Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Bing Ads is rolling out the new Bid Landscape tool to give advertisers a better sense of what changes they’re likely to see from changing keyword bids. AdWords users will immediately be comfortable using the tool because it so closely resembles the Bid Simulator in that platform — down… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yelp and YP Enter Into “Strategic” Content, Distribution Partership YP and Yelp have announced a strategic partnership that will in the near future… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Ian Lurie, Chairman and Principal of Seattle-based marketing company Portent, revealed today that his company received a manual spam action notice for unnatural links from Google. His site now can be found on Page 60 of Google.

YP and Yelp have announced a strategic partnership that will in the near future provide YP advertisers with an enhanced presence on Yelp and effectively bring Yelp into the YP Local Ad Network. There is probably a revenue sharing deal in the background but the parties declined to discuss terms…. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Here’s a lesson in how not to sell links.

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Twitter today is celebrating its eighth birthday. With 500 million tweets sent per day and 240 million active global users, Twitter is marking the occasion by giving everyone the opportunity to look back at the first tweets for any user.

There is an interesting SEO question that Google’s Matt Cutts did a video answer for. The question was: Many of my items belong to multiple categories on my eCommerce site…

Twitter is reportedly in the alpha stages of experimenting with a new version of its service that would see @-replies become phased out. BuzzFeed reports that Vivian Schiller, head of news at Twitter, first hinted at it this week during the Newspaper Association of America’s mediaXchange conference.