Solving problems for free can result in links, branding opportunities, foster positive relationships, boost your authority, and even help establish your company as a thought leader. Here are a few ways to find a problem worth solving in your niche.

In spite of what many think, Google is not broken. But wait, naysayers will say, Look at this search result, it stinks! This spammer is succeeding in ranking high, they emerged from nowhere and are now in the top three results! It’s true — there are many such examples that you can point… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

A new report released by my company, Shareaholic, a content discovery and sharing platform used by 200,000+ websites around the globe, revealed Facebook and Pinterest collectively referred one-fifth of all visitors to sites across the web last month. The study was intended to observe how much traffic the eight largest social media platforms referred to Shareaholic’s growing network of sites and […] Author information Danny Wong Marketing Manager at Shareaholic Danny Wong is the co-founder of @BlankLabel, does marketing @Shareaholic, and writes whenever he feels like it. Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn The post Study Reports 20% of Overall Traffic Comes From Facebook and Pinterest by @dannywong1190 appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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Advertisers must seize the opportunity to capture and engage potential consumers across mobile devices. With 2014 shaping up to be a banner year for mobile, here’s how to equip your paid search and social campaigns to ride the mobile wave.

I’m excited to officially announce Kelsey Jones as the new Managing Editor of Search Engine Journal.

1.3 Billion. As of January 2014, that’s about how many active monthly users there are of Facebook. Imagine the content that gets created amongst all those connections – updates, photos, videos, blogging and plenty of cats.

Posted by mariahayhow Three months ago, in a group interview for a position at Distilled, Rob Ousbey asked, “If I were to do a Google search on ” coffee ” in Seattle at noon on a Saturday, what would it look like?” Still not sure I gave the best answer, but the rest of the interview must have gone well. Another coffee quote that has been brewing in my mind (I’ll stop now) has to do with service design

If you’re a small business owner, you don’t have time to waste trying to wade through Google’s constantly shifting guidance on SEO tactics. Statistics and analytics will clearly suggest starting with PPC advertising, because it works.

Image Source: Jason A. Howie/Flickr Attempting to juggle each and every one of your social media accounts can be tricky, scary, and time-consuming. For example, while you’re busy updating your Facebook status, you might have forgotten to favorite a tweet