As I reported at Search Engine Land, Apple mobile Safari in iOS 7 and in some cases, other iOS versions, is showing more referrer data now than it did prior.

Twitter announced a new way to search that displays photos, people profiles and status updates, as well as the ability to go back to recent searches and know how you’re connected to the profiles in the suggested search results.

#1:  5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know are “Illegal” on Facebook By:  Jim Belosic | @shortstacklab Business Pages on Facebook have their own set of guidelines which you can read here, yet I continually see countless Facebook Pages posting illegal images, running illegal contests or just doing things that aren’t welcomed by Facebook. So what happens when users […] Author information Catherine Quiambao The post July 2013: Best of Search Engine Journal appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Bing announced a number of new upgrades today for the Windows Phone 8, including search feature design updates, infinite scrolling for images and videos, ten new “Instant Answers” topics, and a new mobile version of Bing’s “Snapshot” feature that offers at-a-glance… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

To assess the impact of Google’s recently-announced quality score change, I analyzed the pre/post change in Quality Score distribution across data for more than 100 advertisers. Since the exact range of scores differs for every advertiser, we looked at the percentage change in relative… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Testing a new website may seem overwhelming, but there are things every team member can do to assist in the pre-launch process.

During a neighborhood gathering I met a small business owner and after sharing our respective backgrounds, he proceeded to tell me his troubles with not having the time to keep his website current. Competitors were seemingly overwhelming his category online. He also disclosed that his offering requires a bit of an educational sales cycle and the industry category has had some mixed press.  As we talked, I learned that innovations in the product line have advanced the capabilities significantly, but awareness of those advancements were hardly common knowledge within the target audience.

The majority of the time when we’re discussing link building, we focus on things like outreach, content strategy, tools and, in general, ways we can acquire links online. Which makes perfect sense since links are… well, online. But what about the offline, or “in real life”…

Google has not yet announced this but there is now an official Google AdSense app in the Apple iTunes Store by Google for free. You can download the app for free over here. Publishers have been waiting for an official Google AdSense App for years…

Link building is hard work. But you can teach individuals with the right skills and work ethic to become an awesome link builder – even if they have little (or no) experience. Here’s an in-depth lesson plan to help you train new link builders.