Market Analysis with the New Google Trends
Google opens its search statistics with Google Trends. Specially useful for seasonal trends in particular keywords. Note the seasonality, strong peak in June for bathrooms searches from the figure...
View ArticleGoogle maintains its market share
CNET reports that Google’s share of the U.S. Web search market continues to increase against Yahoo and Microsoft, according to April 2005 data from ComScore Networks: “The search giant’s market share...
View ArticleSpammers have latched onto blogs
The volume of spam comment arriving on Enclick has tripled over the last few weeks. Spammers are systematically targetting blogs, specially well placed and referenced blogs for attack. Over 90% of blog...
View ArticleMicrosoft aims to rule the world
Microsoft is not happy with owning 99% of the PC desktop market. It wants to own all of the internet search too. Microsoft made unofficial approaches to take over Yahoo’s search technology. Only to be...
View ArticleWhere things go wrong with Alexa rankings
The concesus is that the web sites with SEO and webmaster attention cruise up the alexa rankings, but don’t necessarily have real traffic. As observed by Matt Cutts. A great image of where things go...
View ArticleSearch Engine Strategies Conference: London 2006
The Islington Business Design Center yesterday for the June 2006 Search Engine Strategies 2006 Conference Excellent set of seminars. My favorite theme was the link building tips: Link building is...
View ArticleGoogle PageRank Update
Google’s toolbar pagerank and banklinks have updated overnight, the last update being in April. Though pagerank is largely discredited as a reliable measure of authority and ranking, in the absence of...
View ArticleDMOZ Editor Charging $300 for Listings
DMOZ, the open content directory public directory, works through volunteer editors. Thousands of editors sift through submissions to their directory sections and try and edit a quality list of...
View ArticleMatt Cutts Keynotes London Search Engine Strategies
Matt Cutts, Google’s search engine optimisation rock-star, in his keynote interview with Chris Sherman at the London Search Engine Strategies conference yesterday. The main conference room was full...
View ArticleGoogle Panda Update Penalty Lifted
Finally! Google has recomputed its panda index correction, and one of our websites, openweather.com, has just been allowed out of the panda penalty box. The graph below shows what this looks like in...
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