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Some are spotting new author images appearing in Bing’s search results today, similar to the way Google shows author images. Except, they’re not really author images. They’re what I’d call subject images, something that might be coming more formally to Bing. Author Images At Google

Here are two examples of authorship images as they appear on Google:





The first is a picture of Kara Swisher, next to a search that brought up an article that she wrote on the new season of Game Of...

Along with our new writer and editor hires announced today, more news: Elisabeth Osmeloski and Monica Wright are gaining new titles, reflecting their work on growing and working with our Search Engine Land community.

Elisabeth started with Search Engine Land as our managing editor in September 2008, then became its Executive Features Editor in December 2010, overseeing contributed pieces and columns.

In her new role, Elisabeth will be responsible for building the audience coming to Search...

Cap Watkins is switching from RSS to Twitter, and so far he is very happy:

Now that I’ve started using Twitter for feeds, I’m unlikely to ever go back. The ease of sharing, Favoriting, Retweeting, sending to Instapaper, etc. not only match, but at times surpass even Reeder in terms of ease and simplicity. One less app to deal with is a win, not to mention that the links are ordered exactly as I like them (and holy crap, Tweetbot iCloud sync. So good).

Cap goes over the pros and cons...

In A More Flexible Workflow Dennis Kardys describes an all-too-familiar design process problem in agencies:

In theory the design assembly line made us extremely efficient. Design documents were handed off like batons from one team member to the next as projects moved through stages. The reality however, is that projects would often get held up as clients mulled over wireframes or fought for consensus within their organization. […] In a nutshell, there was too much talking and too little...

Friday we broke the story that the BBC received a Google link notification of unnatural links.

This was a big deal - a huge news organization received a Google notification about bad things happening to their web site...

How active is Google Plus? How active do you want it to be? One of the criticisms of the site is that its a ghost town, where nothing ever goes on. I can’t say that’s been my experience, but I can see how people can make those claims.

Would you like to see an activity [...]

The post Google’s Explores a User Activity Media Feed appeared first on SEO by the Sea.

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! Like every year, the search engines have special logos, themes and Doodles for the day. Of course, in the past year, Yahoo has lost

Sometimes the things that Google do just make my head hurt, aka “the unnatural link warnings”. I am pretty sure most SEO agencies out there will have come across at least one of these, I know I have, and most new clients come with one these days....