A look at the current state of Search and how SEO is changing as Google Instant, Places, and Social Search emerge into the Search Results. Oh yeah, can't forget about Bing and Facebook.

1. WassUP with Search?

2. Google Still #1

3. Everything Google

4. Google Instant

5. Google Instant & Long Tail

6. Google Places Modified 7 Pack Merged Places

7. Google Places & Facebook Places

8. Local Is Mobile

9. Smartphone Market Grew 30% Year/Year Source: *eMarketer March 2010 **Forrester - U.S. Data ` Neilson Data Smartphones Will Surpass Feature Phones In 2011 Mobile Is The Access Point That Matters Today

10. 50% Of Web Traffic Will Come Through Mobile Devices Within 3 Years* Google Mobile Searches Have Increased 5x in The Past Two Years. High End Device Users Search 50x More vs. Feature Phone Users 54% of users who researched online but bought offline , used their mobile device to search - Google ComScore Study Jan 2010 Mobile 50% PC 50% Year 2013 Google Mobile Search Traffic Mobile Web Usage Is Exploding

11. Source: Google Internal Data, based on a basket of 20,000 keywords within the shopping category Mobile Search Grows With Smartphone Market

12. Mobile SEO is Web SEO

13. SEO Ranking Factors

14. Organic Marketing is Connected Source: SEOMoz.org

15. White Hat vs Black Hat SEO Source: SEOMoz.org

16. SEO in 2011 Source: SEOMoz.org

17. Social Sharing Influences Search Google: Yes, we do use it as a signal. It is used as a signal in our organic and news rankings. We also use it to enhance our news universal by marking how many people shared an article Source: searchengineland.com/what-social-signals-do-google-bing-really-count-55389