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Google aggressively crushed the most popular link building vehicles in 2013 while updating their Webmaster Guidelines to include strong warnings against Article, Press Release, Advertorial and even Guest Blogging links. This may have left you wondering...Now What?!

Well, SearchEngineNews.com has answered your call by building this list of link building how-to guides to be sure that you get the most out of your efforts while not tripping any flags with Google.

Google has been releasing video tutorials less than 3min long, on some of the most basic of questions related to search and your Web site. We have decided to feature these quick questions and answers to be sure that ALL of your questions are answered!

In today's question, Matt Cutts (head of Google's Webspam team) gives his advice on rolling out large quantities of new content. The question asks,

"A newspaper company wants to add an archive with 200k pages. Should they add it all at once or in steps?" - John, Zurich

Cutts says either way is acceptable. But if this were for his site, he would roll out the archive in large blocks rather than all at once. Releasing huge blocks of...

Netflix, Hulu and Amazon has proven without a doubt that people want to view their TV programs streaming online with a low monthly fee and NO contract to tie them in. This has put the cable companies up in arms and scrambling to shift programming to online platforms as they continue to lose viewers. Well, watch out cable because here comes trouble...

Rumor has it that YouTube is planning to roll out a paid membership system that will control the access of up to 50 YouTube channels. Memberships are said to start at $1.99/mo. and will include a commercial free option. This is all set to go live as soon a...

Photos tend to drive engagement on social networks—and that's especially true on Pinterest. The virtual pinboard (now at 40 million users and climbing) is being used by an increasing number of brands and businesses to boost their visibility and ...

Google has been releasing video tutorials less than 3min long, on some of the most basic of questions related to search and your Web site. We have decided to feature these quick questions and answers to be sure that ALL of your questions are answered!

In today's question, Matt Cutts (head of Google's Webspam team) addresses the site linking in relation to Google's quality guidelines. The question asks,
"Suppose I have a site that covers fishing overall (A) & I make another fishing site that solely focuses on lure fishing (B). Does linking to A from B violate guidelines? I'll make sure both have high quality content & I disclose that they're both owned by me." -- Kenichi, Tokyo

Cutts explains linking t...

At the Design Day conference in Norway, Microsoft's General Manager of Windows Phone Design, Albert Shum, and Wolff Olin's Executive Creative Director, Todd Simmons presented the process and story behind Microsoft's upcoming rebranding. It is a huge undertaking for a multi-faceted corporation with a billion-plus users to change their look and design. This is the type of move that can make or break a company.

Take a look at the old versus the new:

In Shum and Simmons' presentation, they showed this Bing logo ...

Here is the May 2013 installment of 'What's New in Local Search'. It's been another busy month so I won't waste your time and am just going to dive right in.

• Google announces a new integrated dashboard for managing Places and Plus together in one place. Unfortunately, most of us don't yet have access to it, yet. Read this post on Google+ Local-What's Really Changed to learn more.

• Foursquare announces that it will set its data free to third parties that wish to use it for ad targeting. Foursquare seems to be like the guys who sold picks and shovels ...