Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, released a video today answering the question, “are Facebook and Twitter signals part of the ranking algorithm?” The short answer was no. Matt said that Google does not give any special treatment to Facebook or Twitter pages. They are in…

Social analytics company Simply Measured analyzed 200 companies, both big and small, to see what they were up to on Twitter, including looking at average follower size, quarterly growth, and engagement levels. Here are some top findings.

A few months ago we reported that Google was testing a new AdWords design for the advertiser console. Well, Google announced last night that it is rolling out to everyone now..

By default, searches on Yahoo.com are now done through a secure server. That means more protection for searchers but less data for search marketers about how they are receiving traffic. Any visits from Yahoo done via search will appear as if someone came to a site directly

Google’s Matt Cutts, in a personal blog post, declared that “guest blogging is done” as an SEO tactic, setting off a firestorm. Here’s a full recap of why this happened, how the industry reacted, and what it means for future of guest blogging

John Mueller from Google announced on the Google Webmaster Central blog that they’ve updated the crawl error reports specifically to handle better reporting on redirects. In the past, Google reported the error observed at the end under of the first URL (URL A in diagram below)…

Though there have been several studies on the impact of display ads on search queries, researchers from Harvard and Ozyegin University in Turkey sought to bring academic rigor to this discussion.  Their findings are contained in a Harvard Business School paper entitled, “Do Display Ads… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

If your online business does not currently have a mobile web presence, you’re likely being pressured to do so as soon as possible. And rightfully so.

Pinterest announced on their blog yesterday the launch of new features to make it easier, and more efficient, to find recipes based on your individual needs. If you follow a vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, or paleo diet you will now be able to filter recipes based on those dietary considerations. Have some ingredients laying around and […] Author information Matt Southern Matt Southern is a marketing, communications and public relations professional

For those who subscribe to Google Alerts via email, it is hard to not notice the new formatted HTML emails you get for those alerts.