“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 [...]
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 [...]
Once more, it’s time to talk about Universal Search integrations. The One Boxes for Images, Videos, Shopping and Places have become a powerful traffic source for a few sites with the right optimization. However, it’s a source that can run dry even for heavyweights – a fact that we will illustrate a little later. But [...]
Universal Search optimization generally promises high traffic potential. However, much of the essential data covering the frequency and distribution of OneBoxes is scarce or nonexistent. With that in mind, I would like to look at the figures for Germany, Austria and the USA as well as offer a few optimization tips for hosting videos with [...]
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 [...]
Again universal search: It has been some months, since we had a look at the development of the Universal Search integrations in the SERPs. We now have new numbers from the search metrics datapool, so let’s have a closer look. Has the upper limit been reached? Let’s look first of all at the overview of [...]
Today, I’m writing about Universal Search. I can’t shake the feeling that Google is strongly pushing the news, images, video and shopping integrations in its ‘normal’ search. At the moment, these snippets seem kind of, well, ‘understated’. To the naked eye, there is little to distinguish them from the organic index, at least with the [...]
Searchmetrics turns its focus increasingly toward Universal Search. The following presents a series of data underlying this development. Number of Universal Search associations per keyword 39% from our approx. 6 million analyzed keywords still have no Universal Search associations. 61% however, record results from other Google verticals. 43% of Keywords report single associations, 16% had [...]
