Volume The sheer number of tweets is likely to be a major influence, not least because it’s one of the easiest things for Google to figure out.  Research from Branded3 showed some strong correlations between rankings and retweet volume. It found that the more (re)tweets, the higher the rankings. If you can muster a whopping [...]

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The good Nice big search box  One of the most prominent features on the Sears homepage is the large site search box, which is similar to that used by Amazon. Since Sears has a large stock range, including some technical products with long titles and model numbers, this makes perfect sense.  The trend is for [...]

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To find out, we at Searchmetrics studied the Google+ visibility of the top 13 UK national newspaper websites and ten leading US counterparts. We checked each newspaper to see if it had a Google+ page, how many followers it had and finally how often  content from its web site is recommended (through the +1 button), [...]

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Why do you think these Digital Certificates are needed?  First of all, we received a lot of requests from our members, so we knew there was a demand out there.  As this space matures, there’s a need to support ever more junior levels, and provide training to those looking to hone their craft after they’ve [...]

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For all of the company’s success, however, growing SEOmoz hasn’t always been easy. Last year, for instance, Fishkin revealed on his blog how he almost raised $24m in a second round of funding for his company, only to see the deal fall through. Fishkin’s blog post attracted a lot of attention, and for good reason: [...]

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Origins: A word that has its linguistic roots in the dark, one-dimensional realms of traditional SEO, where traffic’s not important, shares aren’t important, discourse isn’t important. But links are almost as important as life itself. Current Use: This term’s still frequently used but should be going out of fashion, not because the idea behind linkbait [...]

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We’ve flagged up five of Yahoo’s biggest acquisition mistakes before, but it’s always interesting to see just how drastic the company’s decline has been. This infographic from HighTable charts Yahoo’s tumbling market cap and falling revenue growth, suggesting that Thompson may have an impossible job on his hands. View full post courtesy of Zonecrest Internet [...]

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Online sales UK consumers spent £5.8 billion online in March, the equivalent of £114 per person, according to the latest IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index.  This equates to a year-on-year growth of 14% for the e-retail sector and a 9% increase on February. Cookies 40% of respondents to an Econsultancy/Toluna Quick survey think cookies are [...]

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1. Simple beats pretty As marketers, we want to make things pretty. As an example, let’s consider email marketing. In email marketing, pretty usually means HTML email, but this practice will fall flat in many situations on mobile devices. With limits and caps on mobile data plans, many users choose not to download images as [...]

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The Good Google may no longer be the new kid on the block, but that doesn’t mean that doesn’t have any growth left either. Revenues were up 24% year-over-year, to $10.65bn, and Google earned $2.89bn in net income, up from $1.80bn in the same quarter last year. Revenues from Google Sites and the Google Network [...]

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