Hi Team, I’ve got something exciting to share with you about Market Samurai. We just released an improvement to the SEO Competition module that makes backlink anchor text analysis of web-pages that have a lot of back links much faster, and easier to complete.

So unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you may have heard that Ask.com just said it’s not for sale and it has a new search technology. That’s a radical statement from a company that arguably has the best relevance algorithm on the Web already.

Google announced the launch of extensive changes to their ad formats last week. Interestingly, some are like the methods AdSense publishers used to use to increase CTRs before Google banned them.

Yahoo EVP Hilary Schneider told the Reuters Global Media Summit in New York that Yahoo was seeing “incredible . . . extraordinary” growth in mobile (she means usage primarily). The company, by several metrics, is one of the largest in mobile. It operates one of the top three mobile ad networks in the US and enjoys a massive global, mobile footprint. But the question is: will Yahoo be able to keep up in mobile over time?

When you search at Google or Yahoo or Bing, you’ll see a set of search results that include a page title, a summary or snippet of the page, and a URL indicating the address of the page.

Yesterday, Bing went down for about 30 minutes between 6:30pm and 7pm PST. Microsoft's Senior Vice President of Online Services, Satya Nadella, took to the Bing Search blog to explain:

Bummer that I missed PubCon this week but I have just been traveling way too much lately. Speaking of traveling, I was in Indianapolis last week visiting the offices of Compendium Blogware. I got a demo of their hosted blog platform -- including a look under the hood -- and it's pretty slick. There were features and functionality I had never seen before in blog software. One of the key differentiators, and the reason for the company's n

I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing David Allen a little while back. David's the author of the best-selling book Getting Things Done, and he's the creator of the stress-free productivity methodology known as "GTD". I'm a big fan of David's, and of GTD. I've written a few articles on GTD and productivity:

Does a number-one search engine ranking equal more revenue? Several variables must be considered, but the base answer to that question is a resounding "maybe!" Rankings are great, but if your Web site isn't set up to help those visitors convert, you're just standing there next to the horse waiting for it to actually drink some water.

This year my family went out in all directions for Thanksgiving. My husband, Eric, and I went to my Mom and Dad’s for dinner. Not 5 minutes into the meal, Dad asks, “What is it. Again. That you do again?”