Archive for March, 2008
March 31st, 2008 at 06:54pm
Under Internet Statistics
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 White Sox — 0.70%
8. Cincinnati Reds — 0.63%
9. Boston Red Sox — 0.63%
10.Houston Astros — 0.63%
(Source — Hitwise)
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March 23rd, 2008 at 10:52am
Under Internet Statistics+ search engine optimization
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 revenue came from paid search at 87% followed by Search Engine Optimization at 11%. Paid inclusion accounted for less than 1%.
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March 20th, 2008 at 04:39pm
Under Internet Statistics
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 13
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March 12th, 2008 at 10:43am
Under Promo Codes for Webmasters+ search engine optimization
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.
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March 6th, 2008 at 01:10pm
Under Internet Statistics
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 more formidable competitor with 28% market share. Ask, which has been doing some heavy advertising recently, showed no significant gain.
Google — 66.4%
Yahoo — 21%
MSN — 7%
Ask — 4.16%
46 others — 1.87%
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March 5th, 2008 at 09:04am
Under Internet Statistics
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)
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March 5th, 2008 at 08:29am
Under Internet Statistics+ search engine optimization
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 Google users use the natural organic listings rather than the paid pay-per-click listings.
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March 4th, 2008 at 01:11pm
Under Promo Codes for Webmasters
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 Web. You can still get some SEO bounce for registering your site with Best of the Web.
Best of the Web is offering a discount promo code for March only when you register. The promo code gives you a 25% discount on any services purchased at Best of the Web. Just enter SAVEBIG in the promo code box when you check out at Best of the Web. The Best of the Web promo code is valid in March, 2008 only.
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