We have a client who was approached a few days ago by a company who calls themselves Front Page Google They claim that they have secured the rights to the top 7 results in the Google location map which appears at the top of the serp in many service location searches – you know, the [...]
As expected nielsonwire reports Google was the top search site in June, with almost 2/3rds of the search market share of all US searches during the month. Google has lost 1.1% share over the past year according to their figures, but there is some movement between Bing and Yahoo compared to May. Bing has picked [...]
Came across a check list in Search Engine Land that may help regular viewers of our blog. We would like to reinforce to our clients and potential clients that we don’t use any of the worst practices talked of by the author Stephen Spencer. Maybe that is why our clients get found so well in [...]
According to Hitwise’s New Zealand January newsletter, that is the case. 92.7% of all New Zealand searches in December were from people using google.co.nz or google.com. We must admit that this figure surprises us, considering that http://nz.yahoo.com/ (old Xtra’s home page) is probably the default home page opening in at least 25% (our guess) of [...]
Hitwise has released the latest statistics for search engine share in the United States for April 2008. Google has again hit a new high, jumping up 0.65% from the prior month’s high, to 68% of the US search market.
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Every day we see or hear horror stories about businesses who have invested a whole lot of money getting their website made by a great (or not so great) web design company. Some have spent several thousand dollars creating their site, and many spend even more money on search engine optimisation or search engine marketing [...]