Facebook introduced its Graph Search feature yesterday, which allows users to search based on relationships, past Facebook activity (photos, likes, check-ins, etc.) and other data that Facebook knows about its users (home town, job, schools, etc.). Users can search across four main categories, using a set of intuitive verbs (“lives,” “like,” “work,” etc.), nouns (“San [...]

A recent study shows that URLs can benefit from improved Google SERP positions when they are shared via a sufficient volume of tweets. In April 2012, Branded3, a digital marketing agency based in the UK conducted an in-depth study (claimed to be the largest of its kind) to test whether the amount of tweets that [...]

As Google has pointed out, May tends to be one of their busier months in terms search quality updates, and while 39 changes this past month does not surpass April’s exciting total of 52, the updates are still relatively numerous and quite significant. Among May’s announcements were increased presence of Google+ pages on SERPs, dynamic [...]

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In addition to publishing fresh content, another tried-and-true SEO tactic was given an added level of importance as a result of Google’s ever-evolving algorithm—implementing microdata in a site’s HTML.

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All user behavior has value, even if those users aren't buying anything.

The end of another era in Yahoo Search. I received an email at the beginning of September informing me that the Yahoo Ambassador program was being discontinued. Similar to Geocities being removed from the index, this marks another milestone in the evolution of Search.

It has been a few weeks since Google Instant was launched and we wanted to measure the impact it has had on a sample of the sites that we monitor.