Over the past couple of months, we have seen major changes within the Google shopping experience. We first noticed these changes from last year’s announcement around Search On and we’re still seeing significant impacts within the organic space today. We talked about most of these changes in our last article on organic ecommerce, which we […]
Search engine optimisation may be one of digital’s most traditional and well-established disciplines, but change is afoot. In fact, few other aspects of digital are evolving as radically as SEO, and much of it is being driven by Google’s reinvention of the SERP (search engine results page) from simple directory to personalised portal. In the […]
Countless websites are technically sound yet still struggle to rank or perform organically performance still struggles. Upon reaching out to search engines for answers and explanations, the usual response is to consider the quality of the site. Sound advice, yes, but what does “quality” actually mean? And how do you improve it? Quality is one […]
In my short, eight-year career in SEO, I have seen many algorithm and search changes that have had an impact on overall rankings and experience within Google. Within the past year or so, Google has made several changes to its search engine results pages (SERPs), but none more interesting or impactful than the introduction of […]
When we last dived into the burgeoning promise of Google’s BERT AI, it was affecting only 10% of all English language searches. But Google always had ambitious plans for BERT’s expansion; plans that saw it roll out BERT across 70 languages in December 2019. So, here we are just over a year since BERT got […]
Meet the new year, same as the old year? If January isn’t exactly turning the page on a crazy 2020—with certain aspects likely to take much longer to improve than we had hoped—we can at least take solace in the fact that digital is always the exception to the rule. Even in SEO, one of […]
Part three of our predictions series brings us to digital strategy–where decisions are driven by data, research reveals surprising truths, and there’s no such thing as too much coffee. Join us as we pick out some of 2021’s most exciting strategic developments. COVID-19 will continue to drive digital acceleration Okay, so this is a relatively […]
Google has announced that its latest and greatest search innovation—passage-based indexing—will affect an estimated 7% of search queries across all languages when fully rolled out across the world. It’s exciting news, for sure, but… what exactly is passage indexing? The search giant explains: Very specific searches can be the hardest to get right, since sometimes […]
There are huge changes in online search as COVID-19 continues to alter the daily habits of people all over the world. Stay-at-home guidelines and non-essential business closures have drastically changed the landscape of both local search and commerce in general. In times like these, there are obvious industry booms and busts. The healthcare industry (unfortunately) […]
Ah, the illustrious deity that is Google and its faithful servant, the search engine results page (SERP). We bow down to thee and ask that this content may rank highly and claim the glorious throne that is the first results page… If only a prayer could really earn that top spot on page one! While […]