Less than a month after announcing a significant update to its algorithm targeting spammy queries such as payday loans, Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts announced yesterday at SMX Advanced that another update will launch this week.

I’ve received several reports from webmasters that the Google Structured Data report in Google Webmaster Tools is all of a sudden showing a huge drop in the items being reported. Some are saying they’ve gone from 3..

Rejoice, the Bing Ads team has finally rolled out one of its most-requested features — auto-tagging for ad destination URLs. When UTM tags are added to destination URLs on ads, the performance metrics can flow into Google Analytics

I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to SEJ’s conference on Friday, June 13, 2014, as it will feature many notable speakers and industry experts.

As I reported last night out of the SMX Advanced keynote with Matt Cutts – the third version of the Google Spam Algorithm, also known as the PayDay Loan algorithm…

Last month, MetaFilter, a news and discussion site from back in the old days, told us they got hit by a Google penalty years ago that had a major impact on their business. We posted our theories and details on this penalty in our post named On MetaFilter Being Penalized By Google: An Explainer…

With all the great tools already out there, why do you need another? The goal of using SpyFu’s Backlink Builder tool isn’t to “get a win on every page.” It’s to short-list sites that are worth looking at.

On Google’s home pages today, you will see a special Doodle, aka…

Today’s Google logo  kicks-off the 2014 FIFA World Cup tournament. The animated logo on Google’s homepage begins with an the word “Google” in an alternative font to the logo’s usual typography and a soccer ball (or football, if you’re from outside the US)… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

The importance of content in all of its forms can’t be overstated and neither can the struggle that marketers have producing it. Here are three commonly overlooked content sources and tactical ways to squeeze more content out of them.