Investors and online advertising experts may want to consider for a moment what, exactly, has contributed to Google's stupendous financial success (current market cap: $180 billion). Now consider this: Google thinks mobile ad rates might surpass what's come to be deemed the industry standard. According to Reuters , Vic Gundotra, a vice president of engineering at Google, announced during a webcast,

The Pew Internet Project and the Project for Excellence in Journalism's " State of the News Media 2010 " report describes the state of online news heading into this year as "a moving target." Click to read the rest of this post.

It's that time of year again when it seems that almost everyone is talking about Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) and the various ways to get the most out of them. Indeed, April 6 th 2010 heralds the start of the new tax year here in the UK, and with it comes a whole new set of rules governing the amount of tax-free savings that can be made. In this blog post,

A typical situation for many marketers when it comes to social networks is this: Setup LinkedIn profile, check. Corporate LinkedIn page, check.  Facebook profile, check. Facebook Fan Page, check. Twitter account, check. Corporate blog, check. Check check check! But where's the buzz? Where are the fans, friends, followers, comments, links, traffic, search engine rankings?

Have you ever wanted to attend a premier industry event as a VIP, get inside secrets from industry leaders, and get treated like a rockstar ? Well this week Search & Social are giving you several ways to make this a reality. For the launch of the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit (formerly known as IM Spring Break), the organizers are giving you all kinds of ways to attend the event on their dime. The biggest one is going to be VIP package to the event.

If your company runs a website, you already know the importance of search engine marketing and optimization. But are you confident that your website is providing the very best user experience possible? If you haven't added or improved your search function yet, you could be missing out on conversions, sales, and repeat visits. Next week, we're hitting the road to help spread the message about Google Commerce Search and Google Site Search .

by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Emilie de Ravin (Searches increased by +3,326%). The "Lost" star has found a new role in "Remember Me," opposite teen heartthrob Robert Pattinson. GQ Magazine (+1,557%). John Edwards' mistress bared way too much in a tell-all and photoshoot . Red velvet cake (1,958%). The dessert is a crowd pleaser. No Child Left Behind act (+764%). Obama wants to leave behind some of the original law's lowered standards .

André Maurois (1885-1967) wrote that "The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions." At Digg we struggle between the clear benefits of uninterrupted work and the need to be agile in our communication.

In the previous posts, I've mentioned the importance of having a clean and crawlable website structure for SEO.  The reason is simple.  Without one, you're dead in the water from an SEO standpoint.  If your content cannot be crawled and indexed, then you can forget about the other aspects of SEO, including content optimization, linkbuilding, etc.  As part of my SEO technical audits, it's usually not long before the important topic of canonicalization comes up.

Choosing a hosting provider can be a big hassle. The first time I started paying for hosting was close to ten years ago and since then I have gone through a lot of hosts. And to tell you the truth, up until this year, I just picked the cheapest I could find with the features I needed. I had already gone through learning SEO to make money online and then PHP to make the SEO more effective. I did not want to have to learn one more thing that was better left to someone else.