Month: July 2021

Bing: It’s A Myth That Keyword Rich Domain Names Improve Search Rankings

Microsoft Bing’s Senior Product Manager, Duane Forrester, wrote last night at the Bing Webmaster Blog that it is only a myth that in today’s ranking algorithms that a keyword rich domain name will make enough of an impact on your rankings to give you a major boost above your competitors. Duane said that maybe “10 […]

Google Search Console performance report gets recipe filters

Use these new reports to see how well your recipe markup is performing in Google Search. Google has added new filter options to the performance reports within Google Search Console. If you use recipe markup, Google may give you the ability to filter your performance report within the “search appearance” options. Where are these filters? You can […]

The Things That Facebook Causes, According To Google, Yahoo & Bing

I had a good chuckle over the news yesterday that Facebook apparently has caused an increase in syphilis (or not). So reported the Daily Telegraph, which turns around today to add that to a list of other things Facebook supposedly causes, such as cancer or a surge in rickets. Anything missing? How about asking Google, […]

It’s time to change your SEO reports!

SEO reports are often really useful… for SEO professionals. Columnist Greg Gifford asserts that if you want to truly prove the value of your services to your clients, you have to tie your reports directly to their bottom line. You’d think that after a year or so of these posts, I’d run out of things […]

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Report: US Google search spend was flat, but mobile spend jumped 55 percent in Q2

Compared to a year ago, IgnitionOne customers spent substantially more on mobile, where CPCs continued to be half as expensive as desktop. In Q2 2016, Google paid search spend in the US dipped slightly year over year among IgnitionOne customers. Slower spend growth was driven largely by a greater click share coming from mobile, where CPCs […]

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