Michael Martinez of SEO Theory tipped me off to Google updating their duplicate content webmaster guidelines page. The update was pretty minor, they made some stylist changes but also changes the last paragraph…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How To Get Started With YouTube Promoted Video Earlier in the year, YouTube surpassed Yahoo as the world’s second largest search engine.

The fake mortgage programs that brought Google under recent scrutiny don’t seem to be run by Google-exclusive con artists. Mortgage scams that claim to provide assistance from the U.S. government have also been located in Microsoft …

Earlier in the year, YouTube surpassed Yahoo as the world’s second largest search engine. In June 2011, ComScore reported that in the U.S., YouTube attracted 5.6 billion viewing sessions per month and the average U.S. visitor frequents the site 23 times a month with each visit lasting on average 26..

Check out this very informative infographic by MindFlash.com called LinkedIn Bootcamp: Basic Training For The Personal Marketer. This IG gives you a breakdown of the basics for creating an effective LinkedIn profile and account. If you are new to LinkedIn read the following carefully.

Black Friday online shopping spend in the U.S. market jumped 26 percent this year over last, to $816 million, says comScore

Posted by Justin Briggs Google Plus is Google's latest attempt at building an explicit social graph that they control, but Google has been building out an implicit social graph for quite some time. This graph is still relatively naive compared to the maturity of the link graph, but search engines continue to develop this graph. Since it is already directly influencing rankings, and its value will increase, it’s important to understand how this type of social graph is being built

A new directive by the European Commission may stop advertisers from leveraging users’s information when advertising on Facebook.  The Telgraph reports that the EC is looking into the way that Facebook “eavesdrops” on users and how personal data is made available for ad targeting…

Google News visitors who are logged into their Google account will now sometimes see socially promoted data on their news spotlight. The data will be promoted if a Gmail contact or a user connected on Google+ has +1′d the content