Close friend Jye Smith, Digital Strategist at Weber Shandwick, asked me to write a guest post on the topic of “The Future of Search and Social Media“, which I was delighted to do so as it’s a subject I frequently ponder about. Post Summary: In Google’s Algorithm, Social Media Popularity is now more critical than ever. Websites must learn how to integrate themselves with Social Media to leverage SEO 2011 will see...

Nowadays, it’s pretty hard to search Google without being displayed a blended result. Blended search is great as it allows users to find information across several types of media, such as Video, Images, Twitter feeds etc. Today, when performing the search”Facebook Places“, I noticed a pretty busy blended SERP with news results, Twitter feed & to my astonishment I also noticed the new “Google Trends” widget at...

Will Facebook Questions be open to Search Engines? You may or may not of heard about Facebook’s new “Questions” feature. Basically it allows you to post a question to either your friends or publicly. Neat huh! When I heard about it, the first thing I thought about was Search. To my astonishment, Facebook Questions will not be accessible to search engines, yet anyway. When asked about search engine accessibility on the...