SEO tool Semrush has announced that it finished 2022 with a total of 95,000 paying subscribers – up from 82,000 in 2021 – as it revealed strong results for the past year. The rise in the number of customers lead to a yearly revenue increase of 35% in 2022 to $254.3 million, up from $188.0 […]
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DeepCrawl rebrands as Lumar and transitions into ‘website intelligence’ platform
DeepCrawl, the popular crawling and technical SEO tool, has rebranded as Lumar. As well as the new name and brand design, DeepCrawl has transitioned from an industry leading technical SEO tool to a multi-featured ‘website intelligence platform’ – Lumar.io. The updated brand identity comes with an expanded vision for the future of Lumar’s website intelligence […]
Google Search Console Performance Report now shows fresh data
Google has today announced it is updating the Search Console Performance Report to show data as recent as less than a day old. Although Google’s Search Console tool is popular amongst SEO’s and webmasters, a common complaint has been the lack of real-time, usable data. It’s all very good seeing what search queries are driving […]
Organic search drives 53% of all site traffic, according to new study
A new study by BrightEdge has found that organic search delivers an average of 53.3% of all traffic to websites, far more than any other channel. Despite the recent changes to Google’s search results page that seemed to give more prominence to paid ads, and the rise of “zero-click results”, a new study from SEO […]
Google to treat “nofollow” links as a ‘hint’, and announces new link attributes “sponsored” and “ugc”
In an overhaul of the “NoFollow” link attribute system, Google has announced it will now treat it as a ‘hint’ rather than an instruction to ignore the link. For as long as most people working in SEO can remember, adding rel=”nofollow” to an outbound link on your site was an instruction to Google to ignore […]
Google announces June 2019 Core Update – rolling out now
In an unusual move, Google has pre-announced a broad core update to its ranking algorithm which is rolling out this week. Previous ‘broad core’ updates have only been confirmed by Google after they were rolled out, such as in March and April this year. However, Google opted for a change with this new update – […]
Mailchimp announces expansion into “all-in-one marketing platform”
After making its name as one of the most popular email marketing platforms, Mailchimp has announced it is expanding its service into an all-in-one marketing platform. The new Mailchimp CRM platform offers a suite of integrated marketing tools to better organise, segment and understand your audience, along with new powerful analytics and insights to better […]
Is Google about to start charging for Google My Business listings?
Surveys sent out by Google to some local businesses have raised concerns that the search giant is preparing to charge for Google My Business listing features. Google has been sending out surveys over the past week or so to local businesses, asking them how much they would be prepared to pay for Google My Business […]
Ahrefs are developing a new ‘profit sharing’ search engine to rival Google
Popular SEO tool Ahrefs has announced that they want to take on Google directly by building their own search engine. Ahrefs founder and CEO Dmitry Gerasimenko revealed the news in a huge Twitter thread, in which he criticised Google and other major online companies for not doing enough to help content creators and to address […]
Google confirms huge algorithm update rolling out from 12 March – dubbed ‘Florida 2.0’
Google has confirmed it implemented a broad core update to its ranking algorithm this week, which has got the SEO industry in a bit of a spin. After reports of a Google update in SEO forums and blogs earlier in the week, Google confirmed on Twitter that they had begun to roll out a ‘broad […]