30
articles
2012–2014
on Search Engine Watch
SEO
most covered
Author

Nathan Safran

2012

SEO

Winning Friends, Influencing People: 71% of SEOs Report More Company Buy-In

The trends suggest SEO has been increasingly maturing in the organization and the barriers of skepticism that have historically kept…

09 Oct 2012

Development

The Long-Term Greed-ification of the Web

As the web stumbles out of toddlerhood toward adolescence, its users are maturing and requiring that the experience mature with…

11 Sep 2012

Industry

Searchers Don’t Want Social in the SERPs, Prefer Bing’s Layout to Google’s [Study]

In identifying a lack of perspective on the layout choices of Google and Bing, we developed a methodology to extract…

14 Aug 2012

Social

Social Network Visibility in the SERPs for Personal Brand Searches [Study]

Earlier this year we analyzed how social networks appear in the search results for 500 of the world’s top tech…

17 Jul 2012

Industry

Search vs. Social: The 50 Shades of Gray in Online Information Retrieval

Those who posit Facebook with improved search poses a genuine threat to Google’s search dominance are painting a broad picture…

19 Jun 2012

SEO

How the Filter Bubble Impacts Google, Bing Search & What It Means for SEOs

With the continuing evolution of social search, you can never know too much about your audience. SEOs should evaluate whether…

23 May 2012

SEO

How the Web Uses Anchor Text in Internal Linking [Study]

Internal anchor text can significantly impact search visibility. This research includes data from more than 3,000 ecommerce and non-ecommerce domains…

24 Apr 2012

SEO

How the Web Uses Anchor Text in Links [Study]

Examining how a broad selection of websites have implemented anchor text across their websites, looking at more than 100,000 links…

27 Mar 2012

Social

Social Search Result Rankings for Top 500 Tech Writers [Study]

By looking at the search rankings of 500 influential technology writers, this study aims to gain a better sense of…

28 Feb 2012

Social

How Google+ Could Threaten Google’s Core Search Business

Social is an important part of how online users will consume and spread quality content, but it has to be…

26 Jan 2012

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