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UK Search engine market research in depth
Avatar Story Found By: yetanotherben 1069 Days ago
News Source: http://eduardblacquiere.com
Category: SEM
An awesome resource for webmasters and SEO’s operating in the UK from Eduard Blacquière..."Hitwise analyzed the top 1,500 terms searched for in the 12 weeks ending 3rd January 2009 (the last quarter of 2008) across the top 5 UK search engines,… Read more
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Hitwise Intelligence UK: Impact of the T-Mobile G1 (google phone) launch
Avatar Story Found By: ricardos 1230 Days ago
News Source: http://weblogs.hitwise.com
Category: Vertical Search
Impact of the T-Mobile G1 (google phone) launch online in the UK Read more
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The "Long Tail of Search" Is Really Really Really Long
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Moderator Story Found By: toddmintz 1193 Days ago
News Source: http://weblogs.hitwise.com
Category: SEM
Dustin Woodard does a guest post at the Hitwise blog which shows that the Long Tail of Search could actually be 90+ % of natural search traffic--meaning the tail could be without much of a head or body. Read more
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Facebook - leads in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore according to Hitwise | Krustyfries
Avatar Story Found By: krustyfries 1153 Days ago
News Source: http://www.krustyfries.com
Category: SEM
According to Hitwise in Sep 2008, Facebook now leads in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore. Facebook has gained market share in all markets, and at the expense of all their closest rivals. It will be interesting to see if Facebook can… Read more
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How to Microblog Your Way To Success With Twitter
Avatar Story Found By: Lyndon 1105 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wordtracker.com
Category: Social Media
A few hints and tips from Wordtracker regarding the World’s favourite microblogging tool. Read more
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Facebook & YouTube contribute to bumper Xmas for social nets
Avatar Story Found By: rgoad 1139 Days ago
News Source: http://weblogs.hitwise.com
Category: SEM
According to Hitwise it’s been a bumper Christmas for the social networks in the UK: Facebook reached its highest ever traffic levels accounting for 1 in 22 visits on Xmas Day; YouTube overtook Hotmail to become the 3rd most popular site in the UK;… Read more
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Google Gets 70.77% Share of July US Searches
Avatar Story Found By: mercylivi 1279 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
New data from Hitwise showed that Google is still leading the major search engine pack gaining 2% increase in July’s share of US searches from previous month. Comparing the current data with that of last year, Google has posted a 10% in share of US… Read more
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The DIY trend: The Market and the Search for “How To”
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Moderator Story Found By: graywolf 1285 Days ago
News Source: http://www.trendsspotting.com
Category: SEM
How To and DIY articles have been time proven tools for publishers to build links and evergreen content. Trendspotting takes a look at the trend and has ideas to help you jump start the process. Read more
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The Early Numbers U.S Stats for Cuil.com from Hitwise
Avatar Story Found By: yourseomentor 1290 Days ago
News Source: http://weblogs.hitwise.com
Category: Searching
Suprising numbers from hitwise on Cuil.com’s stats. Funny thing is that 25.7% came from Google! Read more
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Search is Growing, But Not All Engines | Search Marketing Sage
Avatar Story Found By: aaustin 1306 Days ago
News Source: http://www.search-mojo.com
Category: SEM
According to Hitwise yesterday, Google’s share of total search traffic increased again to 69.17% for the month of June 2008. Yahoo received 19.62% of all traffic, and MSN received 5.46%. The numbers represent losses in share for Yahoo and MSN and a… Read more
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Google Share of Searches Almost 70 Percent
Avatar Story Found By: kevinheisler 1307 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com
Category: SEM
Google-Yahoo combined would now garner 78% of U.S. searches (Hitwise data, June 2008). Google’s magic number last month? 69 and no signs of slowing down. Ask is hanging in there, too. Read more
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Twitter more popular in UK than US, traffic up 485% already this year
Avatar Story Found By: rgoad 1306 Days ago
News Source: http://weblogs.hitwise.com
Category: Social Media
Hitwise data shows that UK Internet visits to www.twitter.com have increased by 631% over the last 12 months, with 485% of that growth coming this year. Twitter is more popular with Brits than Americans: last week the site’s share of UK Internet… Read more
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Local Search - Google Maps Still Growing
Avatar Story Found By: Makakman 1309 Days ago
News Source: http://www.smallbusinesssem.com
Category: SEM
Further evidence from Hitwise that the growth of Google Maps is still strong. Read more
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Hitwise Intelligence - Robin Goad - UK: Hottest bands on the social networks and music blogs
Avatar Story Found By: elwanderluster 1312 Days ago
News Source: http://weblogs.hitwise.com
Category: Social Media
UK Top 20 band / artist searches sending traffic to Social Networking and Forum Sites Read more
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Is Google Building a Media Empire Based on Your Searches? Of Course.
