Seems the guys at Google are partial to the Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin special. The company's latest Doodle is a timelapse video of eight hours of pumpkin carving on six 1,000+ pound pumpkins that took place at their Mountain View headquarte.

Happy Halloween, readers! Now that the big day is upon us, let's have a look at the top costumes and search trends for Halloween 2011. Google, Yahoo, and SortPrice have shared the top user searches and trends for Halloween costumes and other.

Last month, we had a look at an InboundWriter study that showed how search and social intelligence provided to writers during the content creation process can increase quality score, time on page, search traffic, and conversion to sale. What we fe.

Just because your SEO campaign is experiencing hiccups doesn't mean you aren't a good SEO practitioner. Certain situations like this force you to look at the alternative factors that can affect SEO success. When you work within the a.

Twitter now has 100 million active users generating some 200 million tweets and 1.6 billion search queries every day. Despite the promise of reaching such a massive, highly-engaged audience, many advertisers have struggled to find the best wa.

It's only a matter of weeks before the industry's thought leaders and top practitioners converge on Chicago for our annual Midwest online marketing bonanza. As many thousands of past attendees are aware, getting to meet the expert speakers for s.

Coming up with an idea to get people to link to your site can be challenging, whether you're looking for a story idea, developing an online tool, or wanting to do something humorous. Yet there are strategies to find new ideas on a regular basis. .

In 1993, Peter Steiner famously wrote in the New Yorker that, "on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." In 2011, trillions of dollars in e-commerce transactions and a growing number of other interactions have made knowing that someone is not o.

Last Friday, Linden Lab announced a most unusual event - a weekend land sale during which the setup fees for private regions would be waived. As someone in business within SL I am aware that drastic sales of this nature are usually the result of o.

Editor's Note: Richard Kirk, Head of SEO at Performics, took issue with Gareth Owen's )Head of SEO at Steak( recent column on Search Engine Watch and asked if he could post a rebuttal. Given this is a thorny issue that really has divided the indus.

My exploration of LinkedIn advertising platform continues! My last few articles have focused on audience targeting for LinkedIn, as well as ad optimization tactics to improve ROI. In this article, we will explore a new feature just released for Li.

Web developers are great: without them, we wouldn't have, well' the web! But unfortunately, a lot of developers can have a bit of a blind-spot when it comes to SEO. While some on-site SEO features almost always come as standard now )ability.

The FTC has approved its settlement with Google that addresses improper privacy disclosure during the release of Buzz. The settlement mandates additional privacy procedures, including third-party privacy audits every other year for the next two de.

With over a billion pageviews per day, Google Image Search can be an excellent source of traffic. Of course, one has to ask themselves whether this traffic is beneficial or not and if so, then followup with an understanding of how to get their ima.

The Google Transparency Report has been updated to include data on Government requests for user information. The U.S. made requests for over 11,000 accounts in the first half of 2011 alone, making them the leader in user data requests. The Trans.

Did you know that the U.S. now has more wireless customer connections than people? There are currently estimated to be 327.6 million active wireless customer connections in the U.S. The nation's population is estimated by the U.S. Census Bur.

Comments to your YouTube videos can provide valuable feedback and additional information about your audience as well as your videos. Viewers will tell you what they like and don't like about your videos. But you need to have a bit of a thick skin .

This summer Google AdWords Call Metrics introduced $1 flat rate click-to-call charge on call tracking enabled ads delivered to smartphones. Now advertisers can bid for calls made via any Google ad. The significant change is that, now, what you bid.

Blogger users now have the option to switch their Blogger profiles over to Google+. Google is also testing a one-touch Add to Circles button in selected users' search results, as well. Google is trying to get more users onto the Google+ plat.

The Supreme Court of Canada's widely anticipated ruling on the Crookes v. Newton case found that hyperlinking does not constitute publication, unless a number of circumstances are satisfied. The decision to dismiss the appeal of Wayne Crooke.