A recent court ruling indicates Yelp would be in the clear if it tampered with the ratings of businesses that declined paid advertising and that is bad news for small businesses.

Do links from m.biz have a negative SEO impact on your site? Do you need to disavow them to be safe?

It’s still 2014, but a lot has changed since the beginning of the year. Retargeting is one of those marketing tactics that has gone through the ringer as Google, searchers, and the search space in general continue to evolve.

Google announced on the Webmaster blog that they’ve updated the Google Webmaster Tools API to bring it up to par with other Google APIs. Google has revamped how you authenticate for apps or web-services and it also gives you access to some of the main features of Webmaster Tools

Google quietly announced on Google+ that the Google AdWords Editor has been upgraded from version 10.5 to version 10.6. Currently, the release notes do not have any documentation on version 10.6..

Just a few months ago, Google revamped Google Webmaster Academy as a resource for new webmasters to get acquainted with Google. Now, Google is bringing that content to 22 other languages. Google announced this on Google+ saying: Today…

Posted by SimonPenson Social search has long been heralded as the “next big thing.” The opportunity to create the search engine for people is too enticing; the prize being held above all others in the race to build the next Google. Facebook is widely recognised as the only company other than the search giant itself capable of creating such a product, and it’s one of the key reasons behind its enormous

Google is pretty clear about not wanting to have search results listed in their search results, they have been since at least 2007. So why is Google indexing and ranking their own search results…

News publishers often want to be listed in Google. News publishers also often want to have paywalls or registration barriers. The good news is Google has rules that allow for this.