Today on the Google.com home page is a Doodle, Google logo, for Ida B. Wells. Ida B.

Yesterday I received an unusual number of emails and messages on social media asking me if Google refreshed the Panda or Penguin algorithm yesterday or the day before. The forums were dead..

Posted by randfish When should you disallow search engines in your robots.txt file, and when should you use meta robots tags in a page header? What about nofollowing links? In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Rand covers these tools and their appropriate use in four situations that SEOs commonly find themselves facing.

As expected, Google has launched the buy it now button in the mobile shopping results.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Search In Bing Maps, Google Patent Search & PPC On Mobile appeared first on Search Engine Land

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…

In this Digital Marketing Depot webcast, join experts Cody Cahill, Joe Oliver, Jon Ball and Nicholas Chimonas from Page One Power as they discuss how you can make the most of your link acquisition and content marketing efforts. You’ll learn how to improve your content ranking by identifying… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Cheaper clicks and mobilegeddon are factors in the increased growth on smartphones, despite CPC’s overall decline. CTR, on the other hand, has grown a lot YoY, particularly on Facebook.

Join the SEJ Marketing Think Tank on August 5th, 2015 at 10 am Pacific and 1 pm Eastern for this free webinar, presented by Rocco Baldassarre, Founder of Zebra Advertising, and moderated by Brent Csutoras, Chief Social Media Strategist of Search Engine Journal. The post Next #SEJThinkTank Webinar: “15 Methods for Optimizing Your Facebook Ads” w/ Rocco Baldassarre by @dantosz appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Yesterday, Google posted a job listing on their careers site for an SEO position.