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Google announced it is launching a new service to let publishers set prices for their digital content.

In a recent post on Google’s Webmaster Central YouTube channel, Matt Cutts gave a hint at when sites penalized by Google might expect penalties to be lifted.

A new eMarketer report indicates that seniors (age 65 and older) are increasingly participating in online activities.

At the Mobile World Congress, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop says he expects Nokia to extend its reach in light of this partnership, and mobile marketers may want to optimize their content for Bing accordingly.

Google is allowing Google Chrome users to block sites from search results – and marketers who want their businesses’ pages to appear in results should consider invigorating their content efforts.

Brafton has reported that 81 percent of CMOs expect social investments to return revenues this year, and a new study from The CMO Survey indicates that chief marketing officers are optimistic about more than their social ROIs this year (though they do plan on investing more heavily in the social space).

Blekko announced today that it is partnering with Stack Overflow to improve the quality of tech-related slasthtags and results.

Brafton has reported that Google’s Eric Schmidt declared 2011 the year of mobile, and the new 2010 Mobile Year in Review report from comScore supports his theory and shows that mobile users look for news daily via their devices. Marketers will want to plan mobile campaigns accordingly.

Google’s Map Your Valentine campaign is a fun way to get consumers using Google maps, and it might remind marketers that their store locations are more likely to be shared among internet users if they claim Google Places pages.

Shopkick announced today that it has received more than 100 million check-ins in just six months.