The good news first. The data in Searchmetrics Suite and Essentials is fully updated providing the most current and accurate information. We usually do updates from Saturday to Sunday, but because of Google Penguin update 2.0, we did it today. Yesterday night, May 22nd, Google finished rolling out the second generation of its Penguin updates. [...]
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“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 [...]
Last week we looked at how Google might look at and use the social graph in search and advertising. People are indeed an ever growing source of signals that can be mined. That’s fairly obvious. Another area that this could connect of course is in reviews, or more specifically, sentiment. How might a search engine [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Fact check: How many news results are there in a news onebox? Do shopping oneboxes also appear on the second page of Google search results? And how often do sitelinks appear? As you know, at Searchmetrics we like to dig deep into the data, and from the depths this week we have brought out two [...]
This year, we brought a big presence to the Las Vegas PubCon. And, since we participated in quite a few interesting sessions, we wanted to pass on a bit of what we saw. But before I begin: PubCon is massive and varied in its scope. With nine parallel tracks, the program is impressively large. The [...]
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 [...]
A week ago, we compiled the winners and losers of Panda 2.5 – the fifth iteration of Panda 2 in the US had been the largest of those “smaller” adjustments and hit a lot of sites, prompting some scrutiny and criticism across the net. Previous updates seemed to be high-confidence decisions – Google generally would [...]
For a short while Google moved its Panda Focus onto the rest of the world and away from the USA. But now it’s gone back to where it all started. And it seems like rather a big update – cause we’ve found some quite some surprising changes in the new Google Panda 2.5 update. Here [...]
