Google and SpotMixer are teaming up to provide do-it-yourself in-stream video advertising . The ads can be produced for viewing on YouTube or the Google Content Network. The feature is free unless you want a professional voice-over. Those services begin at $50. This isn't the first time Google and SpotMixer have partnered up. This past January, they paired up to offer DIY TV ads.

If you're looking for anything to do this afternoon, be sure to connect with over 900 other search marketers by becoming a fan of Search Engine Journal on Facebook . We've been beefing up our Facebook community over the past week with discussions, shared blog posts from SEJ and other sites, and promoting the Facebook fanpage here on SEJ. The result? Over 500 new fans of SEJ have joined over the past 7 days. Not too shabby!

Facebook developers may soon see more user interest than ever before, thanks to a site tweak. The Facebook Share prompts have been altered in a way that Facebook thinks will have some significant effects. A post on the Facebook Developers blog explains, "The new dialog includes all of the key features of Facebook Share - users can post a link to their profile or send it in a message to just a few friends, choose an image to include, and add a comment.

Posted by Whitespark This post was originally in YOUmoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Whitespark is an Edmonton Search Engine Optimization and Web Design Company in Canada Having recently returned from the SEOmoz Pro Training Seminar Series, I wanted to recap a few of the things I learned,

comScore has released global search market data showing that search is still on the rise in a big way all across the world. Overall, more than 113 billion searches were conducted in July 2009, up 41% compared to the year prior. Google dominated the market with 76 billion searches. No other search engine came close to that number of searches. All the major search engines saw increases except for AOL. Yahoo! and Baidu were the only search engines to see single digit growth,

comScore has just released a study of the global search market that shows more than 113 billion searches were conducted in July 2009. This represents a 41 percent increase compared to a year ago. Google attracted significantly more searches than any other search engine with 76.7 billion searches conducted, giving it 67.5 percent market share. Yahoo! ranked second worldwide with 8.9 billion searches (7.8 percent share),

In the latest Google Webmaster Central YouTube Channel upload from Matt Cutts, he talks about whether or not Google places value on its own links with regards to Pagerank. Cutts took on the following user question: Question: Does Google value its own links for PR/Linkjuice? Google Bookmarks, Google Profiles, etc. Reason - Google links never appear in Webmaster Tools. Cutts says he doesn't know about whether Google links never appear in Webmaster Tools, but in general,

Goollery is a fun collection of projects related to Google. (Judging from the bios at least one of the makers of the site is a Google employee, perhaps the others are too.) Projects features include: Toogle (turns your image search result into ASCII art) Google Pillows (pillows which have the top ten search queries for a year printed on them) Vanity Ring (a ring showing the number of hits in Google for your name,

Over the years, Walmart has been widely criticized in some circles for essentially stamping out small businesses across America with its ever-expanding presence. There have even been documentaries made about this . But that's about the offline world right? Walmart has now introduced " The Walmart Marketplace, " a new online initiative, in which it bolsters its inventory by partnering with other online retailers with large inventories themselves.

Estimates of Twitter's value have varied wildly. David Letterman, for example, famously implied that it's worthless. Facebook tried to acquire it for $500 million. And now Robert Scoble's presented a new - and very large - estimate, putting Twitter's value at five to ten billion dollars. In March, a joke story about premium Twitter accounts (organized into Sparrow, Dove, Owl, and Eagle tiers, if you remember) kidded that Twitter's value is about equal to the GDP of Canada.