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New Search Engine Long Tail Statistics

Hot off the press… Hitwise just published updated statistics on long tail queries and search engine market share. Have a look!

*** Based on the percentage changes above, we can see that long tail searches are dominating on the search engines.  People are starting to realize that they can get better results on more [...]

4 Internet Marketing Statistics You Should Know

More reasons to rely on organic SEO…

When Internet users look for information, services or products to buy, more than 8 out of 10 rely on search engines, not simple surfing.
85% of these searchers don’t click on paid links.
63% of links that are naturally displayed at the top of search engines get clicks.
Over the last year, [...]

Interesting Search Engine & Blogging Statistics

Here are some fun search engine and blogging statistics I pulled up.  I like doing this about once a year to see what is going on in the search space to see if there are any trends I’m missing.  Plus, it’s just really interesting data to look at.  Most comes from comscore, hitwise, and technorati.
enjoy…
Blogging [...]

HitTail.com — Still One of the Best SEO Tools Out There

If you read this blog every once in a while, you have probably heard of Hittail.com, a free service that allows you to discover “long tail” keywords, thus allowing you to optimize for those words, and drive more traffic to your site. I wrote about hittail back in November of last year when it [...]

Have you Been Slapped by Google?

Yet another post about search engine marketing… if you get tired of it please let me know!
Google releases huge updates so fast and so often, that they deserve proper attention. They are so funny about new releases… there is never any fanfare or press releases. They just keep on quietly [...]

Gmail Opens to the Public

Craigslist.com Individual City Rundown

What are some of the most popular cities on Craigslist??
The percentage represents percentage of traffic over the entire site, and the 2nd number is the amount of listings they had at the time of this post.
•    sfbay.craigslist.org – 14% – 305800
•    newyork.craigslist.org – 10% – 345715
•    losangeles.craigslist.org – 8% – 192174
•    seattle.craigslist.org – 4% – [...]