Are you planning on moving your website? Many site owners hardly give it a second thought when they decide they want to move some pages around on their site, or even move their whole site to a new domain. Unfortunately, these types of moves can play havoc with your standing among search engines, especially if you don’t take the proper steps first.
Who were the big winners and losers last month in search market share? According to a a new press release from the analysts at comScore, Google made major gains and came out on top with a gain of about half a percentage point.
So your web site has been hacked – happens to the best of us, really. What’s the next step? Freak out, give up on your website, or possibly beg the hackers for mercy? The answer – none of the above.
The ability for employees to work from home is not the only thing CEO Marissa Mayer is getting rid of at Yahoo. According to a post on the Official Yahoo Blog entitled “Focusing on our future – some changes to our product line-up,” Yahoo will be cutting seven services from its offerings, including some that SEO’ers might miss quite a bit.
Just a few days ago, Google released a very handy infographic entitled How Search Works. Even if you already consider yourself well versed in search engine optimization *SEO) and marketing, the infographic is certainly worth a read.
In an apparent effort to streamline their various interfaces and give users better access to all their services, Google is testing a new navigation tool on Google.com.
Nearly 8.5% of all search engine click results bring users to Facebook, according to the 2013 Digital Marketing Report prepared by Experian Marketing Services. In fact, a whopping 20% of all search clicks go to just five different websites, including YouTube, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, and Facebook, if the report is to be believed.
If you weren’t already saying “why didn’t I think of that” with regards to photo sharing site Pinterest, you will now. According to a new report in CNET, the site – which hit 10 million unique monthly visitors faster than any other independent site in Interent history – is now worth a staggering $2.5 billion.
