Is your site not doing a good job for mobile visitors? Better get that fixed. Sites with mobile experience issues won’t rank as highly in Google’s mobile or smartphone search results, in the future.

Today, Google has announced the official beta for Image Extensions in AdWords. The image extension has been spotted here and there in the wild over the past couple of months. It allows AdWords advertisers to display relevant images with text ads.

Twitter continues to develop its advertising service with a potential stab at retargeting, according to AdAge.

Following the launch of a Time Warner Cable app for Roku in March, the cable telecommunications company is looking to launch its application on other platforms, including Apple TV, according to FierceCable.

Yahoo has officially announced that the redesign they’ve been testing for the past couple of weeks is now live.

A few weeks ago, we reported that Googlebusted another link seller network. We didn’t know which link seller network it was – until now. Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, tweeted last week that the link network they went after was “TLA linkselling sites.”

Twitter continues to develop its advertising service with a potential stab at retargeting, according to AdAge.

Following the launch of a Time Warner Cable app for Roku in March, the cable telecommunications company is looking to launch its application on other platforms, including Apple TV, according to FierceCable.

YouTube has been serving its clips of animals, planking, people falling over and monkeys in sheepskin coats for eight years

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s rumors, Yahoo and Tumblr have jointly announced a “definitive agreement” for the former to acquire the latter for $1.1 billion.

Google will retire its payment processing service, Google Checkout, on November 20, 2013, as part of a transition to its multi-platform payment system – Google Wallet.

A new invasion of circuitry-eating “crazy ants” is beginning to wreak havoc in the Southeastern US.

If the Marketplace Fairness Act passes through Congress, more online retailers would have to collect sales tax at the point of purchase. Would you buy less stuff online if that becomes the case? If yes, you’re not alone – about 44% of people said they would cut back on their Internet shopping if the so-called Internet Sales Tax becomes reality, according to a study.

Yesterday, we covered and summarized the ten future Google SEO changes coming to Google’s search results by the end of this summer.

Google seems to be doing a limited beta test of a new style of displaying local search results, such as restaurants, in a unique carousel style that allows a user to scroll sideways through the results. This interesting format is clearly targeting mobile and tablet users who can easily go between results by swiping.

As you likely already know, the goal of content marketing is to build up familiarity and trust with your prospective customers. In this case, the content isn’t designed to sell a specific product or service, but rather to sell you, and to interested potential customers.

Facebook has made its way to Google Glass. Sharing to Facebook, that is, in the form of a third-party app appropriately named “Glass to Facebook.”

Alex Chitu reports Google is testing a new Google Maps interface, possibly to be launched next week at Google I/O.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) – the organization that makes the rules governing college sports – has banned the display of hashtags and social media URLs on football fields.

WordPress continues to gain in popularity among top blog publishers. The blogging platform’s market share rose to 52 percent, up from 48 percent last year, according to Royal Pingdom, which uses the Technorati Top 100 blogs list for its annual study.

Strong SEO is a process that is thoroughly thought and planned. Strong SEO is targeted and it is focused. It not rushed or hurried or just managed with a shoot from the hip approach. It isn’t link building or hiring a company to obtain 500 likes for $5. It is methodical. Everyone can have their own method, but the method needs to have purpose and meaning.

If you’re the proud owner of a Facebook business page, your page’s mobile presence is about to get a makeover.

Are you seeing less than 10 results in your Bing search results? There’s a reason for that.

Google has announced that its desktop and mobile search will now include data gathered from Android app activity.

It seems even Twitter is a little shaken up about the recent rash of major media account hacks. The company sent out a letter to publications saying it expects more hacks and provided tips on how to keep Twitter accounts safe.

With so many SEO tools that come and go, what are the tools that have stood the test of time and are still being used today? We asked the Koozai team to tell us which tools they still love with all their hearts and why they love them. We also want to hear all about your favourite tools in the comments.

Last Thursday night, as police in the Boston area engaged in a deadly shootout with two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, much of the social web was sure that Reddit users had successfully identified one of the two fugitives.

In an infographic presented by LinchPinSEO called Tablet Usage Stats, it shows that 43% percent of people who have both a tablet and a computer spend more time on the tablet than on their actual computer. While 28% users actually replace their desktop browsing by browsing using their tablets instead.

The White House today endorsed the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would be a tax hike for purchases made over the Internet. The White House claims the tax would “level playing field for local retailers.”

Great Article from Search Engine Land

WordPress has been attacked by a botnet of “tens of thousands” of individual computers since last week, according to server hosters Cloudflare and Hostgator

Google dropped a few percentage points while Bing and Yahoo each gained a couple … but the bigger statistic from comScore’s monthly U.S. search rankings for March is that desktop search activity reached an all-time high.

Many marketers have email addresses only for 30 percent or less of their customer and prospect lists. They’re tempted to revert to their direct-mail experience and reach for a quick fix like email append (“e-append”) and list rental/purchase.

Search continues to shift away from the desktop toward mobile devices.

That’s one of the conclusions of the just-released Neustar Localeze/15miles/comScore Local Search Study, which is now in its sixth year. This year’s study involves a sample of more than 3,000 U.S. adults that say they use the Internet to search for local businesses. Results aren’t available online yet, but we’ll add a link here when they are.

Smells like April Fools’ Day. You know, immature and cheesy, with a quick, bright finish. At least according to Google Nose, one of the latest additions to Google’s long line of new technologies that never seem to quite make it past April 2.