Microsoft’s Ping Jen has posted a look at upcoming changes to Bing Ads Editor, the desktop tool for managing Bing Ads campaigns. The changes include an updated user interface (UI) and faster data uploading.

At SES San Francisco, Bill Hunt will show you how to mine your search keywords and social data for new revenue opportunities. Here, Hunt shares some insights on where to find data and some tips and tricks for getting started with keyword research.

Facebook’s implementation of hashtags brought with it a lot of change for Internet marketers, but perhaps the most important shift came within the CPC and media buying realm. But despite the fact that these changes have prompted a shift in many online marketing practices, there are still some companies who have managed to stay competitive […] Author information Murray Newlands Murray founded of The Mail in 2013 an angel funded start up publication covering performance marketing and mobile marketing. Murray is an advisor to a number of bay area startups including VigLink.

Don’t expect any personalized responses from Google, considering there are 250 million domain names, and Google took manual action on 400,000 websites just in January 2013. They also receive about 5,000 reconsideration requests every week

Twitter has made a small change in how it handles protected tweets in its search results. The company tweeted the news that some protected tweets will now be visible in search results — but they’ll only be visible to the user who has the protected account, and to that user’s… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

The 80 Rules of Social Media by @JeremyWaite is a clever Pinterest style infographic offering 80 tips and insights on the world of social media.

The question of big sites vs small sites and how they rank in Google has always been one of those questions SEOs have asked.

One of the biggest complaints about Google Glass is that it does not work with Google Apps accounts. Well, one of the biggest complaints from Google Apps users is that nothing new from Google works with Google Apps…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Posted by willcritchlow In the early days of search, Google used only your typed query to find the most relevant results. We’re now increasingly seeing SERPs that are influenced by all kinds of contextual information — the implicit queries. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Will Critchlow covers what exactly that means and how it might explain why we see “(not provided)” in our analytics more often than we’d like