The privacy search engine averaged more than 10 million searches per day by the end of the year. Privacy search engine DuckDuckGo reported strong growth in 2015, with search queries reaching a single-day high of 12 million on December 14. Generating more then 300 million searches during the last month of the year, the site saw […]
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Outage seems to have hit around 2:30 pm ET. Our headline has been changed to reflect that Yahoo’s search site began working again between 6-7 pm ET. For more information, see the updates at the end of the original article. Yahoo’s dedicated search site at search.yahoo.com remains offline at the moment, a couple hours after Bing suffered […]
Trying to break into a competitive niche and worried that you can't compete in organic search? Columnist Matthew Barby shares an unusual but effective strategy for breaking into these tough markets. When you’re working on an SEO campaign within a particularly competitive niche, it can sometimes feel that for every step forward you take, your […]
Several SEOs have recently written about topic modeling and advanced on-page optimization. A few of note: Rand Fishkin's What SEOs Need to Know About Topic Modeling & Semantic Connectivity Bill Sebald's How To Work Relationships and Concepts Into Your Copy My own More than Keywords: 7 Advanced Concepts of On-page SEO The concepts themselves are […]
Every business that competes in a local market and who competes for the display of localized results in SERPs will likely find the need to conduct a local SEO audit at some point. Whether you've hired an SEO in the past or not, the best way to beat the competition is to know where you stand […]
"What is this page about?" As marketers, helping search engines answer that basic question is one of our most important tasks. Search engines can't read pages like humans can, so we incorporate structure and clues as to what our content means. This helps provide the relevance element of search engine optimization that matches queries to […]
Many of you have been tweeting, emailing, asking in conference Q&As, or just generally awaiting this year's Local Search Ranking Factors survey results. Here they are! Hard to believe, but this is the seventh year I've conducted this survey—local search has come a long way since the early days of the 10-pack way back in […]
As a digital agency, we work with Magento every day on both development and search engine optimisation projects. If you've used Magento in the past, you know it's a huge system with lots of menus, drop down options and settings all over the place. Optimising Magento for search is quite straightforward once you know how to do it, […]
It's on the internet, so it's true. The bane of the existence of all search marketers is old or incorrect information given to clients at any point in time that they still hang on to. This post was inspired by an interaction with a client's co-workers, people that are not thinking about SEO on a […]
The onset of fall sharpens the air. Kids laboriously lug stacks of books and binders to class. Teachers puzzle over their lesson plans for the year. Lockers that were once empty now overflow with paper, and quiet hallways fill with the chatter of eager minds. School is finally back in session. In the spirit of […]
