As you probably remember, Google launched a new spam algorithm to target spammy queries such as payday loans. It had a serious impact on spammers from what I see, which I will cover right after this story…

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said in a recent video that using stock images from a stock image website has no impact on rankings. The question was, “Does using stock photos on your pages have a negative effect on rankings?” Matt’s answer was very short, he said..

Facebook announced hashtags last week, giving validation to everyone who used the original Twitter function to drive home their point in a Facebook status update. What was once unnecessary is now helpful in discovering new content in Facebook.

Good news for webmasters who have been struggling to identify links and pages that have been trigger warnings in Google Webmaster Tools.

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What happens when you combine big data with some big math?

Last Wednesday Google released the spam algorithm to target very spammy niches and “illegal” link building and spamming techniques. Did it work…

While the Google Knowledge Graph Carousel was launched nearly a year ago, more reports are confirming Carousel image displays appearing more often and for a wider variety of categories in SERPs. The Carousel display shows results in an image-focused fashion, listed horizontal at the top of the..

As a Bing Ads product manager specializing in campaign optimization, I often get asked the differences between Quality Score on Bing Ads and AdWords.