Do you have a small website that isn’t performing as well in Google’s search results as you think it should? Google’s Matt Cutts is asking small website owners to submit sites and explain why they deserve to outrank other websites on Google.

Directory links are bad. Directory links are spammy. Directory links don’t work in 2013.

On the Bing Ads blog this week Marta Turek from Mediative spotlighted several features offered in Bing Ads that are not available in Google AdWords. Most PPC practitioners spend more time in AdWords than Bing Ads, so it can be hard to keep up with the different features offered in Bing Ads.

Twitter was busy this week with two announcements. First, Twitter announced that it has made Lead Generation Cards available to all advertisers. Meanwhile, Twitter made conversations easier to follow by putting tweets in chronological order

In the latest video from YouTube’s Google Webmaster Help channel, Matt Cutts explains why the Google Spam team can’t handle every individual reconsideration request with a personal response: The video came from a sent-in question, asking why his thoughtful, well-written requests were always followed up by automatic responses from Google.

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 Dice: Source: Google+ Google Glass Neon Sign: Source: Flickr Google… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

The local search ranking algorithm can seem like a mystery at times.

As search marketers, we constantly have to deal with ambiguity — whether trying to reverse engineer a Google algorithm or simply prioritize and forecast the impact of the SEO recommendations we’re making. In this article, we’re going to explore what drives SEO ambiguity

Being able to perform a thorough backlink analysis is a fundamental element to any link building campaign. What’s more, running backlink analyses can help develop your fundamental knowledge of links, link building strategies, and link quality

Want to know what the PageRank of a page is? The ability to easily do this using the Google Toolbar has gotten harder over the years, with the latest blow being no update in values for the past six months