Microsoft Weighs in on Ranking Authors in Social Networks

Social media contains a lot of signal, and a lot of what might be considered noise. Within social streams of real time communication such as tweets and status updates and blog posts is information that can be invaluable on many different topics. By SEO by the Sea

Bing’s New Social-Friendly Search Interface Now Live

The new Bing interface, with a healthy dose of social connections and discovery, is now live for all users. By Search Engine Land

Future Proof SEO Strategy

The only way to do proper SEO in a social media world is to forge relationships. By SEO 2.0

How To Use The SMO Periodic Table And App Map

If you use social media to promote your site and advertise, you need to use the right tools. With so many new apps to help you organize your social media campaign, it’s confusing to know which apps will help you and which apps waste your time. By Daily SEO Tip

HOW TO: Rank on Page 1 of YouTube (Social Media Marketing Strategy)

5 Tips for Managing Your Community on Google+

Here are five ways you can use Google+ to engage more with you community, all the while helping your site and brand page show up more in searches. Sound good? Now, let’s walk through some of these tactics. One thing to remember is that with any kind of social strategy, what works great for others, may not be the best for you. So test things out and see if they work. Now, on with the tips! By SEOMOZ

Best Social Media Metrics: Conversation, Amplification, Applause, Economic Value

So what actually matters in Social Media? Not the number of Friends / Followers / Subscribers. Not the number of posts / tweets. Not the ridiculous Followers to Following ratio. By Avinash Kaushik

Top 5 Trends for Search & Social Media Marketing in 2012

The past year saw many new developments in online marketing, including evolving organic and paid search landscapes, convergence of social media and search marketing, growth of mobile and local searches and a rapid rise in spending on social media marketing using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. By Search Engine Watch

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3 Ways to Combine Your Social and SEO Strategies

In many companies and agencies, SEO and social media folks work on similar projects and often the same clients, but too frequently there is a disconnect in the execution of various strategies that leaves a little bit on the table. By Daily SEO Tip

Social Media Has Changed the Expectations of Searchers

Social media has changed the expectation of searchers. Searchers want fresher content, they want to see what their friends and contacts have to say, and they want access to experts and authority figures and their thoughts on timely events and news. Search engines have no recourse but to respond. By SEO by the Sea

Do Search Engines Use Social Media to Discover New Topics?

A new patent filing from Yahoo raises the question, “How much has social media influenced the expectations of searchers, and forced search engines to change?” By SEO by the Sea

Do Social Signals Drive Traffic?

How will social signals (including Google’s new +1) correlate with traffic. In other words, how much more traffic will a post get because it gets more Tweets, Likes, or +1s? By Dr. Pete

How SEO & Social Media add up to online marketing success

Social search, as defined by Wikipedia (everyone’s most trusted online source), is “a type of web search method that determines the relevance of search results by considering the interactions or contributions of users.” Some marketers have claimed that social search is doing away with traditional search methods and that SEO is dead in the water because of it. By Search Engine Journal

Social Media + Local SEO + Mobile = Success!

A lot of agencies nowadays have been working with small and medium-sized businesses to help ensure their success in the local search field. Indeed, small businesses are better focused than their national competitors. By Daily SEO Tip

The Social Media Marketer's SEO Checklist

As the lines of SEO and Social Media continue to be blurred, it's becoming very clear that getting a page to rank highly in the search engines takes a combination of the two disciplines. By Jennita

Presentation: SEO & Social Media for Communications Professionals

Great presentation regarding SEO and Social Media for communications. By Tony Adam

Is your SEO social enough?

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is vital to doing business on the internet. No, not everyone who is on the internet needs to use SEO, but if you are offering any kind of product, service, or want your opinion to be read, you need SEO. By Eric

Social Bookmarking Service Xmarks Adds Ratings To Search Ads

Social bookmarking service Xmarks, which began life as a Firefox social bookmarking add-on called Foxmarks, has developed an interesting new service called “SearchBoost.” By Greg Sterling

Marketing in the Age of Google: Vanessa Fox Interview

Vanessa Fox works as Entrepreneur-in-residence with Ignition Partners but is especially well known in the Search Marketing world because of her past work as Google’s search engine strategy spokesperson and creator of Google Webmaster Central. By Online Marketing Blog

5 Online Marketing Resolutions for 2010

Resolve to give your online marketing efforts a boost this year by recognizing areas for improvement and putting in place a plan to make positive changes. By Michelle Bowles