It seems like we were just planning our Thanksgiving and Christmas campaigns and – no time to catch your breath – here comes Valentine’s Day. It’s tough to be a marketer, isn’t it? But as in most online marketing aspects, planning and consistency is the key! What do Valentine’s Day and email marketing have in common?

Normally, the data in Google Webmaster Tools is about two-days delayed. But if you check your data in Google Webmaster Tools data today, you will see the last time Google updated the data was last Saturday…

Google’s serving up 5 different Valentine’s Day doodles today, along with quick answer “love quotes” on its search results page. The post Love Quotes & Tech Themed Valentine’s Day Google Logos Help Searchers Get In The Mood appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

VentureBeat reports that Pinterest has notified their top contributors that they are automatically removing any affiliate links…

Like Google AdWords quality score shows a 1 to 10 score to advertisers, now Facebook is doing that for their ads.

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ webmaster live hangout this morning that having duplicate title tags and meta descriptions would not lead to a search quality issue specifically around the Panda algorithm…

This week, we explore the Google update from last week and if it was targeting e-commerce sites or not. We also gained access to the new alpha search impact…

Helpouts, a less popular version of Google+ Hangouts, will be discontinued as of April 20, 2015. Google+ Helpouts launched in 2013 as a way for people to connect with other experts to learn new things or get advice. The Helpouts community hasn’t grown at the rate Google had anticipated, which is what led to the decision to shut down the service.

Just as reports surface that Pinterest is working on a new way to monetize its network, there is now news from VentureBeat that Pinterest is banning all affiliate links. Pinterest power users are being warned via email that links containing affiliate info, redirects, or pin trackers will be automatically removed

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…