17 Pinterest Metrics Every Brand Should Track – If you’ve ever needed a cheat sheet on the top metrics to track, Branderati and Shareroot created this colorful and helpful Infographic. For more detail, visit SocialMedia Today who created a text version of the content. Google Buys Bump to Share Anything Between Your Phone and Laptop – The app allows you to select anything on your phone — photos, files — and transfer it to your computer simply by “bumping” the space bar of your laptop

Knowing how to promote yourself, your client, your business, or your employers takes a whole new level of skill and expertise. The challenge is finding the right balance of promotional strategies that will yield the most effective results.

Abby from the Google Maps team posted in the Google Maps Help forum asking Google Maps users who are interested in custom maps to sign up for a research study. Abby said if you use My Maps and Maps Engine Lite you may be interested in learning about a user study program Google is offering..

Cyrus Shepard posted on Google+ about a case study he posted on his blog about the results after he disavowed 35,000 links pointing to a site. He said, “On April 3, 2013 I disavowed every link to my website I could find through Google Webmaster Tools.” That turned out to be 35…

Last week, I covered how unlinked URLs are used by Google for discovering and indexing new content – heck…

Posted by randfish Most conversations about links today involve terms like “better links,” or “high-quality links.” Those are the kinds we all hope to earn, but what exactly defines a “better link?” How do we know whether a link qualifies, or is only so-so?

To hear Brett Tabke tell it, were he to start a web-based business from scratch today, he’d do things quite a bit differently than what most people are currently doing. “I’d pretend Google didn’t exist [and focus on social media],” says Tabke, CEO of PubCon. “No matter your niche, there’s a platform out there that speaks […] Author information Ronell Smith Director of Strategy at Advice Interactive Agency Ronell Smith is the Director of Strategy for Advice Interactive Group, a full-service digital marketing agency with offices in Texas, California and Florida

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Official: Google Rolling Out App Launcher, Flat Logo The testing is over. Google has confirmed its plans to add a new app launcher to the main Google navigation..

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…