Google accounted for 67.90 percent of US searches in the four weeks ended April 26 — up 4 percent from the year-earlier period — according to Hitwise.

These figures mark an all-time high in market share for the search leader, MarketingCharts writes.

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Newsgator Online, the company’s web-based feed reader and until now a relatively weak product, rolled out a feature today that makes the service worth another look.

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Learning to implement “nofollow� tags is fairly easy. Learning how to apply them in the proper way does require some skill. This post was created in order to educate the average webmaster, or website owner, on what “nofollow� tags can do for your site.

The use of “nofollow� tags can serve many different purposes. They can be used to limit the amount of link juice that flows out of a page to external pages of different domains, or they can be used to control where the link juice will flow to within a site and its internal pages.

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What?!! It’s true. Many of the biggest and most popular online retailers with fat SEO budgets are not showing up for their own names or valuable keywords in Google search results. Most don’t even know it. How can this be?

All the major search engines offer a .com search engine and a number of country-specific engines, like Google.ca, .co.uk, .com.au, .fr, .de and so on. These are local search engines, and often use geo-IP targeting to show the local search engine as the default when a searcher lives outside the United States.

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Google Analytics is today reporting a data processing error from April 30th to May 5th. In addition they have lost a small percentage of data in the area of e-commerce reporting that is not recoverable.

As a company we have several clients on performance related contracts using Google Analytics e-commerce data so this is a worrying error.

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