Posted by Dr-Pete Back in mid-December, the newly launched MozCast Feature Graph showed a significant short-term drop in the number of tracked searches displaying authorship mark-up.

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Report: US Search Ad Spend Rises 12 Percent YoY In Q4 2013; Smartphone CPCs Drop IgnitionOne released its fourth quarter Digital Marketing Report today, showing… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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

Google Webmaster Tools will now provide more specific details about the number of impressions and clicks your site gets from search. Also, a new filter will be of particular interest to those webmasters who have a lot of mobile traffic.

IgnitionOne released its fourth quarter Digital Marketing Report today, showing that the paid search market in the US continues to grow. Search ad spend rose 12 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2013. In part as a result of the later kick-off to the holiday shopping season this year,..

Google’s Maile Ohye announced yesterday improvements to how Google reports on search queries for web sites that run their mobile sites on a separate URL. Such as on m.example.com or example.mobil or so forth…

As part of our SEJ interview series, Marc Poirier of Acquisio joins us to discuss the latest developments in retargeting advertising. There have been a lot of new developments in the world of retargeting over the past few months. Advertisers typically start with tried and true platforms like Google Remarketing through Google AdWords, but now […] Author information John Rampton Managing Editor John Rampton is an entrepreneur, full-time computer nerd, and PPC expert

In a video released by Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, Matt said publishers who publish similar or duplicative stories on different URLs may use the rel=canonical tag to help consolidate the PageRank of the stories and avoid any issues with Google. Matt Cutts did say that duplicate… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Twitter Co-Founder, Biz Stone, recently launched his super-secret project Jelly, available worldwide on Android and iOS as of yesterday. Jelly is “kinda like using a conventional search engine,” as it states on the Jelly blog, in the sense that you can ask questions and get answers—”but that’s where the similarities end.” What differentiates Jelly from […] Author information Matt Southern Matt Southern is a marketing, communications and public relations professional.