Google Down Slightly, Bing-Yahoo Up In October comScore Search Report

Google saw its share of the US search market drop slightly in October, while both Bing and Yahoo saw corresponding gains. That’s according to comScore’s October 2014 search engine rankings. ComScore estimates Google’s US market share at an even 67 percent for October, down from…

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An Agency Client Started Using This Audit Template And You’ll Never Guess What Happened Next

Their clients’ local and organic search rankings and traffic started going up Seriously though, earlier this week I presented this talk at the fantastic State of Search conference in Dallas. One of the things I tried to stress is the importance of a diversified SEO strategy for local clients. Here at Local SEO Guide, that […]

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Search In Pics: GooglePlex Where’s Waldo, Jon Stewart At Reddit & Marissa Mayer The Crayon

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. YouTube Double Decker Bus: Source: Google+ Jon Stewart At Reddit: Source:…

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Google Analytics custom dimensions

Recently we’ve released our Google Analytics by Yoast Premium plugin. As all our premium plugins, it gives you support and extra features. The first added feature of this premium plugin is the Custom Dimensions. This is a very powerful ‘tool’ within Google Analytics which will give you a lot of extra tracking power. However, the fact that it’s…

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Bing Mobile Ranking Techniques & Relevancy Factors

Mir Rosenberg from the Bing Mobile Relevancy team posted some of the “factors at play” when it comes to how determines mobile relevance and ranking in the mobile results. As you know, a couple weeks ago, Bing announced new mobile crawlers to help them discover and understand different…

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The rapid growth of inbound marketing in the UK: infographic

This is impressive growth when you consider the Google trend for ‘inbound marketing’ shows that interest in the term actually started in the UK much later than in the U.S.

This growth in adoption is taken from our annual report on inbound marketing in the UK. That growth is unquestionably based on the success brands are having with inbound marketing, with one in two marketers seeing a greater ROI from their inbound efforts than they did in the previous year.  

There is no doubt this success helps to create trust in a marketer’s inbound marketing plans.

Past success with inbound was cited as the top reason a marketer’s inbound marketing budget changed in 2014 and for the majority of U.K marketers, this change was a positive one; nearly one in two marketers saw their budget increase in 2014.  

The following infographic gives an overview of the key findings. We hope you find it as interesting as we do and we would love to hear your feedback in the comments section.