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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 148 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Other 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 as 'how to save read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Wiep 148 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Google Other
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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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 169 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Google AdWords
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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Avatar Posted By: KDye 169 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vertical-leap.co.uk)
Category: Google 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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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 178 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Blogging
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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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 185 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to 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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Avatar Posted By: thibaut 191 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://social-media-optimization.com)
Category: Networking
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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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 196 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Networking
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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Avatar Posted By: ChrisLang 202 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingvox.com)
Category: Google
Google accounted for 67.90 percent of US searches in the four weeks ended April 26 — up 4 percent from the year-earlier period — according to Hitwise.

These figures mark an all-time high in market share for the search leader, MarketingCharts writ read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 206 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Search Marketing
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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Avatar Posted By: rishilakhani 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Google AdWords
There has lately been a furore in the UK in the way google has changed the trademark policy on Paid Search. Recent Articles include one at SEO Chicks (http://www.seo-chicks.com/502/the-lift-of-brand-trademark-on-googleadwords-is-google-getting-greed read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rishilakhani 224 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Can you tell what the status of an industry as a whole is? Can you predict financial issues by analyzing search data?

Hitwise seem to think you may just be able to. Excellent deductive article on the US housing market... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: gyutae 233 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Other Social Media
According to a Hitwise study, Youtube now has a 73.18% share of the US online video market out of a group of 68 online video sites, meaning 73.18% of US visits amongst such online video sites ended up at Youtube. That online video share is up 32% ov read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 233 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Google SEO
You may remember that we highlighted the fate of GoCompare when it was 'blacklisted' from Google earlier in the year. A couple of months later we've analysed the insurance site's recovery, which is turning out to be slow, but steady.

Original Sph read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 234 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Other Searching
Hitwise data showing the top 10 search terms in the UK. eBay is still number 1, but but half of the top 10 terms in 2007 were social media related read more »
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Avatar Posted By: shimsand 234 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Hitwise released the latest statistics for search engine share in the United States for March 2008, showing Google at an all-time high while Microsoft and Yahoo hit all-time lows. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jameskm03 241 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Google Searching
Traffic analysts Hitwise released new numbers today finding that Google's marketshare in US searches rose last month to an all time high of 67% of searches performed. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 246 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Google SEO
Hitwise analysis showing that 1 in 7 people searching with Google UK in March choose the 'pages from the UK' options. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 248 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Hitwise analysis of who is visiting the controversial Miss Bimbo site. Turns out, visitors DO skew in favour of younger women, so maybe the concerns are justified. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: kevgibbo 260 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: News Sites
Hitwise stats show that "Digg.com last week accounted for only 10% more traffic than Yahoo! Buzz to News and Media websites." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 11, 2008 - 12:37 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 269 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: SEO
Interesting Hitwise post looking at the importance of plural/singular search traffic and how these target users at different stages of the conversion process. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 295 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
And we should keep in mind whom did the SEO; DoubleClick - http://sphinn.com/story/28503 .... (I am all about the Smack Down today)

Once more the concept of search engines doing SEO comes to light. If Google is buying a company that itself break read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 13, 2008 - 6:39 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 295 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Google SEO
Hitwise has some pretty stunning charts that show the loss of traffic to a site in the car insurance industry that was recently blacklisted by Google. Yikes..... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ruchirkc 321 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Google
According to the Hitwise figures for December 2007 google.co.uk had a market share of 75% while google.com had a market share of 15% making the total Google market share a staggering 90% here in the UK. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MelC 326 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.melcarson.com)
Category: Networking
Some great research into social networking in the UK - What happened in 2007 and what marketers should be thinking about when defining strategies for 2008... read more »
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