50% of the search traffic is captured by Google with about 25% going to Yahoo and about 20% to MSN. A rather small insignificant % goes to several smaller search engines. Generally speaking, if you optimize your site to rank well long term for Google, you’ll do well in Yahoo and MSN as well. Yahoo and MSN results tend to be easier to break into compared to Google. This … [Read more...] about How Are the Search Engines Divided in Search Traffic?
What is SEO?
SEO is short for Search Engine Optimization. SEO is a technique experts use to optimize a website for higher search engine rankings. The goal is to be in the top 10 search results or at least in the top 3 pages of the search results. There are two aspects to SEO: On-page optimization and off-page or off-site optimization. On-page factors are those factors that can be … [Read more...] about What is SEO?
Internet Trends You Must Know if You Have a Business
In the latest report by shop.org and Forrester Research study ‘The State of Retailing Online 8.0’, online retailers got a 24% increase in sales for 2004 with 2005 expected to be around 22%. This dwarfs traditional retail growth rates of 7%. This growth trend occurred in every category tracked by the study. According to the Department of Commerce, online retail sales at end … [Read more...] about Internet Trends You Must Know if You Have a Business