Connect with prospective clients, partners, even future talent Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

With more than 645 million users in over 200 countries, LinkedIn* has increasingly grown as a platform for both B2B and direct-to-consumer brands looking to creatively and effectively showcase products and services. LinkedIn has released scores of new features over the past several years that have helped it remain the foremost social media platform for professional business users. It’s also increasingly become a destination for all manner and size of brands, and users looking for an experience markedly different from that offered by Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

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…

We need to be focused on what people are looking for and why we’re creating that content.

The creator of Mozcast talks about his work and passion for tracking Google search changes. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

It has begun, Google is showing fewer review stars in its search results. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

The retargeting and prospecting audience solutions are now in open beta.

SEO community calls attention to a quirk in how Google displays FAQ data in the search results. The post Is FAQ Structured Data Dominating Google Search

Google AdSense is now warning some publishers that their earnings are at risk because they have not uploaded an ads.txt file to the site’s root domain. Google says “To prevent severe impact on revenue, download an ads.txt file then upload the file to the root level domain of each site.”