New SEO KPIs you’re missing: How to measure SEO beyond clicks
Discover the new SEO KPIs that matter beyond clicks and rankings like AI mentions, user interactions, conversions, and the tools that make it possible.
Topic: Hacker News
Link bait content: Earn backlinks and boost SEO naturally
Create content people can’t resist linking to. Learn what link bait is, why it works, and how to craft assets that attract backlinks and drive traffic.
Breaking Bard: Google’s AI chatbot lacks sources, hallucinates, gives bad SEO advice
Google Bard suggests buying links, predicts the next Core Update and refuses to share links to its sources. We're off to a ridiculous start.
‘Untitled’ search results sending users to spam sites, Google ‘working on it’
There are multiple reports about 'Untitled' title tags appearing in Google's search results that redirect users to spam sites.
When users log into Gmail or YouTube, they’re now also logged into Chrome
The concern raised by some is that users will unknowingly be sending their browsing data to Google.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 20, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Without Fanfare, SEMPO Turns 10 Today marks the 10th birthday of the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization – SEMPO – formed to be a trade advocacy body for the search marketing […]
Google’s Matt Cutts: Once Again, +1s Have No Direct Impact On Rankings
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said once again that Google’s +1 data has no direct impact on their web search ranking algorithm. Moz published a story today named Amazing Correlation Between Google +1s and Higher Search Rankings in which Matt Cutts responded to in Hacker News thread saying, “correlation != causation.” He said […]
Duck Duck Go’s Post-PRISM Growth Actually Proves No One Cares About “Private” Search
Look out, Google! Duck Duck Go is on the rise, posting a 50% traffic increase in just eight days. Is this proof people want a “private” search engine, in the wake of allegations the PRISM program allows the US government to read search data with unfettered access? Nope. Google has little to worry about. People don’t […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 14, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Spurred By PRISM Scandal, StartPage & Ixquick Surpass 3 Million Daily Searches Alternative search engines are having a good week, likely thanks to public awareness and concern over data and privacy […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 23, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google Pulls Related Searches Filter Due To Lack Of Usage Google has quietly removed the “related searches” option from the search tools menu within the Google search results page. When Google […]
Filing A Google Reconsideration Request? For Best Results, Use The Same Language As Your Site
Does Google not support reconsideration requests in Italian or other non-English languages? Yes, it does, and might even give detailed advice. But if you want that, you have to ask in your native language. The situation came up recently in a blog post by Gianluca Fiorelli. It covered how an Italian site owner received a weird response from Google […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 17, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: YouTube Down, But Still Dominates Online Video; Netflix Owns Movie Watching Video watching was down on YouTube during February, but it still holds a seemingly unsurmountable lead in viewers, video views, […]
Blekko Partners With Stack Overflow To Improve Search Results
Blekko and Stack Overflow have announced a partnership that aims to use the latter’s community of programmers to improve programming- and tech-related searches on Blekko. The agreement calls for Stack Overflow’s community of programmers to “help improve and maintain programming-related slashtags,” while Stack’s CTO, Jeff Atwood, will be the editor of those slashtags. Stack Overflow’s […]
A Link Building Blueprint: The Foundation
Over the next several months, I plan to use my column here at Link Week to lay out a link building blueprint you can use as a guide in your linking efforts. We’ll start with foundational tactics and some of the side opportunities they offer, and keep going into the more detailed “advanced” techniques toward the end. If you […]
Upstart DuckDuckGo Challenges Google With Strong Privacy, Cool Tools & Quackpot Name
Here at Search Engine Land we regularly hear from people who have created “radical,” innovative,” “next generation” search technology, promising to “fix” the “broken” search we all allegedly pitifully struggle with today. In virtually every instance that I can remember, these promises over-hype and under-deliver, rarely offering something that becomes part of my regular search […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 24, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Hot At Sphinn: Google Favoritism In Search Results, Eric Schmidt Steps Down & More The idea that Google might be favoring its own properties and content in search results was a […]
Google May Let You Blacklist Domains To Fight Spam
Ready for do-it-yourself spam fighting? Google has discussed giving searchers the ability to remove domains from its search results. That’s according to Matt Cutts, Google’s top spam fighter, who’s been posting frequently in a Hacker News discussion about Google’s search quality/spam blog post from Friday morning. In the discussion, Hacker News user “bradly” asks if […]
Video: Google Translate Beatbox
The web is buzzing about how you can use Google Translate to make a neat beatbox. This came via Reddit and all you need to do is go to Google Translate, set the settings to translate from German and to German. Then copy and paste the following text and hit “listen.” pv zk pv pv […]
6 Daily Habits That Make Up My Link Reading List
I’m frequently asked what resources I read to keep up with the latest trends and information on link building. While it’s an easy question, answering it takes a while since I follow a long list of sites. Here’s a list of resources I find invaluable and try to review every day. I’ve grouped them by […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 3, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.