2019
SISTRIX Christmas Campaign 2019: you do the clicking, we do the planting
It is already the seventh time that we’ve used our SISTRIX Christmas campaign to thank all of our users, friends and...
If You Haven’t Optimized Your Website for Voice Search Yet, You’re OK
Voice Search isn’t changing SEO. All the ‘optimise for voice’ recommendations are questionable and in many...
SISTRIX Toolbox Training – 5 UK Cities in November
A SISTRIX Toolbox training workshop is the quickest way to learn about the unique digital market data we have, and how you...
After Schema.org Change: Search Results with Ratings Drop by 13%
Using suitable schema.org data on your website is often the quickest way to get more attention through rich-snippets in the...
Visibility Index on Instagram: From Hashtags to Instagram Ranking Factors
Every large platform has its own rules and characteristics. From an SEO perspective, Instagram is an exceptional case: the...
Turbulence in the Travel Sector – UK Search Assessment
If you’re working in the UK travel sector, you’ll know about the Thomas Cook story. But what you might not know is...
Google Core Update September 2019 – First Results Visible
Google calls it a “broad core algorithm update” and a few times a year it rolls through the search results leaving...
Thomas Cook Domain Analysis
When huge, established brands fail, there’s a lot of fallout. At SISTRIX we focus on search visibility, and that’s...
Google welcomes Rugby World Cup with a QDF, again.
Over the last month, www.rugbyworldcup.com has gained rankings for over 200 core keywords, with “world cup”,...
A Big Deal out of Nothing? What Google’s Data tells us about Voucher Code Sites
Google has announced that its systems are being improved such that they are able to understand when white-label content is...
Google introduces new link attributes: Sponsored and UGC
About 14 years after the introduction of the nofollow attribute, Google is introducing two new link attributes: Sponsored...
UK Top 100 Domains – The Most Visible Websites
SISTRIX has been analysing the visibility of all domains with rankings on Google.co.uk, since 2010. The SISTRIX Visibility...
ASOS: Positive News for Search Visibility
While the news around online fashion retail site ASOS is negative, the website growth is currently positive. Visibility in...
6 Content and Domain Migrations Happening in the UK Right Now
Executing a domain or content move can be difficult, but sometimes it’s necessary. Internationalisation, brand changes,...
The Fall of Examine.com – Is Google Allowed an Opinion?
Health-related domains were widely affected by the recent Core Updates. Now, with examine.com, it’s hit a domain which...
Byrdie and Mydomaine return to form after DotDash acquisition
Mydomaine and Byrdie were acquired by DotDash in January 2019. During the last 7 months, the two .com domains have achieved...
Google on Core Updates: Your competitors are better than you
Every few months, Google goes live with a large Core Update and stirs up the SERPs. In a new blogpost, Googler Danny Sullivan...
Three Strikes: UK Retailer WHSmith’s Digital Visibility Issues
The retail sector provides us with a daily newsreel of digital struggles. In the UK, traditional brands, many over 100 years...
From Dr. Mercola to Dr. Dolittle
Mercola.com is an alternative health website run by Joseph Mercola, a doctor that has turned away from medical science to...
Disciplined? How www.dailymail.co.uk got placed amongst peers
On the 5th of June 2019, dailymail.co.uk, the news media website run by Daily Mail Online, took a huge sideswipe from Google’s...
Copyright Law for Press Publishers in the EU: Journalistic content often irrelevant for Google
Upload filters were front and centre in the debate about the EU-directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market. This...
Google Core Update June 2019: More Content and News sites affected
The latest Google Core was pre-announced by Google at the weekend and since the beginning of the week, the search engine...
Google Jobs – The Second Largest Job Platform in the UK.
Almost exactly one year ago (16th July 2018), Google launched it’s job platform in the UK. It’s now a regular and stable...
Migration, Migrations, Migraine – Site Move Fears are not Well-Founded
A Website migration is a systematic process. It only fails if someone makes a mistake in the chain of actions, if your client...
How HomeToGo aligned with SEO to create visibility
Align every stakeholder through education, says Dominik Schwarz, chief inbound officer at HomeToGo. I recently spoke to Dominik...
Love your website: A case for more independence
The big Internet companies Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple are the rulers of the (western) Internet. We may be pawns in...
Do we need a Public Web Index?
Barely a week that goes by where Google’s use of its market strength isn’t criticised. Dirk Lewandowski, Professor...
Idealo sues Google for 500 million euros. EU Commissioner puts Division the Agenda.
There’s a stirring going on with Google, but this time it’s not from the SERPs; Idealo, the price comparison...
International SEO: 4 Expert SEOs Give Advice
4 great SEOs: Charlie Williams, Chris Green, Izzi Smith and Barry Adams, joined SISTRIX around the table at SISTRIX recently...
The Debenhams domain asset
In Q2 2019, a big high-street department store, Debenhams, was taken over by lenders. Stores closed and there was plenty...
March 2019 Core Update. How big is Big?
SEOs and Google always have a different perception of Google updates. Google’s focus is to improve the quality of the...
The first Core Algorithm Update of the year is rolling.
The last few months have been relatively quiet in the SERPs, but now the time has arrived and Google is introducing a major...
2009 vs 2019 SEO. How HomeToGo Overtook Airbnb
What is Google’s definition of SEO? “By making sure search engines can find and automatically understand your content,...
User-Intent as the Key to Long-Term SEO Success.
Big Google updates, regular changes in the SERPs layout and lots of new SERPs features -The last 12 months brought us changes...
Is User Experience a Ranking Factor?
The big Google updates of recent times have led to a rethink by many SEOs: It’s no no longer just about individual...
irs.com, dmv.org suffer Huge Visibility Losses. Suspected Google Manual Penalty.
Two huge domains, one of which previously sold for $12.5m, have been hit this week with huge organic search visibility losses....
Una gaffe erotica. What’s up with the Italian SERPs?
From time to time, we see some extraordinary things in our data. Last week our Italian country manager Elisa took a closer...
Link Building 2019
SEO has become uncomfortably complex. New topics always seem to be having an influence on ones success in Google SEO be it...
UK Universities under .ac.uk get SEO boost.
Between the 14th Jan and the 21st Jan, 84% of .ac.uk domains, the official UK academia contribution to the Internet, gained...
SEO Stammtisch Event. Bonn, 21st Feb
The first SISTRIX SEO Stammtisch of 2019 will be held on Thursday 21st Feb. We invite you to join us for what will also be...
Indexwatch: The UK’s Top 100 SEO Losers of 2018
In a previous article we shared the top 100 winning domains of 2018. But which domains lost during 2018?
IndexWatch: The UK SEO Winners of 2018
The time for SEO tricks and shortcuts has come to an end. Our Top 100 search visibility winners list shows that it takes...