As part of our SEJ interview series, John Chow of JohnChow.com joins us to share tips and advice on how to run a successful blog and create repeat customers. John makes a full time living from blogging, but it’s not the blogging itself where earns most of his money it’s from the products featured on […] Author information John Rampton Managing Editor John Rampton is an entrepreneur, full-time computer nerd, and PPC expert

A Google Webmaster Help thread has Google’s John Mueller responding to webmaster concern over off topic links.

Google has officially announced a new feature that was reportedly spotted in the testing stages several weeks ago, which is the addition of restaurant menus to the Google search results pages. The restaurant menus show up in the form of a OneBox answer and are triggered by searches that include the restaurant’s name and the word […] 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

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

Posted by MackenzieFogelson It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that it’s hard work to build great content that: a) people want to read b) people remember and will be motivated to share c) helps you further increase the reach of your brand This becomes especially true when you’re building content for a company that’s not your own. This post isn’t about Lesson #12,753 we’ve so valiantly learned here at Mack Web as we grow our small (but mighty) integrated web marketing team. It’s about you and the exceptional content you need to be building on behalf of the clients you work for.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Matt Cutts Video: How Google Determines What’s A Paid Link Google head of search spam Matt Cutts released a pretty detailed video discussing the Google…

You can now Google [show me the menu for ...] and Google will display their full menu directly in the search results, without you needing to click through to an additional page, whether on the restaurants homepage or on a third-party website.

I cannot tell you the number of SEOs who work at high profile companies who have gotten themselves in trouble by asking or posting information in a public Google forum.

Google has announced desktop voice search for Chrome has been release in beta for United States users. This functionality was publicly discussed nearly a year ago, but wasn’t quite ready for use back in May 2013.

A network engineer intentionally created fake business listings for the FBI and Secret Service without them knowing to prove a point to Google once and for all that its business listings on Google Maps had major loopholes and were primed for spam.