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 [...]
It was an exciting conference last week in Moscow. I was planning to write a recap, but it seems my Russian isn’t good enough – and there wasn’t all that much SEO stuff anyway. But I do have one very important tip for you from Russia: If you want to do business there, you have [...]
That my friends, has to be one if not the most common question we’ve been asked since becoming the stealth marketing martial monks for the folks here at Searchmetrics. If there’s one thing that SEOs want to know, when it comes to tools, it’s… “Where’s this data coming from?” Pretty graphs are great, but if [...]
This morning my friend contacted me via Skype to ask if I knew of any problems with SearchMetrics. SearchMetrics and problems? This is something that has never happened before. So I asked him more about the problems. He answered that there has probably been a calculation error in recent weekly visibility updates. There was a [...]
Winter is certainly on it’s way and we have some great reading to keep you warm this week. So get a cup of coffee, grab your tablet, sit next to the fireplace and start reading. And by the way, speaking of tablets, we internally still have lots of discussions about which one to use. Marcus [...]
One of the easiest ways to enter a query space or SERP is to identify what Universal Search news, video, images, shopping and maps/Local verticals are in, or better still, have been in the search results. Identifying past instances that the query space included a Universal Search vertical but currently isn’t currently including the vertical [...]
Hello again and welcome to the Searchmetrics weekly round up. It was a fairly calm week last week, a lot of my colleagues being at the SEO Day in cologne. Me? Slave to the office. So lets start in with what was of interest from the week past. Is Yahoo coming back? Marissa Mayer [...]
Welcome to our new weekly series. For quite some time we have been thinking about collecting interesting topics each week and sharing them here on our blog. We get a lot of questions from our customers about what we think is important out there at the moment and the customer is always right of course. [...]
As part of the ever evolving world of social media, we recently started including Pinterest into the data sets of social analytics here at Searchmetrics. It’s no secret that they’ve shot up over the last year to be one of the top networks along side of heavyweights such as Facebook, Twitter and to a lesser [...]
Let me give you a hypothetical situation. Let’s say you become an in-house Head of SEO in Facebook Inc. You need to increase traffic. Quick! With Search Metrics your strategy could be quick, obvious and successful. You would firstly check on what keywords facebook.com does already rank. Let’s check how Facebook.com performs in Google.co.uk: http://suite.searchmetrics.com/en/essentials?url=facebook.com&cc=GB [...]
