Many months we worked hard to define our two product lines. In the past it wasn’t clear what I get with Searchmetrics Essentials and what with Searchmetrics Suite. In addition we had several options to “pimp up” the software. Also for me it wasn’t easy to explain what is what. Searchmetrics Essentials = Research only [...]
“Since April 2007 search engine result listings have been more than just a series of 10 blue links. Almost six years ago Google began to integrate boxes containing additional media which appears in-between the actual organic search results. Those – depending on how relevant they are to the search query – also generate higher click [...]
2012, and what a year it’s been for Searchmetrics and also for me. Last summer we presented Suite 6, got excellent feedback and won some great customers. We also made it good in the international arena. While we were a welcome speaker all over the world, our international success can also be seen from our [...]
Pretty smart that we have an internal update alarm bell. It always rings when Google is shaking the SERPs with its updates. And on Saturday it was ringing like hell. And we don’t agree with others that this is not an update, our statistics show that this must be some kind update. It is a [...]
The biggest unknown in SEO is always the algorithm. Many myths and rumors surround the “what” and “how” of Google results. Although SEO experts won’t be able to know the specific algorithm used, by examining the data you can figure out how best to influence results. At Searchmetrics, we continually aggregate billions of data points [...]
Google, by way of Matt Cutts, announced some weeks ago that a special SEO over optimization update will come. Now it’s live with its first iteration. Yesterday evening Google also published the article “Another step to reward high-quality sites” with some more insights into the update. Interesting stuff that every SEO should read. The official [...]
Everyone in the SEO space has been talking about the way Google handles authors and links. In the future, content could be evaluated by using the author as a ranking factor. SEOmoz published an interesting article recently focused on how the relationship between the social graph and real links from known, trusted authors could give [...]
For us, 2012 began just like 2011 ended. We have been constantly improving and expanding our databases, developing new features and modules and now we have two big changes for our transition from closed to open beta. Link Essentials Open Beta Our crawler has been digging through hundreds of millions of websites and identified billions [...]
Full access to Searchmetrics Essentials for all free registered users and customers! Although I love spending time with my two kids and my wife during the holidays, I’m not really a Christmas fan. Instead of celebrating in the age old traditions of eating, drinking, eating, sleeping and eating, I prefer to create things and come [...]
Yesterday Amit Singhal (http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/giving-you-fresher-more-recent-search.html) from Google confirmed a new bigger Google Index update. The impact on all the searches is approximately 35%, which is as measured by the number of searches every day really a lot. As opposed to the Panda update it has an impact of nearly the double amount of searches! You can [...]
