2022

2023 sees the 15th anniversary of the SISTRIX Visibility Index. Improvement has been fast, focused and continuous, and that...

A link spam update was rolled-out in July 2021 and now the second has been announced. The update overlaps with the current...

This month SectorWatch is looking to work up a sweat as we take a look at who is winning the search market for fitness...

The Helpful Content Update that rolled out in August of this year was aimed exclusively at English-language content. With...

Christmas is also a festival of traditions. That’s why our Christmas big wheel turns again this year . Our...

SEO agencies and service providers who use Google’s identity to try and sell their services more easily have always...

The official Googlebot has previously only used IP addresses assigned to the USA. Now things seem to be changing and Google...

After years of strong growth, tech giants Google and Amazon are now giving focus to cost reductions. According to media reports,...

Web crawlers such as the Googlebot, but also our SISTRIX onpage crawler, have developed significantly in recent years. Whereas...

Blogs don’t work. Really? Here’s an interesting example of a ‘blog’ that is working, thanks to a plan and some...

Did the Core Update affect my domain? How’s my domain move working? Did I get a manual penalty on my AI content site?...

It’s been quite the rollercoaster for SEOs during the last quarter. Every single month we’ve experienced at least...

This month SectorWatch will keep you warm and toasty as we investigate who is winning the search market for coats and winter...

Google has announced that it will change the layout of search hits in the results lists. Now, the site name has its own place...

Once a year, Google presents current search projects at the Search On event and gives us an insight into the future of Google...

With the knowledge that there were two Google updates overlapping in English-language search results, we take an extended-timeframe...

Directly after completion of the Helpful Content Update, Google is now rolling out the next Core Update –...

It made a strong start, then took a nosedive; the first Helpful Content Update did not fulfil the expectations of the SEO...

It’s over 2 weeks since the Helpful Content Update started rolling out and while we can’t call this a big update...

A week ago today, Google started to officially roll out the extensively announced Helpful Content Update. As a reminder:...

This month SectorWatch is heading for the garden to fire up the grill as we find out who is winning the market for searches...

These are the major new features that we have added to the Toolbox in recent months, in video and text form. First, the video,...

A new type of Google update will be rolled out for the first time next week: the Helpful Content Update. Contrary to...

Featured snippets , i.e. a highlighted search result at the beginning of the SERP, are a guarantee for a high level...

Refinements in the definitions of quality, E.A.T and YMYL, a new overview document and indications that Google will detect...

Links continue to be an important part of Google rankings, as Google sees them as external confirmation and recommendation...

Google’s latest quarterly figures show concisely that after the Corona tailwind of recent years, turbulent times now...

It’s time to get back in the saddle & start peddling (though not too hard) as this month SectorWatch takes a look at...

Following a quiet first quarter in the organic search world, Google’s May 2022 Core Update certainly provided some much-anticipated...

Time travel to the year 2002 when the first Euro coins and bills were put into circulation and there were still 5 years to...

Our TrendWatch research has been running for 6 months now and we’ve covered everything from toys to drugs, and from...

The back-story to the ancillary copyright law in the EU, aimed at protecting publishers from content re-use, is long and...

This month SectorWatch is dressing to impress as we jump into the world of fashion retail & find out who is winning the...

As of this week, you can now use the movers and shakers feature for the complete timeline of the top domains, by Visibility...

After a long wait, Google has just started the roll-out of the first Core Update of the year. In this article we’ll...

As we head towards summer, thoughts turn to holidays so this month, SectorWatch takes a deep dive into the sustainable travel...

Fake product reviews are a big problem for Amazon. Customers trust the platform and the reviews, and are disappointed by...

Until now, content in the Knowledge Panels has always come from third parties, often as excerpts from Wikipedia, sometimes...

From an algorithmic perspective, the first three months of 2022 were quiet for SEO, giving us a rare chance to look at winning...

The Easter bunny is waiting around the corner, as are the search results, ready for the traffic that this sector gets for...

The new eCommerce website, launched in April 2022, was aimed at providing more informational content and encouraging more...

The use of artificial intelligence has made great strides in recent years. Advanced models like GPT-3 can now produce...

Google has announced, that it will be discontinuing the URL parameter tool within the next month. With the help of this component...

It’s rare for websites to be dropped completely from the Google index but following sanctions by the EU Commission,...

SectorWatch exposes true competitors and analyses the high performance content that appears in Google’s organic search...

After exploring the winners and losers industry-wide, we’re now putting the retail sector under the microscope. COVID-19...

Having the right measurements helps to reliably evaluate SEO success. This blog post is about why Domain Authority,...

2021 was a difficult year to compete for organic search visibility. Not only did Google launch a variety of major algorithm...

Third-party cookies for tracking advertising purposes are dying out. Some time ago, Google introduced FloC (“Federated...

2021 was a volatile year for Google’s organic search results, with frequent algorithm updates – both confirmed and unconfirmed...

The search results are becoming more and more complex in their structure – normal organic results, numerous vertical...

Whilst Google’s 2021 algorithm updates have resulted in spectacular SEO wins, we mustn’t forget about those domains that...

2021 was another year of changes, twists and turns, and the organic search world was no exception to this. Google rolled...

We enjoy very positive feedback on our Blog content with case studies and data studies the most popular so, to that end,...