Getting a manual Google penalty can be painful. The resulting issues for your business can be problematic, as your visability from within the Google search results can be dramatically reduced. After getting hit with a penalty, the climb back to good standing with Google can be difficult. Sometimes, good companies will end up resorting to defeat […]
The Russian equivalent to Google, Yandex, has announced its revenue results for 3Q 2015 yesterday, and we found out that the search engine has seen an 18 percent YoY quarterly increase at 15.4 billion rubles, or $233.1 million. In the Russion search market, Yandex has averaged 57.1 percent for the quarter ending September 30, 2015, […]
My, how the internet and internet search have changed. Do you remember when all we had was desktop computers to do all of our internet browsing? Eventually, our browsing habits changed from doing our internet search from simple desktop to using other devices to stay connected. It seems that after enough people got on board […]
Remember back when Google told us that we would forever lose Google Authorship? After this announcement, and subsequent removal of Authorship in August 2014, we honestly thought we’d never see it again. Although there has been no news from Google about Authorship’s return, there are things that make us wonder if there’s a possibility that […]
It’s here. It’s finally here! Moz has finally announced the results of their biannual Search Engine Ranking Correlation Study and Expert Survey, which they are calling quite simply, Ranking Factors. With the help of the Ranking Factors study, which attributes of pages and sites that have the strongest association with ranking highly in Google is identified. […]
There has been a confirmation of the sale of the HERE mapping unit to a number of German automakers from Nokia through a press release on August 3rd. These German automakers include AUDI AG< BMW, and Daimler AG. Originally, the reported purchase price was about €2.5 billion ($2.7 billion), but now the confirmed price is actually €2.8 billion ($3.07 billion). It’s […]
Russian search engine Yandex has released its earnings for Q2 2015, and it looks like they are reporting a 14 percent year over year increase with a revenue that reaches $250.7 million (RUB 13.9 billion). Yandex’s search market share, has averaged 57.3 percent in Q2, and their search queries has climbed 2 percent when compared […]
Baidu announced Q2 2015 earnings earlier this week, revealing that their profit is down 2.5 percent to $559.6, despite their total revenues up by 38 percent year over year to $2.67 billion. It seems that the company has decided to begin moving away from relying on search-based revenue, which has become less profitable as usage […]
When it comes to better indexation and rankings on search engines, when is a good time to do things like disallow search engines in your robots.txt file, use meta robots tags in a page header, or use nofollowing links? It takes some knowledge and experience to really know what to do in situations like this, […]
It seems that a recent patent from Google that suggests that there will be a new influence in the rankings that has immense implications for marketers. Rand Fishkin discusses in this episode of Whiteboard Friday what it says, what it means, and even puts in his own twist to have everyone think about where Google is […]