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About two months ago, I was at a major tech conference where search got mentioned as “boring.” Sigh. Search — which makes up half of all online ad spend in the United States — is far from boring. And search marketers, now’s your chance to prove it.

This is the last week to enter the Search Engine Land Awards, where we will recognize the best in search marketing over the past year.

Search marketing is the marketing activity that, more than any other, delivers that oft-sought “right...

I've been noticing some webmasters complaining Google has dropped many of their images out of the index. I have two recent threads, but there are many more I can reference...

A couple of years ago, Google acquired the startup Behavio. One of the selling points behind Behavio was how it used behavior data from Phones to better understand human behavior. It’s likely that Google acquired the company Zipdash back in 2004...

Google Panda 4.2 started rolling out this past weekend, on July 18th, Saturday. Google told us it would be a very slow roll out and even on a single domain...

As I announced last night at Search Engine Land, Google has released Panda 4.2 after being without a Google Panda refresh for about 10 months.

The most interesting thing about this Panda refresh was that virtually no one noticed. Really, no one...

A new survey is out that shows that those employed in search marketing are much more likely to say their work makes the world a worse place than those in other occupations. Ouch. But the percentage saying this is small, and there are several issues about how reliable the survey is.

The data is from PayScale, a company that crowdsources compensation information. The company looked at survey data it has gathered over a two year period, from June 2013 to June 2015, from 2.7 million...

John Mueller at Google must have a pet peeve against the misinformation domain name registrars push out about TLDs and SEO. He has time and time again said they play no role in ranking at Google...

Sometimes, I run across a patent that provides details on things that Google might do, but only hints at whether or not it might actually be implemented. A few years back in 2007, I wrote about a Google patent for Agent Rank, which described...

Last week I reported that Google said there was no Panda refresh last week. This was based on several emails I received from webmasters asking if there was a Panda update.

The forums were pretty quiet but my inbox was not. Either way...

I was all excited, I saw widespread reports of a Bing Search algorithm update at WebmasterWorld and then I dug deeper and it seems it was more related to how Google Analytics reports organic traffic from Bing...