Avatar Story Found By: Wiep 1313 Days ago
News Source: http://mashable.com
Category: Vertical Search
Yesterday Google moved into the realm of virtual worlds with the launch of Lively. While some bloggers and analysts were surprised by the move, Hitwise is taking the news as an opportunity to say “we told you so!” Read more
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Searchers look for ways to save money in a recession
Avatar Story Found By: rgoad 1312 Days ago
News Source: http://weblogs.hitwise.com
Category: Searching
Last month Hitwise data shows that there were almost 170,000 distinct search terms in the UK containing the phrase ’how to’, and this number continues to grow. Amongst these, there has been a marked increase in ’frugal’ searches such… Read more
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Twitter growth continues despite outages
Avatar Story Found By: mowzart 1314 Days ago
News Source: http://weblogs.hitwise.com
Category: Social Media
Twitter has been a hot topic again over the past couple of days with speculation circulating that the company may purchase Summize. Although much of the activity on Twitter takes place via mobile, the traffic to the website has continued to grow… Read more
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22% increase in UK paid brand search since Google’s trademark changes
Avatar Story Found By: rgoad 1333 Days ago
News Source: http://weblogs.hitwise.com
Category: PPC
Hitwise data shows that the top 100 brands in the UK are now paying for 22% more traffic from their key brand terms since the Google trademark changes took affect. Read more
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Google Increases Search Share in UK to 87%
Avatar Story Found By: KDye 1333 Days ago
News Source: http://www.vertical-leap.co.uk
Category: Searching
Recent Hitwise data looking at the split of if people use the "pages from the UK" checkbox, also shows this amazing stat. Read more
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Don’t Overlook the Power of Keywords in the Singular Form
Avatar Story Found By: ViperChill 1334 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
See? The difference is amazing. According to Google [laptop] is three times as popular as [laptops] throughout the world (in UK the singular version is twice as popular). Hard to believe, isn’t it? So either Google is wrong (which is even harder to… Read more
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UK Blog traffic reaches all time high
Avatar Story Found By: rgoad 1342 Days ago
News Source: http://weblogs.hitwise.com
Category: Social Media
Hitwise data reveals that blogs are currently experiencing their highest ever share of UK Internet traffic. They are also the second largest source of image search traffic after social networks. Read more
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Postcode searches and SEO (Hitwise data)
Avatar Story Found By: rgoad 1349 Days ago
News Source: http://weblogs.hitwise.com
Category: SEO
Hitwise data shows that search terms related to postcodes, destinations, directions and locations present a significant opportunity for SEO and / or paid search. Many of the most frequently searched for terms in this area currently have low success… Read more
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Is Social Networking a Broadband Thing?
Avatar Story Found By: thibaut 1355 Days ago
News Source: http://social-media-optimization.com
Category: Social Media
Interesting report from Hitwise UK last week about rural towns in the UK have higher broadband penetration than urban areas and as a result, more rural area users are visiting social networks than urban viewers. Read more
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Social networking and online retail more popular in rural than urban UK
Avatar Story Found By: rgoad 1360 Days ago
News Source: http://weblogs.hitwise.com
Category: Social Media
Following the recent Ofcom report which found that broadband was more popular in rural than urban areas in the UK, I had a look at the Hitwise regional data and found that the same is also true of social networking and online retail. Read more
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Searches for ’all inclusive holidays’ increase thanks to weak economy (Hitwise data)
Avatar Story Found By: rgoad 1370 Days ago
News Source: http://weblogs.hitwise.com
Category: SEM
Searches for all inclusive holidays are on the rise in the UK as the economy weakens. However, the weak economy, strong Euro and good weather have not yet led to an increase in searches for British holidays. Read more
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