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Straight to the source! For those who don’t know, Pinterest has a Source page that shows you the most recent pins made to a site. For example, the dPS source page is at http://pinterest.com/source/digital-photography-school.com/ To find yours, just substitute the dPS URL for your blog’s URL in the link above. If you don’t have much pinning action on your blog, you might not have one yet, but quite a few of the small blogs I tried it on did.

June 21, 2010 Google Share of Searches Hits 72 Percent in May 2010  Share tweetmeme_source = 'sewatch'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; Experian Hitwise today announced that Google accounted for 72.17 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending May 29, 2010. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask received 14.43 percent, 9.23 percent and 2.14 percent, respectively.

When possible, have your site/subdomain hosted in the country you're targeting. This isn’t always an option. It may make more sense for your sites to all be hosted at the same place, in which case you'll want to make use of your Google Webmaster account.  Whether you use a ccTLD or a subdomain, you can have a separate Webmaster tools account for each.  Verify your accounts and then select which country you want to serve in its settings. *Tip: This helps ensure you can be found when searchers decide to use only country-targeted search results. However, it is not an appropriate setting for just foreign language-specific targeting and optimization because you don't want to exclude other countries who also speak that language. If searchers use the default “Web,” Google will search the entire Web, in which case it’s a win-win for you.

October 12, 2010 Paid Search Reports: Google Profits at Bing/Yahoo's Expense  Share tweetmeme_source = 'sewatch'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; Google gobbled up more paid search spending share last quarter, a result of the Bing/Yahoo integration, according to new reports from Efficient Frontier and SearchIgnite. Google's share of paid search spend rose from 75.8 percent in Q2 to 77.9 percent in Q3, according to Efficient. SearchIgnite had Google growing to 80.2 percent of PPC ad spend. Paid clicks were up 9 percent year-over-year (YoY); CPCs were up 14 percent YoY; and impressions were up 6 percent YoY, Efficient reported. Efficient said this demonstrates Google's continued ability to increase consumer and advertiser demand.