Search Engine Land

MARCH 17, 2023

Google Image Search launches colored filter buttons 2016: After testing various combinations, Google launched new filter buttons in the image search results. Bing Ads testing Social Extensions: Link search ads to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr 2016: The ad extension was in beta in the U.S.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

What began as a blog post in 2016 has evolved into a yearly exploration and survey to founders and investors to discover what it really takes to raise capital for SaaS companies. The Evolution of SaaS Funding From 2016 to 2021. Originally, in 2016, Point 9 measured MRR, but they have since changed their focus to ARR).

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2024

He previously co-founded the cloud data pipeline company Stitch (acquired by Talend in 2018) and business intelligence platform RJMetrics (acquired by Adobe by way of Magento Commerce in 2016). 23:10) Diving into ecosystem-led growth (ELG). (24:14) Prior to RJMetrics, Bob worked on the Investment Team of Insight Partners.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2021

Even ten years on, in 2015, it still had just 10 full-time employees. from 2015 to 2016 … and then exploded: UIPath History. 2016: $3.5m Top 50 customers grew bookings 81x since 2016, and all 2016 customers together grew 57x. These 2016 customers really leaned in on UiPath. 2014: $500k rev.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 4, 2023

2016: Here’s what the move meant for those managing Bing Ads campaigns. 2009: Mayer said that “while search is 90 per cent solved, the last 10 per cent will take decades to complete.” 2017: Chrome’s DevTools for SEO: 10 ways to use these browser features for your SEO audits by Aleyda Solis. by Jacob Baadsgaard.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

” Google also argues that Microsoft approached Apple multiple times – in 2009, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2020 – proposing to make Bing the default search engine in Apple’s Safari web browser. That is competition.” He said: “We were just big enough to play but probably not big enough to win, if that makes sense.”

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 10, 2023

Google to bloggers: Disclose & nofollow links when reviewing gifted products 2016: Google issued new best practices to bloggers who received free products. Report: Brands May Lose 10K to 60K Visitors Per Month To PPC Trademark Bidding 2015: Study looked at trademark usage in paid search across 10 industry verticals.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 5, 2023

2022: The Shops section showed three to 10 retailers based on their organic search rankings. 2016: William Stanley extorted individuals and companies by threatening to engage in illegitimate SEO work: posting “fraudulent comments and creating negative reviews online, if the victim did not pay him a certain sum of money.”.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

100k+ customers have gone from 50% of revenue in 2016 to almost 80% today: #2. 10 new products this year. From 2 $1m ARR customers in 2016 to 145 today. Datadog isn’t leaving the smaller customers behind, but they are increasingly a smaller percentage of revenue. More product, more products, more products.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Google Won’t Provide SEO Certifications To Webmasters Or SEO Companies 2016: Google discussed internally if they should add an SEO certification program and decided not to do so. Google, Getty Images enter a multi-year global licensing partnership 2018: The deal effectively ended Getty’s European antitrust complaint against Google.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 9, 2023

Searchmetrics study shows most apps are not utilizing Google App Indexing 2016: While most top websites had apps, only 30% of those Android apps and 19% of those iOS apps had deployed App Indexing. A new ranking treatment for “top-rated” products was live on mobile and desktop.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 24, 2023

Google Search Console users experience crawl stats report data issue 2021: Between March 10 and 23 there was a data issue with the crawl stats report, no Google Search performance issues were associated with this data bug. Opinions expressed in these articles are those of the author and not necessarily Search Engine Land.

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STAR Results

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Top companies are already building tactical plans to hit the road running in 2016. Have your reps identified their top 10-20 accounts? The sales rep should have a clear idea of any new marketing programs available to help kick off Q1 and know which customers they need to be seeing in the first week of the year.

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SaaStr

MAY 1, 2023

UiPath has had an incredible history, taking 10 years to get to that first $1m in ARR … and then turning into one of the fastest growing software companies to $1 Billion in ARR ever ! 2016: $3.5m And we’re adding the very last batch of speakers A new incredible addition is Daniel Dines, founder and co-CEO of UiPath.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 13, 2023

2016: Amit Singhal, Google’s senior vice president of search, did almost all of his searches for more than a year on mobile devices. 2016: “It felt like the right time to freshen things up,” said Microsoft spokesperson. 2016: Google documented the attraction with tiny Street View cars as though it were a real place.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 23, 2023

Google’s top 3 search ranking factors In 2016, Google’s Andrey Lipattsev revealed that links, content and RankBrain were the top three ranking signals in Google’s search algorithm. RankBrain was the third most important ranking factor. Google told us so in 2015. As for the other two?

