Gordon Donnelly

Gordon Donnelly

Gordon Donnelly is an SEO jedi who proudly honed his chops at WordStream for 5+ years. Today, you’ll find him at home in Boston, building Triple Whale’s world-class e-commerce analytics platform, or helping businesses of all sizes grow through SEO, advertising, and content marketing.

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Report: Featured Snippets Losing Ground to Direct Answers?

A new report shows that Google has been swapping out featured snippets for direct answers. In this post, we give you the lowdown on the change, and explain how it might affect the future of organic search.

Google’s "More Results" Test Could Spell Drastic Change in Paid Search

In this post, we’ll give a full rundown on the More Results test as it has unfolded, and discuss the potentially substantial ripples it could send throughout the world of paid and organic search.

33 Voice Search Statistics to Prepare You for the Voice Search Revolution

The voice search hoopla is at an all-time high—but how much of what you’re hearing is data-backed? Here at WordStream, we’re all about the facts. And nothing nails down the facts a movement like cold, hard statistics. In this post, we run through 33 voice

The Rise & Fall of Google’s "Zero Search Results" Experiment

In an algorithm update that took effect March 13, Google undertook an experiment to deliver a single featured snippet for queries that didn’t demand full search results pages—i.e., “zero search results.” After just a week of live testing, the grand experiment has come to a close. In this post, we take a look at the rise and fall (for now) of Google’s “zero search results.”

33 Instagram Captions That Will Break Your Like-Ometer

Want to learn how to generate tons of likes on your Instagram posts? In this post, we run through 33 hilarious Instagram captions, and teach you how to adapt those captions to your own content. Get ready for more Instagram likes, followers, and fans!

Every Important Google Algorithm Update Since 2003

Google's search algorithm has evolved quite a bit over the years. Here's a to-date history of every important Google algorithm update since 2003.

74 Super-Useful Facebook Statistics for 2024

Want to find out the best time to post on Facebook? How about the average cost of Facebook ads in your industry? Start optimizing your social strategy for 2018 with these 75 super-useful Facebook stats.

5 Content Promotion Strategies to Drive More Traffic While Writing Less

Some content marketers spend nearly 80% of their time promoting content, and only 20% creating it. Find out what ratio you should be shooting, and discover some new strategies to promote your content.

How I Achieved a 48% Success Rate Using Twitter for Link Building

Tired of low link building success rates? Find out how we leveraged Twitter for outreach to receive an insane 48% of the links we asked for.