Though some of the long-established keyword suggestion tools are still around, there are also a plenty of free keyword research tools. Let’s have a look.

After Matt Cutts had announced officially a few weeks ago that Google ignores the meta keywords tag for ranking search results now follows Yahoo!. During the “Ask The Search Engines session” at SMX East in New York, Cris Pierry, senior director of search at Yahoo! admitted that Yahoo! does not use the meta keyword tags [...]

In order to allow small business to advertise on Google and Google Maps without having to manage keywords and ad copies via AdWords, Google is introducing the so called Google Local Listing Ads.  These ads are displayed when users search for related businesses in a local area.
Google Help summarizes the Local Listing Ads features as [...]

After signing the search deal with Microsoft, many of us expected Yahoo gave up on search. Now Yahoo announced a few enhancements to its search marketing program in the future. The most important for me is the Yahoo search marketing desktop tool similar to Google AdWords Editor. Yahoo expects the first release in 2010.
Other Yahoo [...]

By integrating the hot trend OneBox, Google adds another real-time search feature to keep up with the progress of Twitter and friends regarding real-time search.

comScore confirmed this week what Nielsen had published already in the middle of September: Bing’s market share in the U.S. is growing continuously.

Now it’s official: Google ignores the Meta Keywords Tag for ranking – in contrast to other search engines. Read more about pro and contra of Meta Keywords.