Google, Yahoo and Bing Search Engine Market Share December 2009.

Google, Yahoo and Bing December 2009 market share was just announced by ComScore.com this week. According to them,”Americans conducted 14.7 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.7 percent search market share, virtually unchanged from 65.6 percent in November. Microsoft Sites grabbed 10.7 percent market share, up 0.4 percentage points versus November.” Click here to read the rest of their data.
read more

Does fresh content increase Google rankings?

One of the comments most often bantered around by SEO novices and wanna be SEO experts is, “Google loves” fresh content so you have to add new content to your site all the time in order to increase or maintain your rankings. As an SEO with 10 plus years of experience I would like to categorically say, “this is not true.”  Changing content with the hopes that Google will see it as fresh is exactly that, “hope.” It is Voodoo SEO plain and simple. If you don’t believe me, go ahead and add some new content to your home page and come back in 10 days and let...
read more

Google, Yahoo and Bing Search Engine Market Share October 2009.

Google, Yahoo and Bing October 2009 market share was just announced by Comscore.com. According to them, “Americans conducted more than 14.3 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.4 percent search market share. Microsoft sites are up a nominal .5% percent market share and Yahoo is down .8%.” Essentially Google continues to gain market share. Click here to read the rest of their data.
read more

Icann approves web addresses in different languages.

ICANN the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has approved the creation of URL addresses in multiple languages. These changes will have profound impact on Internet marketing and search engine optimization in countries that do not use roman language and characters. This will make necessary for companies desiring to do business internationally to design and launch websites with the corresponding language specific URLs and content in multiple countries. This will open opportunities for website design firms in those countries as well as SEO firms. To learn more about what is being called...
read more

Google, Yahoo and Bing Search Engine Market Share September 2009.

Google, Yahoo and Bing Spetember 2009 market share was just announced by Comscore.com. According to them, “Americans conducted more than 13.8 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 64.9 percent search market share. Microsoft sites are up a nominal .1% percent market share and Yahoo is down .5%.” Essentially Google continues to gain market share. Click here to read the rest of their data.
read more

Twitter followers - how to create a large following in a matter of months.

This article is about how to create Twitter followers. As a long time Internet marketer, I’m always cautious about jumping on board with new trends. I prefer to look at things from a ready, aim, fire, approach especially if a new trend appears to be very labor intensive. Recently I have been reading about and looking closely at Twitter. Please don’t call me a technology laggard (although sometimes I am). Despite all of the buzz about Twitter I just couldn’t find a success story I could relate to. Finally I found out a close friend of mine was having great success creating his...
read more

How to Twitter - Book review of Twitterville by the L.A. Times.

How to Twitter or how does one Twitter is a very common question these days? I found an excellent book review by the L.A. Times of this book, Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods. In the review they suggest this book really helps, “make sense of Twitter.” One of the interesting items of note is the discussion in how companies can and have used Twitter for online reputation management. I hope you enjoy the book!
read more

Google, Yahoo and Bing Search Engine Market Share August 2009.

Google, Yahoo and Bing August 2009 market share was just announced by Comscore.com this week. According to them, “Americans conducted more than 13.9 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 64.6 percent search market share. Microsoft Sites grabbed 9.3 percent market share, a 0.4-percentage point gain versus July.” Click here to read the rest of their data. What I find interesting is people are claiming Bing is growing market share at the expense of Google but the data shows this is not true. Despite their multi-million dollar advertising campaign, Bing has only taken...
read more

Google Caffeine Beta Test of upcoming search changes at Google.

Google is working on delivering different results in a new update to their search engine called “Caffeine”. If you would like to try your own beta tests click here. The results many people are seeing include a lot of social media sites and Twitter in particular. I have found for transactional queries there are fewer social media results and the emphasis still appears be the relevance of the content. Please share you impressions.
read more

Americans Turn to Career Sites During Economic Downturn.

This is interesting data from Comscore “a leader in measuring the digital world, they released a June 2009 overview of the career services & development category based on data from comScore Media Metrix and comScore Marketer. The study revealed that more than 65 million Americans visited the category in June, representing a 10-percent increase versus year ago, ranking it as one of the top-growing site categories. Seven of the top ten sites in the category achieved double-digit gains during that period.” Click here to read the complete set of data compiled.
read more
Page 1 of 2912345»...Last »