Here's how the Search Engine Watch Google+ page looks upon arrival: The size of cover photos has increased yet again, taking up the full half of the screen above the fold. If you've visited your Google+ account in the past day, you may have noticed...
This segment allows you to see search traffic coming from the Google Images search engine separately from regular organic search so you can investigate image-specific search trends. This handy segment filters for a variety of mobile devices by...
Nearly every business today must decide how much to spend on search engine optimization (SEO). Within this range, the amount that a client pays depends on the size of their business and the extent of services provided by the agency.
On January 15, 2013, Facebook released Graph Search, which is the social network's first attempt at a serious search engine. Nobody knows how popular Graph Search will become, but it's hard to ignore a social network the size of Facebook.
The big key to this is to find sites where the editorial policy is highly respected and the search engine trust for the site is likely to be very high. This may not seem like a search engine measurable metric, but you can measure it, and you should.
From their insights, TheFind stopped spending almost anything on paid media and shifted more towards demand creation through search engine optimization (SEO) and email marketing. With this option, your website will auto-size depending on what...
Hackers Are Smarter: SEOs, Be Prepared – Search Engine Roundtable Squidoo Now NoFollows Their Outbound Links – Search Engine Roundtable New integration lets Yahoo Mail users send files from and save to Dropbox, with no attachment size limits.
You can’t truly have a successful search engine optimization (SEO) program without evaluating your performance over time and knowing how potential technical issues can affect your website from a crawling, indexing and user experience perspective.
Search Engine Watch (SEW) asked the organizers of these Meetup groups five questions about hot industry topics and here are the answers that Gregory Cox (GC), David Burgess (DB), Caroline Lyons (CL), David Torchiano (DT), and Derk Doijer (DD...
To really make something like this concrete, Justin Freid, director of search engine marketing at CMI Media, said he would like to see it done in a more competitive industry – ideally with a company that isn't already number one in the market.
Search Engine Watch (SEW) asked Joel Lunenfeld (JL) four questions about his upcoming keynote. Mike Grehan, publisher of Search Engine Watch and ClickZ and producer of the SES international conference series, spoke about both keynote speakers...
Due to the nature of search, there is more speculation than definitive direction on how search engine algorithms are weighing social signals in search. The first of 25 million organic results you see the Search Engine Watch the post I wrote in...
What’s more, as people engage with and share this content with others, it sends strong signals to the search engines that improve its position in search engine results, which increases the content’s reach significantly.
For many years, Matt Cutts of Google has been providing a lot of helpful information on search engine optimization (SEO). Explain how the engine spins the propeller, which pulls the plane forward, moving the air over the wings.
LinkedIn search engine visibility is now crucial for a user's profile, so the profile must be developed in such a way to support an individual’s business and brand-driving keywords. With this type of growth, job-seekers will need to super-size...
Search industry body, SEMPO, have launched their annual salary survey in conjunction with Search Engine Watch's (SEW) sister site ClickZ. It also will capture responsibilities, the number of accounts and number of people managed, and search...
There are close to zero scenarios where I can see a link drop in a forum or blog comment as having any signal value to a search engine. So from a search rank perspective, how does a search engine account for the fact that a brand might be...
No more passwords is the main selling point of the NSTIC program to the User (Me), so it takes a lot of reading and dissecting of documents to understand what is not being stated and what words like “privacy” and “anonymity” mean in the identity...
Editor's note: This column originally was published on April 13, 2012, and comes in at No.on our countdown of the 10 most popular Search Engine Watch columns of 2012. Despite the cultural affinity for social media, Facebook adoption had...
Supporting multiple languages on websites is nothing new, but with browser and search engine technology starting to rely on structured data, it has never been more important to make sure you are using the correct markup.
