Over the next couple of weeks, Google will introduce a new set of benchmarking reports in Google Analytics that will provide some useful information about how well they compare with others in their specified industry. The catch is that it’s only available for users who have agreed to opt in and share their data anonymously  Read More

SEO platform and search analytics firm SearchMetrics has released their 2014 SEO Ranking Factors and Rank Correlations Report, an annual study that provides an in-depth review of the factors that correlate with high rankings in search engine results. The key takeaway from this study, which focused only on Google search results, is that content is  Read More

New findings are being reported by Search Engine Watch on the true impact Google’s latest algorithm “Pigeon” has had on local businesses in search results. Pigeon was released on July 24, 2014 and has been the biggest Google algorithm change to date for local search results. The new algorithm was released to provide more accurate,  Read More

After three good years of the Google Authorship feature in search results, Google is calling an end to it (at least for now). That’s according to sources like CNET, Search Engine Land, and the official Google Authorship support page. Google Authorship was once intended to allow writers to claim content and gain followers by presenting  Read More