Posted by randfish Link building is nowhere near dead, and some of the best link opportunities can be discovered by setting up email alerts for various things that are published on the web. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Rand runs through eight specific types of alerts that you can implement today for improved SEO.

Buffer, the makers of the popular social media scheduling tool of the same name, launched a new iOS app called Daily. When I got the email today with the announcement of their new app, the first thing that came to mind was that it’s like ‘social sharing meets Tinder.’ The funny thing is, that’s exactly how they describe it in their blog post announcing the new app: If you’re not familiar with Tinder, here’s how the dating app works in a nutshell: The app shows you a profile, you swipe right for yes and left for no… We’ve found that the card-swiping, one-decision-at-a-time […] The post Buffer Launches ‘Daily’, An iOS App For Discovering And Sharing Content by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Yesterday, at Google I/O, Google announced that their app indexing solution is now available to everyone without requiring approval…

Larry Page offered his thoughts on the European court’s “Right To Be Forgotten” ruling during an interview at Google’s I/O conference this week with New York Times reporter Farhad Manjoo. Page claimed it would have been better if there had been more discussion around the…

Despite your best efforts to define the title tags for your web pages, Bing may take it upon themselves to serve a different title in the search engine results pages (SERPS).

YP is the largest of the major US yellow pages publishers (and local search providers), with roughly 4,000 sales and support reps and 575,000 (mostly small business) advertisers. The company has now joined the ranks of the Google AdWords Premier SMB Partner Program. Also on the list are fellow… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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…

Google has rolled out a couple of enhancements for paid search advertisers with brick-and-mortar locations. A new distance report for ads with location extensions show performance broken out by distance from your businesses, ranging from 0.7 miles to over 40 miles.

The search world was rocked by yesterday’s announcement by Google’s Webmaster trends analyst John Mueller that Google will be removing all author photos and Google+ view counts from search results on both desktop and mobile.

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