Marketing Nerds’ guest today is Stephan Spencer, who will be covering productivity and delegating at SEJ Summit Santa Monica on Feb 24th.

28% of Time Spent Online is Social Networking – How much time do you spend each day on social networks?According to new data, the average user logs 1.72 hours per day on social platforms, which represents about 28% of all online activity.  globalwebindex Facebook: 24.63% of Social Referrals in December (Pinterest: 5.06%, Twitter: 0.82%) –  Facebook’s share of social referral traffic rose more than two percentage points in the fourth quarter of last year, and the platform now accounts for almost one in four of every social website visit, reports Shareaholic. SocialtTimes Social Media Is The Least Popular Channel For Customer Service [Survey] –  While customer service complaints on social media may be the most public, they aren’t the most popular (by a wide margin) according to a new study.

As we covered, Google promised to test a new alpha version of the search queries report and that has now been released to the first set of alpha/beta testers this morning.

Google announced on Google+ that they’ve released an update to their new version of AdWords Editor v 11, this new update is version 11.0.3…

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…

According to a report released today by Recode, sources say Pinterest is working on its own “Buy” button that could launch in as little as three to six months. The button, which is said to start out as a limited test, would give users the ability to buy products discovered on Pinterest without ever leaving the network.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Google Search Impact Report, Expedia Buys Orbitz & AdWords Topics appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Have you ever put any thought into who you’d trust with managing your Facebook profile when you pass away? I can’t blame you if that has never crossed your mind before, but now Facebook is asking you to think about it with the introduction of the Legacy Contact feature.

Google’s Sitelinks Search box launched in September of last year and webmasters are still scratching their heads asking how can my site show the search box in the Google search results…