Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Did Hummingbird Just Kill Your Local SEO?

A big thanks to our Pubcon 2013 SEJ Lounge sponsor, Paygrip: “the most powerful payment processing platform in the world.” In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas, Todd Bryson of Local Site Submit leads a discussion about local SEO. I began the interview by asking Todd what he has specifically been seeing businesses […] 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 .

@Skitzzo shared a photo of a search he did on Google with me on Twitter showing just how vulnerable Google’s Knowledge Graph is.

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A big thanks to our Pubcon 2013 SEJ Lounge sponsor, Paygrip: “the most powerful payment processing platform in the world.” In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas, Chloe Zhang of DragonClout leads a discussion about building an audience for foreign brands in China. Chloe shares some tips for U.S.

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Guest blogging is very conducive to building brand awareness, extending market reach, and boosting your credibility. Regular and quality guest blogging helps boost credibility in four major ways: Stronger online presence Increased authority in industry-related topics Additional leverage in link building & SEO Expanded audience base Guest blogging provides a win-win situation from both parties […] Author information Mark Scott Owner at Doc Marketing Mark Scott is the owner of social media and SEO company DOC Marketing and a freelance writer. He is also a regular contributor on Social Media Today

Having a large amount of indexed pages doesn’t automatically give you a higher ranking, but having more pages provides more potential for someone to link to your site as well as getting overall search traffic on those internal pages.

Google announced on Google+ they are going to be allowing all Google Glass Explorers to swap out their original Google Glass with an improved version, plus invite three friends to join the Explorer program. The new Google Glass, people are coining it Glass 2.0 is improved hardware…

Let’s cut to the chase: no, it didn’t (see Betteridge’s Law of Headlines). But Search Engine Land tells me the Hummingbird stuff really drives the page views these days, so you only have yourself to blame. That said, Google’s Hummingbird algorithm, along with all of the..