Google has introduced the Google Merchant Center, designed to replace Google Base for submitting products to the search engine. Google says that Merchant Center provides a better-optimized experience for product listings.
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/090930-154958

There are many benefits of social bookmarking as quickly get indexed by search engines. The point is that you should know the proper way of social bookmarking in order to achieve the goals.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1515498

It’s important to understand that page rank does not compute relevancy, only the importance of each page. When a user makes a search query, a different algorithm calculates the relevancy of page, while page rank simply selects the most important result.
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help/Page-Rank-Optimization/

Big ecommerce websites that sell and frequently update new products online are more susceptible to Google indexing problems. A combination of different factors can contribute to slow website indexing, most of which can be controlled by the webmaster.
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Google-Optimization-Help/Improve-Google-Indexing-on-Your-Ecommerce-Website/

Discovery of quality linking partners is a lot trickier than you might think. There are a variety of ways in which this can be done, with none of them being the perfect way to find the perfect site that will link to you. However, as with many things, a balanced approach will probably serve you best.

http://searchengineland.com/6-discovery-methods-for-finding-ideal-linking-partners-26347

Valuable content is also much more likely to resonate with those that might link to your site. The links generated (often passively) will also be of higher value in terms of relevance – anchor text, thematic relationships, semantic variety, trusted sites, etc.
http://searchengineland.com/the-b2b-content-equation-26570

If the URL is structured YOURDOMAIN + something + YOURDOMAIN, that is usually an indication of a broken internal URL reference. The fact the pages don’t exist and transmit a 404 code rules out the possibility of a black hat spammer trying to use your site for links (unless it is really incompetent).
http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41678

In a forum post, ugly code that uses tables can be problematic for many reasons, it doesn’t have to be a hindrance to SEO. It may be an issue if the ugly code actually prevents search bots from properly doing their job, but otherwise, it can be left as is in most cases.
http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=73141

According to a forum, Joomla is like #57 for top linked to domains on the web. All links from joomla and subdomains, EXCEPT for forum.joomla.org are very trusted links.
http://forums.seochat.com/google-optimization-7/footer-link-will-it-cause-problem-275149.html

The benefit provided by using a .com domain is in user perspective. Users typically view .com domains as more legitimate than domains with other TLDs. And for this same reason, .com domains tend to attract more natural inbound links than domains with other non-country coded TLDs.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1514173

Twitter and real time search continues to attract buzz, and Google’s reacting by positioning its “Hot Trends” information in a place where more people will see it, within Google’s regular search results.
http://searchengineland.com/google-hot-trends-integrated-into-google-search-26717

OneBox results are when Google shows information within a special unit, often with images associated with them. OneBox unit often appears to highlight news, shopping, image and other results that are blended into regular listings using Universal Search (see Google Universal Search for more about this).
http://searchengineland.com/meet-the-google-onebox-plus-box-direct-answers-the-10-pack-26706

According to a forum, WebCEO is good for analyzing changes in ranking. As for the keyword rankings, this is a dead metric for clients. If you want to throw them a few keywords to make them feel good then you can do that.
http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41623

How to get traffic depends in large part on the site in question, what it offers, who its target market is, how well it is constructed, the quality of its content and how well it’s being marketed. In other words, there is no simple one size fits all answer to such an open ended question.
http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41602

Google Images Smush It Link userscript adds ‘Smush It!’ links to each search result on Google Images, making it easier and faster to optimize images you find. Smush.it uses optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files.
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/6-ways-to-make-google-image-search-better/13592/

TOM13 PR means Page Rank. There are thousands of places where you can check the page rank. There is nothing like good PR and bad PR. Page rank is a valuation by google it ranges from 0 to 10.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1513033

Blocking with robots.txt doesn’t allow Google to spider a page, but it may produce what it calls a “partially indexed” listing — the title of a page and a link to it, information which is gathered solely from how OTHER pages link to the listed page, not the page itself.
http://searchengineland.com/google-places-pages-now-showing-in-search-26636

Everyone knows they can find great deals starting December 26th, which is why research shows that 63% of shoppers will make purchases during post-holiday sales. Your job as a retailer is to maximize the number of purchases before December 25th, while at the same time planning ahead to optimize your campaigns for post-holiday sales.
http://searchengineland.com/five-search-marketing-tips-for-the-holidays-26463

