Top 100 most visited websites in the world (June 2026)
Discover the web's top 100 destinations by monthly visits. Use it for digital marketing insights or to satisfy your curiosity.
Topic: World Wide Web
Duplicate content and SEO: The complete guide
What is duplicate content? And why is it bad for SEO? Get all the info right here.
The end of the web? Goodbye HTML, hello AIDI!
Why the web as we know it may fade and what AI, personal agents, and data interfaces mean for publishers, SEO, and commerce.
Tim Berners-Lee warns AI may collapse the ad-funded web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee helped build the modern web. Now he’s worried AI could help destroy its business model.
Too many redirects: How to fix loop errors and protect SEO
Redirect chains and loops slow sites and hurt rankings. Learn what causes “too many redirects,” how to fix errors, and best practices for clean redirects.
How canonical URLs work and why they matter for SEO
Canonical URLs help prevent duplicate content in search. Learn what they are, why they matter, and how to set them up correctly to protect rankings.
Google can’t decide if the web is thriving – or dying
Is the web alive or dead? To Google, it’s Schrödinger’s cat – a paradox that shifts depending on who’s talking and where.
Types of backlinks explained: How to drive SEO, traffic, and authority
Understanding which types of backlinks are most valuable to your domain will help you develop the right content and target audiences.
What is technical SEO? The definitive guide
Learn what technical SEO is, why it matters, and how to optimize your site for speed, crawlability, indexation, and structured data—all in one expert guide.
Google AI Overviews: More searches, less satisfaction
What happens when you let Google do the Googling for you, but Google can't find what Google is Googling for on Google?
How SEO experts improve the web and help search engines
SEO professionals can move beyond optimizing just for search engines and adopt a more holistic approach that prioritizes web standards.
Microsoft patent on website and site content reliability scores for Bing Search ranking
Having a patent does not mean that Bing is using these techniques in Bing Search - but it is fun to read.
What your enterprise SEO audit may be missing
Build a strong SEO foundation for your enterprise website. Learn how to bridge the gaps in your technical SEO with this guide.
Andi Search adds Generated Content feature
The small startup search engine is launching a new ChatGPT alternative – but is this generative AI tool worth your time?
This day in search marketing history: March 2
Happy 28th birthday, Yahoo!, plus: Semrush plans IPO, click to call ads, Google's About 260 problem, Steve Ballmer yelling at SMX and more.
The origins of E-A-T: Page content, hyperlink analysis and usage data
Discover the original sources of expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness in search and what they're actually based on.
We’ve crawled the web for 32 years: What’s changed?
A look back at the history of search and SEO and a preview of what the next iteration of the internet means for marketers.
Google Maps local listing now showing web search results
As you scroll through the local listings in Google Maps, Google may show you web results at the bottom.
How to audit sites inside corporate networks
Turn private (VPN required) URLs into temporary ones that allow for page changes but hide the content to preserve its privacy.
GoogleBot to soon crawl over HTTP/2
While HTTP/2 should result in efficiency improvements, there is no ranking benefit to this chage.
SearchCap: Google My Business Insights, search industry honors Barry Schwartz, 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: 5 ways ignoring SEO could affect your bottom line Oct 18, 2018 by Stephan Spencer It may be possible to run a business in 2018 without doing search engine optimization, but […]
How Search Engines Learn What’s On Every Page
Spiders. The terrifying answer to how search engines know what is happening all over the internet all the time is that they have an army of millions of spiders. The internet is positively covered in spiders making their way into every nook and cranny and reporting back to their masters on what they find. The […]
SearchCap: LiveRamp targets Bing Ads, Amazon Marketing Services & 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: The basics of working with Amazon Marketing Services Jun 15, 2018 by Daniel Gilbert Contributor Daniel Gilbert shares his insights on Amazon Marketing Services and how they stack up (or don’t) […]
3 ways to improve link equity distribution and capture missed opportunities
You've worked hard to accumulate as much link equity as possible from external sources, but is your internal linking structure diluting that equity? Columnist Chris Long details how to reclaim your lost link value.
