Facebook Stories is a new project that compiles a selection of user-generated stories from Facebook and publishes insights on the topic of the month. Mainly, it’s a way to generate some uber-happy, heartwarming content in the wake of some bad PR.

Posted by mybinding1 This week for Whiteboard Friday we are taking a look at how to get a video to rank on YouTube. Each month YouTube receives over 800 million unique visitors who watch more than 3 billion hours of video, traffic we can't afford to ignore. So how do you get videos to rank for competitive terms on YouTube

Neetu Kurian from Google posted a detailed question and answer thread on the topic of AdWords Express monthly budget concerns in the Google Places Help forums. I don’t see this posted elsewhere…

As one of the original and largest conferences with a focus on search engine marketing, SES content runs the gamut of strategies and tactics to help marketers improve their performance. This isn’t an easy task in a world where platforms like Google and Facebook can change the rules from one minute to the next. SES may have had it’s roots in search marketing, but like the “best of the best” search engine marketers, SES has adapted to the changing marketplace and evolved content offerings including: mobile, social, content marketing and big trends like Big Data

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Creative Testing For The Advanced Search Marketer, Part 3 For paid search programs, big and small, creative optimization remains one of the single most impactful… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

More than 83 million Facebook accounts are fake, the social network has revealed in a new SEC filing. That represents 8.7 percent of Facebook’s user base.

I am seeing reports in the various forums, including DigitalPoint Forums and WebmasterWorld that Google has updated their toolbar PageRank values for many many sites…

One of the most tenacious blackhat webspam techniques we continue to see is hacked sites.