#Hashtags are coming to Facebook. What does it all mean? Will cats and dogs start living together in the same room? Will machines take over the world? Probably not. But there ... » Continue

While Google’s launch into the social networking world may not have been a total success from the get go it is clear that Google intends it to stick around. Not ... » Continue

Social advertisers rejoice!  Twitter announced the long-awaited launch of its Ads API today in an official blog post.  It joins only Facebook and LinkedIn as global social networks that allow ... » Continue

With Halloween just a mere 2 weeks away, we here at Anvil thought you might need some digitally-inspired Halloween costume ideas. And I am happy to oblige. So with no ... » Continue

In an effort to further expand its social network’s reach, Google announced the introduction of brand pages to Google+ yesterday. This will allow companies and brands to join Google+ and ... » Continue

If you’ve tuned into any of the major cable news channels, or The Daily Show this week – you’ve undoubtedly heard the story about Rep. Anthony Weiner’s allegedly hacked twitter account and the ... » Continue

Each week here at Anvil, we get together on Wednesday afternoon to go over the big news around the world of search, social & mobile. » Continue

After watching folks around the office go nuts rating their favorite places on Google Hotpot, talking to more than one client about the importance of online reviews to their local SEO efforts, and of course reading how Facebook and Twitter are already exerting influence in SERPs, I have an unofficial prediction of my own to add: 2011 will see the first major dust-up over social media or online reviews being used to game the search engine rankings. » Continue

Let’s say you consider yourself a social media savvy organization.  You have a Facebook page and Twitter feed that you update regularly, you post a few videos on YouTube each ... » Continue

Most big brands would balk at 10,000 fans.  Apple and McDonald’s buy media by the truck load and could probably care less if it ran over 10,000 fans let alone ... » Continue