As the analysis continues on yesterday’s Google local search algorithm changes — that we’re calling the Pigeon update — one thing appears to be clear: Local directory sites are getting better visibility in Google’s search results. More specifically, it looks like… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Facebook just released their Second Quarter 2014 Financial Summary, included in the report are a lot of positive statistics for the social media giant. Most notably, compared to last year there is a 19% increase in daily active users, bringing the total count to 829 million users

Last night, Google released a pretty significant local search algorithm update.

Google announced via the Inside AdWords blog that they will be introducing dynamic sitelinks.

Google’s quick answer results have recently added images to some of the answers. Alex Chitu spotted this and I was able to replicate it for many queries

Facebook is the social network to end all social networks. At least, we have a bit of evidence to support that claim. In the 2nd Quarter 2014 edition of the Shareaholic Social Media Traffic Report, we reveal data that demonstrates Facebook’s absolute dominance as the leading driver of social referrals to sites across the web. Year-over-year, its “share of visits,” a percentage of overall traffic — direct traffic, social referrals, organic search, paid search, etc.

This week, the biggest SEO news is that Google pushed out a major local search algorithm change last night that seems to impact most businesses, I share more details on what is new with the local algorithm…

Senators Tom Coburn and Claire McCaskill have introduced new legislation aimed at saving taxpayers $66 million a year. What’s their plan? It’s the “Let me Google that for you” Act, and its goal is to replace the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) agency with a..

Google has removed “the majority” of “right to be forgotten” requests, a number that could exceed the 100,000 mark. It has rejected just over 30 percent of the requests it has received and approved “more than 50 percent” of the requests.

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. The Next Iron Google Chef: Source: Google+ Hillary Clinton Interviewed By… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article