2013

Crawling and Indexing for extensive websites
As soon as websites exceed the size of a typical private homepage, there are a number of new challenges that arise. One of them is that the existing content belongs in the Google index, as complete and up to date as possible. While this may sound easy, very large websites […]...
Johannes Beus
Johannes Beus
21. August 2013
Why the Visibility Index does not want to be an SEO-traffic index
The SISTRIX Visibility Index is often mistaken for an SEO-traffic index. As a result, we see blogposts pop up on a regular basis which either show how well or how badly the Visibility Index development correlates with the actual SEO traffic. Most of these articles are based on a fundamental […]...
Johannes Beus
Johannes Beus
17. May 2013
SEO Basics: internal link optimisation
Links are one of the most important ranking factors in Google’ algorithms. While there is much talk about external links (links from other domains to yours) and a lot of effort (money and time) is spent on obtaining these, internal links on a website attract relatively little attention – for […]...
Johannes Beus
Johannes Beus
12. March 2013
IndexWatch 2012: Losers
Yesterday, we looked at the winners in last year’s Google-index, while today, I want to show you the losers for the same period of time. Just as with the winners, I put together a list of 50 Domains that saw a very strong percentage decrease in their Google SERP visibility. […]...
Johannes Beus
Johannes Beus
2. January 2013