This week, Google announced a significant AdWords update: Ad Rank, the system for ordering competing ads on search results pages, now takes into account the anticipated effect of your ad extensions and formats.

Reports are out that YouTube may be planning a music video subscription service that would allow users to access videos on demand without advertising interruption for $10. Some speculate there could be a free component to the service, as well.

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.

Facebook search quality and ranking engineer Ashoat Tevosyan shared a look under the Graph Search hood in a post this week on the Facebook Engineering page.

The most frequently asked question posed these days at events, webinars and new client meetings is “What is the best social media platform for my local business?” Research shows social channels are becoming more important signals in major search engine algorithms that affect the entire SEO and… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Local link building is a commonly untapped resource, which can lead to quick yet quality links and net local customers. Here are some great strategies to build local links that can work for any business, as well as why they’re worth pursuing

I recently presented at SMX East on how SEO and Social teams can no longer operate separately. Why?

It’s been a few weeks since Google rocked our worlds and stripped keyword-level data from the referrer, so it’s time to examine the fallout and see what’s changed in the world of search marketing. Surprisingly, not much.

Thanks to SEJ’s #Pubcon coverage sponsor Majestic SEO ”Bigger, Better, Faster.” The first ever US Search Awards ceremony was held this past Wednesday night, October 23rd in Las Vegas, in conjunction with Pubcon. The Search Engine Journal team was on hand along with our two lucky ticket winners to check out the festivities

William Congreve penned the saying, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”. Obviously he never knew about Google.  A web designer friend of mine recently asked me to help him with a client.