Increasingly all search engine including Google are adopting schema.org markups as the industry standard for passing across semantic details about a web page. Rich snippets provide the user with only the important I think if an app, or a search...
You need to evaluate that risk for yourself, and neither the author, nor Search Engine Watch, can be responsible for how you take this advice or the impact on your business. To do this they show a number of "raters" two results side by side, the...
The Search Engine Watch website is a great example of modern design with creative, yet simple elements, in it's navigation systems – like the NYC subway system Artistic influence needs to be balanced with search engine friendly structure.
YouTube is an amazing partner because they have the content, the resources, the engine, the audience. In you search for "time lapse" on YouTube, you'll see over 500,000 video results, which have millions of views.
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...
The audience of each search engine can impact the searches being done and the ROI of your campaigns, especially for specific industries. The search marketing data from comScore reveals that even though searchers can switch between search engines...
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).
The Black Hat – Search Engine Oblivious The Lumbergh – Search Engine Ohh, Um, Yeah By now the thought of $50,000 just turned into $100,000 with the cost involved in fixing a broken website and Sloppy Engine Optimization.
It’s hardly headline news that Google is by far the most popular search engine for users in the U.S.and most of the world. As we reported earlier this month, Google is the most popular search engine globally.
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. London has proven its ability to put on big events over the last 12 months, and we...
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. Knowing your customer is commandment number one when it comes to testing.
It's December so we have bundled a bunch of Search Engine Watch (SEW) site updates for you as a holiday gift! The new features include an optimized user experience for tablet devices, a services and tools comparison shopping engine and a new forum...
Search engine optimization (SEO) agencies, professionals, and in-house teams have difficult jobs. Search engine optimization is now more about web presence optimization. They must obtain improved organic search results as quickly as possible given...
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. Make it the number one priority for your business for the first 6 months to drill into...
Normally, Search Engine Watch would compare this data with similar data from that same month in 2011. Nearly 37.7 billion video content views occurred during the month, with Google sites generating the highest number at 13.8 billion, followed by...
If you know Tabke, you may know that he coined the SEO term SERP (search engine results page) and is a founding board member of SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization). SEO Business s SFIMA and DFWSEMM meet-ups, Tabke mapped out...
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...
