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Infographics have become an increasingly popular marketing tool. In response to this popularity, Visual.ly recently launched, crediting itself as “the world’s largest community for exploring, sharing, creating, and promoting data visualizations.” The site currently offers users search functionality and a share feature for finding and submitting infographics from around the web. Already … Read more

Unless you’ve spent the last week hiking in the Yukon, and your smart phone was eaten by a polar bear, you’ve probably heard Google+ is here. Aside from joining and spending considerable time organizing my circles, I’ve noticed some shortcomings with the site. Luckily, others have noticed these too, and created Chrome … Read more

Video has emerged as one of the most effective mediums for marketing on the web.  This hasn’t happened overnight, as we have seen companies use video to market their products for many years. In video marketing, there are plenty of topics that merit discussion.  Books could be written about how to plan … Read more

Notable Feed Specification and Policy Changes to Google Product Search Changes are coming to Google Product Search. According to the announcement on the Google Merchant Blog, new feed specifications and policies will go into effect starting Sept. 22, 2011. Merchants who fail to comply will find their products missing from Google Product … Read more

This post summarizes the results of a recent internal test conducted to understand how a website’s navigation menu affects the ‘First Link Priority’ rule. A method for avoiding the consequences of this rule was also tested with positive results. While these tests were in no way exhaustive, they do add to the … Read more

Bing is partnering with Baidu to deliver English search results in China. Baidu is a Chinese search engine that holds 83 percent of the Chinese-language search engine market. But Baidu has struggled to deliver accurate English results. Bing is owned by Microsoft. And one of the problems Microsoft faces in moving into … Read more

The big news last month from ICANN is that .anything domain names, also referred to as generic top-level domains (gTLD) have been approved. This is a huge move for the governing body that has approved 22 TLDs, some of which are rarely used and almost never rank in Google, Yahoo!, or Bing. … Read more

Rand Fishkin, CEO of Seattle-based SEOmoz.org, was in Salt Lake City this week speaking at the first stop on this summer’s Family MozCation tour. In between sipping Corona, signing autographs and posing in pictures with Utah fans, Fishkin spoke with SEO.com about, among other things, his relationship with Google Spam Czar Matt … Read more