SearchCap: Bing Ads quality policy and conversion changes, Apple search ads & technical SEO
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 5 ways to balance technical & non-technical SEOAug 8, 2017 by Jim Yu Though tactics and strategies differ greatly for technical and non-technical SEOs, columnist Jim Yu believes it’s critical that […]
Google’s search knows about over 130 trillion pages
In less than four years, Google's search knowledge of pages have grown by more than 100 trillion new pages.
What’s new with markup & structured data
Contributor Eric Enge recaps a session from SMX Advanced on structured data markup in its many forms.
Google Search Console now lets you group your sites together with property sets
One of the most asked-for Google Search Console feature requests is now live. It is called property sets and lets you group things together for Search Analytics reporting.
SearchCap: Google Penalty, Yandex Actions & Google Shopping
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: For Some Broad Queries, Google Shopping Showing Top Categories On Mobile, Not PLAsNov 23, 2015 by Ginny Marvin The new mobile experience is among the updates released before the holiday shopping […]
SearchCap: Google Smarter Search, Facebook Google App Indexing & Foursquare With Apple Maps
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Foursquare Joins Apple Maps Data Sources As Company Builds Out EcosystemNov 16, 2015 by Greg Sterling Apple continues to improve its mapping product by adding new features and content, albeit often […]
SearchCap: Google Quality Algorithm Update, Tweets Live On Google & Links Via Trust
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: The Google-Twitter Deal Goes Live, Giving Tweets Prominent Placement In Google’s Results Tweets now appear for trending topics in a new carousel format. Twitter doesn’t earn directly off display but will […]
Bing Shares How Image Search Algorithm Works; Says 59% Of Web Images Have Duplicates
Want to understand how Bing ranks and shows data on images within Bing Image search?
April Fools: Google’s Matt Cutts Starts New SEO Spam Tool AutoSEO
Matt Cutts, head of Google search spam, announces AutoSEO at seo.ninja, a tool to automated your SEO. Happy April Fools Day!
SearchCap: Germany Publishers & Google, Bing Ads Tracking & Search Mobile CTR
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Growing Your Business With Customer Reviews – October 30 Webcast Learn how capitalizing on the insights from customer reviews can increase search traffic and landing page conversion rates. Join Chris Silver […]
The Yahoo Directory — Once The Internet’s Most Important Search Engine — Is To Close
For some, it may seem like there has always been Google, and it’s always been the main way people have found things on the web. But before Google, there was the Yahoo Directory and its hand-compiled list of websites, organized into topics. Now, the venerable Yahoo Directory is closing. Yahoo shared the news today, a […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 24, 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: US Search Awards Names Search Engine Land Best Blog Of 2013 Last night, Search Engine Land had the honor of being named Best Blog of 2013 by the US Search Awards […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 26, 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’s Knowledge Graph Gets Smarter With Comparisons & Filters Google’s Knowledge Graph is a little smarter today with the addition of filters and a way to compare two Knowledge Graph items […]
The Concept Of Sameness & Why It Should Matter
Long ago and far away, there was a world where there was no Web. Back in those early years (such as the 1960’s through the mid-1990s), there were certain basic concepts that guided the world of marketing. One of the facts of life during those times was that each market space tended to support somewhere […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 18, 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: DuckDuckGo Passes 3 Million Searches, Just 8 Days After Hitting 2 Million Another week, another traffic record in the alternative search engine space. DuckDuckGo (DDG) tweeted this morning about its latest […]
Blekko’s Izik Search App Comes To iPhone, Android Devices
This morning, Blekko announced that its tablet search app, izik, is now available for the iPhone and Android devices. Currently there isn’t a Blekko mobile app, but the mobile Web version of the site is optimized for smartphones. Izik for iPad became available in January. Blekko has moved closer to izik in terms of look and […]