Congratulations! You're hired' It's a huge step in your SEO career to be hired for an in-house SEO department. Now it's time to plan your in-house SEO strategy carefully, so you can secure your position and give your company what they're looking for: tangible results from your SEO expertise. What your average workday will look like will depend on several factors: Are you a one-person team, or are you part of a team?

Posted by randfish I thought we'd try something a bit off-topic and fun today - Hunch's reader census widget. Go ahead and answer as many questions as you've got time for and we'll publish the results to learn more about the community we're all in: Powered by Hunch.com I'll be returning to regularly scheduled programming tonight with my long-delayed blog post about our experience raising venture capital. Do you like this post?

Last night, Google announced that it filed a submission to the FCC, asking it to designate Google as one of potentially several administrators of a "white spaces" geolocation database. Back in November of 2008, the FCC approved the use of these White Spaces, or unused airwaves between broadcast TV channels, for public wireless broadband service. On Google's Public Policy Blog, Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel,

The past year set a new record for malware creation with 25 million new strains, according to a new report by PandaLabs. The latest surge of activity included new examples of banker Trojans, which accounted for 66 percent of all new samples, as well as a number of fake antivirus programs. During 2009, spam was also highly active, accounting for 92 percent of all email traffic.

You would think that 2009 was not a great year for a site like Zillow . After all, the housing market was rough, as it was one of the driving forces behind the global economic downturn that began in 2008. "2009 was a wild year for real estate, with continued home value declines, government intervention, record low mortgage rates, and an enormous amount of consumer uncertainty about what the future holds," said Spencer Rascoff, Zillow's chief operating officer.

Last week, we announced a bundle of new enterprise-class features in Google Analytics. Over the next few weeks, we'll do posts which go into depth on each new feature. Here is the first, which goes into detail on the expanded and improved goals in Google Analytics (related video) . It's very clearly and insightfully written by our friends at WebShare , a Google Analytics Authorized Consultant, with links to related help center articles.

Spring Design , the makers of the Alex eReader device , announced it has entered into an agreement with Google, which will see it gaining access to over a million Google Books. Alex users will be able to read these books online or download them using the Android-integrated browser and search applications. "We are pleased to work with Spring Design and the Alex, which is an exciting new reading device, that combined with a wealth of free public domain books from Google,

Welcome to another edition of ' 7 Days of Search and Social ' - Happy New Year to those of you now back in the grind' erm' I mean''swing of things'. Did you miss me last week? Of course ya did! I want to wish all the best to the SEJ readers and search geeks world-wide; I hope 2k10 rocks for you. Oh and my own personal mission is to see less of the BS and drama our industry tends to have' Will that happen? Not likely. But one can dream ya know. Ok,

by Charles Lumpkin So you're giving the search engines money to get paid search traffic, but do you have good converting landing pages for the people when they get there? How do you know? Watch this video as Charles Lumpkin shares how to measurably improve your landing pages' conversion rate today. Check out our small business news site.

Real estate website Zillow.com said today it broke multiple records for site traffic and user activity in 2009. An average of 8.2 million unique users visited Zillow each month during 2009, which is an increase of 57 percent year-over-year. "2009 was a wild year for real estate, with continued home value declines, government intervention, record low mortgage rates, and an enormous amount of consumer uncertainty about what the future holds," said Spencer Rascoff,