SMBs Allocate More Budget to Social Than Other Channels – BIA/Kelsey’s new study shows that small and medium businesses now use social more than any other media platform for business purposes. ClickZ A Quarter of U.S. Teens use Twitter’s Vine [STUDY] – One in four (25 percent) of teenagers in the United States use Vine, Twitter’s short video sharing social network, reveals new data from GlobalWebIndex

Last week we reported that public Google+ photos may be used on Google Views for Maps automatically.

Posted by randfish It’s easy to think that conversion is the end goal for most marketing teams, but any business that relies on customer loyalty needs to take a it a step farther. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains a few of the reasons that people we thought were new customers often decide to leave. For reference, here’s a still of this week’s whiteboard! Video transcription Howdy Moz fans, and welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday.

Google has announced that the latest version of its Panda Update — a filter designed to penalize “thin” or poor content from ranking well — has been released.

Back in June we asked you guys to fill out a poll asking if you’ve tried negative SEO and if it worked. We have over 300 responses to our poll and I wanted to share the results with you…

To those arguing that Google has been steadily dumbing-down AdWords and taking controls away, the company is responding with what it’s calling Tools for the Power User. The first tool to come out of the box are ad customizers, designed to help advertisers optimize ad creatives at scale. Ad..

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: In The EU, Lots Of People Are Asking Google To Forget Content That They Authored Here’s one from the “shaking my head” department: If you… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

This week Twitter took another step towards facilitating consumer purchases through tweets by introducing the #AmazonWishlist hashtag. The new hashtag is integrated with Amazon’s wishlist-making tool, allowing Twitter uses to add items to their list by including that hashtag in a tweet. In order to use the hashtag you must link your Amazon and Twitter accounts together.