Posted by RonGarrett Keeping up with the rapidly changing pace of SEO best-practices can sometimes be as difficult as juggling flaming batons while reciting the alphabet backwards. As an agency or business owner, you need a checklist to help make sure you're staying competitive, focusing on the right tactics, and building your business in the right direction.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google & Time Inc.

Hi. My name is Jason and I’m a bit of a mental case. My wife likes to send me links to products she’d like to purchase and instead of looking at the new ottoman, I explore the website’s backlink portfolio or rip apart their URL structure.

Digital Marketing Depot Webcast May 16th 1:00EDT/10:PDT Now that your company is using Facebook for marketing, do you know if your efforts are paying off?

A WebmasterWorld thread has an SEO sharing some experiments he is playing with…

Google Shopping is finally unleashing the new feed specifications for merchants, including guidance for high resolution images and new attributes for merchants with product identifier exemptions. The changes will begin going into effect in July

Ad group level mobile adjustments are now available in many Google AdWords enhanced campaign accounts, with more accounts being added. Another change is that you can now set bulk bid adjustments for locations, dayparts and devices.

The new Timelapse site, created by Time Inc. and Google, is a pretty amazing way to see how any part of the world has changed since 1984 through 2012. The site offers amazing animations such as the growth of Las Vegas and the shrinking of the Columbia Glacier, and you can point it at any Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Everybody is getting ready for next page rank update. Whenever somebody thinks of linking, the word PR comes up in mind because we get or create quality back links to get a handsome PR. Keep this in your mind that PR has nothing to do with your traffic

Trey Coolier shared a Google Webmaster Tools notification he has personally not seen before on Google+ for Google notifying him that there was a possible outage on his site. This message is not new, we’ve mentioned it at least a couple times in the past..