Real time search dominated this week's new stories with a new deal between Yahoo and Twitter and Google's continuing efforts to incorporate social media into their indexing mix with Facebook status updates. [...more]
The addition of real-time search results represents another major shakeup to the traditional Google results page. In a recent article in iMediaConnection, I analyze the impact on SEO strategy and highlight the best practices marketers need to manage the content included in real-time search results. [...more]
Matt Cutts recently offered his 2010 search predictions. Is the future of SEO as promising as he suggests? [...more]
Real-time search brings a whole new set of results to searches for popular brands or companies. What is the impact of having news results and latest results appear on page one and what can a marketer do when their own site no longer shows up at the top? [...more]
Like many, when Google announced the integration of real-time social media feed results into results for some terms, I was excited to try it out - and was shocked at the first few results. [...more]
Today is "privacy day" on Facebook. Facebook will be sending a request to users to review and update their privacy settings which could allow more protected Facebook data to be indexed by the search engines. [...more]
Both Google and Microsoft have reached agreements with Twitter to incorporate real-time tweets in their respective search results. I asked some fellow Search Agents to share their reaction and to speculate on the potential impact on all 3 companies, the SEO industry, and search behavior. [...more]
