Starting last week, Bing began changing up their search engine result pages (SERPs). If you clicked a high-ranking link and then clicked back to the search results, they increased the number of results from 10 to 12.
Suppose I have a site that covers fishing overall (A) – Search Engine RoundtableOnly one page penalized due to 12 megabytes of spam from 21,169 comments. Link – Search Engine Roundtable Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For...
A lot has changed in the search engine optimization (SEO) industry during the past year. Forget about search engines for a minute and think about the reason why a piece of content is active (and how users engage with it).
Whilst making site architecture search-engine friendly has always been a core part of SEO, the importance of site architecture now goes way beyond traditional SEO. We’ve decided to reduce the number of speakers in each session to two people, plus a...
Bounce rate is one of those quality metrics that gets tossed around a lot in the search engine space. This is a separate consideration from leverage internal search that has more to do with number 2 on this list; if you are going to offer helpful...
Editor's note: This column originally was published on November 15, 2012, and comes in at No.on our countdown of the 10 most popular Search Engine Watch columns of 2012. However, if people feel like they are going down the right path, it doesn’t...
Google has made it hard for anyone to gain quick results by trying to "game the search engine" or use black hat techniques. The growth of social media and the links between content and social and search engine results has changed.
Use social data to help find out what people are talking about using something like social mention or Bottlenose, a new social search engine that I love. Use Google’s autosuggest to suggest content ideas based on phrases people are searching for.
Before it was just text on a page in an HTML tag, now it is text on a page in an HTML tag with a microformat label that tells the search engine something like: Well, this would be fine if the user search query matched this result, but in many cases...
Search engine users overwhelmingly click on organic results on Google and Bing by a margin of 94 percent to 6 percent. But as age increases, so does the number of people clicking on those ads, as 65 percent of ad clicks come from searchers age 35...
And, “while the perception is that search engine optimization traffic is ‘free’ traffic, that is not the case…you’ve gotta earn it. I've been involved in search engine optimization since March 2003. One thing that hasn’t changed much, unfortunately...
We have no more insight here at Search Engine Watch than the general public as far as why General Motors’ ad campaigns failed. Search Engine Watch columnists Noran El-Shinnaway and Merry Morud are both great resources on Facebook creative.
As for Search Engine Watch: True Reach: How many people you influence Schaefer reminds readers social media popularity in terms of number of friends and followers doesn't equate to influence. There is some correlation between number of +K's earned...
In the context of social media, a relevant example was an article published by Search Engine Watch author Nathan Linnell nearly two years ago that resulted in one of the top five most popular SEW posts of 2010: "6 Key Metrics for a Social Media...
Chomp is a popular app discovery search engine that claims (Digg’s) Kevin Rose as well as Ashton Kutcher among its board of advisors. Many new factors are influencing app store results and Apple's recent acquisition of Chomp, the app discovery...
Among the highlights: percent of residents own a smartphone.percent of smartphone users use a search engine at least one time per week.percent of smartphone users notice ads on a smartphone – 41 percent on search engines; 46 percent in an app; 25...
In parallel, the closure of Yahoo Site Explorer and gradual reduction in the number of free, reliable, relevant search engine tools has led to an increase in the number of new entrants into the SEO technology market.
We could say the same for Yahoo or Bing or any search engine really, it’s just that Google has become such a dominant force that most people, when they think search, they think Google. ”Never let a search engine dictate 100 percent of your linking...
The innovation which Google brought to search engine algorithms was to try to derive content quality signals from the context of a page on the web - namely to count external factors, such as links, as a vote for the content.
Elsewhere, MC Hammer, the former rapper and man behind the forthcoming “deep search engine” WireDoo, spoke an anti-SOPA rally yesterday in San Francisco. UPDATE: Google has updated this number to "more than 7 million" people in the U.S.who have...
