As of its 4th birthday in September, DuckDuckGo was seeing between 1.3 million and 1.5 million direct queries per day, on average. Ever since the news hit about the NSA PRISM surveillance program in the United States, many people have become much...
When looking at the 20 billion search queries conducted in May specifically, Google remained static with 13.4 billion, while again Microsoft gained 1 percent to 3.5 billion searches, while Yahoo lost 1 percent to 2.4 billion.
Users are straying from Google to perform more relevant queries on more relevant websites Google Maps (and its Yelp-like counterpart, Google+ Local) have undergone significant changes since they were first launched in 2005 and 2010, respectively.
Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts has announced that a new ranking update, one that targets spammy queries is now live. New Ranking Update for Some Spammy Queries The ranking update for spammy queries, which will impact 0.3 percent to 0.5...
Some PPC managers will do this as exact search queries they find, or as themes of terms they find or both. What's in a keyword? Keywords connect a searcher's search terms to relevant ads created in AdWords.
The Search Queries section is broken down into five main indicators: While you're in the Search Queries section, activate the "With Change" button. Can the content be made more relevant to the queries driving the most impressions for that page, or...
Google found that at times of major movie releases, searches tended to contain more queries with brand or movie titles in them, such as "Avengers". In seven days before the opening, if a film has more search queries and more paid clicks than a...
Paid search queries and the resulting first SERP ad impressions are demonstrable evidence of both consumer awareness and loyalty because SEMs must achieve click-throughs to continue to be rewarded by AdWords with first SERP placement.
Dominate the entire first page of Google for brand related search queries. Your online reputation can impact virtually every aspect of your digital marketing program from the conversion rate on your pages to your click-through rate in paid search.
Search queries will be guided towards topic experts, not aggregated and faceless sites. Google's Penguin update grabbed the majority of online marketing headlines over the past two weeks with Matt Cutts, hyperbole, and fear motivating many SEO...
In real time, search queries will begin to influence search results within seconds. However, to go beyond queries autosuggesting keywords, Yandex stated: Yandex has now rolled out their second-generation personalized search program.
When it makes sense to use this bid algorithm: Usually one of the less used options, taking hold of the top spot can be useful for branded search queries and fighting off any pesky competitors bidding on your brand name.
Google also announced another feature that allows users to visualize Hot Searches, which basically covers typed queries in a colorful wrapper. First, Hot Searches highlights queries that jumped significantly in traffic, whereas Top Charts...
In a new blog post, Cutts stated that the rollout is now complete and affects 2.3 percent of English-U.S.queries, and that it affects non-English queries as well. About 2.3% of English-US queries are affected to the degree that a regular user might...
In addition to CTRs being higher for search results with vs.without authorship markup, many have theorized that Google will start using an author's influence in determining how to rank content created by them for relevant queries.
If you’re not familiar with BloomReach’s other offerings, it includes technology that dynamically generates product pages, for example, from the site’s pre-existing inventory in order to answer specific queries.
He said that they are targeting specific areas (another example he included was porn queries) that have traditionally been more spammy. The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts talking about what webmasters can...
So far, most of the questions asked have been supplied by Bing queries, according to reports. A new question-and-answer feature from social networking site Klout will soon become a more prominent feature in Bing's search results.
The more star ratings you get, the more signals you can send to Facebook that your business should rank highly for targeted queries in Graph Search. This happens when you enter traditional search queries (that don't fit into the Graph Search...
You've probably heard of QDF or "Query Deserves Freshness" as a signal Google looks at for certain queries. A couple of years ago, Scott Stratten of "Unmarketing" book fame (a great read) was asked his best SEO tip.
