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. SEO Cake For Ranking Number One: Source: Google+ Google Toy Making Party:…

Google released thousands of small updates within their AdWords platform over 2013, but these five are true standouts. If you haven’t explored each of these features, do so and see how they can help you improve your PPC strategy in 2014. 5

With each passing year, search engine algorithms grow increasingly sophisticated in their ability to identify (and penalize) spammy links. Among other things, this year marked the fourth and fifth releases of Google’s spam-filtering Penguin update (Penguin 2.0 and 2.1, respectively)….

For the past six-months, Google has been working on an algorithm to promote authorities on topics. In short, Google is going to try to figure out which authors or individuals are authorities on a specific topic and promote their content across any site…

Today, the third-day in a row, Google has a happy holidays logo, this one is more wintery and snowy, with a winter cabin look. But today is not Christmas, it is the day after Christmas..

As I said, Googlers were spam fighting over Christmas and it is interesting to see Matt Cutts chime in on the forums.

Posted by wrttnwrd There can be important links between topics that seem completely unrelated at first glance. These random affinities are factoring into search results more and more, and in today’s Whiteboard Friday, Ian Lurie of Portent, Inc

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: AdWords Bid Management And Account Structure Mistakes To Avoid On my one-year anniversary of working as an AdWords practitioner instead of a Googler, Brad Geddes… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article