Technical SEO, split-testing, local search and algorithm analysis from independent practitioners and specialist agencies — SearchPilot, Lumar, Sistrix, Sterling Sky, Marie Haynes and others.
Impact is an automatic estimate of how much a story is likely to
affect one website, weighing who published it, whether Google has
confirmed a ranking change, how many outlets ran it, and whether
the wording implies work on your site. It reads headlines, not
your analytics — treat it as triage, not a verdict.
If you work in digital marketing your inbox is likely to be littered with news on the latest AI visibility trackers. With so many solutions on the market it can leave you with a difficult decision,…
Tracking your performance in Google’s AI Overviews & AI Mode Google is giving us brand new information within our Google Search Consoles to tell us how our content is being used in AI Overviews, AI…
Alongside a possibly related announcement from Google comes a Google Search Publisher Conduct Requirement from the UK Competition and Markets Authority. Google’s strategic market status means it must…
Everyone in SEO knows Google Core Updates: overnight, the visibility of domains shifts. Our data now shows the same pattern in ChatGPT. On May 23, 2026, the switch from GPT-5 mini to GPT-5.5 shifted…
Search News You Can Use May 12, 2026 Here are the topics I have been discussing with my clients recently. 1. A rise in crawled - currently not indexed pages There has been significant chatter on…
We’ve packed our bags, triple-checked the weather forecast (don’t want to jinx it, but it’s looking 👌), and we’re getting ready to crawl our way down to the coast. The Screaming Frog team is…
As SEOs, we obsess over performance. Speed. Crawl efficiency. Core Web Vitals. Conversions. But we rarely talk about the environmental cost of what we ship. The internet now accounts for roughly 4%…
In an analysis of ~45 million keywords in which Google displayed their Top Stories SERP feature, the 1,000 most prominent domains accounted for 97.3% of all listings. That’s just one of many insights…
Welcome to Detailed Q4: Our fourth quarterly report sharing insights from the companies dominating Google search results and what they’re doing to stay ahead of the competition. SEO is going through…
Welcome to Detailed Q3: Our third quarterly report sharing insights from the companies dominating Google search results and what they’re doing to stay ahead of the competition. SEO is going through…
– Updated the top 20 forums table to compare July vs February – Updated Reddit traffic chart for the last two years – Ran all numbers again for July compared to February – Updated the stats for how…
Welcome to Detailed Q2: Our second-ever quarterly report sharing insights from the companies dominating Google search results and what they’re doing to stay ahead of the competition. SEO is going…
– Documented how Reddit are now dominating results in October – Updated the number of first-place rankings the top 100 domains achieved – Three digital goliaths have 36 sites in the top 100 in…
I recently analyzed 250,000 English-language search results, primarily to answer a specific question: Do sites owned by large media companies attain more first-place rankings than independent…
