Topic: Search analytics

Top Search Marketing Columns & Contributed Features Of 2012

As an industry news publication, the majority of our visitor traffic comes to our site to read daily news updates, in-depth coverage of search engine technologies and ever-evolving search engine algorithms. On top of the hardest working full- and part-time editorial staff in search, we have over 100 guest columnists who dedicate a significant amount […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 31, 2012

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search Engine Land’s Most Read Stories Of 2012: Google Places Goes Google+, Panda, Penguin & More What were our most popular stories on Search Engine Land over the past year? Below, […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 5, 2012

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Why So Many Companies Fail At Enterprise SEO A well-defined brand no longer guarantees search placement. It is only through enterprise-level cultural changes, informed by a close monitoring of search evolution, […]

Google Panda 2.5: Losers Include Today Show, The Next Web; Winners Include YouTube, Fox News

Searchmetrics has a pretty good track record of figuring out who lost after one of Google’s Panda Updates. Among the latest victims of this week’s Panda Update 2.5, some unexpected surprises: popular tech blog The Next Web, blog aggregator Technorati, and NBC’s The Today Show. Winners include Google’s own YouTube, along with Fox News and several […]

Oscars Golden Touch: Searches On Yahoo Spiking

With Hollywood’s golden night fast approaching, buzz is building in Yahoo! search for the 83rd annual Academy Awards set to air this Sunday, February 27, 2011. We’ll know soon enough if Yahoo! users are any better at predicting winners than Bing or Google Trends. According to Yahoo!: Searches for “when are the Oscars” are spiking […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 8, 2010

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 Instant Search: The Complete User’s Guide Google Instant promises to change the way people search. Speaking at today’s announcement, Google’s Marissa Mayer called it a “fundamental shift in search.” As […]

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SES Chicago ’09: Day One Live Blogging

The first day of SES Chicago 2009 is now just about complete. Below is some of the live blog coverage of the conference that I found throughout the day. Customer Insights via Search Engine Tools from SES Chicago ’09, Search Engine Roundtable Ghost Blogging, Tweeting, Content Production – Ethical? Does It Matter? from SES Chicago […]

Study: Fortune 500 Doesn’t Get SEO

The Fortune 500 are “woefully unrepresented in natural search,” according to a new report out this week. Conductor, a New York-based search/analytics agency, studied the natural search visibility of Fortune magazine’s 2008 Fortune 500 — a list of America’s biggest companies. “The Fortune 500 as a whole,” the report says, “had extremely limited natural search […]