This week in search we cover speculation that Google will run a Panda update shortly. We also ask why hasn’t Google updated the Penguin algorithm in 5 months

AMC’s The Walking Dead is back from its mid-season break, and fans—including us—are more than eager to see if Rick will be stuck “wandering the crazyland” in the midst of this zombie-infested soap opera. We are also hoping that the show will be able to redeem itself from what has been a half-season of weak, if not Author information Melissa Fach SEJ Editor – Melissa is the owner of SEO Aware, LLC.

Bing rolled out a trio of changes this week. In addition to revamping the design of Friends Photos search and changes to the autosuggest algorithm, Bing also unveiled a plugin to help webmasters more easily generate XML sitemaps

The concept of “influence marketing” has suddenly exploded into all aspects of search and online marketing. In his SMX Toronto keynote address, Sam Fiorrella, co-author of Influence Marketing: How to Create, Manage and Measure Brand Influencers in Social Media will present a new… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.

Google has downgraded the Toolbar PageRank scores for several dozen UK operated newspapers and news sites today.

From radio, to television, to the Internet and smart phones, savvy marketers have found ways over time to be creative in order to reach potential buyers through all the noise. Many continue to struggle with the ever-expanding network of engagement, but marketing automation technology has provided a way for marketers to spread their word across an continually increasing variety of channels

In August, Google began showing three less results for certain searches. Was this due to branded searches?

My previous article was about estimating the potential for growth for those paid search campaigns capped due to insufficient budget. This was definitely the easy part since the logic behind the assumptions involved in the calculation was fairly simple. Now, we can address those paid search…

About three years ago, Google launched search query data within Google Webmaster Tools. The reporting in the search queries data is one of the more value areas within Webmaster Tools…