SEOmoz today released the industry crowd-sourced SEO ranking factors for 2011. To do this SEOmoz surveyed 134 SEO professionals (including a couple of my close friends) on what which particular factors have the greatest effect on search rankings. SEO professionals are also invited to collate their thoughts on where they think the industry is heading. 2011 SEO Ranking Factors: Versus 2009′s SEO Ranking Factors: The key take...

ASOS, one of the UK’s online leading retailers, has confirmed they are launching a fully transactional store within Facebook by the end of January. James Hart, the ASOS ecommerce director, said: “We have millions of visits and millions of pounds coming from Facebook to ASOS. At the moment the Facebook shop doesn’t have real targets as such but in theory fewer clicks and barriers to purchase should mean greater conversions....

Lately, I keep on noticing dwindling organic results in SERPS above the page fold high traffic search terms. Why would Google do this? Well, I think it’s cleary conversion otpimastion isn’t it? Fewer organic distraction = more clicks on paid adds. To top it off, they are coming up with even more cockier ways of getting you to click on paid search adds. Is Google getting too greedy? I think so. Below you’ll see a screen shot of...

An interesting pickup from TechCrunch reveals that Google’s new Instant Search can actually favour brands over non branded terms. Instant search allows users to see query results without having to press search. Below you’ll see that when the user begins to type God, Google begins to show both paid and organic results. However, instead of showing results for God, it actually shows GoDaddy, the domain registrar. Why would Google do...

Finally, a new way of getting people off IE6: Stop Facebook Chat From Working Facebook today announced on their blog that they had fixed numerous Facebook chat bugs, made it faster and dropped support all together for Internet Explorer 6 An educated guess would lead me to believe that a good portion of IE6 users are Facebook users, and I bet a decent amount of those use Facebook chat. Facebook reports that the “Facebook Chat”...