Top 10 Websites Practicing SEO the Best – Post January 2020 Core Update
In my 26 years of business and my 10+ years in SEO, I've learned that the following adage is true: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. There's a distinct reason why you buy Toyotas, Hondas and now Hyundais. Do you think Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu obtained...
Dear Costco – Your SEO Needs Help – Hire More Search Engine Marketing Managers
As a Seattle area resident, I get to boast that I live very close to the headquarters of both the biggest online retail giant in the world (Amazon) and the largest offline warehouse store for both consumers and businesses (Costco). If you love "getting a deal" on...
2019 (October) Search Marketing Share: Latest Data shows Bing lost a tiny percentage
Latest 2022 Comscore Search Engine Market Data Google recaptures a tiny bit, but Bing still 1/4 of US Searches If you haven't been watching Microsoft's efforts to grow and compete against the International Search Engine leader (Google), you'll see they've been...
YouTube Works Video Marketing Awards Submission Deadline
When is the deadline for YouTube Works submissions? January 17, 2020 Here in 2020, it's January 17th for all the marketing campaigns carried out in 2019. The contest actually started back in September of last year. What is YouTube Works? It's another competition and...
Google My Businesss 1-800 Number Fail(s) – Painful Customer Service Experience
The Previous 1-800 Numbers for GMB Don't Work Anymore Skip down below if you want to know the quickest way to get help (for now) Google's always optimizing their business just as much as businesses are trying to optimize their own presences online. And guess what? ...
Top “Hero” Searches in 2019 – Google’s Year in Search
The latest post: Top 100 Google Searches April 2021 If you're connected to social media or have any friends at Google, you'll know they just recently released their: Google Year in Search 2019 Video on YouTube Historically, I've counted on this to give us some ideas...
Top “How” searches in 2019 – Google’s 2017 Year in Search Most Searched Topic
2017's year in Search's Top Search Topic: "How" searches People are definitely asking more questions when it comes to search. Their queries have become much more specific and they now see google as basically a more refined answering engine. As a result, the "5...
3 SEO Strategies from Google itself
Think with Google recently published their: Think with Google's 10 most-read articles of 2019 and I decided to take a look. Right off the bat, they share how internally the stakeholders in the companies who represent what they say include 7000 websites that Google...
2019 September Comscore Search Engine Market Share Report
Latest 2022 Comscore Search Engine Market Data Microsoft Bing Finally hits 1/4 of the Search Engine Market! In the most recent data available from Comscore, the online research company reported that Microsoft search engine properties NOW represent 25.3% of the entire...
How many search results are video? We examine the Top 25 topics
Given that YouTube currently has MORE visits per month than even the largest social networking website in the world (Facebook), you may want to focus more marketing efforts on video: source However, one struggle for many is to obtain the proper business intelligence...
Top Websites in the World – August 2019
Top 10 Websites in the World - August 2019 Global Rank Domain Monthly visits (billions) Parent Country 1 Google.com 78.95 Alphabet Inc United States 2 Youtube.com 29.69 Alphabet Inc United States 3 Facebook.com 24.84 Facebook, Inc United States 4 Baidu.com 7.050...
What is the best US bank marketing online?
Today in our tumultuous financial sector, we have varying degrees of online visibility as consumers. Some banks are more transparent and others honestly have very little clue when it comes to trying to be accessible for their clients. We thought it would be...
Not trusting Google my Business?
Search Engine Journal recently shared a study about how consumers don't trust Google my Business as much as they do websites. It does show we need to keep working on our websites despite the growth of Google my Business. What types of businesses do people search for...
2019 Google Search Console Presentation by John Mueller and Martin Splitt: State of the Union (Google I/O’19)
#io19 Here are Webmaster Trends Analysts John Mueller and Martin Splitt providing the latest overview of Search Console, How Search Works before that, Google Images and Structured data and how it pertains to SEO: Do note that it's over 41 minutes long. Also, Martin...
Top 20 Ad Networks March 2019
Are there any large platforms or networks of sites that compete with Google Ads or Facebook? Well, we share some of the alternatives here: # Property Unique Visitors (000) % Reach 1 Google Ad Network** 192,345 86.4 2 Amobee** 174,105 78.2 3 Conversant** 164,048 73.7 4...
Top 15 Smartphone Apps March 2019
# Top 15 Apps % Reach 1 YouTube (Mobile App) 78.7 2 Facebook (Mobile App) 72.4 3 Google Search (Mobile App) 68.9 4 Google Maps (Mobile App) 63.6 5 Facebook Messenger (Mobile App) 61.5 6 Gmail (Mobile App) 57 7 Snapchat (Mobile App) 53.4 8 Google Play (Mobile App) 52.3...
The Future of SEO: Hollywood Blockbuster Gives us a Glimpe
If you were one of the millions who helped Avengers: Endgame propel the flick into the biggest worldwide film opening since 2002, you may have also been one of the millions who also searched the phrase "avengers endgame" to learn: where it was playing what it was...
Comscore March 2019 Top 50 Multi-Platform Website Properties (Desktop and Mobile)
(Compared to February 2018's Rankings) # Property Unique Visitors/Viewers (000) 1 Google Sites 255,967 2 Facebook (Up from #3) 215,783 3 Microsoft Sites (Up from #4) 208,795 4 Verizon Media (Down from #2) 208,711 5 Amazon Sites 206,152 6 Comcast NBCUniversal 184,583 7...
Most Searched Country on Google
There are many people curious about the many fascinating countries throughout the world. As a result, they are searching on a conservative estimate about 216 million+ times a month for the 195 countries we analyzed today. We also did a little peaking into Google's...
Top 10 Most Viewed Videos on Youtube (in the first 24 hours)
Kpop is Crushing YouTube's Views Records for 24 Hours With 4 out of the Top 10 and the #1 and #3 spots, Kpop is showing the world that the genre of music is not just for Asia, but potentially the rest of the world. The US ties for the top # of positions with 4 as...