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Hitwise Data: Google Rules

From the Hitwise Press Release:
Google accounted for 68.29 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending May 31, 2008, Hitwise announced today. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 19.95, 5.89 and 4.23 percent respectively. The remaining 41 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.63 percent [...]

Google Trends Predicts Winner of American Idol

A few months back, we analyzed Google Trends data to see which presidential candidate was most likely to win the election. The Democratic nomination process has drawn out longer than we ever anticipated, but it looks like Obama will come out on top in that one, and he stands a great chance of winning the [...]

Blogging for Business Conference in June

The Blogging for Business Conference will be Friday, June 6th in Salt Lake City. They’ve got a great lineup of speakers coming in to talk about how businesses can join the conversation and be heard in the current (and future) consumer focused media world.
Speakers include:
Brian Critchfield
Charlie Craine
Christopher Barger
Cydni Tetro
Dave Bascom (yours truly)
Jake McKee
Jason Brown
Rand [...]

Recession-Proof Marketing Tips

Many economists think we are already n the middle of a recession, or we’re quickly heading into one. I’m no economist, but it’s obvious that things are definitely tightening up. Gas prices are sky high. The housing crisis and credit crunch have people worried. Many companies are cutting back on their marketing spending, just as [...]

Matt Cutts Does Domain Roundtable

Matt Cutts made an appearance today at the Domain Roundtable conference. Matt started things off with a few introductory comments, then spent most of the time answering questions from the audience and from questions that people sent in ahead of time.
Here are the highlights of what he discussed:
The primary litmus test for whether [...]

Internet Reputation Management

Reputation management can be quite expensive and time consuming–especially if you’re not clear on what your objectives are. Some companies just want negative comments and sites to drop out of the top 20 Google search results. Some companies want to monitor all of the conversations taking place in the World Wide Web (er, I mean [...]

Beware of Spammers in Capitalist’s Clothing

Time for a little rant.
I’ve been researching Google’s initiative to crack-down on websites selling and buying paid links. I’ve let myself get a bit riled-up as I’ve re-discovered the following:

Too many people still think Capitalism is somehow inherently evil
Some usually bright people have an amazingly hard time distinguishing between spam and good content

I’m not [...]

Does SEO Die on Web 3.0?

Hey, Marty, would you mind parking the DeLorean for me while I finish up this blog post? Thanks.
Hi, everyone! I’ve just come back from the future. Well, not really. I’ve actually just been reading through a bunch of articles about the Semantic Web as envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee and other brilliant [...]

Search Marketing Tops $12 Billion in 2007

According to the SEMPO report released yesterday, search marketing spending ended up being even higher than expected last year. Good news for people like us in the SEM space. Most of the money is going to paid search (87%) with organic SEO picking up about 10%.
Some of the key findings from the report:

The North [...]

Consider the iPhone

When Building Your Site
A few of us here at SEO.com are big Apple fans. The much anticipated announcement today that the iPhone SDK would be released propels the iPhone into competition with a variety of other handheld devices for business and gaming, and publicizes a few interesting facts about mobile web browsing.
Apparently the iPhone [...]