One of the great things about the web is choice. There’s a website out there for nearly everything, and sometimes there are many sites all dedicated to a single topic. But how can you find all the sites that are related to the subject that interests you? This week, we launched a search feature that helps you easily find new websites that are similar to the ones with which you’re already familiar…

In the past I’ve spoken about why I turned off blog comments, but it was mostly from a time/labor perspective. Now I have another reason, one that affects everyone from an SEO Perspective. In some cases. leaving comments on will negatively impact your rankings and traffic.In case you missed it, in yesterday’s post I spoke about how Google is being more aggressive in trying to figure out the proper date for a post and displaying it in the SERP’s…

I’d like to share with you a way to save money in your Yahoo Search Marketing account that is not as obvious as the regular optimization strategies. As you probably know, when you advertise on Yahoo’s search network, your ads don’t just show on Yahoo’s search results page. They are also displayed on countless search partners that Yahoo has agreements with. This new optimization strategy is centered around the search partners…

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Video games: children just love them, but the adventure of video games is not limited to childhood only, it is the favorite pass time for many grown-ups because video games are the perfect example of mash-ups of visual goodness and the entertainment. Here we have collected some inspirational video games concept artworks and illustrations, you will see the variety of impressive concept art of video games in this post…

Event delegation in JavaScript is the concept of using a single event listener to manage all of the mouse and keyboard events on a given page thus improving performance.

Often web developers will assign an event listener to each element that is associated with some effect or bit of AJAX. For example, perhaps I have three buttons on a page each of which will initiate a specific and unique animation when a user clicks…

The Internet Evolution blog has released a very interesting post which lists the top 10 personalities across 10 different Digital Media/Web 2.0 categories. The categories included:Social NetworkingEnterprise & Cloud ComputingNews/MediaGreentechWireless & GadgetsE-CommerceSearchSecurityDigital EntertainmentMost Over-RatedBelow are a few of the categories that caught our attention, check out the Internet Evolution blog for the complete list…

Has a competitor launched a new feature that concerns you? If so, how do you react?

Google, well known for their public relations expertise, does not like the idea of Facebook creating an (eventual) distributed ad network based on demographics data. In spite of Google personalizing search by default (without asking), Google opting you into behavioral targeting (without asking), & automatically opting you into Google Buzz (without asking), suddenly they are a company concerned with the privacy of people on *other* networks…

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Introspection and reflection on the last few years of being a "balls to the wall" entrepreneur, I’ve studied and found a few commonalities of successful people and the ability to accumulate wealth. Of course, I’m generalizing the word "success" here.

• Successful employees and entrepreneurs do what they love doing, or at the very least, something they feel makes an impact and difference in the world around them…

Google has started to combine its Earth and Maps products with the announcement that Earth view is available to all Google Maps users.
To see 3D imagery in Google Maps, you’ll need the Google Earth plugin which anyone can now use; it’s been available to developers since 2008. There’s also a new “Earth” tab on [...]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:

Google “Augmenting” Street View With Local Biz Information
Google started playing with “augmented reality” — I’m using the term here loosely — in the PC version of Street View several months ago, but now [...]

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Earth Day may have just passed, but the Google Earth team loves it too much to let it go. So we’ve found our own special way to celebrate Earth Day (a little late) by making an announcement that we’ve been working toward for a long time: Earth view in Google Maps.When we first launched Google Earth back in 2005, it revolutionized the world of digital mapping. In the years since, Earth has been getting faster and lighter while adding large amounts of imagery, more ambitious features and an ever-expanding roster of platforms, including support for Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android and even the 2011 Audi A8!Web browsers haven’t exactly been standing still either…

Though our rocket program to help commuters to our Moon office is still a long way off, we’ve always jumped at the chance to bring the wonders of outer space a little closer to Earth. On Saturday, our Hubble telescope doodle celebrated 20 years of one of the most productive and celebrated science instruments since Galileo first made a telescopic survey of the heavens 400 years ago.Hubble’s razor-sharp vision has revealed previously hidden aspects of the cosmos with unparalleled intimacy and clarity, and you can see some of the best examples for yourself on our Hubble 20th birthday page…

Google started playing with “augmented reality” — I’m using the term here loosely — in the PC version of Street View several months ago, but now appears to be rolling it out more extensively.
Local business listings now appear as small icons connected to their buildings in the Street View image.
Clicking on one brings up an [...]

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Yahoo announced this morning that its services will be pre-loaded on millions of Samsung phones worldwide. The new deal expands a relationship between the companies that began in 2007. Samsung is the second largest handset maker in the world, by unit sales, according to hardware tracking firm Gartner.
Samsung is the third largest handset maker in [...]

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We’re grateful to be nominated in this year’s Search & Social Awards alongside great Conversion and ROI blogs Wider Funnel, GrokDotCom, Site Tuners and others.

