Quality score is complicated, but that doesn’t mean it’s all that useful.

Google has confirmed the reports of a bug where configuring your search preferences to non-instant results, set to show 100 search results on a page, stopped working. The bug began sometime around October 18th…

It’s been less than a month since Facebook expanded Graph Search to include status updates and posts, and the feature still isn’t available to all users. Nonetheless, Facebook search engineer Ashoat Tevosyan shared an “under the hood” look at how it works — and why it… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

50 Powerful Statistics About Tech Mega Trends Affecting Every Business  – There are five mega trends impacting the IT departments of every company: Mobile, Social, Cloud, Apps and Big Data.

Yesterday’s Microsoft FY2014 Q1 earnings report showed the company generated $18.53 billion in total revenues, with 47 percent growth in search advertising revenue. Executive vice president and CFO Ann Hood said Microsoft experienced broad based revenue growth from a geographic perspective,…

If you are of the of the opinion that email is dead or dying, think again!. Not only was email the most popular online activity of 2012, it also generated higher click-through and conversion rates as well as good ROI than all other channels. This trend is only going to continue as 56% of marketers plan to increase their email marketing budgets during 2013, which makes email the leading source of marketing investments.

In early August, Google launched a new feature for a Google timer, but earlier this month, that feature stop working.

Facebook announced Wednesday that Custom Audiences will be available to all advertisers worldwide by the end of November. Custom Audiences allows users to import their own contact lists for ad targeting, which prompts Facebook to display ads only to those specific individuals. The Facebook For Business blog post alerting advertisers to this update illustrated the benefits […] Author information Matt Southern Matt Southern is a marketing, communications and public relations professional.

Thanks to SEJ’s #Pubcon coverage sponsor Majestic SEO: “Bigger, Better, Faster.” Today’s late morning session on the last day of Pubcon “Links with Maximum Juice and Minimum Risk” covered legit linkbuilding tactics with a panel that is well-known to the conference crowd: Greg Boser of Foundation Digital (moderator) Loren Baker, founder of Search Engine Journal Kenny […] Author information Jenise Uehara Henrikson CEO at Alpha Brand Media Jenise is CEO of Alpha Brand Media, publisher of Search Engine Journal. ABM is a digital media publishing company that leverages its expertise in social media and SEO to promote its own network of blogs and websites