Technical SEO is clearly of vital importance. If search engines can’t crawl your pages and extract your content, your site will never be well-ranked for the queries you care about, even if you have the most awesome content on the web and more backlinks than the Adobe Reader download page.
http://searchengineland.com/all-of-your-technical-seo-questions-answered-and-bonus-free-developer-summit-technical-smx-east-dream-agenda-26539

Linkbait is “great content” – the very thing engines and engineers are constantly recommending as the core strategy for good SEO. To go against this principle would be to invalidate more than a decade of advice.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/why-linkbait-is-a-tactic-the-search-engines-will-always-value

Choosing to buy text links can reduce the hassle of building link popularity and help you catch up to competitors. It won’t replace quality content, a viable business model, or a unique value proposition.
http://seoroi.com/seo-roi-quality/link-buying-risks-vs-rewards-seo-faq/

Pirate Bay said it is supporting protestors to Sweden’s plans to scrutinize all domain name registrations that use “bank” in their name. The Swedish authorities want to prevent people from being duped by phishing scams.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=815

Some search engines place significant importance on H tags because their assumption is that a “true” heading means that all the paragraphs up until the next heading will be about that particular subject. This idea goes back to Information Science and HTML’s parent language, SGML. So you can see why the academic minds who design search engines might value a word in an H tag very highly. H1 and H2 tags are analyzed from two perspectives: from the point of view of search engines and internet surfers.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1510874

Search engines respond to a variety of responses from a Web server when a search engine requests a URL that no longer exists. A “404″ or page not found response is the worst response your server can deliver. It should, instead provide a 301 redirect, which tells the search engine to which new URL it should transfer the old URL’s SERPs position.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1511315

There are million of online entrepreneurs, and you can easily get lost in this huge crowd if you don’t have an outstanding landing page. A well-designed lead capture page helps you to trap in all the traffic coming in from the search engines.
http://mrdefinite.com/how-to-increase-your-conversion-rate-with-the-help-of-landing-pages/

A comment in Digitalpoint says that there is no such thing as a duplicate content penalty. Sites with duplicate content just have a little harder time ranking than sites with the same original content since the sites with duplicate content get scored lower on content-based ranking factors. But you can easily compensate for this by doing a better job with other ranking factors like inbound links.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1507806

Some sites have developed a large amount of traffic as a result of incorporating user-generated product reviews or forums onto their site. This method can work particularly well if you have a good amount of traffic to your site already. If you’re just starting out, it won’t work so well, because empty forums, or a review site without reviews on it, will turn people off.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3635039

One of the recommendations for removing Google’s penalty on your site is freshen content on key parts of your website with rewrites or additional articles. This will provide positive activity that Google will cannot deny adds value to its index.
http://www.stepforth.com/blog/how-a-google-penalty-can-make-your-site-stronger.php

Google is apparently testing a new AdWords keyword Tool. You have to be logged into your AdWords account and click on the keyword tool feature to see it. Then when you get there, you will see the old keyword tool with a link to the beta tool. Then when you add words and filters, you can then get reports that not just show traffic and click estimates but brings in Google other various tools to give deeper insight into those keywords.
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020848.html

Google is swapping its “info window” in Maps out in favor a much richer full-page experience that offers more information and a number of new capabilities and features. This page contains ads and, in the lower right corner, “related maps,” which were not previously presented. Google is also running a separate algorithm that ranks content providers within the sections on the page (reviews content, for example).
http://searchengineland.com/google-launches-place-pages-gets-rid-of-tabbed-info-bubble-26506

Using synonymous phrase in title, meta tags and headers means including related words and phrases in page titles, text, and header meta tags. This will expand the range of keywords that the web page might be listed under.
http://www.submitexpress.com/bbs/about20115.html&sid=b069a9fc27bf2f2ccf0eae23edf64267

Having external links pointed at each version might be hurting you a lot more than you think. These can be relatively quick to fix with redirects and changes to your internal linking structure, resulting in more ranking power prior to shopping season.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3635040

JohnMu, a Google representative, said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that referrer spam generally does not hurt your rankings. He said that after someone complained their Google rankings dropped due to someone referrer spamming him.
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020808.html

According to a comment in a forum, Google perceives the use of no-follow as “pr sculpting” the link juice within your own website which is not the appropriate use of the “no follow” tag. It should be reserved for outbound links to other websites in which you do not wish to pass pr juice.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1507433

