Another month and another new release of comScore search engine rankings for the U.S.for May 2013. Google and Bing are both up, while the other top search engines comScore tracks (Yahoo, Ask, AOL) were flat or saw declines.
A new Google Webmaster help video with Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts brings up a topic that most webmasters don’t think about – whether stock photography versus original photography has any impact on search engine rankings.
A distant second to Google in the rankings was Facebook. Google will take home more than half of all mobile advertising dollars this year as the company is poised to see record revenues for 2013. Research firm eMarketer said that Google is on pace...
Separately, Google is warning that if you have a bad mobile website, your search rankings will soon be hurting. In addition, just as site speed has played a part in Google’s web search ranking algorithm since 2010, you can expect site speed to have...
It's also useful in the context of Google updates to see how your average rankings and conversions have been affected. Google provides a number of tools for your SEO arsenal. The most obvious is Google Analytics, which offers an in-depth analytics...
Advertisers that focus their PPC efforts can gain in the rankings relative to other competitors, as was demonstrated in 2012 by new, smaller and lesser-known brands as well as by many larger household name brands.
Marketing efforts that drive traffic and sales from the actual effort, rather than being done for the secondary benefit of search rankings. Google+ allowed the digital signature for Agent Rank to exist.
For the social properties, increased volumes of activity will increase your rankings. Let's look at how you can monopolize all brand real estate on the first page of Google. This works similarly to authorship but is tied to Google+ pages as opposed...
For years, Google stood by the stance that there was little competitors could do to a website to negatively affect its search engine rankings. This is a clear admission that yes, negative SEO does exist and it can result in third parties being able...
We are going to manage our publishing strategy based on rankings reports Your site likely is sending Google signals that it is infected with poor quality SEO or commercialization practices. Google's Algo Update Process
While in that case, they were marked as advertorial content, the links to Interflora with keyword rich links to give them the maximum benefit of those links for search engine rankings. Search engine wise you should make sure that if links are paid...
Last year after Google Penguin 1.0 launched, Glenn Gabe at G-Squared Interactive did an analysis of sites that lost traffic and rankings, and I covered in "Google Penguin Update: 5 Types of Link Issues Harming Some Affected Websites".
What can be done to further optimize these pages to improve rankings? Most of us know that SEO is not just about ranking first in Google for the preferred set of keywords, but the people you have to report to might not be on the same page.
What's more, Google is gathering social data and this data impacts rankings. To what extent those social signals influence rankings is debatable, but Google clearly places some degree of value on social, and so should you.
In the U.S.rankings, YouTube is followed by Facebook with 627 million unique visitors in April 2013, VEVO with 52.9 million, NDN with 45.3 million, and Yahoo sites with 45.1 million. Google, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube, ranked as...
Rankings matter. Now with the arrival of Penguin 2.0, you might be just setting yourself up for a fall – right out of the rankings. And yes despite all our talk of rankings not mattering, they do, because if you go from somewhere on Page 1 (with...
Google's search market share dropped slightly once again, with Microsoft and Yahoo slightly edging up, according to comScore's April 2013 search engine rankings. Google dropped 0.6 percent in April, dropping from March's 67.1 percent to 66.5 percent.
Putting careful thought and hard work into each link ensures happy blog owners, happy audiences, high quality links, and long-term rankings. We can't rely on spam and automation to boost traffic and search rankings anymore.
Foundem sued Google in October because Foundem's Google search rankings are lower than they used to be. UK price comparison firm Foundem has rejected Google's proposed web search concessions. The concessions come following the European Commission's...
Now let's consider Google's take on whether a link was manufactured to increase rankings. Monitoring (Google Webmaster Tools, reporting, etc. I was reading some articles lately about unnatural links messages and various tools and remedies to deal...
