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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Google
Google Chrome was the 130th most visited website in the UK on its launch day. It ranked fifth in Hitwise's Computers and Internet - Software category, behind both Microsoft and Mozilla. Average visit time was 2 minutes, implying a good download rate read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: SEM
According to Hitwise, 88% of searches for the top 2,000 search terms in the UK are now branded or navigational in nature, up from 81% in 2007 and 66% in 2005. Five of the top 10 branded search terms are for social media brands. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mercylivi 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google 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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Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 3:50 pm
Posted By: graywolf 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.trendsspotting.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
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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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Social Media
Facebook is now the third most visited website in the UK, having overtaken eBay in July. Google UK remains number one, with Hotmail / Live Mail at number two. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: yourseomentor 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Other 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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Avatar Posted By: henweb 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialmediablog.tamar.com)
Category: Networking
According to the statistical wizards over at Hitwise, Facebook now receives almost 50% of all UK social networking site visits, showing massive growth this year compared with 2007. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Social Media
Facebook's share of the UK social networking market reached 45% in June 2008. YouTube is now the second most popular Web 2.0 site in the UK, having overtaken Bebo in June. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aaustin 52 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.search-mojo.com)
Category: Google
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 read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 52 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Blogging
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 vis read more »
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Avatar Posted By: kevinheisler 53 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Google
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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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 53 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Affiliate Marketing
UK Internet visits to price comparison sites have increased by 37% year on year as consumers look for bargains in the face of rising prices and worsening economic conditions. The biggest recipients of price comparison traffic are department stores, read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Makakman 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Google
Further evidence from Hitwise that the growth of Google Maps is still strong. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: elwanderluster 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Other Social Media
UK Top 20 band / artist searches sending traffic to Social Networking and Forum Sites read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 58 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 59 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: mowzart 60 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: Networking
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 sub read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 79 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 79 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 Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 2:03 am
Posted By: ViperChill 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to 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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Avatar Posted By: rgoad 88 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 95 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 101 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 106 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 112 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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