The Search Engine Journal team received an email from a member of the Google DoubleClick team last afternoon that announced that changes to the Ad Serving algorithm for DoubleClick For Publishers (DFP) .

Apple had a productive day on October 22, 2013. And, that’s putting it lightly

Yesterday, Search Engine Land broke the news that Google is running a test to show banner ads on branded search results. While the search giant has introduced images to its ad formats, including product listing ads and image extensions, the introduction of banner ads is a noticeable change for the… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

A WebmasterWorld thread has an interesting discussion around how a webmaster said his manual penalty was revoked on his WWW but remains on his non WWW. The non WWW is 301 redirected to the WWW and the WWW is set as the preferred domain in Webmaster Tools..

Google’s head of webspam gave a presentation packed with information for webmasters for his second day keynote at Pubcon Las Vegas 2013. Cutts talked Google’s spam strategy, PageRank, rich snippets, authorship, negative SEO and more.

As someone who is constantly surfing the web, either for work or just because I’m an addict, I’ve become a big fan of infographics.

Matt Cutts confirms at Pubcon what some have thought for months: Google has no plans to fix the broken pipeline that stopped the flow of PageRank data to webmasters. There will not be another PageRank update visible to the public in 2013.

Social media marketing is evolving at an incredibly rapid pace.

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@SynrgyHQ posted an image of a search result that I felt was a joke, it couldn’t be real. I immediately emailed Google and they confirmed within ten minutes that this as a small test they are running in the United States…