iPhone users and sales stats
Key iPhone user stats. Includes data on sales, market share and more.
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iPhone vs Android statistics
Compare the latest iPhone vs. Android statistics, including market share, users, sales, app spending, and top-selling smartphones worldwide.
Crawl budget basics: Why Google isn’t indexing your pages—and what to do about it
Learn what crawl budget is, why it matters for SEO, and how to optimize it to ensure Googlebot focuses on your most important pages. Includes tools, tips, and FAQs.
Less than essential: Why smart speakers are like smartwatches, not smartphones
The devices have reached 50% of US homes, but fallen flat as a channel
Enterprise Call Analytics Platforms: A Buyer’s Guide
Introduction The flood of mobile calls to U.S. businesses continues unabated, changing the way enterprise brands view the telephone as an inbound marketing channel. It is also now changing the way brands view the telephone as an inbound marketing channel. As consumers increasingly use their smartphones to research, browse, and connect with businesses, brands are […]
Nearly 60% prefer PC to smartphones for local search survey finds, but there’s a catch
There are material differences between user behaviors of different generations.
Study: 48% of consumers use voice assistants for general web search
Despite concerns about accuracy and privacy, the Adobe survey presents a mostly positive outlook for voice and virtual assistants.
320×480 – Mobile Interstitial
The 320×480 ad unit is a mobile ad with dimensions of 320 pixels wide by 480 pixels tall. This ad size is known as a Mobile Interstitial. It is generally pretty effective but also pretty annoying. This ad size is intended to be a full-screen ad on smartphones. 320x480s can also be used as a […]
Survey: 88 percent seek driving directions after a local voice search
9 out of 10 consumers use a voice assistant on their smartphones; 41 percent say they use it daily.
Survey: 82 percent of smartphone shoppers conduct ‘near me’ searches
Over 90 percent of survey respondents also said they were likely to click on the first set of results.
Google rolling out new white local panel in search results
Forget that blue Google search results interface for the local panel -- here is a new fresh look
SearchCap: Chrome and HTTP will not mix tomorrow, Google hotel search results & more
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Tomorrow, Chrome starts telling users HTTP sites are not secure Jul 23, 2018 by Barry Schwartz Is your site using HTTPS yet? Google is releasing Chrome 68 that will begin marking […]
Google is officially testing ‘more results’ button to load more search results
Instead of making searchers click to the next page of search results, Google is testing showing more results on the same page.
Survey: People becoming less inhibited about using voice search in public
Texting is the most common use case for voice, and men use voice search more than women, according to new data from Stone Temple Consulting.
Google offers advice on how to get ready for the mobile-first index
Check your log files to see if you see an increase in smartphone Googlebot activity, it may be a sign your site is now in the Google mobile first index.
Google bringing the Assistant to tablets and Lollipop Android phones
The move comes against the backdrop of accelerating virtual assistant usage and intensifying competition.
300×50 – Mobile Banner
What is a 300×50? The 300×50 ad unit is an IAB Mobile standard ad unit with the dimensions of 300 pixels wide by 50 pixels tall. This ad size is known as a Mobile Banner or Smartphone Banner. It is the little brother of the 320×50, which is known as a Mobile Leaderboard. A 300×50 ad unit is most commonly […]
FAQ: How to get Google Assistant on your Android phone
Google Assistant is officially available for many Android phones now, but the rollout will take time.
Data: Google monthly search volume dwarfs rivals because of mobile advantage
Google likely has 30+ billion queries per month across platforms.
Survey: 60 percent of voice users want more answers and fewer search results
Making calls, searching, texting and map lookups were the most common use cases for voice.
Google launches a new look for recipes in the mobile search results
Google launched a new way to find new recipes for your New Years feast. The new recipe results are seen on mobile search.
Comparing Google Assistant on Pixel to Apple Siri on iPhone 7
Watch YouTube creator Marques Brownlee have Google and Apple battle it out over their smartphone voice assistants.
Google: Search the primary and most often used mobile shopping tool
Survey says nearly 90 percent of mobile consumers turn to search first.
Report: Nearly 60 percent of searches now from mobile devices
Hitwise examined hundreds of millions of queries across 11 key categories.
Report: US Google search spend was flat, but mobile spend jumped 55 percent in Q2
Compared to a year ago, IgnitionOne customers spent substantially more on mobile, where CPCs continued to be half as expensive as desktop.
