Wednesday 28 January 2009

Search market share

Was recently contacted by a Yahoo sales person about advertising and ended up amazed at his lack of search engine knowledge and had to correct his facts, and vocabulary regarding search engines.

In particular he kept telling me that yahoo has the majority of the business enquiry search engine traffic regarding the local business traffic, he quoted Yahoo having 16% market share where recently I had been reading that their market share was at an all time low as shown in the figures reported last month by hitwise.

Rank Search Engine Volume
1. www.google.co.uk 76.00%
2. www.google.com 14.32%
3. uk.search.yahoo.com 2.76%
4. www.live.com 2.01%

After I directed him to these stats he said 'I can tell you for a fact that these figures are wrong' at that point i told him that his credibility was questionable.

I love people that phone businesses all day long trying to help up (telesales, by any other name) and have dealt with many regarding lots of issues but I do expect them to have some facts and integrity when dealing with 'sales leads'

Friday 16 January 2009

impressive results

More recent goog seo results here one from a brand new (3 week old site)
car scrap yard (car disposals)

yahoo search number 1 for car disposals essex
as well as being number 1 for car disposals
www.car-disposals.co.uk


and one for a long term seo project with 3 sites that offer padi instructor courses in phuket, thailand
www.indepth-instructions.com
www.idcphuket.com
www.idcthailand.com

yahoo search 2 sites in top 10 for padi idc phuket (positions 5 and 6)

google.co.uk search where all 3 sites in the top ten for padi idc phuket (pos 2,4 and 9)

google.com search all 3 site in top 10 for padi idc phuket (positions 2,4 and 9 but with the natural search the top two sites have two places each as they both have two pages listed for that search term)

and another ...
yahoo ranking number 1 for essex dance schools

Saturday 10 January 2009

Number 1 in Essex

we have recently been reviewed as the Number 1 Website design Company in Essex by FreeIndex website
Freeindex Reviews of Essex Website Designers