Tag: "search engine"
SMO or SEO – Which one is more effective for small businesses
Social Media Optimization or SMO is a term that is being used repetitively these days even though many people still do not know the meanings or more importantly, the enormous scope of Social Media Marketing. The idea behind SMO is the same that worked behind SEO and that is to generate more and more traffic, […]
Read More | ShareLinking to Google Search Results Page for SEO
A trend I have noticed lately is people linking to a Google Search Engine Results Page (SERP). But why? I have seen many high ranking sites and blogs doing this kind of linking and I am trying to understand why. Does linking to high quality sites improve your own SEO? I am under the proviso […]
Read More | ShareGoogle +1 Button rolled out to Google Australia
Hi All – just a quick note to let you know Google has rolled out the Google +1 button to their Australian search engine. The Google +1 button will now show for all users who are logged into their Google Account and running a search on google.com.au Why not go and run a search for […]
Read More | ShareSearch Engine Tips
If you want to maximise the traffic coming from Search Engines like Google, Bing & Yahoo have a look at these tips we have put together to improve your website search engine rankings. You may think you are following standard SEO best practices, but there may be more things you can do to get some […]
Read More | ShareMobile Search Market Share Statistics, April 2011 – Australia
Today let’s have a look at the Mobile Search Market share amongst the leading Search Engines being used in Australia. The 3 main search engines used in Australia are (obviously): – Google – Bing – Yahoo Here is a graph showing the current market shares: As you can see Google has over 99% of the […]
Read More | ShareGoogle’s Algorithmic Farmer Update Aims to Rank High Quality Unique Sites
Google has recently rolled out the Google Farmer Update, a major improvement on Google’s secret ranking algorithm, aiming to better rank high quality websites on its search results pages and web index. Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand (a popular US Search Engine Blog) has named it as Google ‘Farmer’ update so that there will be a […]
Read More | ShareAttack of the Google bomb
There was a time not long ago when a Google search for “Holocaust” revealed top results indicating that it didn’t happen. In 1999, a search using the Google search engine for “more evil than Satan himself” would have led to the Microsoft homepage. Leading up to the Iraq war, an online hunt for “weapons of […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Search Engine Market update October 2010
Looking at the Search Engine market shares for October there really are not many surprises. Unlike the USA – Yahoo in Australia has never commanded much of the search queries generated whilst Google has been around. Even with the Yahoo7! partnership and limited TV advertising Yahoo receives this has not impacted their search market share […]
Read More | ShareTwitter is the Number 2 Search Engine
Biz Stone, Twitter Co-Founder has recently commented that Twitter search queries are up 33% in a month. Looking at data from Searchengineland Twitter is now the number 2 queried search engine on the internet. Twitter does 18 billion searches a month, working off the 600 million per day figure? The figure is now closer to […]
Read More | ShareMySpace Google Agreement up for Renewal
It is believed News Corporation is in discussions with Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo about replacing MySpace’s search engine advertising agreement. Google has the current agreement which is expected to expire in August. The agreement is $300 million/ year in revenue for MySpace and it very unlikely they will get anywhere near this figure going forward. […]
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