SEO News for the Week of May 25, 2009

Industry News

Facebook has received a $200 million investment infusion from a European firm, placing the company's value at $10 billion.

Companies are increasingly combining social media with cause-marketing campaigns.

Microsoft is gearing up to revamp live.com and re-name it Bing. This is just as Google reaches nearly 73% of market share.Microsoft plans to use its huge marketing budget to plant the idea that "today's search engines don't work as well as consumers previously thought by asking them whether search (aka Google) really solves their problems."

SEO News

Local SEOs now will have to leave Local Business Center profile verification up to their clients due to a change in process by Google.

SEO Advice

Target one keyword for organic rankings and its synonyms. One page per idea is best.

Over-explaining is great for usability and SEO.