Archive for March 5th, 2008

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 [...]