This day in search marketing history: January 30

by | Jan 30, 2023 | SEO

Analytics firm Jumpshot shuts down In 2020, following critical articles about its data collection and sales practices, analytics firm Jumpshot was shut down by its parent company Avast. Jumpshot was made famous within the SEO industry by SparkToro founder Rand...

This day in search marketing history: January 29

by | Jan 29, 2023 | SEO

Google penalizes French link network In 2014, Google’s Matt Cutts tweeted, “Today we’re taking action on a French link network that violates our quality guidelines (Buzzea).” Buzzea was less than thrilled about being called a link network, saying they “oppose this...
This day in search marketing history: January 28

This day in search marketing history: January 28

by | Jan 28, 2023 | SEO

Google begins experimenting with featured snippets in 2014, Google started answering complex questions at the top of its search results with detailed responses (or answers) taken from websites. Does that sound like featured snippets? It should. Because it was. We know...

An Apple Search Engine? – Whiteboard Friday

by | Jan 28, 2023 | SEO

In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Tom digs into his research on Apple’s moves in search, specifically their recent launch of what he believes is a search engine, how it works, and how they could possibly hope to compete with Google in the future.

59 Blogging Statistics for 2023

by | Jan 27, 2023 | SEO

We’ve curated, vetted, and categorized a list of up-to-date statistics below. Click to jump to a category, or keep reading for our top blogging statistics: These are the most interesting blogging statistics you should know. What’s the state of blogging…Read more...