Ian Lurie at Conversion Marketing claims to have seen Twitter results appearing in Google search results in “Search Plus Your World” fashion. He shows a screen cap to back up his claim. It’s not the People and Places box or …

Google today listed changes it made to its algorithm in January. As previously discussed, the biggest takeaway from that (at least in my opinion) was an increased focus on freshness through not only updates to the “Freshness Update,” but also …

Google rolled out “Search Plus Your World” in January, but that’s not the only change they made to how they deliver search results. Not even close. If you’ve been following, you may know that Google has been putting out blog …

This week, Bruce Clay, a respected search engine marketing agency (whose founder WebProNews has interviewed many times) launched something called Local Paid Inclusion. The official description said: Local Paid Inclusion is a Google, Yahoo and Bing contracted service and is …

What do you do if your pet enterprise fails? If you're a brave (or perhaps foolhardy) entrepreneur, you build something even more ambitious. Such is the case with Nick Oba. When his contributor-driven online magazine failed back in 2010, he came up with a bigger idea: take on Facebook, but make the members into shareholders. And thus Zurker was born.

When trying to rank well on Google, you want to get as many factors working for you as possible. If you can use a few effective techniques your competitors overlook, so much the better. Keep reading for some ideas.

You run a local business, and you claimed your Google Local listing so searchers would see your website. That's a start, but with Bing and Yahoo together holding more than a quarter of the search market in the US, you're still leaving money on the table. Fortunately, you can easily get onto Bing Local by following a few simple steps.

In this article Im going to lay out a method so devastatingly effective for getting top search rankings really fast that its simplicity might surprise you.

One or more people are going around impersonating Google’s head of web spam (and now “Distinguished Engineer”) Matt Cutts, leaving comments on various articles on the web. It’s been going on for a while. Usually, if you pay close enough …

It was around this time last year when Google’s search results really started attracting a whole lot of criticism (more than usual). The content farm discussion was going full-throttle, and finally in February, Google launched the Panda update, its attempt …

What do a great cook and a great blogger have in common? A lot more than you might think. So grab a quick snack and keep reading for an explanation you can really sink your teeth into.

Streamlining and simplifying seem like such good things on paper. Strangely, though, when Google is the one doing the simplifying, and the subject of the process is its privacy policy, most observers get hot under the collar. Why is it so bad when Google does it?

I've only just started writing here at SEO Chat and already I think Ive created a bit of a problem. Ive discussed several techniques, but provided no real way of turning those into a single cohesive strategy. Consider this piece the first part of my correcting this issue.

Every marketer knows that anything “above the fold” will attract the most attention. That's why many advertising-supported websites put lots of ads near the top of the page. Now these ads are attracting some possibly unwanted attention from Google.

Personalized search makes it much tougher to know your site's exact standings in the SERPs. But you can use some of the recent changes to Google's features to help your pages turn up high in the results, and attract the traffic you're looking for.

If your site looks like one of those “Post No Bills” wall that’s covered in assorted flyers, ads, and various forms of clutter, there’s a good chance Google’s new algorithm change will result in these ad-covered sites being punished, especially …

Google blacked out its logo earlier this week to protest two bills currently making their way through Congress: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). They're not alone; many websites went completely black, displaying statements as to why they oppose these bills and often linking to other sites for more information. But the battle's not over yet.

The title says that there are 10 steps to being number one on Google. The truth is that there is only method -- and it is an absolute Google domination machine.

After 17 years, it comes down to this. In a surprising move, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang resigned from his position on the search company's board of directors – and from all other positions within the company. This resignation is effective immediately.

Many people have heard of link wheels. These are a somewhat old (and black hat I might add) technique for getting ranked well. The problem is that all too often the advice that I see given regarding how to build them is either poor advice (such as doing it the black hat way) or just plain wrong. Fortunately, there's a way to do them that doesn't require you to go over to the dark side and risk Google penalties.