If your RSS reader is looking a bit thin lately, voting in these awards is a great way to “discover” blogs that you want to read in categories like SEO, PPC, affiliate management, Web analytics and social media…

In recent weeks I’ve noticed a disturbing new trend in Google SERP’s: Google has become much more aggressive at trying to reverse engineer the publication date of a post/page.First let’s be clear about what we’re discussing. In some cases, when you do a search, Google will show a date in the listing. See the example below:

Initially, Google only looked at the date that was near the H1/Title of the page and, if it found something, it used that as the date in the SERP’s…

Google noted that they added a new search option for TV show related queries that let you filter by show episode.
For example, here is a search query with the search options showing video and episodes:

This is a pretty neat filter to have, especially when you are trying to find that show you remembered, but didn’t [...]

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Google’s longstanding Google Advertising Professionals program is going away, to be replaced with a new Google Adwords Certification program, Google has announced. The change means those certified through GAP will have six months to recertify under the new program. The change may also allow more companies to gain certification, as the overall required spend level [...]

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I’ve just been reading some of SEOmoz’s Pro member tips and seeing their suggestions to use affiliate URLs that use hashtags, also referred to as the pound sign, number sign or hash mark.* For example, site.com/#aff123 .

One of the justifications given was that  search engines ignore everything after the hash tag. As exemplified by Wikipedia and certain other sites, this is no longer the case…

For the second time in the past few months Google has been punished by a court outside the US for content posted by users on one of its owned and operated sites. In February an Italian court imposed a criminal privacy conviction on Google executives for the appearance of a video, showing the bullying of [...]

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Portraying natural beauty always produces beautiful and attractive results. For example, photos of landscapes, beaches, mountains, sunset, sunrise, blue sky, green fields can be very beautiful. For this post we have collected some beautiful artworks of landscapes created in 3D applications. Let’s take a look at these photos in detail.

Awesome 3D Landscapes

Hinted Hills

Espascli

Hunter III – Hiding from the Hunter

New Eden

Transylvanian Moonlight

It comes a time of death

Rock Beach

Silent Landscape

Return to the Swamp

Exodus

Hunter

Clift House

Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth House, Alessandro Prodan (3D)

The Crash

Eight Ways

3landscapes Blue

WFDscene5

Air trees…

Google’s obsession with usability is well-established. They use human evaluators to test search results and many algorithmic methods to establish quality scores that can impact rankings, such as the recently introduced site speed value. There are a number of common usability elements of business websites which I believe could be leveraged for rankings in local [...]

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There are times when you want to expand your keywords but you have run out of ideas and places to look. In this post I will examine some alternate tools to help you come up with new keywords.
Always remember, just because a tool suggested a keyword does not mean you should use it. Consider the [...]

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This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc.

Let’s start by asking one of the most important questions in conversion rate optimization (CRO):

A good question.

In this article, you’ll get:

• A clear and defined process for CRO
• Checklists to print and check off as you go

I’ll share the same processes that I use to consistently boost my clients’ conversion rates – sometimes even doubling or tripling them…

Cross posted from the Official Google Blog:As the advertising industry has grown and evolved, so too has our relationship with advertising agencies. These companies, from SEMs to the largest traditional agencies, play a critical role in the continued success of Google, our advertisers and our industry — so we spend a lot of time talking to agencies about how we can make it easier for them to work with us and our advertisers…

(Cross-posted on the Inside AdWords and the Agency Ad Solutions blogs)As the advertising industry has grown and evolved, so too has our relationship with advertising agencies. These companies, from SEMs to the largest traditional agencies, play a critical role in the continued success of Google, our advertisers and our industry — so we spend a lot of time talking to agencies about how we can make it easier for them to work with us and our advertisers…

Online marketing is complex, and it seems that the number of factors you need to consider to make sure you have the optimal strategy is only increasing. Therefore, it might be tempting to conclude that SEO, or more broadly, online marketing, is something that needs to be outsourced. There is certainly a strong [...]

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Many brands find themselves with a siloed online strategy for managing their content, social communities and ecommerce. This problem was not planned, but inherited by the natural evolution of their online presence.

In the early days of the Web (circa 2000), most brands started with a simple, content-based website to promote their products and solutions. After the dot com boom, many brands added the ability to buy their products online, and more recently, have added a variety of social communities…

Last Friday, in his weekly whiteboard Friday, Rand Fishkin discussed how to get around Google penalties. He started by helping viewers assess whether an actual penalty occurred or not, looking at items like: Ranking Drops, Traffic Drops, Technical website issues or link issues. Rand mentioned that Google also looks at factors for the penalty such as severity, repeat offenders, and authoritative brands vs…

It can be frustrating, and expensive, to lose sales at the shopping cart stage.

Thankfully, shopping cart issues are typically a result of poor usability and poor process, and therefore reasonably easy to fix. The key to solving most shopping cart problems is to provide greater levels of transparency.

Let’s look at eight ways to super-charge your shopping cart conversions. We’ll use a cart you’re probably familiar with – Amazon’s – as an illustrative example…