Do you have a topic you’d like to see covered in a session at SMX East on October 1-3, 2013?

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Getting Away From Our PPC Campaigns This Summer Having just finished marching in three parades and playing Taps at Memorial Day observances to honor our deceased… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is on the brink of launching a fresh antitrust probe into Google, over alleged misconduct over how it handles its display advertising business. The probe was spurred on by competing display advertising firms.

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…

There has been a lot of buzz about document-sharing site Slideshare in the last year, but apparently not enough. The syndication process after a piece of content goes live often gets overlooked - forum threads come to mind – but nothing gets more overlooked than document-sharing sites

Select advertisers can now build their email marketing list right in Twitter. The “Lead Generation Card”is a new feature in Twitter’s advertising arsenal, and allows users to share their emails with brands in a tweet.

Digital Marketing Depot Webcast May 30th 1:00EDT/10:PDT Recent market data shows online visitors originating from social sharing convert up to 4 times higher than conventional visitors.

Earlier this month, Google’s head of search spam, responded to a comment on his blog explaining that when most SEOs and Webmasters use the disavow tool, they use it wrong.

Forty-nine percent of marketers surveyed in Social Media Examiner’s 2013 Social Media Marketing Industry Report consider Facebook to be their most important social media platform.

Having just finished marching in three parades and playing Taps at Memorial Day observances to honor our deceased veterans, I find myself looking forward to the more relaxed days of summer, and wondering how in the heck I can get away from my PPC campaigns this summer. It’s a pipe dream, I know,… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.