It’s on again: the eternal rivals fight dirty. At least one is: Bing.

After the cheating saga of “Twilight” co-stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart came to light, Ask.com users this year overwhelmingly asked one question: “Will Rob and Kristen get back together?” That was the top trending question of 2012.

Bing is attacking Google over its shift to a pay-for-play shopping search engine through a new “Scroogled” site, pledging that Bing has “honest search.” Great campaign, if it were true. It’s not.

About five months ago, Google introduced additional index status reports that showed a lot more information about how Google indexed your site. Recently, a lot of webmasters have been asking about the “not selected” number..

SEO industry veteran Bruce Clay stopped by to share his experience in building a successful SEO agency, with tips to help others market themselves more effectively.

To get more small marketers to test out AdWords Express, Google is offering a “free month” of advertising to new customers. If new advertisers sign up before December 16, Google will provide a credit in January “worth what you spend between now and the end of this year.”..

Let’s keep this BS free.

Digital Marketing Depot will host a webcast Monday, December 12th at 1 PM EST. The webcast, Get More Bang for Your Buck: Optimize Landing Pages for Better PPC Conversions, will feature speakers Aaron Bart, Creative Services Director, Creative Services, Covario and Fiona Burgess, Art Director,… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

In a message geared toward holiday shoppers, Bing is calling out Google for it’s new paid ad shopping results model. Microsoft has launched a national campaign trying to spotlight Bing as what honest search results should look like.

Last night, there was a pretty significant security breach giving unauthorized access to your Google Webmaster Tools. Google has fixed the security issue this morning but not after it being an issue for probably about 12 hours