Stephen Kenwright's Search Report

Stephen Kenwright, director of search at Branded3, rounds up the big developments in SEO, PPC and display to help you plan your search strategy.

Google changes how it deals with redirects

Opinion: Stephen Kenwright's Search Report

The obvious place to start this week would have been how bullish I am on Facebook’s chances in search; but since Rebecca Stewart... Read more

Stephen Kenwright - 01/08/2016

Modern Marketing

Yahoo’s missing $120bn search engine

Opinion: Stephen Kenwright's Search Report

Yahoo, once a business with a $125bn valuation at the height of the dotcom boom, has agreed to sell its core internet business to... Read more

Stephen Kenwright - 25/07/2016

Modern Marketing

Bing sells more ads than you think and Google sells ads faster

Opinion: Stephen Kenwright's Search Report

When the last Search Report was published I wrote that Google was on a mission to monetise more organic space with the ability to... Read more

Stephen Kenwright - 21/07/2016

Digital Advertising

Google Performance Summit recap: search ads, search ads everywhere

Opinion: Stephen Kenwright's Search Report

Attendees at Google Performance Summit (the search engine’s annual event for customers of its AdWords and Analytics platforms) were... Read more

Stephen Kenwright - 31/05/2016

Digital Advertising

How Google is going all in on app search

Opinion: Stephen Kenwright's Search Report

At last week’s I/O conference Google made some huge statements about mobile apps. Firstly – and most obviously – there... Read more

Stephen Kenwright - 23/05/2016

Mobile

Why we'll see more prominence for organic results (especially payday loans) in search

Opinion: Stephen Kenwright's Search Report

Ads for entire industries aren’t banned often but last week Google announced it would be banning search ads for payday loans ... Read more

Stephen Kenwright - 16/05/2016

Digital Advertising

What we need to learn from how Google fought spam

Opinion: Stephen Kenwright's Search Report

Google has published a report into webspam trends in 2015, detailing how its search quality team responded to manipulative tactics used... Read more

Stephen Kenwright - 09/05/2016

Digital Advertising

The internet of Bings: how Microsoft reached 45% of UK searchers

Opinion: Stephen Kenwright's Search Report

In a blog post on Thursday last week Microsoft’s GM of Search and Cortana Ryan Gavin announced: ... Read more

Stephen Kenwright - 02/05/2016

Modern Marketing

Location, location, location: How this week's big search changes affect local businesses

Opinion: Stephen Kenwright's Search Report

The most substantial changes this week are specific to location-based businesses, not just in Google Maps but in AdWords and Google&rsquo... Read more

Stephen Kenwright - 25/04/2016

Digital Advertising

Google takes action over bloggers' product reviews - the Search Report tackles this month's headlines

Opinion: Stephen Kenwright's Search Report

In the first instalment of the Search Report Stephen Kenwright, director of search at Branded3 dissects the biggest headlines from the... Read more

Stephen Kenwright - 18/04/2016

Digital Advertising

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