The shortlist for the 2014 US Search Awards has been announced and winners will be revealed at an awards ceremony at Treasure Island on Wednesday 8 October during Pubcon Las Vegas. Now in their second year, the US Search Awards features 20 categories to reward campaigns, software and the teams and individuals driving the industry forward

There are 400 million people around the world using events on Facebook every month, the company stated in an announcement.

If you’re going to act like it’s 2011, Google will treat you like it’s 2011.

I’ve always loved playing with hashtags. I can proudly say I was an early adopter (I can’t say the same about Facebook but I do love using hashtags on Google Plus). I’ve been using hashtags for monitoring guest blogging opportunities, helping spread brand awareness, especially through Twitter chats, interacting with friends, brainstorming and finding which questions my potential audience is looking to answers, and so forth

Mark Traphagen wrote on Google+ that Google has discontinued the Private Results option in the Search Tools section of the Google search results.

After more than 200 comments on a Google Search Help Forum thread last week, reporting a glitch that caused an older version of Google’s search page to display in certain browsers, a Google employee claimed there was no glitch at all. According to Googler Nealem, the page was working just… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

In August 2014, Google announced that they would give a small ranking boost to HTTPS with the new HTTPS ranking factor. Now that it is a few weeks later, many are wondering how much of an impact does HTTPS URLs actually have on rankings

Over the weekend, Google announced the roll out of Consolidated Billing for AdWords users managing multiple accounts through an MCC (My Client Center). The new billing system combines invoices for several accounts into one.

Google has once again updated its guidelines to cite low-quality guest posts as a form of thin or unoriginal content. How can you make sure your links are safe?

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