We’re throwing our second ever #SEJMeetup! This incarnation will take place in San Jose, CA to coincide with the SMX West conference.

Business owners have reported on the Google Business Help forums that they are getting emails from Google with the subject line: “Action Required: You have 3 weeks to save your Google Places Listing.” The body of the email reads as follows: Hello, Due to changes in Google Maps, we’d like to inform you that unless you […] 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

The XXII Olympic Winter Games officially open on Friday and Bing is getting ready to celebrate in a big way. If you’re one of those who needs all the results and information on the athletes, Bing has all your Olympic information just a click away.

When marketers approach Content Marketing and Social Media as a symbiotic relationship, there’s no limit to the business goals you can achieve. To make that happen, marketers really need to start raising the bar on their approach.

Here is the monthly recap for all Google webmaster related topics for the past month. January was a pretty wild month with a pretty big update happening on January 8th and 9th, which Google did not confirm…

Bad usability kills otherwise pleasant website experiences and makes customers angry. Angry customers don’t buy things.

The SEO industry has been all aflutter over the last few weeks, ever since Matt Cutts stated that guest blogging is dead. In The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO — a headline that is a particularly strong statement from Google’s Head of Webspam — Cutts essentially said… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Some business owners are receiving emails from Google requiring them to reverify their listings within three-weeks or their listings will be removed from Google Maps and Google+ Local. The emails contain the subject, “Action Required: You have 3 weeks to save your Google Places..

There are two new link tools available for those looking to analysis their own links or their competitor links. The new tools come from OpenLinkProfiler.org & WebMeUp.com. OpenLinkProfiler.org is a free tool, while WebMeUp.com is also currently free but they may charge in the future

I’m pleased to announce the latest addition to the Search Engine Journal team: Debbie Miller of Social Hospitality. We hired Debbie as our social media manager to man our growing community of users on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest. I asked Debbie a few questions to give us further insight into her experiences and where […] Author information Kelsey Jones Search & Social Consultant at MoxieDot