The greatest trick Google ever pulled was convincing the world there was a Mobilegeddon. Sure, a mobile-focused algorithm update occurred on April 21. And according to the Google Search team, this update had a bigger impact than Penguin and Panda […]
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April 14, 2015
Adam Sherk Speaks on Bloomberg TV: “Why Google News Is Shutting Its Doors in Spain”
Define Media Group Vice President of SEO and Social Media Adam Sherk and Keane Legal Media Lawyer Benoit Keane discuss Google’s closure in Spain over a tax dispute. They speak on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg)
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April 14, 2015
The Facebook and Google Duopoly
It’s common knowledge that Google has a monopolistic hold on search traffic. comScore’s widely cited numbers place Google’s search market share at 67%, followed by Bing at 19% and Yahoo at 10%. But based on our internal data, comScore significantly […]
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July 15, 2014
The 2014 Mid-Year Digital Traffic Report
With 2014 now more than halfway done, we wanted to provide an update on the major search and social trends we’re seeing across our network. In many ways, the data in this post is an update to our “Hey Buzzfeed, […]
Earlier this week Re/Code published an article with the provocative title “The Year Facebook Blew Past Google.” It cites a chart from BuzzFeed suggesting that, beginning in January of 2013, Facebook surpassed Google as the most important referral source to […]
When Apple’s new iOS 7 operating system was released on September 18, 2013 its adoption was unprecedented. Apple claimed it was “the fastest upgrade in software history” with 200 million devices running iOS 7 only 3 days after launch. The […]
Starting on Tuesday 7/30, our clients have experienced double digit growth in organic traffic. This sudden shift has happened in sites across different industries and verticals. Diving into the reasons for the organic lift, we noticed that the Dark Google […]
The Summary Google’s January 23 image search update brought high resolution pictures directly within search results, leaving users with little incentive to clickthrough to the sites hosting and licensing the pictures. We analyzed the image search traffic of 87 […]
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January 24, 2013
You’re Losing Android 4 Search Traffic. Here’s How to Get it Back.
In a prior post, we wrote about how Apple’s release of iOS 6 in September led to a decrease in reported search traffic. Within the Safari search bar, the search referrer string is no longer being passed, so a […]
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December 18, 2012
Hey Siri: Why Am I Losing 9% of My SEO Traffic from iOS?
When iOS 6 was released in September, there was an unexpected yet all-too-familiar impact on those of us who rely on search data for a living: iPad and iPhone search traffic was suddenly obscured. Google was caught off-guard by this […]
