Pinterest has updated its search features, making it possible to filter for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and paleo ingredients or recipes when performing food-related searches. According to the announcement, Pinterest is rolling out the new search feature on the web now, and has plans to bring it…

Expedia appears to have been hit by a Google penalty related to unnatural links. So what do Google and Expedia have to say about the situation? No comment.

Posted by Cliquekaila This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of Moz, Inc. On the Moz blog there’s always been a large discussion around competitive analysis.

Google’s head of webspam, Matt Cutts, caused an uproar in the SEO community yesterday when he published a blog post on his personal blog claiming guest blogging for SEO purposes is dead.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Will Link Building Soon Be A Thing Of The Past

Yesterday morning Patrick Altoft tweeted to me that SearchMetrics is reporting Expedia lost about 25% of their Google traffic overnight. SearchMetric is indeed reporting this and I confirmed it with Marcus Tober from SearchMetrics via email..

You know how search advertising works: those listed at the top of the results page are clicked most often. You also need clicks from high-quality searchers who are more likely to buy

Google’s Product Listing Ads (PLA) took over the Google Shopping experience in October 2012.

In an announcement made today on the Facebook Newsroom blog, an update to the News Feed algorithm is being rolled out that will result in less text posts being shown from business Pages, and more text posts being shown from friends. Facebook details the reasoning behind this algorithm update saying they ran some tests that […] Author information Matt Southern Matt Southern is a marketing, communications and public relations professional. He provides strategic digital marketing services at an agency called Bureau in Ontario, Canada.

Based on new Unruly Media data, 60 percent of the most shared Super Bowl ads of all time were launched before Super Bowl Sunday.