Comments on blogs posts and articles have in the past generally been a good measurement of how people have engaged with content, but as the web becomes more social and "real-time," the conversation is going all over the place, and there are other ways that people are engaging in conversation about content (this is why shareability...

Update: Hear what Matt Cutts has to say about Caffeine in this exclusive interview with WebProNews: More WebProNews Videos Original Article: Google may have a huge lead over its competitors in terms of market share, but the search giant isn't resting on its...

As you may know, Google's Matt Cutts frequently answers user questions by posting videos to the Google Webmaster Central YouTube channel, and the latest one he tackled has to do with videos ranking for universal search on Google. Here is the question that Cutts received: What factors influence a video universal result in Google? I have the same...

Obeying a court order and revealing the identity of a formerly anonymous blogger might not work out so well for Google.  Rosemary Port, who was exposed as the author of the now infamous "Skanks in NYC" blog, has said that she intends to sue the search giant for $15 million. A little history: Port's blog uses Google's Blogger...

Some UK Google users have noticed that search results pages are showing more results from .com sites these days, than in the past. They are used to .co.uk sites getting better rank, and assuming that they are more relevant to their geographic location. Certainly in some cases the .co.uk site would be more relevant to a UK searcher, but that is...

A little more than one month ago, we discussed how Google was asking regular people to give their thoughts about the National Broadband Plan.  Now, the FCC's doing something similar, with a fresh blog and Twitter account apparently intended to reach out to the public. The Twitter account will perhaps be a sort of general-purpose thing, as it...

Tending to a website can take a lot of time and energy, and the people who run them deserve nothing but applause.  At the same time, though, blogs and RSS feeds can really benefit an SEO campaign, and so a session at SES San Jose focused on how and why to incorporate them. Coverage of the SES San Jose conference continues at WebProNews...

Missouri is applying for $142 million in federal stimulus money to help expand the reach of broadband Internet access to rural areas in the state. The initiative would expand broadband accessibility to 91.5 percent of the total population, a significant increase from the current projected accessibility of 79.7 percent. Under the application filed...

Search Engine Strategies San Jose starts today, and conversions is definitely a hot topic. Members of the Website Optimizer team and our partners are speaking throughout the show, and there's a lot more going on.Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Always Be Testing - Bryan Eisenberg - 10:00-11:30Creating a Web Analytics Culture - Feras Alhlou -...

It’s been eight months since TechCrunch announced that they would no longer honor embargoes, with several other sites jumping on that bandwagon in the interim. One of the issues here was undermining the credibility of the blogosphere at large. As Trisha Lyn Fawver put it, A lot of the complaints that real journalists have about blogs is...