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Archive for March, 2008

Opening Day Drives Baseball Traffic

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Today should be a national holiday.  It’s the opening day of the Major League Baseball season.
Here’s a list of search engine terms driving traffic to the baseball category.
1.  MLB, MLB.com, MLB rumors — 5.33%
2.  Chicago Cubs — 0.97%
3.  Los Angeles Dodgers — 0.94%
4.  ESPN — 0.93%
5.  Seattle Mariners — 0.84%
6.  New York Yankees — 0.70%
7.  Chicago [...]

Search Engine Marketing Growth

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Search Engine Marketing growth continued in 2007 and actually exceeded expectations, according to a study by Intellisurvey.
For 2007, total search engine marketing was $12.2 billion, up from $9.4 billion in 2006.  The study concludes that search engine marketing will be a $25.2 billion market by 2011.
Of the total in 2007, the lion’s share of the [...]

Internet Usage by Country

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

While the United States still has the greatest number of internet users in the world, China is closing in on the USA and will soon take the lead.  Internet Users Listed Below in millions.
USA 208
China 162
Japan 87
India 60
Brazil 42
Germany 38
South Korea 34
United Kingdom 33
France 31
Italy 28
Russia 25
Canada 22
Mexico 22
Spain 18
Iran 18
Vietnam 17
Indonesia 16
Australia 15
Netherlands 14
Taiwan [...]

Text-Link-Ads Promo Code

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

If you’ve ever purchased text link advertising, you’ve probably heard about Text-Link-Ads.  Text Link Ads is offering a 15% discount with a promo code in the month of march with the Text Link Ads promo code of (who would figure?) MARCH.

USA Search Engine Market Share

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Search engine market share continues to flow to Google, according to statistics from HitWise.  For February,2008, Google hit an all-time high with 66.4% of the overall search market.  Despite this new high, Google stock is in a tailspin.
There are also rumors of a merger between Yahoo and MSN which would make the combined company a [...]

Search Engine Market Share

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Search engine market share as analyzed by the share of total searches made in the USA.
Google  53.0%
Yahoo  17.5%
MSN  15.1%
AOL/Time Warner  5.8%
eBay  3.8%
(Source:  conScore  December 2007)

Why SEO is SO Important

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Ever wonder why search engine optimization is so important?  If you’re not a believer now, check out these stats from Forrester Research (2006):
*  93% of all internet traffic is generated from search engines.
*  97% of searchers never look past the top three positions. (This seems high to me, but it’s their results nevertheless.)
*  76.7% of [...]

Best of the Web Promo Codes

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

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Most directories aren’t worth the trouble to sign up for them for SEO value any more, but that’s not the case with Best of the [...]