If you've exhibited, presented or moderated a Search Engine Strategies conference, it's more than likely that you've had the opportunity to meet Stewart Quealy , VP, Content Development at Incisive Media, parent company to Search Engine Strategies, Search Engine Watch and ClickZ. Stewart (L), along with Mike Grehan (R) were recently named co-chairs of the SES Advisory Board, which is charged with shaping the future direction and ongoing growth of the SES conference.

Shame on TechCrunch. Not for running an article suggesting that SEO should be regulated (though I disagree), but for running such an article from an anonymous poster . The following post was written by a well known executive at one of the largest sites on the Internet. The author has requested to remain anonymous - not for dramatic effect, but because of the backlash he would receive from the SEO industry and possibly Google itself.

My friend recently searched Google for php time end of day and ended up with a top results from Experts-Exchange.com. Clicking on it , all he got was stuff like "View this solution now by starting your 30-day free trial." Well, we're used to this from Experts-Exchange, and scrolling way down to the bottom where no sane soul would scroll to usually fixes the problem, right? Well, not this time, not anymore... scrolling down only results in lots of blankness.

by Manoj Jasra Late last week I caught up with Alex Bennert who is an SEO Strategist at the Wall Street Journal. Alex is scheduled to speak at the upcoming Search Engine Strategies in San Jose on the topic of "How SEO Can Help Save the Publishing Industry" so I decided to get her insight on this topic. Check out conversation below: [Manoj]: What are some of the most significant differences working as an In House SEO vs. an agency.

Google has added a Creative Commons filter to Image Search . In order to use the filter, you'll need to use the Advanced Search option in Google Image Search. Once on the Advanced Search page, look for the "Usage Rights" option, which is the second from the bottom. You won't see "Creative Commons" listed as an option. Instead,

If you don't follow me on Twitter , you might not know that for the last few months we've been posting daily free webmaster videos on our webmaster video channel . That YouTube channel has over 100 videos on it now. We just finished up the most recent round of videos, and now the question is whether to keep them going, or try some new way to communicate with webmasters. Tell me what you think in the poll below: Note: There is a poll embedded within this post,

Adgooroo has released their quarterly search engine advertising report, and despite the launch of Bing in June, things have remained pretty much the same. Keep in mind that quarter two includes April and May, during which Microsoft's search was still Live Search. However, the report lobs them all under the title of Bing, and is comparing past data to Live Search. Let's dive in. For the year ending June 2009, Microsoft grew advertiser base by 35%,

We've been reporting about various gains and milestones that Bing was able to achieve during its first months, all of them coming from third party data sources. With July's site traffic performance kicking in, it's just about the right time for the Bing folks to report on their performance for June. The Bing Community Blog had it all covered. According to an official post, user response to Bing was quite overwhelming with 8% growth in unique users to Bing.

by Claudine Zap President Obama talks a lot about the importance of discussion with hostile countries like Iran and North Korea. But the sound of music can breach divisions beyond language. That's the idea behind the invitation extended to the New York Philharmonic to visit Cuba , a country just 90 miles from Florida but with no diplomatic ties to the U.S. (The U.S. government has given the orchestra special permission to travel to the Communist country.