May 22 2008
April 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
comScore Releases April 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
According to the May 22nd comScore press release “April 2008 saw Americans conduct 10.6 billion core searches, with Google Sites continuing to gain market share as the leading search engine.”
The report continued:
In April, Google Sites extended its share of core searches to 61.6 percent, up from 59.8 percent the previous month. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 20.4 percent, followed by Microsoft Sites (9.1 percent), AOL LLC (4.6 percent), and Ask Network (4.3 percent).
There is no doubt Google is the steak and the potatoes in the search industry. If you are serious about improving your Internet marketing ability you need to strongly consider how you can improve your Google search results. Search Engine Marketing should be a part of any businesses marketing plan. Local businesses can make their mark in search if there is a focused effort.
If you want to make it in the internet world then you should definitely know about Google and how they operate. It is imperative for any business to be listed in Google as that is where a lot of people go to find stuff.
I agree completely. SEO and SEM is becomming increasingly necessary in order to rank within the search engines. Whereas before adding title tags, meta tags, keywords and such like was enough to get you ranking – more and more Google is moving away from these SEO mainstays. Although still good practice a lot more focus is now being put on the off site SEO and SEM. Link backs, article submission, blog posts, viral marketing, social networking etc are just a few of the free (but time consuming) methods to increase Google rankings coupled with payed services PPC, Adwords etc there are many ways to effectively climb the Google ladder.