Google’s favoritism of Google+ in its new Search Plusresults is just the latest in the line of favoritism it has done with vertical search? It’s not, because Google hasn’t really favored itself with vertical search. It is favoring itself with Google+, ...

Foursquare is introducing what it calls “personalized search for the real world” on its recently redesigned website. What that means as a practical matter is the introduction of the “Explore” feature, better keyword search and several new filters ...

YouTube, MTV and Coca-Cola are the brands that have most effectively used Facebook to connect with consumers, according to a new study. Fathom Analytics, the research firm, ranked the leading Facebook brand pages based on their number of “likes”, ...

While you have a few more days to pick the resolution you will enviably break days, if not hours after the new year rings in, you have about 24 hours to prepare your Facebook for the complete transformation to Timeline. That’s right, tomorrow ...

As search engines pay more and more attention to social signals, going viral is rapidly becoming one of the best ways to build links, attract attention, and establish authority and legitimacy in your field. How Social & SEO Are Linked Let’s start ...

You’ve read time and time again about how social media can fuel SEO and even vice versa, but where does PPC fit into this equation? The answer is in retargeting also known as AdWords remarketing. If you’re not familiar with the concept of remarketing, ...

For all the differences among them, the juggernauts of social media rely on a common business model: create free services, then sell ads against users’ information. In a dramatic departure, a new social network plans to give its users a 50 percent ...