It seems like it’s getting tougher and tougher to get your industrial website to rank in organic search. The number of online competitors is growing and it’s getting harder to keep that #1 position for your most effective keyword. And now, the search engines are pushing your results under the fold with shopping, [...]

With the onslaught of Bing ads on TV, radio and online, people seem to be drawn in by the novelty and shiny new features of Bing. But still Google holds on to its spot as number one search engine. But that does not mean Google is not taking note from what Bing brings to the [...]

Go to Google and type in blog. You’re looking at around 2.5 billion pages that potentially correspond to your term. Now search for writing blogs; results have decreased to about 78 million. Finally, google copywriting blogs and your results have dropped to just under 2 million page results. As you can see, it is important [...]

Nielsen recently released the list of the top 10 search provider in the US. Google, of course, remained at the top of the list with more than 64% of the total searches. Yahoo dropped 4.2% from July.
The big news is Bing, gaining 22.1% over July. Even though Bing only has [...]

The latest search results are in from Hitwise. Google accounted for 74% of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending June 27, 2009.  Bing grew at average weekly rate of 25% for the month of June 2009. Adding in Live.com and MSN Search along with Bing, the combined search engines have grown at [...]

Last month one of my clients lost their ranking for a very important keyword in Google.  They had consistently ranked in the top 10 of Google for “welding positioners” for a few years, then out of the blue one day *poof* – they disappeared. I dug a little deeper and found they were still ranked [...]

Talk of the merger has been going on for months, could it finally be happening?  Is this good or bad for search?  How will it affect Google?
Cnet news reports -
“…several top Microsoft executives are in Silicon Valley to try to finalize a search deal with Yahoo, according to an All Things Digital report late [...]

Bing replaced Live as MSN’s search technology earlier this month. So far, the new search engine has yet to make much of a dent in the marketshare of it’s biggest competitors Google and Yahoo.  StatCounter reported the following on the 11th of June -
StatCounter analyzed search engine market share two weeks before and after the [...]

The Search Engine Round Table posted about a Q&A they participated in with Matt Cutts. The discussion was about the effectiveness of using of no-follows in the comments in a blog. This was Matt’s response -
Q: Okay, but doesn’t this encourage me to link out less? Should I turn off comments on my blog?
A: I [...]

Nielsen Announced U.S. Search Share Rankings yesterday for May. Total U.S. searches increased over 20% from 7.8 billion in May 2008 to 9.4 billion. Wow. MSN was the only major search engine to lose a share of search, dropping 14.6%.  Can Bing revive MSN?  They’re in the middle of a major media blitz; I’ve had [...]