Page load time, or the time it takes for all elements of a webpage to fully load in a browser, always seems to surface in discussions about SEO. Namely, there is debate over whether relative page load time matters when it comes to SEO efforts.

An odd line item appeared on Google’s Q-10 form this week. As is turns out, the eyebrow-raising $500 million has been earmarked for a potential impending settlement with the Department of Justice.

How does the 2nd most trafficked site in the world plan on becoming #1? By hiring a PR firm to plant negative stories about the competition!

There’s a lot to like about previously mentioned DuckDuckGo, and there’s even more to like about its mobile app.

That picture of a cat licking a lollipop you found on Google Images may be infected. SANS guesses there are over 5,000 hacked sites, with Google referring about a half million visits to these fake sites each day.

The Facebook “Like” and “Send: buttons have been added to all posts.

From today forever forward however, Athar will become known as the guy who live-tweeted a series of helicopter flypasts and explosions; unwittingly covering the US forces helicopter raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound. Live.

As a consumer, you are blasted with the same request over and over: “Follow Us on Twitter, Like Us on Facebook.” Why should I? What’s in it for me? These are questions of which a significant number of businesses cannot genuinely answer.

The SEO model has changed with Panda in that, rather than getting as many URLs as you can indexed, you now want only your highest-quality, most important URLs indexed.

The web has dramatically changed the way people plan special occasions. Social media is making it easier than ever before…here are eight ways to capitalize on this trend.