an unethical manner. The blog post, which was written by the Mocality CEO Stefan Magdalinksi, said that Google contacted their customers without permission, falsely made claims of a business relationship, and made .

Two years ago two location sharing services targeting the mobile platform, emerged on the scene - Gowalla and Foursquare. Both were touted to become the next big thing. But while one went onto become hugely popular by building a better and much more popular network, with sky rocketing check-ins, the other floundered, so much so .

I am often shocked that many are not aware that the Coast Guard is part of our Armed Forces. Our families wouldn't be safe without them. I have to say that I am very impressed by the whys and the hows the Coast Guard has set in place in regards to their social media efforts. .

"Why are our hamburgers square? Because we don't cut corners." - Dave Thomas A long time ago I did an article on my personal blog comparing airline cuts to the fast food industry. I accused them of using something I call sesame seed economics. Three years later I'm still seeing that type of thought process .

I know that to many people I encounter the only way to build a web site is in WordPress. This is just not the case, but millions have learned how to build WP themes and/or modify existing themes that are out there. WordPress is great and offers a lot of benefits, but it has drawbacks .

Thursday afternoon, the Electronic Privacy Information Center )EPIC( filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission )FTC( that requested regulators investigate Google's "Search plus Your World." The EPIC complaint alleges that the new Search Plus feature shows favoritism towards Google's own social network and violates Google+ users' privacy. Marc Rotenberg, Epic's Executive Director, said the .

According to data recently released by ComScore, Microsoft Bing has finally surpassed Yahoo as the number two search engine for the first time in history. In December of 2011, Bing and Microsoft properties received approximately 2.75 billion total searches and Yahoo properties received only 2.65 billion total searches during the same time period. Bing's growth, .

Workout Regularly Taking care of your health by exercising regularly it great way to help yourself and your mind. Exercise helps improve your mood, boosts energy so you won't need that coffee in the morning, helps you become more shapely boosting confidence which helps you negotiate and close sales. The last one may be a stretch .

We have a running joke in our offices about clip art and stock photo. One in particular image continues to populate sites all across the Internet so much that each time she pops up on a site Instant Messages with links to her start flying internally. Kind of a running spoof of the "There's that .

Two years ago if someone had said one day having family as friends on Facebook could be a major problem I would have thought they were nuts, but not today. I have experience with embarrassing family FB posts and I constantly hear problems from friends about family on FB. I know these issues are not .

I interviewed the Chris Boggs via telephone and it was a very exciting geek-like conversation. We discussed SEMPO and upcoming conferences where you can see him, but more importantly we talked about the major issues he sees as SEMPO President. We also discussed Panda and what marketers and businesses are going to need to do .

Yesterday, Google announced the new "Search plus Your World" update. The change, which is already live for some users, is gradually being rolled out over the next several days. Google will now make it easier for their users to locate Personal Results )user's own photos and Google+ posts(, Profiles in Search )network's photos and Google+ .

In November I wrote a post explaining how just one line of code could destroy your SEO. It underscored the fact that sometimes hidden dangers can kill your SEO efforts. In addition, it also explained how a thorough audit can reveal those issues and get your site back on track SEO-wise. Well, I'm back with .

Most of us at one time or another has viewed the television commercial of the older women who has fallen and can't get up. Well, for some business owners, they probably feel that way sometimes about their company's SEO efforts. The intent may be good, but the bottom line is the search engine marketing campaigns .

Over at the WordStream blog, we typically publish a list of our most popular content at the end of every month and every year. This is more than a way to drum up a few more views for those blog posts - it's an opportunity to learn from our own successes and apply those lessons .

According to a recent BBC report, Google is displaying illegal ads promoting unofficial London 2012 ticket resellers. The unofficial sale of Olympic tickets is prohibited to protect consumers and is a serious offense that carries a maximum fine of £20,000 )$30,900(. These ads, which are in addition to ads promoting fake ID card sellers, fake .

Twitter and Facebook aren't just for wasting time chatting with your friends anymore - they can also be vital sources of information to be mined when writing your PPC ads! Here's how these social sites can help you create compelling ad copy: Technique #1 - Use Social Sites to Conduct Market Research One of the best .

David Angotti wrote a great post on this on Jan 4th detailing that Google paid bloggers to post reviews; it's a great post that describes the situation in detail. This news shocked my world a little bit and we had some clients raise some concerns. As an agency we execute sponsored post reviews for many .

Google Chrome, which recently released version 17 to beta, now has the ability to prerender webpages on the basis of what site a user is likely to visit. When a user begins to type a URL or search query in the address bar, Chrome predicts what page the user wants and begins to load that .