Google Core Update March 2023
10 days ago Around half a year after the last major core update, Google is currently rolling out a new core update. In the SISTRIX blog here we have the first numbers, analyses and explanations.
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The Top Domains and Content for Garden Tools
19 days ago This month, SectorWatch is getting horticultural as we take a look at the search market for garden tools. We’ll show you the growing domains and some examples of content that is sprouting results. Which sites …
Google Product Reviews Update Feb 2023 – Examples of losing domains.
28 days ago With the series of Product Reviews Updates, Google has been trying to improve the quality of product ratings and recommendations in the search results. So far, these updates were only relevant for English-language content – but …
Microsoft is multiplying prices for Bing data (and damaging the internet ecosystem)
1 month ago Microsoft has announced that it will significantly increase the prices for using the Bing search engine interface. Depending on the intensity of use, the costs will increase by up to 1,000 percent, automatically, from May 2023. This surprising step …
Google Bard Risk Assessment: What does the AI innovation mean for my website?
2 months ago After this week’s AI presentations from Microsoft and Google , it’s clear – Search will see more changes in the near future than in the previous ten years. Although it is still unclear what the future will look like, we’ve …
Google’s ChatGPT: Bard brings AI to the SERPs
2 months ago In recent weeks, developments have driven Google forward. ChatGPT has gained so much popularity, so quickly, that Google has internally declared a “Code Red” to counter the threat. Google has a choice to make. On the …
IndexWatch 2022 – UK Retail in Google Search
2 months ago We have taken a closer look at the UK retail sector as part of our IndexWatch project. In this post you’ll see the Top 20 winning and losing domains of the last 12 months, …
Yandex code leak reveals ranking factors
2 months ago A former Yandex employee has leaked source code for the search engine and other services. This allows interesting insights into the inner workings of the search engine: ranking factors, weightings and more.
Top Domains & Content for Air Fryers
2 months ago To kick off 2023, SectorWatch is looking to cook up a (healthy) feast as we look at who’s winning the search market for air fryers. We’ll show you the leading domains and some examples of …
Antitrust Suit: US Department of Justice targets Google’s advertising business
2 months ago Previous antitrust proceedings have left Google unfazed: Penalties in the EU were only spare change for Google, lawsuits in the USA are still being clarified. This could now change with a newly filed lawsuit in …
IndexWatch 2022 – The Losing Domains in Google US
2 months ago 2022 was a volatile year in Google’s organic search results, with Google launching many new SERP features as well as introducing and updating several significant ranking systems, such as the Product Reviews updates and the …
IndexWatch 2022: SEO Visibility Losers on Google UK
2 months ago We’ve reflected on the winners of the year, but what about those domains that struggled in 2022? Using our Visibility Index archives, we have uncovered 200 sites that have seen significant declines in visibility on …
IndexWatch 2022 – Google US SEO Visibility Winners
2 months ago 2022 was yet another volatile year in Google’s search results, with the announcement of the new Helpful Content system, updates to other ranking systems, major algorithm updates rolling out concurrently, and significant volatility caused by …
IndexWatch 2022: Google UK SEO Visibility Winners
2 months ago As we wave goodbye to 2022, we also bid farewell to another year of organic search developments. Although we experienced one less core update than in 2021, the Google algorithm updates were more diverse – …
How Bankrate.com is ranking with AI-generated text
2 months ago Bankrate.com, a US financial site, has been publishing AI-generated content for a few months. Does this work in Google Search? How could Google deal with AI-content in the future? More importantly, is this a model …
The Top ‘non-profit’ Domains Grew in 2022 – Trust and Visibility to Learn From
3 months ago The .org.uk domain registry has 440,642 registered domains and nearly all are owned by non-profit organisations. The aim of the non-profit websites in this domain space is to be visible, valuable, trustworthy and transparent, within …
New SISTRIX Features Ready for Your 2023 (with lots more to come!)
3 months ago 2023 sees the 15th anniversary of the SISTRIX Visibility Index. Improvement has been fast, focused and continuous, and that won’t stop in 2023. Here’s a summary of the major upgrades to the data and tools …
December Link Spam Update: Generally Quiet, Clear Candidates
3 months ago A link spam update was rolled-out in July 2021 and now the second has been announced. The update overlaps with the current helpful content update which makes it difficult to attribute to domains that are …
Top Domains and Content for Fitness Trackers – SectorWatch
3 months ago This month SectorWatch is looking to work up a sweat as we take a look at who is winning the search market for fitness trackers and apps. We’ll show you the most visible domains in the …
December Helpful Content Update also Rolling Out Worldwide
4 months ago The Helpful Content Update that rolled out in August of this year was aimed exclusively at English-language content. With the latest iteration of the new algorithm, content in all languages will be re-evaluated, for the first …
SISTRIX Christmas Fundraiser 2022: You Click, We Donate
4 months ago Christmas is also a festival of traditions. That’s why our Christmas big wheel turns again this year . Our goal: 10,000 euros of funding for the women’s rights organization Terre des Femmes eV.
Google Suing Agencies Posing as Google
4 months ago SEO agencies and service providers who use Google’s identity to try and sell their services more easily have always been a problem for Google. Google is now, however, taking legal action against it. In the US, Google this week …
Googlebot Crawler using Local-Country IP Addresses
4 months ago The official Googlebot has previously only used IP addresses assigned to the USA. Now things seem to be changing and Google is working on the ability to crawl with local country IP addresses that are not …
Voice Search: Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant facing cuts
4 months ago After years of strong growth, tech giants Google and Amazon are now giving focus to cost reductions. According to media reports, the departments for voice assistants in both companies are facing layoffs and budget cuts. At …
SISTRIX Onpage Crawler Isolates Rendering Sessions Perfectly
4 months ago Web crawlers such as the Googlebot, but also our SISTRIX onpage crawler, have developed significantly in recent years. Whereas in the past only HTML was evaluated, now it is full browsers that run Javascript and …