Searchmetrics report: How Amazon and Google help each other

Searchmetrics take a detailed look at how Amazon uses a combination of organic and paid listings to vie for shoppers’ clicks, which strategies Google follows in the battle for product search, and how Amazon continues to fight back.

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SEO strategies and keyword rankings: mobile versus desktop

Tracking your keywords on mobile and desktop is absolutely essential for both reporting accuracy and for supporting SEO strategies. Jessie Moore explains why you should separate your keyword strategies for each device, and shares quick tips for consideration

Who were the “winners” and “losers” of organic search in 2017?

Earlier this week, Searchmetrics published its fourth annual Winners and Losers Report, which reveals how certain sites fared in organic search visibility on Google.com during 2017. How do the results from this year stack up against last year, and what can we learn from the trends highlighted?

Schema Markup Shows In 36% Of Google Search Results, But Almost No Websites Use It [STUDY]

More than one-third of Google’s search results incorporate Schema.org rich snippets, but only a tiny fraction of websites are actually using the markup code. That’s according to a new Searchmetrics study out today that examined Google’s U.S. search results in March “for tens…

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Bing SEO Ranking Factors 2013 Study By SearchMetrics

Searchmetrics has released their SEO ranking factors for Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, today. Similar to their Google ranking factors, Searchmetrics analyzed 10,000 popular keywords and 300,000 websites appearing in the top 30 search results and looked at how various factors correlated…

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Google News Sources Grow 15% In 2012 & Continue To Climb With Patch.com In The Lead

After seeing a 15 percent increase in Google News sources last year, a recent study conducted by SearchMetrics discovered that a majority of the News integrations displayed in Google Universal Search results are coming from AOL-owned Patch.com. After a…