Despite all the problems facing the auto industry in America right now, AutoTrader.com experienced yet another record month of traffic in June 2009, with 16.12 million unique visitors. And those visitors weren't shying away from American brands either. The top 5 most viewed new cars were manufactured by USA-based motor companies. Chevy Camaro topped the list with Ford, which incidentally has thus far avoided bailout money, snagged the rest of the top 5 spots.

Hello again, I'm Osama Bedier, VP of platform and emerging technology and I'm here to set the record straight. This morning TechCrunch broke some very exciting news for PayPal. While we had not planned on the internal documents being shared this early, it is true that PayPal will be the .

Posted by randfish We've all been bored to tears (or driven to madness) by the PageRank Sculping debate that's arisen since Google's June announcement. But, behind the scenes, a lot of smart SEOs have been working on ways to provide the same benefits that were thought to be conferred by PR sculpting with nofollow through alternate methods. Out of the few that have emerged, the one I believe has the most promise and best opportunity is "Link Consolidation." Let's, briefly,

Blog SEO can be a little confusing if you aren't used to things changing real fast. Its' a really interesting hybrid search engine marketing strategy - blogging, I'm talking about. And there's more to it than mere SEO, but SEO is a big part of it. Here are four ways that a blog can be used for SEO: Quick, Up and Down - Every blog post has the potential to achieve a ranking. Blog posts usually, however, go up quickly and come down quickly.

If you'd like to expand your advertising to YouTube, consider using YouTube Promoted Videos . You can make a video about your business and then promote that video alongside relevant YouTube search results. Similar to AdWords, YouTube Promoted Videos lets you decide where you'd like your videos to appear on YouTube, place bids in an automated online auction, and set daily spending budgets. Last week we launched "Call-to-Action,

PayPal has released new survey data showing why online consumers leave their shopping carts behind. Survey participants were asked to tell which reasons were "very important" in abandoning their purchases.

Last night I put up a small experiment . Thanks to the 1,939 people who voted! Now, I want to resolve what this was about, give a bit of background, and present the results. The experiment showed an intro explanation and then proceeded by asking a brief question to which there were three answers. The question was "Which name would fit a movie star best?" and the answers were "Sammy Summers", "Fred Ferentine", and "Quayle Torton"*.

While Google offers advice on hiring SEO consultants , there's not much information about how to get the most value afterwards.  There's an impressive amount of information and resources for webmasters on SEO related topics, but I'm pretty sure Google as a company has never hired a SEO agency and therefore isn't in the client/vendor relationship advice business. Having worked as a consultant for well over 10 years in the SEO space with hundreds of companies,

Due to server problems we could not publish the Twitter Friday column last week. Now we're back up. So here it is. Sorry for the inconvenience. Some #moonfruit anybody? Yesterday's no name is today's superstar when it comes to effective so called " hashtag " Twitter marketing. It's goal is to make it to the Twitter.com homepage popular topics list . Some already consider it spam . Why? Moonfruit made people tweet their hashtag in order to win a prize.

The Register's Ted Dziuba wrote a rant about a recent Google App Engine's downtime, and Google's handling of it . (I can attest the App Engine is down more often than it would be healthy for a website which hopes to gain visitors... we had to experience this with our app, CaptionX, although Google's service was free and Google additionally supported us with extra capacity.