When you next log into Pinterest, you could see promoted pins in your pin stream. Pinterest announced that it has officially begun including promoted pins, which appear almost identical to regular pins that users have pinned on their boards.

In an interview conducted at SES 2013 in San Francisco, Jon Morris of Rise Interactive leads a discussion that details the importance of influencer marketing. As the CEO of Rise Interactive, Jon Morris excels at developing custom Internet marketing media strategies that encompass a unique combination of the six Internet marketing channels (paid search, SEO, affiliate marketing, e-mail marketing, […] Author information John Rampton Managing Editor John Rampton is an entrepreneur, full-time computer nerd, PPC guru at Maple North and founder at PPC.org . Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn The post Interview With Jon Morris From Rise Interactive: How To Use Influencer Marketing To Your Advantage by @johnrampton appeared first on Search Engine Journal

It doesn’t hurt to maximize your presence one as many social media platforms as possible to expand your brand name.

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. Google Monorail: Source: Google+ AndroidLand Grand Opening In India:..

This week, Google announced two new features for Google Shopping Product Listing Ads.

SEO has changed forever.

Searchmetrics has released their SEO ranking factors for Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, today. Similar to their Google ranking factors, Searchmetrics analyzed 10,000 popular keywords and 300,000 websites appearing in the top 30 search results and looked at how various factors correlated… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Panda squashed bad content. Penguin froze low-quality links. And now, did Hummingbird eat link building?

In this interview I catch up with Syed Balkhi from WP-Beginnger. He’s been building web sites since he was 12 years old. Here are some f the highlights from our chat:

This month, I’m going to discuss content marketing strategy as it relates to search engine optimization. A lot of businesses get this wrong by focusing too tightly on the sales parts of the marketing funnel. With PPC, Money Buys Placement Before I get into SEO, let’s examine PPC as a…