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 17, 2023

Google Image Search launches colored filter buttons 2016: After testing various combinations, Google launched new filter buttons in the image search results. Bing Ads testing Social Extensions: Link search ads to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr 2016: The ad extension was in beta in the U.S.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 19, 2023

10, 2013: Google’s Matt Cutts: Guest Blogging Abuse & Spam On The Rise However, this was a clear, strong and definitive message – and one that would be discussed for many months to come. Google Search Console Adds AMP Error Report 2016: The report let you drill down to specific error types and URLs.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 21, 2023

There would still be 10 unique listings, as before. Court Documents Show Google Paid Apple $1 Billion For Safari Default Placement 2016: According to court documents and testimony in Oracle’s copyright suit against Google, “Apple received $1 billion from its rival in 2014.” of US search query volume, while Bing powered 32.2%

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Published – May 2016. Published – June 2016. Published – January 2016. Published – November 2016. Published – April 2016. It is an informative book that will help you improve your sales team’s productivity and performance. Get this sales management book on Amazon. The Sales Boss.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

10 years later, they hit $100m ARR in 2016 and growth just compounded from there. AppFolio is what the markets want in a software+ company, at least in 2023. Let’s dig in. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. Steady, Strong Growth — Since 2006 Appfolio was founded way back in 2006, and they never quit.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 11, 2023

In 2016, Google Panda became baked into Google’s core ranking algorithm. 2016: Google confirmed what was described as a “massive update” was a core ranking algorithm update, not an expected Penguin update. 2009: 78% of SMB respondents said they dedicated 10% or less of their overall budget to marketing efforts.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Survey: Local SEO an ‘artisanal’ discipline dominated by small agencies 2019: Roughly 53% of firms doing local SEO had 10 or fewer clients. Google Adds JSON-LD Support For Structured Data Markup 2016: Google started supporting JSON-LD for structured data markup for reviews and products rich snippets.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Yandex Rolls Out Mobile-Friendly Algorithm In Russia, Code Name Vladivostok 2016: Pages that were not mobile-friendly might not rank as well. Google local knowledge panel testing promotion box 2017: It allowed Google My Business owners to post deals and promotions below their core listing.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 5, 2016

Your 2016 will be better for it! Now — not later — is the time to sit down with pen and paper and thoroughly answer the below questions honestly. What did I change in my sales process this past year and what do I need to change going forward? Do I know how […].

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But in another random search for the best restaurants in my area, it refused to show me more than the 10 it had already presented, even when I told it I wasn’t interested in those. Over the last week, we’ve seen Bing help me find the best coffee shops in Seattle , and give me a pretty OK itinerary for a three-day weekend in NYC.

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SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

SaaStr is turning 10! This led to our first meet-ups in 2013 and 2014, the first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , the industry’s leading podcast in 2016, the first SaaS founder coworking space in 2017, and SaaStr Pro , the first learning management system for SaaS founders in 2018. Here’s to the Next 10!

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Google Has Penalized A Link Network In Japan 2016: After being quiet for over a year on link network penalties, Google said it had penalized a large, Japanese-based link network. AdWords App For Android Now Supports Universal App Campaigns 2016: New conversion columns were also available in the latest update.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Historically, the headlines read “venture capital is dead ” every 7 to 10 years. Instead, we have remained extremely consistent in our strategy over the past 10 years, leading rounds at a steady pace that allows us to be dedicated, thoughtful board members. I led Series B in Casetext in 2016. Venture is cyclical.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 12, 2023

2016: A summary of some of the questions, answers and additional confusion around the most recent Google core algorithm update and Panda becoming part of Google’s core ranking signals. 2016: Some users were seeing the new feature on Bing when searching for [speed test] or [internet speed test].

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2022

To celebrate 10 years of SaaStr, we’re revisiting some classic podcast episodes. In April 2016, Shippo had only 22 employees and was just beginning to scale. As of 2016, when this recording took place, customers’ expectations around free shipping grew, with 63% of all eCommerce shoppers hoping to see free shipping at checkout.

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SaaStr

MAY 19, 2023

You can see here multiples are touching the lows of early 2016 and are even lower than 2015 and those early days of SaaS. Let me just share 10 Simple Suggestions on How to Make Fundraising a Smidge More Successful in 2023: #1. But it also helps you get the deal done. For me, for example, a $4m check just has to work.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 12, 2023

After rebounding in 2021, social media saw its smallest level of growth in 10 years, according to the IAB. in 2017 IAB: Paid search was 48 percent of total digital spend in 2016 IAB: desktop and mobile paid search bring in roughly half of 2015 digital ad revenue The post U.S. In 2022, revenue from social platforms was $59.7

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In last week’s Workshop Wednesday , held every Weds at 10 a.m. Now, the lows appear to stabilize around the levels we saw in 2016. Change #4: Not All Revenue Is Created Equal At Notion, they held a rule of thumb that companies shouldn’t spend more than 10% of revenue coming from professional services like implementation.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Let’s all be clear, 2021 was insane: * SPACs worth billions with no revenue * Multiples magically tripled * Fintechs with 10% GMs worth same as 80% GMs * #5 in market got same premium as #1 * Growth stage seen as free money * Seed VCs bought in $3B-10B rounds vs sell. — Jason Be Kind Lemkin (@jasonlk) September 28, 2022.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

out of 10. This included “ Monty the Penguin ” in 2014, “ Man on the Moon ” in 2015, “ Buster the Boxer ” in 2016, and “ The Boy and the Piano ” in 2018. The World Needs More Santas | Coca-Cola ,” with a creative effectiveness score (CES) of 7.61 The LEGO Group Holiday Hero ,” with a CES of 7.55 Duracell | Bunny Saves Christmas ” 5.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Google pays Apple a share of revenue generated from Chrome search traffic, according to a new report from The Register. Revenue share reveal. – CMA, Mobile ecosystems, Market study final report According to The Register, that redacted word is “Chrome.”

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