2022
Ancillary Copyright Law: How Much Journalistic Content is Found In Google Search?
The back-story to the ancillary copyright law in the EU, aimed at protecting publishers from content re-use, is long and...
SectorWatch – The Most Visible Domains for Fashion Dresses
This month SectorWatch is dressing to impress as we jump into the world of fashion retail & find out who is winning the...
11 years of Top-20 UK Domains, in 60 Seconds
As of this week, you can now use the movers and shakers feature for the complete timeline of the top domains, by Visibility...
Google Core Update May 2022
After a long wait, Google has just started the roll-out of the first Core Update of the year. In this article we’ll...
SectorWatch – Sustainable Travel
As we head towards summer, thoughts turn to holidays so this month, SectorWatch takes a deep dive into the sustainable travel...
Amazon reports successes against fake reviews
Fake product reviews are a big problem for Amazon. Customers trust the platform and the reviews, and are disappointed by...
Google is now writing its own Knowledge Panels
Until now, content in the Knowledge Panels has always come from third parties, often as excerpts from Wikipedia, sometimes...
IndexWatch Q1 2022: UK Winners & Losers
From an algorithmic perspective, the first three months of 2022 were quiet for SEO, giving us a rare chance to look at winning...
SectorWatch: The Leading Domains for Easter Chocolate
The Easter bunny is waiting around the corner, as are the search results, ready for the traffic that this sector gets for...
Primark launches new informational website: Analysis and Live Migration Data
The new website is aimed at providing more informational content and encouraging more people to visit stores – the...
Google: AI-Generated Content Violates Guidelines
The use of artificial intelligence has made great strides in recent years. Advanced models like GPT-3 can now produce...
Google to discontinue URL Parameter tool
Google has announced, that it will be discontinuing the URL parameter tool within the next month. With the help of this component...
EU Sanctions takes rt.com out of Google search results
It’s rare for websites to be dropped completely from the Google index but following sanctions by the EU Commission,...
SectorWatch: The Project Management Software Market. Leading Domains and High Performance Content.
SectorWatch exposes true competitors and analyses the high performance content that appears in Google’s organic search...
UK Retail 2021 Winners and Losers in Search
After exploring the winners and losers industry-wide, we’re now putting the retail sector under the microscope. COVID-19...
Why Domain Authority (Moz), Authority Score (Semrush) and Domain Rating (Ahrefs) can lead to wrong decisions
Having the right measurements helps to reliably evaluate SEO success. This blog post is about why Domain Authority,...
IndexWatch 2021: The SEO Losers In Google’s US Search Results
2021 was a difficult year to compete for organic search visibility. Not only did Google launch a variety of major algorithm...
Google FloC is now called Topics, and is More Transparent
Third-party cookies for tracking advertising purposes are dying out. Some time ago, Google introduced FloC (“Federated...
IndexWatch 2021: The SEO Winners In Google’s US Search Results
2021 was a volatile year for Google’s organic search results, with frequent algorithm updates – both confirmed and unconfirmed...
De-duplication of Search Results: A Complex Example
The search results are becoming more and more complex in their structure – normal organic results, numerous vertical...
IndexWatch 2021: The SEO Losers In Google’s UK Search Results
Whilst Google’s 2021 algorithm updates have resulted in spectacular SEO wins, we mustn’t forget about those domains that...
IndexWatch 2021: The SEO Winners In Google’s UK Search Results
2021 was another year of changes, twists and turns, and the organic search world was no exception to this. Google rolled...
Introducing: TrendWatch, the SISTRIX Data Journalism Team, and a Podcast
We enjoy very positive feedback on our Blog content with case studies and data studies the most popular so, to that end,...