Are your site tasks simple? Is your content easy to read? Are your forms easy to work with?

Does Wolfram|Alpha, Bing, Yahoo, or Google boast the best mobile search app for iPhone? We compare features like multitasking, copy paste, voice search, making consistent phone calls and even widgets, 4G, NFC, and more to crown a champion

This framework aims to help marketers and SEO professionals easily forecast and understand the competitive intensity and rivalry for a keyword and to also help determine the resources required to improve a web presence and SEO rankings.

When it comes to the big black box that is Google, we will never know exactly what’s going on. Does Google use social signals as a ranking factor

When Google pushed out the Google+ Local changes it brought to the front Zagat reviews, which replaced the Google star ratings in the Google Maps results.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has reopened its investigation into Google’s Street View Wi-Fi collecting in light of recent revelations that the company was fully aware the technology would grab users’ data off Wi-Fi networks.

A WebmasterWorld thread has some SEOs and webmasters noticing that the data in Google Webmaster Tools is updated faster than what they see in Google’s own search results…

I found this short but yet enlightening discussion in the Google Webmaster Help forums about what percentage of inorganic links you need to remove to probably have your inorganic link penalty removed. In the thread, the webmaster said he was able to remove 85% of the inorganic links and asked Google if that was a high enough percentage to submit a reconsideration request and for that request to be satisfied

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…