Google drove 95 percent of US smartphone paid search clicks in Q1 [Merkle]
Product listing ads continue to drive growth with added exposure on mobile and search partners.
Survey: Under 40 Percent Start A Local Search With A Search Engine
What we widely call “local search” is only partly about search engines. Finding local content and making offline purchase decisions is a multifaceted process that involves several categories of information and devices. That’s according a new survey and report from IDC and YP. The report, called “Local Search Unleashing Opportunities for National Advertisers,” is based […]
Google Tests “What’s Hot” & “What’s Nearby” As Android Search Options
Artem Russakovskii found an interesting Google search options test for Android. In addition to recent searches, Google inserted a “What’s Hot” and “Nearby” option in the pull-down menu. Here’s what it looks like: I asked Google for a comment or more information on this. Google provided the following statement: “We’re always experimenting with the look and feel of […]
Robots.txt File Case Study: How Third-Party Directive Changes Led To Leaking URLs And Lost SEO Traffic
Columnist Glenn Gabe shares his troubleshooting process for identifying issues with robots.txt that led to a long, slow drop in traffic over time.
Study: Non-Mobile-Friendly Sites Disappearing From Top Google Results
Remarkably, there are many brands and companies that still don’t have mobile-friendly sites. According to a new study from Moovweb, there are clear visibility and ranking consequences, in addition to usability consequences. April 21 was the formal date when Google’s Mobile-Friendly Algorithm kicked in. Since then, Moovweb has tracked “1,000 important e-commerce keywords in a […]
IgnitionOne: Q1 US Paid Search Growth Strongest In 3 Years
Yahoo Bing Network gains share for third straight quarter.
Report: Mobile Search Queries 29 Percent Of Total But Growth Modest
Search query percentages don't line up with overall usage trends.
Study: Growing “Mobile Fanatics” Segment Search More, Increasingly Shun PCs
New consumer survey data from Thrive Analytics (for the Local Search Association) reflect the emergence of a large and growing mobile user segment dubbed “mobile fanatics.” Just over 40 percent of the U.S. smartphone population, these mobile users search more and rely more on their mobile devices than conventional smartphone users. The segment is defined […]
Thanksgiving Drove Retailers’ Highest Paid Search Revenue Gains Of The Holiday Season [Report]
Revenue rose 50 percent year-over-year, just beating out Black Friday's revenue gains of 49 percent according to Kenshoo.
Google Sending Mobile Usability Warnings To Huge Number Of Webmasters
Google sending notifications to webmasters with sites that are not mobile friendly. Is this a sign of a new mobile algorithm coming soon?
Smartphones Account For 40 Percent Of US Search Ad Spend In Q4 [Marin]
Desktop's influence, while still dominant, continued to wane in the fourth quarter.
Apple Maps Represents 70% Of UK Mapping Traffic According To UK Cell Data Provider
According to a report released by U.K’s largest mobile network operator, Everything Everywhere (EE), Apple Maps represents a crushing 70% of mapping traffic across it’s whole network. The report reads: Traffic on the new Apple Maps now represents 70% of mapping traffic on the 4G network, from 60% in the second half of 2013, taking […]
Google To SEC: Reporting On Mobile CPCs And Clicks Would Not Be Meaningful, Too Confusing
The average cost-per-click advertisers pay for Google ads has been declining year-over-year since the fourth quarter of 2011. The rise of mobile has long been seen as the driving force behind the declining average cost-per-click (CPC) — a glut of new ad inventory coupled with the fact that many advertisers often discount the value of […]
Google Says New Parents Perform Twice As Many Searches As Non-Parents
According to a recent survey conducted by Google’s Think Insights, new and expecting parents perform 2.7 times the number of online searches as non-parents, with 56 percent of maternity-related searches completed on a mobile device. Google claims baby- and parent-related mobile searches are on an upward swing. During the first quarter of this year, mobile […]
Mobile To Drive 50 Percent Of Google Paid Search Clicks By End Of 2015 [Study]
Mobile paid search saw rapid growth last year, owing to both the rise in smartphone and tablet use as well as to the introduction of enhanced campaigns, which largely bakes mobile targeting into advertisers’ campaigns. In 2013, 19 percent of Google’s ad revenue came from mobile search ads, and it’s expected to rise to 30 […]