comScore just released its search market share report for September, and the figures reveal remarkably little change since August. Google continues to dominate the search scene, while Bing and Yahoo traded a tiny amount of traffic to keep their overall share of the search pie roughly the same.
Matt Cutts, chief of search spam at Google, is back with a new video in his ongoing series featuring a question-and-answer format. SEO experts worth their salt know that using an excessive number of redirects on any page is a good way to have it lose ranking in Google’s search results.
After revamping their desktop search experience earlier this year, Yahoo is back with a retooled search site for iOS, just in time for the release of iOS 7 and Apple’s new smartphones, the iPhone 5C and 5S. Not surprisingly, the mobile Yahoo experience is now very similar to the experience Yahoo rolled out in early summer for desktop users.
Did Bing cook the books when they claimed that their “Bing It On Challenge” revealed that search engine users prefer using Bing on a 2:1 ratio when compared to Google? That’s the assertion made yesterday by a publication posted on the Freakonomics blog, in which Ian Ayers said he conducted his own study and determined that, even in the context of the “Bing It On Challenge”, users preferred Google’s search results over Bing’s the majority of the time.
Are Bing and Pinterest officially joining forces? Not quite, however, both companies are seeing an increase in their value and functionality today with an announcement that was posted on the Bing Search Blog stating that Pinterest boards will now be included in Bing search engine image results.
Matt Cutts, chief of search spam at Google, is back with another video in his series of YouTube question-and-answer pieces in which he answers questions about SEO, Google penalties, ranking factors and more. This time, Cutts dives into a topic that many site owners and web developers might consider when they’re trying to figure out why they’re not ranking higher: invalid HTML text.
