Many people with image-rich sites were puzzled when their traffic dropped in late-January due to a change in the way Google Images works. This segment filters out greater than 80 percent of the traffic to your site and allows you to review long...
Here's the thing: if you're practicing over-optimization, it's time to change. There was a time when you could just pump out words on a page, any words, as long as they were not duplicate words (40 percent or better) and as long as they keywords...
In the original survey, 57.4 percent of the 1,000 respondents chose Bing over Google. With more social changes expected in the near future, time will tell if the Bing challenge will change to reflect the overall search experience.
Google Now Could Help Change 'Number of Links' Mentality When you consider that 60 percent of consumers already consult their smartphone on their way to a brick and mortar store (according to Deloitte Digital), it's undeniable local SEO will play...
Weintraub and Litwinka’s spin on Facebook content calls for 50/30/20 rule.percent news: Include a custom blend of third party, non-competitive content from sites such as AllTop.com and Buzzfeed.com industry percent personality: Highlight a sparkle...
Less than 1 percent of people click on the eighth link on the page, according to Bing's research on click-through rates. With the new change, you'll likely see as few as four results. More than 50 percent of users click on Bing's first result...
Eighty-four percent of 700 business leaders, entrepreneurs, and marketing professionals believe there is a correlation between an influencer’s reach and their ability to drive action, according to the study.
Last week Google reported a rise in revenue of 31 percent to almost $14 billion. I think the most important thing to say about our taxes is that we fully comply with the law and obviously, should the law change, we'll comply with that as well,” he...
In addition, remember to remove (or change) the default “Uncategorized” category. If you want to change this to a static page: To change these settings, simply navigate to Settings -> Media and change the settings to how you like to see your site...
Looking at Facebook usage specifically, it's staggeringly huge (20 percent of all pageviews are on Facebook): percent of users' time spent on News Feed million photos uploaded daily billion Likes every day million pages with 10+ Likes million...
The question is if Facebook will be able to change this. I expect this to change soon (more below). Facebook director of SMB Dan Levy announced at the Local Search Association show that 70 percent of Facebook users are connected to at least one...
A lot of people want to look at their programs, but it's a lot of work to change. By 2016, affiliate marketing will represent slightly less than 16 percent of the total spent on paid search, Forrester said, while total affiliate spending will reach...
This year, we are offering 50 percent off all BOTW offerings. You can change content as often as you like, at one fixed cost per month. SEW spoke with BOTW president and founder Greg Harnett about his company’s upcoming birthday, how the industry...
Search remained the revenue leader at $16.9 billion, accounting for 46 percent of all Internet advertising revenue, although this figure doesn't even include mobile search ads in the Internet Advertising Bureau's 2012 report.
Facebook relaxed their cover images guidelines as of March 6, 2013, adding the 20 percent text rule but easing up on their restriction on a call to action or contact information on the image. Or, you can set your width to "Fluid," which means...
This is 12 percent greater than the number of viewers in 2012 and the most significant in almost two decades. For the keyword "march madness 2013", there was a drastic change between February and March of this year, with searches increasing from 3...
Why does a new page's ranking change over time? PortentA study of 27 small business accounts shows moving from a quality score of 3 to 9 has no conversion rate benefit, while improving from a quality score of 2 to 10 reduces CPA by 90 percent – and...
The slightest little thing that has never occurred to you, your boss, or anyone else on your team – may be the one small change that is costing your money. After making the four simple changes above, daily online sales have increased by almost 50...
MVT is different than A/B testing, since rather than just doing a bulk change and testing different variations of full pages with A/B testing, you can carve up the page in different sections and you can test in real-time different combinations of...
That means Google's team is now on top of the existing data pile and testing output and as a result they are hungry for a major structural change to the way the filter works once again. In recent months there definitely has been a noticeable change...