Irene in a forum doesn’t think that Press Release Submission and Classifieds Submission can drive you a good amount of traffic. Only the paid press release submissions can bring you the traffic.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1506900

Just as Google gives any page on the web a PageRank score that reflects its authority, so too does each Google Profile page have its own form of what they call “personal PageRank” or “ProfileRank,” when it comes to the Sidewiki system.
http://searchengineland.com/google-sidewiki-allows-anyone-to-comment-about-any-site-26420

Effective SEO requires us to see the big picture and that picture the 4 R’s: Robots, Ranking, Relevance, and Results. For each of the 4 R’s, Dr. Pete of SEOmoz provided some tips and tools for how to measure your progress in that area.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/4-rs-of-seo-robots-ranking-relevance-results

Twitter is doing a whole lot more than showing us the value of content in 140 characters or less. It’s showing us much more than how each and every one of us can report (and create) the news. Twitter is not just a technology or communications platform. Twitter is actually a great human-powered RSS machine.
http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/twitter-is-going-to-kill-rss/

A post in a forum says that the page rank of the page is not directly affected by the number of links on the page. It just dilutes the amount of juice you pass to the pages linked from that page.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1506396

Behavioral advertising and behavioral targeting are essentially the same thing. It’s online advertising specifically geared towards you: what sites you visit, what items you purchase online, what links you click, what stories you read. Quite literally, this is advertising that follows you around the web.
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-News/Behavioral-Advertising-Bill-Breaks-New-Ground/

Clicktale is a tool that lets you record website visitors and view videos revealing their behavior, including mouse pointer movements, clicks, scroll speed, navigational issues, keyboard stokes (filling out forms) and more. Clicktale is a killer app that every Internet marketer who is interested in conversion rate optimization should use.
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help/ClickTale-Review/

Yahoo has now gone live with its new search format. There’s nothing radical or “game changing.” However, there are some nice upgrades and improvements. Most prominently, it features a new left column that allows users to filter results by Search Monkey content providers or refine by related concepts.
http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-goes-live-with-new-search-format-26287

AdWords advertisers will be able to run ads on sites in the Ad Exchange, using their existing AdWords interface. This means more high quality sites for AdWords advertisers to run display ads on. Similarly, AdSense publishers will benefit from more high-quality display advertisers coming through the Ad Exchange.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/doubleclick-ad-exchange-growing-display.html

Search engines know the amount of times a keyword is repeated *in relation to their entire index*. This tells them how much attention to pay to a keyword. They call this: term weight.
http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=72808

According to a forum, maintaining rankings is fine but you should consider how to make that site profitable. Even if you are in the top rank, it doesn’t mean that people will buy your products or services.
http://forums.seochat.com/google-optimization-7/the-website-already-has-good-rankings-what-do-i-need-273156-2.html

Domain authority plays an important role in ranking. 15 backlinks from 15 different domains look more natural to Google, than 15 back links all from the same domain. If you keep on doing the same thing again and again, then how you can expect even better results.
http://forums.seochat.com/google-optimization-7/article-submission-for-seo-273768.html

MediaPost reports Microsoft adCenter, Bing’s search ads, will be testing placing favicons and logos in the search ads. James Colborn, director at Microsoft Advertising and long-time adCenter veteran, believes the market is ready to experiment with more creative options. These options stray from standard text ads in search. Consumers next year will start to see a richer ad experience in search results.
http://searchengineland.com/microsoft-bing-search-ads-to-test-favicons-26233

Google is telling the world what every seasoned webmaster and search marketer should already know: The keywords meta tag has no impact whatsoever on how Google’s search engine ranks pages.
http://searchengineland.com/google-stop-suing-over-the-keywords-tag-we-dont-use-it-26194

In about two weeks, Google will be launching a change for published docs. The change will allow published docs that are linked to from a public website to be crawled and indexed, which means they can appear in search results you see on Google.com and other search engines.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs/thread?tid=0ca72389c9b26ef4&hl=en

Most search engines (definitely Google) interprets your <title> as “mysite com primary keyword phrase secondary keyword phrase” after they normalize it (replacing all special characters and punctuation with a space). Most search engines view the first word in the <title>, <h1>, <h2>s, etc. as more important than the second word which is more important than the third.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1501797