Last night I covered at Search Engine Land based on Google’s Matt Cutts keynote at SMX Advanced that Google has launched a new reconsideration request process to help Googlers give more feedback during the reconsideration request rejection process…

In an announcement made today, Facebook is taking a cue from its users and taking two major steps to make ads better. In the first step, Facebook will be introducing interest-based advertising to users in the US: When we ask people about our ads, one of the top things they tell us is that they want to see ads that are more relevant to their interests. Today, we learn about your interests primarily from the things you do on Facebook, such as Pages you like

Posted by randfish When ranking for incredibly competitive keywords just isn’t a possibility, you can make like a barnacle on a ship, attaching yourself to the big sites that are. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains just what that means and how to go about it. For reference, here’s a still of this week’s whiteboard! Video Transcription Howdy, Moz fans, and welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday.

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, recently announced at SMX Advanced in Seattle that the third iteration of its Payday loan algorithm would be rolling out sometime this week. Then this evening on Twitter, Matt Cutts confirmed that the update is already in the process of being rolled out: @BtotheMcG it's rolling out now! — Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) June 12, 2014 To refresh your memory on what the Payday Loan algorithm is (there are a lot of algorithm updates to keep up with!), it is an update is intended to specifically target ‘very spammy queries’, with no relation to […] The post Google Begins Rollout Of Payday Loan Algorithm 3.0 Today by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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

Google is now rolling out the 3rd version of the PayDay Loan algorithm.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Launching Payday Loan Algorithm 3.0 Targeting Spammy Queries This Week Google’s head of web spam, Matt Cutts, announced at SMX Advanced tonight that… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Join us Tuesday, June 24th at 1:00EDT (10:00PDT) to hear Maria Whatley and Elena MacGurn of Covario and Lenovo’s Donna Bedford discuss the latest trends, international search engine updates and country-specific expectations to be considered in this year’s global marketing campaigns. During the… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Pinterest is rolling out guided search on Pinterest.com, just like it did for its mobile app back in April. Guided search is a way to actively discover content on Pinterest, versus just passively scrolling the home feed

Google is introducing a revamped flight and hotel travel search experience.