Yesterday we reported that tons of Google AdSense publishers began receiving Personally Identifiable Information (PII) breach notifications about their ads and sites.

Posted by jennita Like all good marketers, we think carefully about our title tags before publishing new content. Then we just take that carefully crafted title and plop it into the OG tags for social shares, right

Today, Facebook announced some changes to their default privacy settings for new users, as well as a new privacy checkup tool for current users. Facebook understands that some users don’t mind publishing a post for everyone to see, but some users would rather share their content with a smaller group: We recognize that it is much worse for someone to accidentally share with everyone when they actually meant to share just with friends, compared with the reverse. What Facebook has done to satisfy users concerned about privacy settings is introduce these two new features

LinkedIn released a report today, stating that their research proves there is an opportunity for businesses to leverage the buying power of professionals on the LinkedIn network.

The thunder clap of Google’s Matt Cutts’s Twitter post  could be heard across the web this week with the announcement of the search engine’s latest update, Panda 4.0. Of course the type of Panda I’m talking about isn’t a cute bear from China. It’s the name of an algorithm used by Google to filter out low quality content from search results

MetaFilter is one of the first every community blogs, created in 1999 and helping users with Q&A style answers from before the times of the typical social networks. It is a quality site – no one would argue with that.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

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. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Poll: How Did Google’s Panda 4.0 Impact You…

This week, Google announced that Google Panda 4.0 and a second iteration of its Payday Loan update have both been rolled out. We reached out to some notable SEOs and posed the following: Google updates are always big news in the SEO industry because people worry that their sites (or their clients’ sites) will be affected. With Panda 4.0 affecting ~7.5% of English search queries and the Payday Loan update affecting 0.2% of English searches, what are some more permanent strategies SEOs can begin to implement to not only use these updates to their benefit, but to not be ‘scared’ of future […] The post What The Experts Have to Say: Google Panda 4.0 and Payday Loan 2.0 Updates by @wonderwall7 appeared first on Search Engine Journal .