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Google has agreed to pay a settlement of $17 million to 38 U.S. states in order to end a probe into claims that it deliberately bypassed user privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser. Google also agreed to never deploy similar tracking code again.

Bing has introduced Connected Pages, a feature that lets you claim your owned content properties (e.g., your Facebook business page, LinkedIn profile, app store pages and other social properties), and see how they’re discovered in search.

Chitika released findings today that showed the click-through rates of ads on websites were highest when visitorscame to that website from the Ask.com engine, with Google trailing behind Bing and Yahoo in fourth position.

With 100 hours of content uploaded every minute to YouTube, gaining a high number of video views isn’t easy. But it’s not impossible with the right plan. Here are a few optimization steps you can take to help your video get found, viewed and shared.

Executives are unhappy with the skills of digital and social media team talent. A large talent gap is hurting sales, employee retention, and marketing ROI. But all hope isn’t gone. Check out these tips on hiring and keeping digital marketing talent.

SEW’s sister brand, SES Conference & Expo, is undergoing a makeover and rebranding to ClickZ Live. The new conference series will be an extension of ClickZ.com and will incorporate all the many verticals that are available on the online publication.

Your website represents your brand, engages prospective customers, and converts your traffic into customers. Rather than prioritizing channels that drive traffic, focus on your website first, and build the rest of your marketing strategy around it.