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Search Engine Journal’s Official Facebook Fanpage hit the 5,000 mark last week, and is now pushing 5,600 fans who are sharing search marketing news, blog posts and comments on SEJ’s Facebook Fanpage . Not only does the SEJ community share SEJ posts on Facebook, but we also have 5 admins sharing search engine news, SEO tips and other relevant news on Facebook daily. While you are also joining the Search Engine Journal Facebook Fanpage, also take a look at our Daily SEO Tip Fanpage on Facebook . Daily SEO Tip is an SEJ spinoff blog that offers one basic SEO tip daily, as contributed by the SEJ staff and friends. Ann & I just launched the fanpage last night and with 230 fans, it’s growing quite strong. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Join 5,500+ Search Marketers on SEJ’s Facebook

Just a quick update to inform you that if you’re using Google’s product search , whether on your computers or mobile devices such as iPhone or Android phones, you can now check whether a particular product is in stock on a store nearby. You can check out the product’s availability by clicking on the “blue dot” included in the search results. This is particularly useful if you’re out on the street and saw something which you might want to buy. You can just search for the product on your mobile phones, and if Google mobile search returns a search result with a blue dot, you can check it out to find out where you can buy the product. You can also see the distance of the nearest store from your current location. Some popular retailers are already participating in the said feature including Best Buy, Sears, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn or West Elm. To try this feature, point your iPhone, Palm WebOS or any Android phone to google.com, tap on the “more” link and then choose “shopping” from the options. Alternatively you can check out the “shopping results” section from the Universal Search results provided by Google mobile search. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Adds Blue Dots to Product Search

ComScore has just released its February search engine rankings data. And while there’s nothing new in terms of who is on top, who gained and who lost, what’s surprising about it is that among all the online properties where searches are conducted other than the five major search engines, Facebook gained a significant amount of searches in February. Yes, it seems that more search activities are happening on Facebook lately.   Facebook’s total search queries may not be that significant compared to the top search engines, but then it was only the online property which registered search query growth in February – amounting to 10%  increase from its January search market  share. Total searches conducted on Facebook was 436 million while Google got 13.5 billion search queries, Yahoo got 2.5 billion and Microsoft sites got 1.7 billion searches. In terms of Core Searches though, Facebook is nowhere near the top five search engines where Google stays on top of the pact with 65.5% of searches, Yahoo with 16.8% and Microsoft Sites with 11.5%. Both Google and Microsoft had a slight increase in search market share in February with 0.1% and 0.2% respectively. Total searches in the U.S. amounted to 14.5 billion which is a slight 5% decrease compare with data in January. Google Sites got 9.5 billion of these searches, Yahoo got 2.5 billion and Microsoft 1.7 billion. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Facebook Searches Grow by 10% in

With the ever growing site traffic of  of  YouTube mobile site, it is not surprising that  Google will take advantage of this to serve advertisements.  In 2009, YouTube mobile’s site traffic increased by 160%. You can just imagine how good this site traffic will be in terms of potential for more ad clicks and brand campaign awareness. So, YouTube has started serving ads , particularly banner ads on its mobile site’s home, search and browse pages. This is being rolled out to American and Japanese YouTube mobile websites, that is – m.youtube.com on your mobile phone’s browser. According to Google, this is a great way for advertisers to reach YouTube viewers across multiple platforms. But for us users, this could become pretty annoying and additional data costs if we’re not on an unlimited mobile data plan. It’s a good thing if there’s always free Wi-Fi around. But then, who are we to complain, right? After all, YouTube videos are free to consume. So, expect more banner ads from the likes of Sony, Kia and the others the next time you browse for the latest sensation on YouTube video. Hopefully, the ads won’t annoy you enough to look for an alternative mobile video site. If you’re a brand campaign manager, you ought to know that those banner ad spots are sold on a full-day basis. You can extend your ad campaign run from the YouTube website to the mobile site. To know how you can go about this, visit this site .   Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . YouTube Mobile Now Serving Banner

While you are pondering on the points made by Todd about online retirement , here’s a worthwile albeit healthy activity that you may want to consider – biking. And to help you navigate your way through U.S. cities on your bike, Google has just added useful biking directions and bike trail data to Google Maps. Google has been gathering these bike trail data for quite some time now and now that they’ve gathered as much data as possible, these biking directions are now part of the Google Maps interface. These biking directions provide efficient routes and allow you to customize your trip, make use of designated bike lanes, calculate rider-friendly routes as well as customize the look of the Google Maps to suit  cycling activities. Google has also added information about bike trails, lanes, and recommended roads directly onto Google Maps.  This will help you  get better sense of route and trails worth traversing if you’re into recreational ride.  You can check out the bicyling layer on the “more” button at the top of  a Google Map. This layer has three types of lines – dark green for dedicated bike-only trail, light green for a dedicated bike lane along a road and dashed green for roads recommended for biking but has not bike trail. Google Maps currently has more than 12,000 miles of bike trails, and bike lane data for 150 U.S. cities. You may check out Google Maps biking directions here . Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Adds Biking Directions to