Google offer a new analytic tools that enable you to create a multidimensional chart, called “Motion Charts”. It can be very useful as you can visualise up to 5 metrics in one signle chart.

http://searchengineland.com/how-to-use-google-analytics-motion-charts-to-maximize-results-24146

This is an interesting table that shows the latest figures of the the Search Market over the past year.  One can see the progression of the number of searches made on the major websites over the past 12 months.

Overall the number of searches on the web increased by 41% compared to July last year.  SEM is still a hot activity in the digital marketing world.

http://searchengineland.com/google-still-no-1-search-engine-on-earth-24853

According to Chief Economist at Google, Hal Varian, himself, ads’ position would not influence that much your conversion rate.  Concretely, where 11 ads are shown on a page result, the conversion rate varies by less than 5% across positions.

This is an astonishing news, especially because it is coming from Google itself… However it would be interesting to run some test ourselves…

http://adwords.blogspot.com/2009/08/conversion-rates-dont-vary-much-with-ad.html

Bing can let you check which websites are associated with your IP address.

On the home page, just enter our IP address as following :  “ip:212.53.89.138″ ,

However it seems to work only for the US, since the test I run for ITJB.co.uk, gives irrelevant results.

PS:  find out about your IP Adress on http://www.ip-adress.com/whois/

This is a nice tool that pick up automatically the most popular words of you web page and makes a cloud out of it.

Then you can implement this cloud on you page and customise it with different colors, styles, etc.

Find it on www.wordle.net

Google has unveiled its next search engine but before launching it for good they have launched a beta version  where users can give a feedback.

The following site enable you to see what are the results for both Google search engines, the current one next to the next one. And apparently we rank better better with the old one for ‘IT graduate jobs’.

http://www.facesaerch.com/caffeine/compare.php?pws=0&q=it+graduate+jobs&compare=1

The question is why?

Bing will power Yahoo search, but concretely what’s going to change?

In terms of organic search, yahoo should start using Bing at the begining of 2010 but in terms of PPC it might take longer as the 2 giants use different API.

More details about this deal in this article written by Danny Sulllivan http://searchengineland.com/microsoft-yahoo-search-deal-simplified-23299

Check this out, now you can see if people talk about us on Twitter:

http://www.seoptimise.com/blog/2009/07/twitter-friday-4-ways-to-find-out-who-tweets-about-your-blog-or-site.html

It had to happen… some specific aggregators that gather most popular links on Twitter have appeared recently.

http://searchengineland.com/tracking-tweets-how-to-twitter-aggregation-tools-22699

In this article written by Garrett French, one can find some very valuable information about link building, such as which factors are important, how to search for potential inbound links, how to link bait, etc.

http://searchengineland.com/how-to-research-create-and-distribute-highly-linkable-content-22416