Who’s Really Winning The Search War?

Ask any search marketer what Google’s market share is, and they’ll likely say around 66%. That’s the stat comScore has long supplied. Contributor Eli Schwartz asks whether it’s really accurate, and conducts research to prove it. The post Who’s Really Winning The Search War? appeared first…

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Google’s Eric Schmidt: “Really, Our Biggest Search Competitor Is Amazon”

The attitudes of European policy makers toward Google seem to have hardened of late. On various regulatory fronts, Google faces vocal critics and well-organized opposition. Google’s Eric Schmidt gave a speech earlier today in Berlin seeking to change some of those hardened hearts and minds….

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If Account-Level Quality Score Doesn’t Exist, Can It Really Hurt Your AdWords Program?

Google has continually denied that an account-level Quality Score exists — yet this unseen metric still seems to have an impact on AdWords performance. The post If Account-Level Quality Score Doesn’t Exist, Can It Really Hurt Your AdWords Program? appeared first on Search Engine Land.

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What Do Users Really Think Of The New Google Design?

When Google started testing the new look for its search results pages which ditches the shading behind the ads and replaces it with yellow “ad” icons, contradictory outcries of this sort began popping up, “Ad click-through rates are going to plummet because the ads are too obvious…

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How Fast Is SEO Really Changing? A Look Back At Search Ranking Factors

Ready for a walk down memory lane? The Search Ranking Factors studies by well-known SEO Rand Fishkin started in 2005, and he and his group have been churning out perceptive insights every two years ever since. If you take a look at how the findings have changed throughout the eight years that the…

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